Gore Will Exclude Press From Presentation At Global Warming Conference

[hatrack]

SALT LAKE CITY -- Organizers of a global-warming conference say former Vice President Al Gore will give his keynote remarks privately so he can speak "candidly" to a group including 45 mayors from big and small cities across the country.

The rest of the conference, which starts in this sweltering city before moving to actor Robert Redford's Sundance mountain resort, will be open to the media and selected guests amid tightened security because of Thursday's deadly bomb attack in London on subway cars and a double-decker bus. A larger contingent of Utah troopers and city police, some in plain clothes, have been assigned to guard the conference and reporters will have to obtain security badges, said Michelle Wyman, executive director of the U.N.-sponsored International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.

The conference opens Sunday afternoon in Salt Lake City and runs through Tuesday at Redford's Wasatch mountain resort east of Provo, Utah. Participants will include scientists, energy officials and private sponsors. None of it will be opened to the general public, Wyman said. Another featured speaker will be former U.S. Energy Secretary and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who will talk about "State Leadership on Climate Protection" over breakfast Monday at the Salt Lake City Library. Richardson canceled his appearance Friday, but his staff called back Saturday asking to reschedule the appearance, Wyman said.

Gore, the Democrats' 2000 presidential nominee and author of a book on climate change, is scheduled to deliver a "State of the Climate" address over dinner Monday at Sundance. Organizers have sought out media attention for the three-day conference but say Gore wants to keep his speech to mayors off-limits."

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Odd.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. He probably does not want the "librul media" to cherry pick his remarks

and start mis-quoting him out of context and then have the RW talk show idiots start talking up his speech and totally misconstrue what he said.
I don't blame him.
This way he can say what he wants to say to the audience to whom he came there to address.
As far as the press...Let them eat ink.

[hatrack]

2. You're probably right

An 800 millibar hurricane could level Miami or Charleston or New Orleans, and the very next day Flush Phlegmball would have on some clown from the Greening Earth Society or Frontiers of Freedom to tell all the good lil' sheep about the communist ideology of environmentalism.

[Ian David]

6. We need to scrap Federal Disaster Assistance

States and individuals need to be self-reliant and exercise the personal responsibility to have adequate insurance and to not put houses in the paths of tornadoes and hurricanes.

Bush even refused coverage to disaster victims in his home state of Texas.

Why are our federal tax dollars being spent to re-build houses in flood plains?

Why are our federal dollars being spent to keep New Orleans above sea level?

And yeah, why should we have to pay to re-build mansions in California that are built on landslide-prone hillsides and in fire-prone underbrush?

I cuts both ways.

It's Republican values.

So, I say let states finance their own "disaster" programs if they wish.

Self-reliance, State's Rights, Smaller Government and Personal Responsibility.

[wurzel]

3. Good. They are the enemy. Treat this media with the contempt it deserves.

It is the only thing I admire about Bush.

[NNadir]

4. I miss the President-elected.

I still want him to assume office, but I expect that I will not get my wish and that he never will live in the White House.

He would have been the greatest environmentalist President since TR, and if there was ever a time that an environmentalist was required in the White House, this would be it.

[bigendian]

5. True, Gore could be as great as TR.

Hopefully he would not be an Imperialist like Roosevelt.

[NNadir]

7. I think Gore would have most of TR's strengths; few of his weaknesses.

TR, we must remember, was from another time.

He was, so far as I'm aware, the first president to embrace any kind of environmental attention at all.