Al Gore Praises Wine Industry, Mentions Sequel To An Inconvenient Truth

[RestoreGore]

http://www.decanter.com/news/181457.html
Excerpt:

Climate change: Al Gore praises wine industry
February 19, 2008
Maggie Rosen

snip;

'To those who are in your industry and not participating in this meeting, I would like you to deliver a message: they really must respond to this crisis. It is here now and it is growing.'

Gore emphasised the importance of monetising carbon dioxide via national taxes, caps and tradeable emissions credit instruments.

'We are not currently putting a price on the horrible destruction that carbon is causing,' he said.

'The things we measure get more attention than the things we don't measure. So C02 has historically been treated as irrelevant.'

Gore said he could not think of any industry that 'stands out as a hero in this crisis'. While deriding the coal, oil and auto industries for their general lack of coalescence, he said there were individual countries and companies worthy of praise.

He singled out Norway for imposing a carbon tax on oil and gas companies operating within its waters, and BP for its carbon capture and storage programme in the Salah gas fields in Algeria.

'Once we accept the challenge of the crisis and that it must be solved, we have to summon the poltical will to change it,' he said.

'It means bringing about change in every industry – I wish every industry was doing what you are – I wish the auto and oil industries would do more, and more quickly.'

Gore said there would soon be a sequel to his climate change documentary film 'A Convenient Truth'.

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Mr. Gore gave the keynote to this conference via satellite from Kentucky... he praised the wine industry's attempts to address Co2 emissions and to green their industry which is already seeing the affects of climate change in Europe. He also reportedly mentioned that there would be a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. If true that is great news, and I hope he is in this as well showing us all how we can be the solution to the climate crisis.

Also, kudos as well to the wine industry for aggressively addressing their Co2 emissions. I just hope that sequestration is not their final solution but just a transition to actually lowering emissions to begin with. Whether you put it in the air or bury it under the ground it is still there. The key is to lower output initially, so I hope more industries look to doing that.... of course, that will not happen seriously until a price is put on carbon and consumers and investors begin to aggressively demand that from businesses.

But wow, a sequel to AIT? I sure hope so. I can't wait!

[NightWatcher]

1. he could have run the country and made a real difference, but....

he joins a green venture capital group and is speaking to the wine industry.

I dont fault the man for making a living, but he could have done so much more as president and mandated change. He could have saved shitloads of energy just by making all federal buildings enact conservation/green policies, but instead he pats the wine industry on the back for their change which I see as so small compared to what he could have done.

Like I said, I dont fault the man, but....

[RestoreGore]

2. Unmitgated garbage

if you can't see the progress he is making now, then perhaps you need to just keep worshipping your messiah of "change."

[NightWatcher]

3. I get that he is making change (primarily awareness), but I was one of the millions hoping he would

become president.

Will you agree that he could do a lot more good as president than as Citizen Gore?
That is my only arguement. I hope to use green venture capital to get some of my projects further off the ground.

[RestoreGore]

10. No, I don't agree

I personally don't think the next one will do any more than he has already done out here. And that is because people on the whole don't realize that it won't happen unless THEY call for it.

[kestrel91316]

4. Gore would never get elected. The corporate fascists

wouldn't allow it.

In staying out of the race, he choce wisely.

[NightWatcher]

5. I disagree. he had ten times the "obama-people power" feelings

he could have skated into office.

[RestoreGore]

9. He does not have an Obama sized ego.This is important to him

And more important than one election... especially a campaign where NONE of the candidates has even approached this as it should bre approached because again, it isn't allowed. Therefore, as kestrel stated, he chose wisely. And I realize that more everyday I look in GDP folder here.

[JNelson6563]

16. What a stinky pantload

Nice way to downplay his global efforts to save us from ourselves. Oy.

Julie

[Romulox]

6. Inconvenient truth for Al: "Free trade" is incompatible with environmentalism

Any country that refuses to adopt environmental standards (e.g. China) will have a large competitive advantage over any country that adopts such regulations.

Therefore, Al Gore's shilling for WTO, NAFTA, and MFN for China tend to negate any and of Al Gore's environmental work.

[RestoreGore]

8. Wow, you haven't been paying attention have you?

Mr. Gore has done nothing but emphasize the need for China and India to be a part of any global treaty that must be commenced by 2009. He mentioned it before Oslo, in Oslo, after Oslo, in Bali, in Davos, and he has mentioned it many times in between. And considering you are a supporter of someone who shills for the nuclear industry and whose climate change plan doesn't even begin to address this crisis, I don't think you can talk.

[Romulox]

18. Too bad he didn't "emphasize" that BEFORE the Clinton admin granted China MFN

Isn't it?

[RestoreGore]

19. Key word there, CLINTON, it wasn't Gore's administration

But hey, should Obama get "elected" I will make him sure to hold him to the same high standards.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RestoreGore.

[RestoreGore]

11. You're welcome I thought at least some here still cared about his work

apart from those who have deserted him because he isn't in the muck.

[Uncle Joe]

12. I view his work as if our life depends on it because it does and

and I trust his judgment.

[crispini]

13. Recommended!

:kick:

[Fleshdancer]

14. I would like to praise the wine industry for helping me get through the past 7 years

Good for my sanity AND the environment? Sweet!

:bounce:

[JNelson6563]

15. I hope there is a sequel!

I just love how President Gore is out there, saving the whole planet. He rocks! :toast:

Thanks for the update! :hi:

Julie

[RestoreGore]

20. You're welcome

[xchrom]

17. recommend!

:woohoo: brilliant man doing the hardwork that needs to be done -- now and in the future.