I'm sorta repeating myself here, but the goal is a UN Carbon Tax.

"The panel, chaired by former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, was set up by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to identify innovative methods for raising the estimated $50 bn needed yearly to implement the UN's commitments to poverty reduction and sustainable growth in developing countries. Its recommendations will be considered by the UN conference on financing for development, to be held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002.

"Among the proposals are taxes on the consumption of fossil fuels and on international currency transactions. The panel urges new ways to boost aid and investment flows to poor countries, and to assist countries raise funds from within their own economies through better political and economic management, including by improving their ability to collect domestic taxes. Such efforts would be supported by the establishment of an international tax organization and the holding of a summit that would address problems arising from globalization, the panel stated."

So, the Liberals will never admit the ultimate goal of Global Warming.

This is an important issue folks.  It affects our sovereignty; our energy habits; our economy; and our freedoms.

ACA

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Hillary Clinton says:  "I want to take those profits."

Gore helped the Clinton administration give nuclear secrets to China, didn't he? What do you expect from him? Communist China is a much bigger "polluter" than America. But America is a "bad" country, right Al? Go have dinner with Dianne Sawyer. Enjoy yourselves while you can;  traitors burn in Hell.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

Well, Prince Albert has shown his hand:  the case for limiting greenhouse emissions is tied more to economic necessity than environmental emergency.

This sort of rationale is the reason that many legitmate environmentalists have abandoned Greenpeace and other organizations, overrun by politically-motivated operatives who dream up crap like the Kyoto Treaty.

Let's also remember that is was Prince Albert (aided by his assistant Maria Hsia) who was the errand boy picking up the illegal Chinese campaign contributions at the Buddhist temple in California.  I guess the Chinese are still reaping some benefit from that transaction.

For just how bad China is destroying the environments of East Asia and the Pacific, read the China chapter in Jared Diamond's COLLAPSE.

Noel,

What we, the great unwashed, fail to realize is that only American emissions cause pollution. Chinese, Russian and European emissions do not. Simple concept, when you think about it. :-^)

-Damn, that hurt.

Great pic.

I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -William T. Sherman

algore need to have a heart-to-heart with ms. paloonie, seems 4 trips in her new aeroplane will produce approx. 1 million lbs. of CO2. Seems there isn't any polution coming from SF, or the rest of the left coast. Gotta be those stupid cows in fly-over land.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

"Never before has all of civilization been threatened," Gore said.

"Quick! Get the professor on the phone. "

Two possible quotes from any 1950's sci-fi movie

Al Gore gives China a pass on polution so grievous that rivers are covered in a putrid foamy sludge that renders the water, not only undrinkable, but untouchable. Cancer rates are skyrocketing in some villages, in one village, China's own estimate is that the cancer rate is 30 times the national average. The smog over China's cities makes LA look like the the Great Plains. The soot from their coal-powered factories creates acid rain that devastates their own country, falls on one-third of China and even reaches Canada, but unlike the acid rain caused by Canada and the US which ended in the 80s, China is making no move to control it. Factories pump waste, deadly chemicals like PCBs, dioxins, benzene, hydrogen peroxide and even lead and mercury. 90% of China's urban water is contaminated. The air isn't much better. NASA has satellite photographs (1st link below) of the thick, brown haze that hovers over China, but we're the ones who are killing "Gaia." 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in China.

So, if Gore really cared about the environment and he believes that the environment is threatened like "never before," then why, by not demanding world-wide clean air and water standards, would he risk the Earth's future to keep the economy of the biggest rising pollution threat (and in some instances, current pollution threat) churning forward, which just creates even more pollution? Isn't our children's future and the future of the Earth worth the sacrifice? That's what I've heard--usually from Democrats and Gore himself. Could it be that the goal isn't a global reduction in pollution, just Western, particularly US, reduction? I'm pretty sure, though, that those 90s Chinese fundraising contributions didn't have anything to do with it.

http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/985/S2000002043056_md.jpg

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-07-04-pollution-china-cover_x.htm

Hate to get all biblical but I read these verses today and they nail Al Gore to a tee.

1 Timothy 5:13

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers [praters] also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

Titus 1:10-11

(10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:

(11) Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake [for money].