Al Gore coming to Vegas for energy summit

Monday, July 6, 2009 | 3:22 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Al Gore is heading to Las Vegas next month for the second annual clean energy summit of industry and political leaders at UNLV.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is convening the Aug. 10 gathering with John Podesta, the Obama transition team adviser and president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. T. Boone Pickens is also among those expected to attend.

This year’s summit draws on the one Reid launched in 2008 and is expected to focus on job creation in the green energy sector. Information is here.

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By stevem

July 6, 2009

3:57 p.m.

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it's sad that this twit has come to symbolize the environmental movement. he's made it republican vs. democrat.

republicans just dismiss everything ANYONE says about the environment to avoid saying that someone who is a democrat has any validity.
By LasVegas2009

July 6, 2009

6:27 p.m.

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He will be flying in his personal jet plane. Going on stage and telling all us regular people to stop driving our cars so much. Then get back on his big jet airplane and circle Vegas a few times taking pictures and burning jet fuel and then fly back home. The following week he will fly his big jet plane somewhere else and tell the people there to ride the bus and quit driving cars. These rich guys need to quit telling us how we should live.
By Nick

July 6, 2009

8:53 p.m.

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LAsVegas2009 kinda like Sarah Palin preaching while her daughter is the town whore? Ensign and his lectures on marriage? Stanford...
By 70aarcuda

July 6, 2009

11:04 p.m.

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LAsVegas2009 kinda like Sarah Palin preaching while her daughter is the town whore? Ensign and his lectures on marriage? Stanford...

amazing how quickly the name calling starts went someone can not defend their hero or zero in gore's case....

al gore sucking the air out of the Americans...
By neiman1

July 7, 2009

12:08 a.m.

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New York just experienced the coldest June in 58 years. Why do we still believe this garbage science. The lead investigator for the EPA disputed all findings and claims the earth is cooling but his report was ordered squelched by the Administration. What are they trying to do?

Today's Reuters reports plan to tax the richest people on earth, that's all of us, to pay the rest for our pollution.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk...
By Future

July 7, 2009

11:44 a.m.

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On 7-6-2009, Speaking at Britain's Oxford University at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by the Times of London, Gore said, "Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilization in World War II." Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

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Al Gore is a denier of an open inquisitive debate of anthropogenic global warming

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Obama has shut up Alan Carlin of the EPA who has questioned OBAMA's global warming endangerment argument. EPA's Al McGartland told him his work could not be presented.

What is the debate about -- Backers of the cap and trade bill at best claim that by 2050 the temperature will be 0.05 degrees cooler then without it.

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/c...

The Carlin report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations' 2007 "Fourth Assessment" report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments.

Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.

Al Gore should support this.

Still waiting for those green energy sector jobs.
By DocForesight

July 7, 2009

2:39 p.m.

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If Sen. Reid, Al Gore and the environmentalists were sincere about their desire to reduce CO2 emissions from electricity-producing power plants, they'd run, not walk, to embrace the new modular nuclear power generators: Hyperion, NuScale, Toshiba 4S, Adams Atomic Engines, B&W mPower, TerraPower, and the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors also in the hopper. Recycle the spent nuclear fuel, near-zero emissions, small land-use footprint (unlike solar and wind), nearly inexhaustible fuel supply, proliferation-resistant, reliable 24/7, controllable, affordable.

Thanks to Jimmy Carter we get 50% of our electricity from coal - which he predicted would happen by 2000 - instead of already meeting our CO2 goals (if it really is a "pollutant", as some claim) if we had just built those nuclear plants ready for construction in the 1970's. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!
By gregd

July 7, 2009

3:02 p.m.

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@Nick

"whore? Ensign and his lectures on marriage? Stanford..."

You clearly lack the rhetorical skill, logic, or knowledge of the facts to attack the argument head on. At the very least, if you intend a misdirection it helps to get the names correct. hint: not Stanford, but Sanford.