Al Gore, AGW Deniers = Nazi Threat... Oh well....

[jmichna]

Al Gore: If you question global warming cult, you’re a Nazi
By Michelle Malkin • July 7, 2009 01:31 PM

More hot air from ManBearPig, via the Times of London, who fashions himself Winston Churchill in a green cape:

Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.

The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change. He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions. Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.

Posted in: Al Gore, Enviro-nitwits

The London Times, on-line full text:

From Times Online

July 7, 2009
Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill in battle against climate change
Ben Webster, Environment Editor and Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill today by encouraging political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader and unite their nations to fight climate change.

The former US vice-president accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming. He said lack of awareness among voters allowed governments to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment , sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.” He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.” Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat during World War 2.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshhold where political leaders feel that they must change.

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.” Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in the high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the Nasa team which put a man on the moon on 1969.

“The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the moon in 10 years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later.” He said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults.

“It will either be ’what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?’ “Or they will ask ’how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’.” Sir David King, the Government’s former chief scientist and now director of the Smith School, also berated politicians for failing to follow up their statements on climate change with a clear programme of action.

“I do think it’s relatively easy for a prime minister to make a speech on climate change which sounds committed and very much more difficult for that prime minister to persuade the Treasury to put the finance behind that commitment to make it a reality.

“There is a long distance in government between saying what you think needs to be said and then doing in terms of making budgets available.” Sir David expressed disappointment that no senior British politician had taken up his invitation to address a conference attended by the world’s top climate scientists, senior business leaders and the presidents of the Maldives and Rwanda.

“I tried to pull in a lot of IOUs. But where was the Lord Mandelson [the Business Secretary], where was Ed Miliband [the Energy and Climate Change Secretary]? Where was David Cameron? Where was William Hague?”

Nobel Laureate Gore:

[amandaorange]

Wow, Gore's really stretching it.

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who loves GREEN Koolaid...........................

not me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Powerman]

I think you need to be carefull with the title J.

Gore did not equate DENIERS with NAZIS. He said the battle for GW should be equated to the same threat Nazi's posed to civilization. And he has said it before, it isn't new from him.

[fmfdocglock]

Originally Posted by Powerman

I think you need to be carefull with the title J.

Gore did not equate DENIERS with NAZIS. He said the battle for GW should be equated to the same threat Nazi's posed to civilization. And he has said it before, it isn't new from him.

The thread title is misleading.

That is NOT what the quote from Gore said.

[jmichna]

Originally Posted by Powerman

I think you need to be carefull with the title J.

Gore did not equate DENIERS with NAZIS. He said the battle for GW should be equated to the same threat Nazi's posed to civilization. And he has said it before, it isn't new from him.

Originally Posted by fmfdocglock

The thread title is misleading.

That is NOT what the quote from Gore said.

Let's see...

Speaking in Britain...
Referring to WWII...
Invoking the memory of Winston Churchill....
Calling to mind the Nazi threat, to wit:

“Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

You're right, Gore didn't specifically state AGW Deniers are Nazis... he just inferred that AGW Deniers pose a threat equivalent to Nazis.

[KingArthur]

Gore is simply upset because he stands to be make Billions on this Cap and Trade issue, so he is stressing about the ammount of money he is desperate to get from my pockets and yours in the name of false science and Gaiaism.

[Powerman]

Originally Posted by jmichna

Let's see...

You're right, Gore didn't specifically state AGW Deniers are Nazis... he just inferred that AGW Deniers pose a threat equivalent to Nazis.

Actually, no he didn't. He did not refer to deniers and the threat THEY pose. He refered to the threat GW poses and the fact that we do not have the political will to act just like the world lacked the political will to act against another threat. Nazis.

You know I think he is full of crap. But he is full of it with out twisting it into something it is not. He did not equate YOU to Nazis.

[longtalltechsan]

Originally Posted by amandaorange

Wow, Gore's really stretching it.

He is simply a media whore. After he lost, that's right LOST, the 2000 election, he had to do something to stay in the spotlight and GW is his ticket. He is spreading lies and falsehoods simply to make money, which is fine until he brings in lawmakers which cause policies to be written based on his lies.

[KingArthur]

Originally Posted by longtalltechsan

He is simply a media whore. After he lost, that's right LOST, the 2000 election, he had to do something to stay in the spotlight and GW is his ticket. He is spreading lies and falsehoods simply to make money, which is fine until he brings in lawmakers which cause policies to be written based on his lies.

He's super cereal!