We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
--George W. Bush, 10/23/02
vs.
"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
--Al Gore, 9/9/05
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Transcript of Al Gore's speech
at the Sierra Summit, September 9, 2005:
"....... Last year we had a lot of hurricanes. Last year, Japan set an all-time record for typhoons: ten, the previous record was seven. Last year the science textbooks had to be re-written. They said, "It's impossible to have a hurricane in the south Atlantic." We had the first one last year, in Brazil. We had an all-time record last year for tornadoes in the United States, 1,717 - largely because hurricanes spawned tornadoes. Last year we had record temperatures in many cities. This year 200 cities in the Western United States broke all-time records. Reno, 39 days consecutively above 100 degrees.
The scientists are telling us that what the science tells them is that this - unless we act quickly and dramatically - that Tucson tied its all-time record for consecutive days above 100 degrees. this, in Churchill's phrase, is only the first sip of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year until there is a supreme recover of moral health. We have to rise with this occasion. We have to connect the dots. When the Superfund sites aren't cleaned up, we get a toxic gumbo in a flood. When there is not adequate public transportation for the poor, it is difficult to evacuate a city. When there is no ability to give medical care to poor people, its difficult to get hospital to take refugees in the middle of a crisis. When the wetlands are turned over to the developers then the storm surges from the ocean threaten the coastal cities more. When there is no effort to restrain the global warming pollution gasses then global warming gets worse, with all of the consequences that the scientific community has warned us about..........."
http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/gorespeech/ --------------------------
GEORGE W. BU$H ON GLOBAL WARMING:
The Kyoto Treaty would have cost America a lot of jobs. (Oct 2004)
Kyoto Treaty is the "emperor with no clothes". (Aug 2004)
$1.7 billion program will make hydrogen cars common by 2020. (Jan 2004)
Energy production overrules CO2 emissions. (Jan 2004)
$1.2B to develop hydrogen fuel via private partnerships. (Aug 2003)
Reduce greenhouse gas intensity by 18% over next decade. (Aug 2003)
Rejected CO2 trading permits as solution to global warming. (Jun 2003)
Solution to global warming is safe & clean nuclear power. (Jun 2003)
Abandons campaign pledge to reduce CO2 emissions. (Mar 2001)
CO2 is not a pollutant under CAA; no emission caps. (Feb 2001)
Scientists are unsure about global warming. (Oct 2000)
Kyoto Treaty puts too much burden on US. (Oct 2000)
Opposes Kyoto treaty, ESA, & other intrusive regulations. (Nov 1999)
Voluntary partnerships reduce greenhouse gases economically. (Aug 2000)
Kyoto Treaty must include reductions by all countries. (Aug 2000)
http://www.issues2000.org/George_W__Bush.htm