Al Gore To Make Policy Address For WRI RE: The Climate Crisis

[RestoreGore]

I believe this may have something to do with a policy initiative he spoke of yesterday at the NY Botanical Gardens in relation to the Alliance For Climate Protection regarding a carbon cap program, carbon sequestation, and a 30% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. There is a current bill calling for 80%, but let's be realistic, that would NEVER pass now.
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http://about.wri.org/event.cfm?eid=1057

External Meeting

Former Vice President Gore to Give Major Policy Address on a Bipartisan Approach to Solving the Climate Crisis

Monday, September 18, 2006
New York University
New York, NY
United States

For more information, visit http://www.nyu.edu.

Strong National Security Advocates, Social Conservatives Join in Cosponsoring Address

In the wake of this past summers record heat wave across the United States, pervasive wildfires, persistent drought, and disturbing new evidence of melting of the north polar icecap, the climate crisis is coming to be recognized as a moral issue requiring bipartisan solutions. With these dangers come opportunities for both business and government to make different policy choices that will address the climate crisis, stabilize our energy markets and enhance U.S. national security.

Vice President Gore will present a new, bipartisan approach to solving the climate crisis and challenge America to take bold new steps to secure the nation's future.

WHO:

World Resources Institute Managing Director Paul Faeth
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency R. James Woolsey
Former Vice President Al Gore

WHAT:

Policy Address on Climate Change and National Security

WHEN: 12:30 PM on Monday, September 18th

WHERE: New York University, Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall, Washington Square South

ABOUT THE COSPONSORS: The Set America Free Coalition brings together prominent individuals and non-profit organizations concerned about the security and economic implication of America's growing dependence on foreign oil. It has been described as a coalition of "tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, cheap hawks, and evangelicals."

The World Resources Institute's mission is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives. Every project seeks to serve one of the following goals: protect people and ecosystems, reverse climate change, harness markets and enterprise to expand economic opportunity or guarantee public access to information and decisions regarding natural resources and the environment.

***Event will be webcast live, please go to www.nyu.edu and follow the link***

[nam78_two]

1. Go President Gore!

:bounce::bounce:

(James Woolsey ???!!!)

[RestoreGore]

4. He wants us to get up and go

Changes won't come if we don't get up to do something. He is doing this to inspire others and to also hold the feet of politicians to the fire. We don't have much time left to do something. That ten year window is closing.

[Cha]

2. THE most important issue

of the Planet's. Next is getting rid of the climate abuser, bushco.

[texpatriot2004]

3. Thank you Al Gore nm

[bananas]

5. *** Event will be webcast live at www.nyu.edu ***

(For those of us who don't always read to the end of a post)

[Greeby]

6. Lead on, Mr President

:patriot:

An Inconvenient Truth is released in my hometown next Friday :woohoo:

[Mass]

7. Great - I wished that other Democrats would follow his lead and push

on this issue. It is potentially as important to our future as Afghanistan and Iraq and if we do something NOW, we can do something before it is too late, not when it is too late.

I will definitively try to listen.

[RestoreGore]

8. I wrote about his appearance at the NY Botanical Gardens

http://progressivesforgore.blogspot.com/2006/09/al-gore-at-ny-botanical-gardens.html

You can find it here along with my review of the entire event.