Now We Need an Al Gore Music Video…
The “Debate ‘08: Obama Girl vs Giuliani Girl” music video making the rounds on YouTube makes a nice mention to the honorable Al Gore..
but the bigger question is … when is Al getting his own video and/or his own dancing divas?
phil mueller said,
July 18, 2007 @ 11:17 am
Comments, Al ?
ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills.
Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world’s most threatened fish species.
Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species.
Working with non-government organisations, the Humane Society International’s focus is now on pursuit of illegal fishing operators who, in the rush to cash in on the highly valued species, plunder stocks with no regard for sustainability.
It has been estimated that more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish population.
For many years HSI has expressed concern over the huge numbers of seabirds that die each year on the hooks of illegally set demersal longlines, threatening the long-term viability of those populations.
Yet, while legal operators in the Southern Ocean are obliged to follow strict environmental rules, illegal operators undermine the sustainability of their fishing operations.
Recently, HSI petitioned the US Government asking that they certify and sanction Spain for allowing Spanish nationals known to engage in pirate fishing operations to continue to harvest toothfish in a declared conservation area.
Success would allow the US Government to embargo Spanish toothfish imports until such time as Spain demonstrates compliance of its nationals with international law and agreements.
As we await a response from the US, thousands of endangered seabirds die, while the sustainability of the Patagonian toothfish and the legal fishing industry inches closer to the brink of extinction.
A strong and concerted effort by Governments, the fishing industry, the conservation community and by the public which drives consumer demand, is required to put an end to pirate fishing operations in the Southern Ocean - otherwise the ecological sustainability of the toothfish is at risk.
And Al Gore could choose something else to eat.
Dory said,
July 18, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
I have a question too.
Why won’t Al Gore debate? If he has the science behind him, as he claims, then a public debate is a no-brainer to quiet some of the ‘dissent’.
Can anybody answer my question?
John Snyder said,
July 19, 2007 @ 11:44 am
Ten years from now we’ll look back in amazment at how wrong people were regarding global warming. What ever is happening with the climate changing, it is a direct result of natural forces. It is normal.
For those of you too young to remember, in the early ’70’s, we were told to expect a new ice age. I must have missed it. In fact, I believe there have been about five or six predictions in the last 125 years of global heating or cooling along with all the horrible things the changes will bring. Relax, false alarm.
Steve Brooks said,
July 19, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
My question about all this is - Why hasn’t the senate taken any action toward ratifying Kyoto when clinton/Gore signed on way back in 1998.
Pedro Marques said,
July 19, 2007 @ 11:35 pm
Somebody should do a mash up with parts of Inconvenient truth, like the Simpsons video part and the drowning polar bear cartoon, and shots of Al Gore looking serious and maybe some stuff from campaign appearances and put it to Weird Al’s “Dare to be Stupid” - that would be a funny ass video.
BPArnold said,
July 20, 2007 @ 9:42 am
I’m an Independent but would love to see an Al Gore/John Edwards Green Party ticket
samuel said,
July 28, 2007 @ 10:02 pm
hello
mr al gore
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samuel said,
July 29, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
I want to suggest to the oil private companies.
TEXACO, CHEVRON, EXXON and COCONOCO I want they were some changes.
from company process of derivades to company process of recycling of derivades with studies of cost´s.
samuel said,
July 29, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
QUESTION COMPLEX FOR AL GORE
TO CONSIDER
the water is a liquid of the life, without water what happen in the earth?
they think in this mr gore for the democraticies and republicanes.
tired of the phonies said,
September 12, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
You have got to be kidding. You really think he is as esoteric and shallow as this? Dancing divas? This really is a game to some isn’t it? Some of you really embarrass true Gore supporters on the web with your frivolous bs.
jay said,
September 16, 2007 @ 12:23 am
Tipper Gore and her daughter bought the sea bass from a legal source. It came with a certificate as caught legally and part of the catch approved by international fisheries board. A self-promoting AU group tried to make a big deal of the menu to generate publicity for themselves by attacking the Gores. It was a stupid ploy to spoil a girl’s wedding and it backfired.
An Inconvenient Truth was premiered to a group of climate scientists at U. Washington last summer. They confirmed the accuracy of the science in the movie, despite what washington d.c. think tanks like AEI (without a scientist on their payroll) have written.
