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We are what is wrong

Al Gore — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:50:23 +0000

“The earth has a fever. And the fever is rising…[Something] basic is wrong. We are what is wrong…”

The planet has a fever

Al Gore — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:24:25 +0000

“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science-fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame-retardant.”

Man’s actions = fish extinction

Al Gore — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:13:21 +0000

â€œIf we continue at the present rate, virtually all the species of fish in the ocean will be extinct in the next 50 years.â€

Environment trumps everything else

Al Gore — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:10:19 +0000

â€œThe central organizing principle of governments everywhere must be the environment.â€

Stretching the truth is necessary to get people’s attention

Al Gore — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:03:43 +0000

“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

Global warming will raise sea levels 20 feet.

Al Gore — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:03:06 +0000

â€œ[With global warming, if nothing changes in 50 years,] sea-level increases of 20 feet or more [will occur] worldwide. Of course, Florida and Louisiana and Texas are particularly vulnerable. The San Francisco Bay area, Manila. And we have seen the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugees from an environmental crisis [like Hurricane Katrina]. Imagine 100 million or 200 million [refugees].â€

SDI won’t work.

Al Gore — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:04:36 +0000

“I’m sure that President Reagan sincerely believes he is acting with the best of purposes in looking to SDI as a way to permanently end the threat of mutual nuclear annihilation. But he is wrong — wrong because SDI is not feasible, wrong because it would entail exorbitant costs and, most important, wrong because it would make the possibility of a first strike more likely. . . .”

I can Hypnotize chickens.

Al Gore — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:56:40 +0000

“I learned how to do that [hypnotize chickens] as a kid. I really did.”

Saddam Hussein used WMD.

Al Gore — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:55:21 +0000

“Remember, Peter, this is a man who has used poison gas on his own people and on his neighbors repeatedly. He’s trying to get ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons. He could be a mass murderer of the first order of magnitude. We are not going to allow that to happen.”

Saddam Hussein used WMD.

Al Gore — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:53:53 +0000

“[I]f you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He’s already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons; he poison gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunctions about killing lots and lots of people.”