Richard Cohen is on board. An excerpt from his column, which is enthusiastic about Gore’s global warming film due out in May, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. “I think there are other ways to serve,” he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. Among other things, he won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the Persian Gulf War — right both times. He is smart, experienced and, despite the false caricatures, a man versed in the new technologies — especially the Internet.
All Gore is an idiot and it doesn’t matter which party he represents.
Every couple million years the earth’s temperature spikes at an extremely fast pace. We are at the beginning of this spike right now. No one really knows the real effect of mowing your lawn but everyone is ready to blame you for it; especially the one sided textbooks the kids are taught from in school. While Asia produces so much pollution you cannot see their cities from satellites, what difference are we really going to make by bending over backwards here.
The big point I see everyone missing is the trade deficit; specifically oil. With higher energy prices, people are starting to look for alternatives. This is great! The quicker we reduce the oil imports the better…For 100’s of reasons! People say the first hybrid was worthless. In doing so they got it into production. The first car wasn’t that great either. The more they produce them, the better they get and the more alternatives they come up with. We have the technology for many alternatives. What we don’t have is an avenue of implementation. We can build hydrogen cars tomorrow. We have no gas stations set up for hydrogen. What ever the method is, it will take time to build infrastructure.
What is our biggest threat? !!!! POPULATION! Our forecast show us running out of space, water and food long before we destroy the earth.!!!! The tree huggers with 9 kids are our BIGEST THREAT!