March 2008: Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate
Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history....
Private contributors [Which ones, specifically? Is Revkin still working on his thorough investigation here?] have already donated or committed half the money needed to fund the entire campaign, he said. While Gore declined to quantify his contribution to the effort, he has devoted all his proceeds from the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," the best-selling companion book, his salary from the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and several international prizes, such as the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which add up to more than a $2.7 million. Paramount Classics, the documentary's distributor, has pledged 5 percent of the film's profits to the group, and some of the money raised through the 2007 Live Earth concerts will help the campaign, along with Gore's proceeds from an upcoming book on climate change.
...In an effort to penetrate Americans' consciousness and change lawmakers' political calculus, the group aims to enlist 10 million volunteers through a combination of network and cable commercials, display ads in magazines ranging from People to Real Simple, and online social networks. By contrast, the civil rights and antiwar movements in the 1960s each boasted about 5 million activists...
Its first ad, which is narrated by the actor William H. Macy, highlights American's collective responses to historical challenges. "We didn't wait for someone else to storm the beaches of Normandy," Macy intones.
We Can Solve It TV Ad (We Campaign) - YouTube
[less than 10,000 views since April 2008] This is the first ad released by the We Campaign. William H. Macy narrates the ad.
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Thank-you for posting this Tom. People forget Gore is a politician and the son of a politician, not a scientist. As the documentary'The Great Global Warming Swindle' exposed, the most fundamental assumption of the theory of man-made global warming – that carbon dioxide causes the temperature to get higher – is not supported by the evidence. Contradicting Gore’s claim that, “when there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer,” ice core data shows that as the temperature rises, the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide follows, with a lag of about 800 years.
One matter that is concerning in spite of what has been exposed, is that this GW hoax is being used to justify polluting of the stratosphere with toxins. For example, one of the world's top geo-engineers, Professor David Keith, talks about spraying aluminium into the atmosphere to fight "glogal warming." Please refer: What in the World Are They Spraying? by Michael Murphy, here: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12339127&postID=312284271091679408
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