Inhofe vows to put brakes on Gore’s ‘Live Earth’ concert

[bannerman]

Inhofe vows to put brakes on Gore’s ‘Live Earth’ concert

By Elana Schor
March 28, 2007
Fresh from his face-to-face tussle with former Vice President Al Gore, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is vowing to stall Gore’s hotly anticipated Capitol concert to draw attention to global warming.

Inhofe’s belief that climate change is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” is common knowledge in the capitol, and environmental groups cheered the new prospects for carbon-capping legislation when he ceded the Environment and Public Works Committee gavel this session. But Inhofe’s parliamentary powers can block indefinitely the resolution that would permit Gore to choose the capitol’s West Front for the U.S. leg of his seven-continent Live Earth concert tour — a collaboration between Gore and promoter Kevin Wall, who masterminded previous blockbuster charity concerts Live Aid and Live 8.

“There has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a partisan political event,” Inhofe said yesterday.

Live Earth This! (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/inhofe-vows-to-put-brakes-on-gores-live-earth-concert-at-the-capitol-2007-03-27.html)

[d'urville]

Then maybe it's true that Inhofe and others lost what little respect they had left for Al Gore awhile back:

In one instance, after Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., asked him to sign a pledge that he would not use any more energy than the average American family – he uses 20 times that amount – he avoided making that pledge by talking about other matters thus using up most of the Senator’s allotted time.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27522


Gore is acting more and more bizarre than usual as of late:

Given his commitment to the environment, you'd think Al Gore would be a big booster of Cape Wind. Think again. Seems the former VP values his friendship with the Kennedys even more than the megawatts of clean, renewable energy the wind farm would yield. ''Based on what I know, I'm for it, but I also respect the opponents -- Bobby Kennedy Jr. is a friend of mine," Gore said after Tuesday's screening of ''An Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim's didactic documentary about global warming. Pressed by the invite-only crowd at Loews Boston Common to use his influence to push the project, Gore copped out: ''I didn't come to pick a fight." Bill Clinton's sidekick called himself a ''recovering politician," but he sure sounded like an unrecovered one bashing the media for ignoring important issues. ''Whether Russell Crowe threw a telephone at a concierge is important, apparently," he sniffed. The Tennessean also took a shot at MIT prof Richard Lindzen, who's questioned the science behind global warming. ''His views are wrong," said Gore. ''That's the most charitable I can be

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2006/04/27/gore_picks_pals_over_cape_wind/

Hypocritical, self-righteous, and delusional, for some reason, he's toying with the idea of running as the Green Party candidate in 2008:


Former Vice President Al Gore has again been entertaining offers to run for president. Gore has been discussing a run for a third party nomination with family and close aides.
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"Al Gore has been energized by the attention he's been receiving as America's leading environmentalist," a political source close to Gore said. "He believes this might present an opportunity to become president or at least try again."

http://www.insightmag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=5D3B38F8A2584DB5A77BA05660C6045C&nm=Free+Access&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=AF78CF08A2B54E6FBD091E5251011D58

He's using "right-wing" media to attack other Democrats, it's no surprise why Congress doesn't want to sponsor an event that focuses on Gore's obsession.

[DoctorDoom]

The Tennessean also took a shot at MIT prof Richard Lindzen, who's questioned the science behind global warming. ''His views are wrong," said Gore. ''That's the most charitable I can be."Lindzen, Richard S.

lindzen@wind.mit.edu

Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Professor Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist with interests in the broad topics of climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability. His research involves studies of the role of the tropics in mid-latitude weather and global heat transport, the moisture budget and its role in global change, the origins of ice ages, seasonal effects in atmospheric transport, stratospheric waves, and the observational determination of climate sensitivity. He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, and has advanced the understanding of the role of small scale gravity waves in producing the reversal of global temperature gradients at the mesopause.

He pioneered the study of how ozone photochemistry, radiative transfer and dynamics interact with each other. He is currently studying the ways in which unstable eddies determine the pole to equator temperature difference, and the nonlinear equilibration of baroclinic instability and the contribution of such instabilities to global heat transport. He has also been developing a new approach to air-sea interaction in the tropics, and is actively involved in parameterizing the role of cumulus convection in heating and drying the atmosphere. He has developed models for the Earth's climate with specific concern for the stability of the ice caps, the sensitivity to increases in CO2, the origin of the 100,000 year cycle in glaciation, and the maintenance of regional variations in climate.

In cooperation with colleagues and students, he is developing a sophisticated, but computationally simple, climate model to test whether the proper treatment of cumulus convection will significantly reduce climate sensitivity to the increase of greenhouse gases. Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and Charney Awards, and AGU's Macelwane Medal. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and a Fellow of the AAAS1. He is a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University)Lindzen, Richard S. (http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen.htm)

''His views are wrong," said Gore. ''That's the most charitable I can be."

Lessee now, WHO am I going to believe about global climate issues? Dr. Lindzen or Asshole Gore ... Dr. Lindzen or Asshole Gore ... golly, this is a tough choice. :rolleyes:

How can anyone respect that ignorant, arrogant son of a bitch?

[The_Elucidator]

Lindzen, Richard S. (http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen.htm)

''His views are wrong," said Gore. ''That's the most charitable I can be."

Lessee now, WHO am I going to believe about global climate issues? Dr. Lindzen or Asshole Gore ... Dr. Lindzen or Asshole Gore ... golly, this is a tough choice. :rolleyes:

How can anyone respect that ignorant, arrogant son of a bitch?

I dunno if it's respect...even Forrest Gump had a following while he was runnnniiinng... (in my best Gump voice..)

[DeclinetoState]

Gore has been discussing a run for a third party nomination with family and close aides.
Wouldn't that be fun if Hillary were the Democrat(ic) nominee and Algore were running as a Green or something against her?

[TheIrishman]

Gore actually thinks he knows more than an MIT professor about ANYTHING?
It might be arrogance but it's also stupidity.

[DeclinetoState]

Well, if the professor were Noam Chomsky . . .

[DesertFox]

Hypocritical, self-righteous, and delusional, for some reason, [Gore's] toying with the idea of running as the Green Party candidate in 2008 No surprise there since the Green Party long since elevated hypocrisy, self-righteousness and delusionality to art forms.

[DoctorDoom]

No surprise there since the Green Party long since elevated hypocrisy, self-righteousness and delusionality to art forms.Ecowackos are the Michelangelos and Rembrandts of "hypocrisy, self-righteousness and delusionality".

[DesertFox]

“There has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a partisan political event,” Inhofe said yesterday.Good on him. Inhofe seems alone in standing up to Gorality. It flat astonishes me that 'Pubs haven't landed on Gore like a ton of bricks for this foolishness.

Um, well, actually, no, I'm not astonished.