This story has the typcial liberal slant, but it shows you how fanatic these people are. Inhofe made a good point and asked Gore to live by his own demands on the rest of America. Gore the hypocrite refused. So here we have it, Gore can live his lifestyle of using multiple times the amount of energy than the rest of us, but he wants us to do an aboutface on our lifestyles. But, oh, what is it? He is Carbon Neutral. What a crock!
All credibility is lost when someone refuses to live up to their own demands of others.
Thursday, 03/22/07
Gore tells Congress story of world peril
Democrats praise him; some Republicans don't
By BILL THEOBALD
Tennessean Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON ? Al Gore had his close-up Wednesday before Congress, and it was a drama befitting an Oscar award.
Gore's storyline in testimony to House and Senate committees was strong ? that global warming caused by human activity has created a "planetary emergency" requiring immediate action.
And it featured plenty of dramatic highlights and sidelights: from an almost comical squabble with his harshest congressional critic, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to a rowdy demonstration featuring gospel singers in choir robes, to a strangely unemotional exchange with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Gore testified for more than four hours and outlined an agenda of policy proposals, including an immediate freeze on carbon dioxide emissions, higher gas mileage standards for vehicles and elimination of traditional light bulbs.
All Democrats on the two House committees who co-hosted Gore in the morning and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where he spoke in the afternoon agreed with his outlook. Some Republicans, including fellow Tennessean Sen. Lamar Alexander, said they agree "there is a problem" and that "human activity caused it."
Other Republicans, notably Inhofe, attacked Gore's views ? and questioned his ethics.
Gore, Sen. Inhofe spar
"It is my perspective that your global warming alarmist pronouncements are now and have always been filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements," Inhofe said.
"We are facing a planetary emergency," Gore responded. He said an international scientific group had repeatedly concluded that global warming is a certainty. "This is going on right now and it's continuing to increase," Gore said.
He said it was a "moral issue," not just a political or economic matter.
Inhofe said Gore's proposals to reduce the greenhouse gases would cost more than $300 billion. He asked Gore to pledge to reduce his personal home energy usage to the national average within a year.
That was in reaction to reports of Gore's large utility bill at his Nashville home.
Gore refused and responded that he lives a "carbon neutral life" by buying carbon offsets to compensate for his energy use. Carbon offsets are intended to reduce greenhouse gases by helping to pay for alternative forms of power and energy conservation.
Inhofe called the offsets "gimmicks" used by the wealthy.
After Inhofe tried to cut off Gore several times when he gave expansive answers, Committee Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told Inhofe, "Would you let him answer the question."
Neither Clinton, one of the final questioners, nor Gore acknowledged that he once worked for her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Earlier, during his House testimony, Gore faced the same enthusiastic welcomes from Democrats and criticism ? though less harsh ? from Republicans. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called Gore a "prophet."
"You're dear to us," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, who served with Gore in Congress. "But I just disagree with you on this."
Gore reached an emotional peak during both testimonies when he reflected on how future generations would view this issue.
"Either they will ask, 'What were they thinking?'... or they'll ask another question: 'How did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of democracy?' " he said.
Just as his House testimony ended, a choir-robed contingent of the anti-war group Code Pink burst through the doors of the Rayburn House Office Building and sang protest songs led by a "minister" in a white suit with a white megaphone.
All credibility is lost when someone refuses to live up to their own demands of others.
Thursday, 03/22/07
Gore tells Congress story of world peril
Democrats praise him; some Republicans don't
By BILL THEOBALD
Tennessean Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON ? Al Gore had his close-up Wednesday before Congress, and it was a drama befitting an Oscar award.
Gore's storyline in testimony to House and Senate committees was strong ? that global warming caused by human activity has created a "planetary emergency" requiring immediate action.
And it featured plenty of dramatic highlights and sidelights: from an almost comical squabble with his harshest congressional critic, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., to a rowdy demonstration featuring gospel singers in choir robes, to a strangely unemotional exchange with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Gore testified for more than four hours and outlined an agenda of policy proposals, including an immediate freeze on carbon dioxide emissions, higher gas mileage standards for vehicles and elimination of traditional light bulbs.
All Democrats on the two House committees who co-hosted Gore in the morning and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where he spoke in the afternoon agreed with his outlook. Some Republicans, including fellow Tennessean Sen. Lamar Alexander, said they agree "there is a problem" and that "human activity caused it."
Other Republicans, notably Inhofe, attacked Gore's views ? and questioned his ethics.
Gore, Sen. Inhofe spar
"It is my perspective that your global warming alarmist pronouncements are now and have always been filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements," Inhofe said.
"We are facing a planetary emergency," Gore responded. He said an international scientific group had repeatedly concluded that global warming is a certainty. "This is going on right now and it's continuing to increase," Gore said.
He said it was a "moral issue," not just a political or economic matter.
Inhofe said Gore's proposals to reduce the greenhouse gases would cost more than $300 billion. He asked Gore to pledge to reduce his personal home energy usage to the national average within a year.
That was in reaction to reports of Gore's large utility bill at his Nashville home.
Gore refused and responded that he lives a "carbon neutral life" by buying carbon offsets to compensate for his energy use. Carbon offsets are intended to reduce greenhouse gases by helping to pay for alternative forms of power and energy conservation.
Inhofe called the offsets "gimmicks" used by the wealthy.
After Inhofe tried to cut off Gore several times when he gave expansive answers, Committee Chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told Inhofe, "Would you let him answer the question."
Neither Clinton, one of the final questioners, nor Gore acknowledged that he once worked for her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Earlier, during his House testimony, Gore faced the same enthusiastic welcomes from Democrats and criticism ? though less harsh ? from Republicans. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called Gore a "prophet."
"You're dear to us," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, who served with Gore in Congress. "But I just disagree with you on this."
Gore reached an emotional peak during both testimonies when he reflected on how future generations would view this issue.
"Either they will ask, 'What were they thinking?'... or they'll ask another question: 'How did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of democracy?' " he said.
Just as his House testimony ended, a choir-robed contingent of the anti-war group Code Pink burst through the doors of the Rayburn House Office Building and sang protest songs led by a "minister" in a white suit with a white megaphone.
