Next Thursday in NYC, MoveOn and Environment 2004 Education Fund willl sponsor yet another speech by AL Gore, this time on Global Warming.
In this, his third major speech sponsored by MoveOn, Mr. Gore will issue an indictment of the Bush administration's inaction on global warming, linking the issue to national security. He will show that global warming is not a future threat -- it is happening now. And yet, the President is choosing to help his coal- and oil-company supporters rather than advance modern technologies that can affordably solve this critical problem.
Hypocrite!!!
Where was this rhetoric in 1993-2000, when something could have been accomplished under his watch? CLinton/Gore was an environmental disaster, particulalry on GLobal warming. Remeber the 90's, when everyone started driving gass-guzzling and poluting SUV's, and they were not even submitted to the same standards as cars? The CAFE standards went from 24.3 to 24.7 in 8 years (about 1/10 the jump during the Reagan years), but real MPG decreased by close to 20% if you include the SUV's, even as automobile technology improved dramatically. And Kyoto? Hello - wasn't it Gore who doomed it to failure?
Gore is a pandering hypocrite, and his endorsement of Dean does not make him a kingmaker, and this global warming speech will be full of the same empty rhetoric as him 1991 book, 13 years later, and NO RECORD to speak of.