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Al Gore Hits Obama for Not Acting on Global Warming: ‘We Cannot Have 4 More Years of Mentioning This Occasionally’

Al Gore Hits Obama for Not Acting on Global Warming

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Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday knocked President Barack Obama — his fellow Democrat — for not doing enough to combat climate change, saying “we cannot have four more years” of the same.

“I deeply respect our president and I’m grateful for the steps that he has taken, but we cannot have four more years of mentioning this occasionally and saying it’s too bad Congress can’t act,” Gore told the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Gore praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — whose city was slammed by Hurricane Sandy — for “leading this effort,” but said it was imperative to “take steps to reduce the chance that even worse impacts [than Sandy] will happen in the future.

“This storm was related to global warming,” Gore said. “The scientists used to say some years ago that you can’t blame any single extreme weather event on climate. Now many of the leaders…are saying no, we’ve gone beyond that now, it’s gotten too far.”

He continued, “We’re putting 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, spewing it up there as if the atmosphere of the planet is an open sewer — free to use, free of charge, just put as much junk up there are you want to, notwithstanding the fact that it is causing these extreme weather events. Dirty energy causes dirty weather and we have to come to our senses and do something about it.”

Asking “what will it take for the national government to wake up” as Bloomberg has, Gore said America’s democracy “has been hacked” by “large carbon polluters” who essentially control members of Congress on the issue.

“We need leadership in the executive branch as well,” Gore said. “I know how tough it is — [Obama's] done more in his first four years than any other administration has ever done and I respect that and acknowledge that, but the time has long since passed for us to get moving. This country is the only nation that can provide global leadership, and the dysfunctional governance globally is directly related to the dysfunction of the government here in our own country.”

Watch Gore’s full speech below, remarks begin at the 10:50 mark:

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Comments (125)

  • historyguy48
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:10pm

    According to the Mayan calendar prophesy the end of the current age is December 23, 2012. This will be when the new age is supposed to begin with major earthquakes, volcanism, and the world will go into a warmer period, which it had done repeatedly in the past. Will it happen? We’ll see.
    But the important data is that the world has repeatedly gotten colder, and warmer.
    This has nothing to do with man. Al and the little communist are both major “investors” (crooks) in the carbon exchange. They figure they can rip Americans off for a few billion every year. I figure it’s past time to bring the Smithsonian’s guillotine out and dust it off.

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    • bannedfromCNN
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:26pm

      Gore looks like he just swallowed barry’s….dog.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:30pm

      I would approve of bringing back the use of frontal [icepick] lobotomy especially for Al Gore.
      The world would be a better place if he was reduced to the capacity of a turnip.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:32pm

      We would be lucky if it were a few billion $. I’m sure he and Soros expect to pocket that much themselves, each!

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:39pm

      BAG Too late Gore’s already been lobotomized,had it done in the 70′s.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:39pm

      @BODYBAG, A lobotomy cannot be performed on someone with as small a brain as Al Gore. There’s just nothing to remove.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:41pm

      LOL Body…

      You know somehow he would unjustly win an award for being “the best turnip”.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:03pm

      @Eastinfection
      You know somehow he would unjustly win an award for being “the best turnip”.

      I see a candidate for a Nobel…….

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    • subic
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 10:52pm

      Hootie Owl Gorre, didn’t he invent the internet? LOL.

      BODYBAG, Please, don’t insult turnips.

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:13pm

      ‘We Cannot Have 4 More Years of Mentioning This Occasionally’….You’re right Al…We need to have 4 years of not mentioning it at all…

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    • Maji
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:28pm

      Don’t know about ‘global warming” but Al gore and Bloomberg has the makings
      of a real “**** Storm !

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    • chalkdust
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:15am

      1970′s–Global cooling, another ice age is coming, better ware that coat

      1980″s–Acid rain, turn your **** green, kill off vegetation.

      Late 1980″s—There is a hole in the ozone layer and it will kill us all.

      Early 1990′s—Global warming gonna get ya. Only have 5 years to stop it. It’s mean old man’s fault.

      Mid 1990′s–The SUV causes global warming. Only have 5 years to save the world.

      Late 1990′s–The science is settled. Man is killing mother earth with it’s fossil fuels. We’re dead in 5.

      Early 2000′s–C02 is the cause. And cows. We will all catch fire in 5 years if we don’t start jogging.

      Mid 2000′s—Now we call it global climate change. Still man’s fault, got 5 years to reverse it.

      Late 2000′s–Uh oh. Fudged data, we have actually been cooling. Still mans fault, dead in 5.

      Early 2010′s—Cooling or warming, no matter the C02 level it’s still mans fault, still dead in 5.

      And we find out that just below the earth’s surface it’s shockingly several million degree’s. And it’s mans fault. Dead in 5.

      What would we do without Nobel prize Al Gore. We would never have realized that we’re all dead in 5 years….20 years ago.

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    • WATER-THE-TREE
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 2:20am

      If stupid ass Al Gore would shut his mouth and stop all the hot air the earth would start cooling!

