Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Gore's new work -- ``Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis'' (Rodale Books, $26.99) -- is a culmination of 30 ``solution summits'' that Gore convened around the world. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental advocacy. Beth Reinhard, political writer at The Miami Herald, spoke to him recently about this book.
The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Inventor of the Internets, in an interview with The Guardian (via The Corner): Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means...
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Talk about an odd couple! Former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be joining U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the longest serving openly LGBT member of Congress, as headliners for the Gridiron Club winter dinner . No word on whether they'll sing a version of "Endless Love" together. The Gridiron Club's winter dinner is one of those inside-the-Beltway events where...
I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In his sophomore year at Harvard, Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale. Related posts: Perky Katie Couric lives in a dark, depressing world. Enter at your own risk. America’s first media whore president now granting interviews to children Katie Couric wants the DMV to be your banker
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Nick Loris Al Gore has had a busy week. First, the former vice president’s renewable energy investments received some serious backing from the taxpayer as $3.4 billion stimulus package would be allocated for smart grid investment. $560 million went to Silver Spring Networks, a company Gore’s venture capitalist firm invested in, that makes hardware and [...]
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Grist and Joe Romm provide a fantastic review of Al Gore's New Book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis . Says Romm about the book, which is based on 30 of Gore's Solution Summits, as well as one-on-one discussions with leading world experts: I was at one of the Solutions Summits, as long-time readers know (see “ My Al Gore story ”). I was interviewed by Newsweek about that...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
[Guest post by DRJ] Apparently Al Gore thinks his global warming opponents are quacks, and true believers are justified in pursuing civil disobedience to save the planet: “Gore’s new book, Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis, gives global warming deniers short shrift, and shows little concern for displays of political bipartisanship: he likens [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A mere nine years ago, back when George Bush was just a cheeky rogue with an adorable line in malapropisms, presidential candidate Gore was famously derided as wooden and dull. Having failed to win the presidency - though of course that depends, as ever, on your definition...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Last year, we wrote how odd it was that former VP Al Gore banned reporters from a speech he gave, where all audio-video equipment was also banned. These days, such "no reporters allowed" speeches make no sense -- because anyone can be a reporter. Yet, it seems that there's something in the veep sauce (or veep wannabe sauce) that leads to these sorts of positions, as former VP candidate, Sarah...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Apparently Beck thinks PETA is as rad as the NRA. Who knew?
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Ever since they were released last Friday, I’ve been meaning to write about the FBI notes of Dick Cheney’s interview with Plamemania special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. As is her wont, Emptywheel has already critiqued Cheney’s non-answers from a variety of angles, and multiple media reports have commented on the ex-Veep’s nearly all-encompassing amnesia, best summarized by...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
“..A day has dawned that we never thought we would see: conservative Fox News commentator Glenn Beck (who recently shocked viewers with his throwing-a-seemingly-live-frog-in-boiling-water gag).. .. has publicly expressed his admiration for controversial animal-rights group PETA. All right, so Beck’s strange leap onto PETA’s bandwagon just so happens to give him some ammunition against...
Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Years ago, when I was part of a thought-provoking discussion group on ecology, a skeptic in our midst argued convincingly that concern for the earth was in essence a religion. The rest of us thought about it for a while,...
Seaspook's Rants (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
This is kind of like Hillary Clinton's sudden epiphany years ago to invest in cattle futures. She had never done so before and never did again, yet all of a sudden, she got a wild hair and made $100,000.00 investing in something she knew absolutely nothing about. Now Al (save the world) Gore would have us believe that he made this investment with no prior knowledge that Obama would funnel billions...
American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It seems that the entire focus of President Obama and Congress is on passing a health care reform bill. Sure, the “cap and trade” measure is still on the table, but it isn’t getting nearly the attention. This lack of focus on climate change, while the earth is in the balance, is particulary troubling to global warming [...]
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