Posts Tagged ‘polar ice cap

17
Jul
08

Live Notes Taken During Al Gore’s Speech Today

  • all the thanking he’s doing right now probably made a decent minority of viewers turn the channel to a TV judge show. we get it, already.
  • he says politicians need get with the program or step aside. Ahem, Republicans.
  • so many things going awry simultaneously (mortgage, bank, gas prices, we’re at war…).
  • in five years, the entire northern polar ice cap could disappear one summer.
  • has he lost weight? he looks better than he has in a long time.
  • stats, stats and more stats.
  • comment on situation iraq.
  • crazy weather: floods, fires, etc.
  • Stats.
  • he’s much better with a teleprompter than even Obama. we won’t even get into McCain.
  • politicians presenting old solutions to each crisis separately without taking the other crises into account.
  • these solutions are not only ineffective, they make the other crises worse.
  • borrowing money from china to buy oil from middle east. that has to change.
  • the answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuel.
  • talking about his solution summits. solutions to the climate crisis are the same solutions to the economy and guaranteeing our national security.
  • Stats.
  • production of electricity cheapest and easiest way to take advantage of renewal energy.
  • New strategic initiative is linchpin of bold, new strategy to empower America.
  • 100% of energy electricity and renewable and carbon-free sources within 10 years.
  • Has he been talking with Boone Pickens? I hope so.
  • Wind, solar, etc. getting cheaper and cheaper.
  • Stats.

Dammit, CNN cut him off and now I’m watching McCain at a Kansas City Town Hall meeting talking about dependency on foreign oil and alternative energy resources and nuclear power. “Senator Obama opposes nuclear energy. He has a presidential seal I saw that says, ‘Yes, We Can.’ I think we should change it – ‘No, We Can’t’ or ‘No, We Won’t.'” Wow, CNN – this is sooooo much more important than a new energy initiative proposed by a former presidential candidate. Morons.

Found the transcript on The Huffpo.




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