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    • hypnos
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:56am

      Why, is just below the crust of the earth rising above several million degrees.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:05am

      If only Al would share the secret technology used in his carbonless private jet, limo and mansions. This think when everything is redistributed we will all have this secret technology. I think we should demand our Goresoline now. I want Goresoline now!!!

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:23am

      How many blunts per day, Al?

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    • michaelmoron
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:03am

      Gore says:
      “We’re putting 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every single day, spewing it up there as if the atmosphere of the planet is an open sewer”

      ~~~~~~~~~~~

      What he doesn’t tell you is that they (his puppetmasters) are spraying 20 Million TONS of Aluminum in
      our atmosphere to combat global warming. They call it “Geoengineering”.
      They say that by filling the atmosphere with Aluminum, Barium, strontium and other toxins, that it is blocking the sun that reaches earth.

      These SOBS are commiting ASSAULT !!!!

      They prime the atmosphere with metals so that their big microwave machine that can heat the uppermost layer of our atmosphere to 100 degrees fahrenheit is more efficient.

      It is called HAARP – High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project.

      This can be used to steer the jetstreams.

      Here is some more on this:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2crD3TGHy5w

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEfJO0-cTis

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:44pm

      ALGORE’s brain has bein leaking out his mouth for years. A lobottomy would bring his intelligence UP TO ZERO!!

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    • Balpit
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 6:42pm

      @chalkdust
      Oh, crap! We’re late for our own funeral!
      You sum up perfectly the reason I became skeptical about global warming.

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    • collectiveUnconscious
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:22pm

      i believe the only time gore shows any signs of life [from his typical totem-like demeanor] is when anyone dares to blaspheme the Green goddess by not getting worked up enough over ‘climate change’ or whatever the Greenies call it this week. its all a hoax, like much of the PC laundry list of sacred cows and gore cannot deal with reality. no wonder even tipper’s bailing out on him. gore invented the internet, remember? but really, go easy and pity the fanatical sucker. when the climate hoax is officially debunked, then he will hang himself. between you and me, though, i do suspect the old boy’s throwing his hat into the ring for 2016. too bad rainforest trees cannot vote.

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  • DEFCON4
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:10pm

    Global Warming is just another myth with financial rewards.
    Just like the $300 billion the U S spent on the Y2K, Millennium “bug”.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:47pm

      Without his GOOBALWARMIN’, HE IS {LOOSINK-MONEY} by the BILLION$$!!

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    • collectiveUnconscious
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:27pm

      please excuse me friends. the good commentors here point out the global warming hoax IS a multi-billion dollar global cottage industry. indeed it is. when the hoax is debunked think of all the $ the green hustlers stand to lose. thank u Defcon4. happy holidays to all & glenn

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    • collectiveUnconscious
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:34pm

      you are so right sir. the green hoax is a multi-billion $ global cottage industry. think of all the Green hustlers who will lose muchos pesos once the hoax is debunked. makes you kinda wanna cry, doesn’t it? anyway happy holidays to all you good americans here & dear glenn..

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  • benrush
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:10pm

    Al Gore, clearly you are the Alpha Male of the Millenium.
    Will you please lead us to Utopia?
    We other males feel so inferior next you that we will gratefully tuck in our tails if you will consent to not eat us while you take us to the land of visions.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:05pm

    This big old fat cow is just looking for his share of the pie! He’s getting a little greedy, and starting to worry he’s not going to get any. I just wish he would drop dead of a MASSIVE coronary already!

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    • drs1969
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:35pm

      Barry, I’m not gettin’ any younger!

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:53pm

      These PIGS never do have enough, do they ??????
      whether Power or Money…..Greedy and Evil Leeches
      with No conscience… MBP and Bloomy are both
      candidates to be “Tarred and Feathered”…

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  • ares338
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:04pm

    Haven’t heard from big Al Bore in a while. He sensed his chance at revamping the Global Warming myth now that the Soialist Traitor has 4 more years.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:03pm

    Gore a climate scientist? LMAO Folks that fat bastard isn’t a climate scientist,he’s a carnival barker just like BO,both are telling BS lies and suckers are lapping it up. Gore take your debunked hockey stick theory and stick it.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:36pm

      Ive had a hunch for a long time that Al is one of those gross secret perverts.
      He reminds me of those old movies with Charles Laughton as the Roman senator
      being fanned and fed grapes by his prepubescent boy-toy slaves.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:41pm

      I think you’re onto something there Bag because Gore is one creepy cat that’s for sure,he should be committed to a mental hospital just for being a warmer cultist.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:49am

      ““This storm was related to global warming,” Gore said.”

      Do you see whats going on here? Everyone with a real brain knows weather events are ACTS OF GOD.
      But progressive/atheist radical wing-dings want God erased. They promote themselves as gods with the answers to all man’s problems.

      Everything that is happening right now is interconnected. Thats why they’re trying to eradicate everything religious now.

      You are not my King you POS. If you want anything from me you’ll have to come take it.
      And I guarantee I will not make it easy.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:57am

      Al Gore: Big Lummox Or Crazed Sex Poodle?
      http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/if_al_gore_tried_to_sleep_with.html

      This is when he demands that she massage more than the “safe, non-sexual area of the abdomen.”

