According to former Vice President Al Gore, the future of civilization is at risk if global warming is not part of the Presidential campaign.
“It should be in the presidential campaign,” he said Tuesday while appearing on his own network, Current TV.
“And it is not at present," Gore whined. "Not a single question was asked about climate in any of the numerous, multitudinous debates that these candidates have had.
There's a reason for that.
American voters are far more concerned with jobs and the state of the economy than they are with chicken-little hyperbole that says mankind is allegedly destroying the planet by merely existing.
According ot Gore, the United States has "had more than 12 climate-related disasters that cost over a billion dollars" in 2011 alone.
Meanwhile, the national debt is well over $15 trillion dollars and millions of Americans are out of work.
He continued:
The state of Texas has had the worst drought in its history. It is climate-related. Out of 254 counties, 252 are on fire. 2010 was the hottest year ever recorded. We have record melting of the volume of ice in the Arctic Ocean, dramatically powerful storms, in Pakistan, Australia, the Northeast. Record flooding in the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, and the list goes on. And it’s consistent with what the scientific community has been warning us.”
Most of us would call this "weather," and to borrow from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), it "happens."
The problem, however, is that Gore's "solutions" are more of the same tired socialist policies that have failed so miserably in the past. No amount of government control and no amount of confiscatory taxation will change the climate.
According to the Daily Caller, he added:
“I’ll finish with this, because I know that it’s outside the so-called Overton window — the so-called space that’s considered legitimate for political discussion,” Gore said. “But we as a free-governing people, in the one nation with the best chance to lead the world at a moment when the future of civilization is at risk, we have to find a way to not only talk about — but effectively deal with — this issue. We’re putting 90 million tons of extra global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, and we’re making it much worse. We have to come to grips with this, and in the midst of all the discussion about political strategies, and which candidate is up and which candidate is down, we have to push the agenda of real self-governance forward and grapple with the issues that matter the most.”
After this, one of the co-hosts gave Gore a standing ovation.
But he wasn't finished.
Gore went on to credit Obama for raising the CAFE standards, and for passing a law cutting mercury from coal.
"And so I want to give credit where it’s due," he said. "But the main part of this issue is not being addressed. And it must be addressed, and I hope that he will in the campaign this year.”
The video can be seen at Real Clear Politics.
More on global warming at Examiner.com can be found here.
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