Ten years from now the public will have a much better idea of the disruptive effects global warming will be. And they won’t like it one bit.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11794040
victoria whelan said,
September 26, 2007 @ 7:11 am
Al Gore and team should check out
Too Late to Pray is an album which Alex Smith from Eco-Shock, Canada says “Gets you in the mood for a new way of Living”
It also acts as an Awareness Fundraiser for organisations who our helping us reduce our carbon footprint and /or using clean energy.
The album’s packaging is made from 100% recycled paper and NO PLASTIC!
It is so lovely and includes and an eight page booklet with all the lyrics.
For us we are trying to find a low impact way of promoting our album
instead of flying and driving about doing loads of gigs etc
or selling to shops who need this sort of mark up anyway.
We thought supporting organisations who are doing great things and targeting the right audience via their membership is a real Win Win situation.
Diana Villalta said,
October 12, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
Fishkill, NY
10-12-07
Dear Mr Gore.
Congratulations on your Nobel Peace Prize.
A couple of monts ago, I sent you a message saying how no one has taken the iniciative to talk about the big problem that affects our 3rd World Countries.
The topic is , Over Poulation, which I see as the reason for so much poverty in said countries. For Global Warming there is a big necesity to take steps to slow down this over population, to decrease the big demand for energy, the use of natural resources and the decrease of contamination.
I’m working on a presentation on this topic. Perhaps by creating awarness, we can accomplish a better world to live in,
for the future generations.
Thank you,
Diana Villalta.
earl said,
October 12, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
I hope the jackass runs, he will be easy to beat.
earl said,
October 12, 2007 @ 9:21 pm
Hope the jackass runs as he will be very easy to beat.
earl said,
October 12, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
Big Al is a Jackass.
William C. McKee said,
October 16, 2007 @ 5:35 am
Dear Al Gore people, if we are serious as to the problems that Mr. Gore outlines, then we should be serious likewise in finding workable solutions.
Nuclear power should be encouraged, by a factor of 10, worldwide. The best ideas on the drawing boards should be engineered into reality. Among these, accelerator driven sub-critical nuclear reactors, capable of eating, all but 1 part in 10,000 of their waste product. This minority of waste held for 500 years, is no more dangerous than coal ash; this rather than 500,000 years in Yucca Mountain. Moreover, there are millions of years of the nuclear fuel (Thorium) that can be extracted from common sand.
Such a reactor, can produce electrical energy for 2 cents/kWh, or the heat of this reactor for about 0.667 cents/kWh. Using this heat to operate a sulfur iodine cycle, one can generate hydrogen. Some of this heat could also extract CO2 from limestone, and to also form quicklime. The CO2 could exothermically react with the reactor formed hydrogen to yeild methanol. Methanol can be reformed with ZSM-5 to yeild gasoline. And the quicklime can react with atmospheric CO2 to give back calcium carbonate — to recycle the atmospher’s CO2.
I can show that the gasoline produced, would cost under 1 $/gallon.
This could eliminate putting any net CO2 into the atmosphere. We could even sequester atmospheric CO2 as plastic.
jcgeny said,
November 7, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
as a cool man i have to admit h.clinton seems nice for me and others , but world said al gore : nobel . i think he / you al , can make usa back in some hearts . in my opinion bill clinton should had played rev_jackson vice president at the run for election of 2000 …
this run is the one you can win (h.clinton vice_president :] ) , do it for earth
nb : i wish you send in jail your “junkie_son” …
thomas calnan said,
November 10, 2007 @ 11:59 am
I tried making contact with current but I guess I made some errors. I see all these orginizations trying to come up with the ultimate solution to the global warming problem. I have found that the answer to problems tend to be simple. For a feww hundred dollars I can put an ice rink in my yard, take a nuclear ship and the same technology to the artic and start making som ice burgs, maybe we can slow the process. wine growers cover the grapes in hot weather to protect the grapes. we could do the same to the perimiters of our glaciers. I’m building a kite to see how much pollutants I can take out of the air, how many kites can this planet put in the air. Soon i hope to have enough money to buy a weather baloon and a long sheet of air filter material to see if it might help. Mainly I want you to know the world is paying attention. ps. I believe you now have more power to change this country and the world for the better then any president in office, and your having more fun, stay the course and we’ll all be fine thanks