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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: Al Gore wishes global warming weren't real Former Vice President Al Gore, the target of ridicule by climate skeptics this winter, says he wishes global warming were an "illusion." Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has long warned of the dangers of global warming. He spoke about them during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. CAPTION By Axel Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images Unfortunately, its dangers are real, despite mistakes by a leading United Nations climate-science panel, Gore writes Sunday in the New York Times. "The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged," he says, adding: In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer. Climate skeptics, citing recent snowfall in parts of the East Coast, have mocked Gore. Tycoon Donald Trump says Gore should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize for warning about climate change. "It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle,"" Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., wrote on Twitter. Gore cites global data that show last month was the second-hottest January since surface temperatures were first measured 130 years ago and the last 10 years were the hottest decade since modern records have been kept. He says these rising temperatures have increased evaporation from the oceans, putting more moisture into the atmosphere and thus heavier rain and snow in some areas. Gore, author of the best-selling An Inconvenient Truth and founder of the Alliance for Climate Protection, acknowledges at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages published by the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change or IPCC. He says such research will never be "completely free of mistakes." The IPCC, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Gore, announced Saturday that it will seek independent review of its major reports because of recent criticism. Gore says the U.S. Senate needs to pass legislation, already approved by the House, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who's been working with Democrats to craft a compromise, says the current so-called "cap and trade" bill won't pass. In an op-ed piece Sunday by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman, Graham is quoted as saying that Republicans need to support some kind of climate bill even if they don't believe in global warming. Graham says the United States needs to reduce its dependence on foreign oil and compete with China for clean energy jobs. He says the GOP needs to regain the support of young Americans, most of whom are concerned about climate change. Gore says U.S. industry also needs to back a climate bill, but he likens its reluctance to Big Tobacco's decades-long fight against regulation: Over the years, as the science has become clearer and clearer, some industries and companies whose business plans are dependent on unrestrained pollution of the atmospheric commons have become ever more entrenched. They are ferociously fighting against the mildest regulation — just as tobacco companies blocked constraints on the marketing of cigarettes for four decades after science confirmed the link of cigarettes to diseases of the lung and the heart.
Poster Comment: When Al Gore ran for US President against GWBush in 1999 he was personally worth 2 million dollars. Today he he is worth over 100 million dollars. Posted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt February 27, 2010 1:13 PM Serving as a lightning rod for activist shareholders has its rewards Photo: Apple Inc. Al Gore took his lumps at Apple's (AAPL) shareholders meeting Thursday. Sitting in the front row with the other outside directors, he had to bite his tongue as two pro-environment proposals were voted down and a gadfly named Shelton Ehrlich took the mic to call him a "laughingstock." "The glaciers have not melted," Ehrlich said, referring to Gore's frequent warnings about the effects of global warming. "If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn't need to be re-elected." (link) But Gore is amply rewarded for serving on Apple's board. Last year he received in cash and stock options the equivalent of $436,372. The 10,000 options he was granted in 2008 are now worth nearly $750,000. And according to an SEC filing published Friday, he has just received another 9,397 options — more than any other director — in addition to 990 restricted shares. Net value of last week's haul, including those restricted shares: more than $227,000 at Apple's closing price of $204.62. Below the fold: A summary of Friday's SEC filings. Source: SEC Filings Steve Jobs already owns more than 5.5 million Apple shares and isn't included in these annual distributions. Asked why there was no SEC filing for Avon CEO Andrea Jung, who joined the board on Jan. 7, 2009, Apple PR pointed us to the 1997 Director Plan detailed in Annex B of the proxy statement issued last month. Gore has done well for himself since he left public service. In 2000, his net worth was estimated to be between $1 and $2 million. By 2007, it had reportedly reached $100 million. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
#4. To: buckeroo (#0)
Jeeze, that's good work, if you can get it. If I had that kind of bucks, it'd be easy deciding between the $711.44 or $449.99 bunny-rabbit costume. Hell, I might even spring for both.
#10. To: Esso, All (#4)
If you read the entire story from Apple... Jobs admitted that some of their foreign manufacturers WERE INDEED USING CHILD LABOR. Further, billionaire Jobs said he had no problem with working people 16 and over, ten hours a day, six days a week, as long as they had one day off. Anti Union people here wonder why we have unions.
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