Al Gore In Spain And What He Really Said

[RestoreGore]

Climate Change Is The Most Important Challenge Faced By Humanity


Climatic change is the most important challenge faced by humanity
By m.p.Tue, 06 Feb 2007, 22:19

The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, with the ex-US Vice President, Al Gore (left) in the gardens of Moncloa Palace. Photo – EFE.

The Prime Minister has described climatic change as ‘the most important challenge faced by humanity’ after a meeting with the former US Vice-President, Al Gore, in Moncloa Palace on Tuesday. The two men met for an hour and a half and, according to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, shared the opinion that climatic change has brought civilisation to an emergency situation.

The Prime Minister said the government will make Al Gore’s documentary film on the subject, ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ available to schools. He described the film as extremely important and necessary in raising public awareness. Zapatero said a further meeting will take place in two to three months to evaluate strategy in face of climatic change. The government is working on the final details of a national strategy against climatic change, which will be presented to the National Climate Commission next Tuesday. Provisional figures indicate that 2006 could be the first year since 1990 when greenhouse gas emissions did not increase in Spain.

Al Gore is due to give a speech on Wednesday, in the first conference on Municipal Energy and Global Warming which takes place in Madrid. He has been nominated for the 2007 Prince of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation for his work in the fight against climate change. The jury meets in Oviedo this June, when the winner will be named.
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Doing the work of a true Global Environmental Ambasador. I love seeing him bringing this to the world in this way and then seeing changes being made. The world can be a so much better place because of his and others' selfless actions regarding this issue if others in this country would only stop talking and start doing, and that includes the media like CNN. I have read a couple of accounts of this visit and not ONCE did I see where he stated the Bush administration was giving out cash to denounce the IPCC report. He stated THEY have lost the argument, which refers to the OIL COMPANIES and others like AEI who back them, and that was also stated last Friday in Silicon Valley.

I am actually more disappointed that people actually believe anything this BS American media says regarding Mr. Gore after what it did to him in years past. Mr. Gore is not the kind of man to come out like that and say anything unless he can back it up. Anyway, apart from their BS attempt to turn this into a POLITICAL issue for their 2008 fetish, it is very gratifying to see other countries pay him the respect he doesn't get in the U.S. for all of his hard work, and this year is the year where we must see the momentum swing from talk to action not only globally, but right here. However, that won' t happen if people are too preoccupied with other distractions.

[RestoreGore]

1. kicking once against media propaganda and for truth n/t

[Benhurst]

2. I'll second that. Recommended #2

[zeemike]

3. Here is #3

It is a shame we have to live with the president that we have instead of the one we wanted. Al Gore would have been a brilliant president and we could have the respect of the world.

[Felinity]

4. Seven-up N/T

[salin]

5. I missed what the copr media said about Gore in Spain

what is the newest smear from the right to try to get the public to dismiss Gore?

[Benhurst]

7. They said Gore claimed the U.S. government was paying for

false statements being made about global warming, when in fact he said it was private corporations doing so, which in fact they are.

Lie, lies and more lies.

[salin]

8. thanks - but one could suggest that the US

did pay for 'false statements' - per the 'cleansed' EPA reports that came to light (that language was stripped out of reports) - EPA report = govt funded...

Granted I recognize this is about the AEI effort to find writers for some book they are doing and are offering 10K to those writers.

[Benhurst]

10. I agreee. But in this case, I think the corporate media was misquoting

him to lay the foundation for another "Gore lies" campaign.

[RestoreGore]

12. I do see your point

In context you could say that they (meaning the squatters in the White House) are paying for the disinformation by proxy, but in this instance it was in regards to the story that broke Friday about AEI and their desperate blackmail.

[Turn CO Blue]

6. Yep, other distractions like having him take his rightful

place in the White House as the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, where his wisdom could be applied to other brutal and pressing issues like Darfur, Iraq, extreme 3rd world poverty, alternative energy policy...in addition to climate crisis.

Yep, placing Gore in the position that he studied for, planned for, and ran for for his entire life and that his beloved father and whole family groomed him for for his entire life is a distraction. I respect him more than enough to know what he wanted and DESERVES.

[RestoreGore]

11. When applying wisdom that makes progress your address is not the issue

Too bad so many can't see that. And please, if people really wanted him in his "rightful place" as the soundbite now goes, they would have and should have shouted louder when he wanted to be there. And in reality only HE knows where his rightful place in this world is now, and so far where he is now is it. However, the distraction I was referring to here was to the media which is once again turning his hard work into a political tit for tat when they should actually be the ones delivering this message to the masses to educate them. The media in this country is a despicable lot of whores, and once again they are proving who they really serve and that IS a deadly distraction not only regarding this crisis, but also to Democracy.

[Turn CO Blue]

13. I agree with you

that the media are pimps when it comes to pushing sensationalist entertainment tripe and that they are a bunch of whores when it comes to pushing conservative propaganda and the corporate agenda.

I agree that people should have shouted louder in 2000 before the SCOTUS selected the presidential race countering the electorate. For my own story, I did shout and rage at my TV, but at the time, I made like $7.50 an hour and couldn't have flown to Florida and didn't have Internet and didn't even have long-distance phone service. How my circumstances and my level of activism have changed!

I agree that the media is remiss in not doing think pieces and more indepth investigative reporting into climate change and into the corporate shills who work against the science. And I do think that and you'll probably agree, that we Progressives should be constantly reminding the media to do a better job in reporting -- Al Gore doesn't use the word CRISIS for nothing.

What I have a hard time agreeing with is your oft-stated opinion we should just leave him alone and not encourage him to run. You are entitled to that opinion; I just don't agree. There have been myriad postings and newspaper editorials and print mag articles that state more eloquently than I ever could about why he should run and how he would win if he did run, and I'm sure you've read them. They didn't convince you. They did convince me.

So, at least to this point I am not dissuaded from the notion that he was groomed for that job from his childhood and that he still wants it, but that he now knows he doesn't want to run the usual type of campaign to get it. In simplest terms, I believe that Gore does indeed want the job, but doesn't want to go through the job interview. I believe that in Gore's mind he will come to the conclusion that having that historical job title can outweigh his abhorrence of the process to get the job. I take it that you think that his abhorrence of the toxic political environment and campaign obligations outweigh the desire for the job.

We simply disagree. One of us will proven correct, and Gore will be the winner either way, because the voices are not going to convince him to run unless he wanted to be convinced to run.

I have admired this man and his work with a purple passion since 1999. I know that you admire him and his work. We both want to save the planet, and help Gore get his message out to do so.

We aren't that far apart.

[MamaBear]

9. Make mine Lucky 13.

Al Gore has really come into his own; I hope he runs. If he doesn't, he should be appointed to a new, fully-funded Cabinet level position to deal with Global Warming, conservation, alternative energy ...

It's good to know that he can still travel abroad and let the world see a sane American.

[joeunderdog]

14. He would be met with unqualified acceptance

and no other candidate could say that.