Al Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants

by Kal El on September 24, 2008 · View Comments

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Fat Bastard is at it again! God forbid the United States be allowed to become self-sufficient in regards to energy! Not if the moonbats have anything to say about it!

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.

The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that “the world has lost ground to the climate crisis.”

“If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,” Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.

“I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact,” he said. “I hope these state attorney generals around the country will take some action on that.”

The government says about 28 coal plants are under construction in the United States. Another 20 projects have permits or are near the start of construction.

Scientists say carbon gases from burning fossil fuel for power and transport are a key factor in global warming.

Carbon capture and storage could give coal power an extended lease on life by keeping power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions out of the atmosphere and easing climate change.

But no commercial-scale project exists anywhere to demonstrate the technology, partly because it is expected to increase up-front capital costs by an additional 50 percent.

So-called geo-sequestration of carbon sees carbon dioxide liquefied and pumped into underground rock layers for long term storage.

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  • ender

    did he announce this from the deck of his new 100ft party boat?

  • Liz

    Infidelesto…Fat bastard…that’s rich!  I’m actually working to expand my carbon footprint to be as big as Big Al’s. Let’s all try to match his carbon footprint. I’m turning all my lights on and my heater up as we speak!  Probably won’t ever be able to match it, but I’m doing my best!

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  • jennyjen

    Al Gore has a serious case of rectal-cranial inversion! Global Warming is a freakin theory, not a proven fact! The earth’s orbit of the sun varies year to year, decade to decade- sometimes it will be warmer and sometimes it will be cooler but it will always be different.
    Al Gore wants us to believe that this is a problem that has to be solved immediately and I’m all about recycling and saving the planet; but it took us well over 200 years to get it to this point. Pumping millions of dollars into a quick-fix will not help, it’s long term change that will reverse the so-called problem. That’s the inconvenient truth, Al, so take your man-bear-pig and shove it!

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