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    • DIR
      Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Gore makes carnavel barkers look respectable. His closest association with the carvavel is in his thinking. He subscribes to P.T. Barnum’s saying: “there’s a sucker born every minute,” which is sometimes thought to have been said by another famous con artist Joe Bessimer. It doesn’t matter who came up with it, Owl now owns the saying. In Owl’s world, for those who don’t qualify as suckers to his BS, he uses his influence to have his crap force fed.

      In short Owl Bore is a swindler and a huge one at that. He needs to be challenged, sued, stripped of his ill gotten gains, thrown in jail for his lying, cheating, stealing and stinking up the environment. Where is the Occupy crowd when you need them? They’re going after the wrong people. This fruitcake is having an impact on how we live, how we’re taxed, our freedoms. The Occupiers should show up at his palatial Montecito estate, burn it down then run him out of this country on a tramp steamer after they’ve decorated him in tar and feathers.

      While Owl is laughable, he’s laughing at us all, while on his way to the bank.

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  • quiltgal
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:03pm

    Gore’s invested a lot of money in carbon credit exchanges. And, darn, he was so close to collecting wads of money. But alas, people came forth with questions, followed by skepticism. What a nerve. Now he’s afraid he might die before the whole thing pays off. You folks gotta buy this ointment that cures everything right now. It’s a limited time offer.

    Right. We all know Al Gore will be back with the same phony sales pitch tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

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  • PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:03pm

    This reptile is PURE EVIL… He turns children against their parents..telling them they are smarter and know more than the older generation. Who has the children’s best interest at heart. Get you kids out of the indoctrination mills as fast as you can. They are warping their minds and depriving their very souls of a rich and full life. The teach anarchy and lies. Did you all know that AL GORE is on the Board of Directors of APPLE? He has so much money now it’s incredible…plus he’s invested heavily in the “green economy” HE IS PURE EVIL AND LIES.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Don’t forget, Al graduated from Harvard, just like BHO.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:43pm

      Bush and Romney also hold Harvard degrees…

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    • strawberry411a
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:11pm

      Yea but THEY never served in Vietnam like combat vet Al Gore. Granted..it was a short tour and he was assigned to REPORT on the war. But by gosh he went with absolutely no thought of a political future at all. He went because he LOVES this country. Thank you for your service Al. (Next time, take the weapons tag off your M-16. That way we won’t know if it is really broken or not. But you looked good in the photo ..on the perimeter….at the firebase.) And no matter what, Ivy league grad or not, he is not a classically trained dancer like SE CUPP…..a proven conservative.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:02pm

    Don’t you have to have a business license to open a Kool-Aid stand?

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:01pm

    Wow…
    Hurricane “Handy” Sandy is just what Al needed to keep his global warming crap alive, huh?
    Wonder when the next one will be set off, huh, AL?

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  • intercepter
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:01pm

    Al is nothing more then a thief ,and if he and daddy bloomburg think the earth will be healed by moving money ,then ,they should put their every last penny they have into it ,and once they do that and they are sitting on a corner holding a can panning for change ,then and only then will I listen to big Al ,,til then naa

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    • stopprintn
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:08pm

      They could chip in and build a 20′ sea wall around Manhattan and right on down the coast, save many lives. Then when the seas rise , instant hero status. All will be happy.

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  • Stelex
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Mr Prez just lit 54 Christmas trees in the WH, and a 60 foot tree outside. His carbon footprint out does almost everyone’s except Al Gores. The UN is pushing this Global Warming crap and we have to get serious about ridding the US of the UN. Read about the Truth…..fantastic article well worth the time.

    http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=43582

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  • gyro
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:00pm

    Yay Al Gore My hero
    Anyone know were he got his full frontal lobotomy I need one to ??

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  • thom1
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:59pm

    This idiot almost stole the election for president! How scary is that?

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    • drs1969
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:39pm

      At least as scary as BHO stealing 2. Both will wreck the economy, if allowed.

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:46pm

      The real scary part is he would have won it straight-up if not for Monica Lewinsky- Gate.

      Could you even imagine a President Gore dealing with the 9/11 aftermath?

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  • Polarized America
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:57pm

    ‘WE CANNOT HAVE 4 MORE YEARS OF MENTIONING THIS OCCASIONALLY’
    ——————————————————————————————————————————-
    someone needs to setup a robo call to al and say it continually..every hour on the hour
    have it say …” we’re not going to do what you want Alice”

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:56pm

    Would someone please tell al his 15 minutes are long over, global warming is a sham that won’t stand up to basic reality testing and read to him the definition of a 100 year storm?

    This moron spouts other people’s lies when he isn’t creating them. The scary thing is that BHO will likely respond, using the big lie to further ‘redistributed’ not just ‘rich’ American’s money, but ALL Americans’ wealth to the parts of the world too backwards to join us in the 22nd century!

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  • The_Pointy_End
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:54pm

    “we cannot have four more years of mentioning this occasionally” Global warming is all about government control, not about protecting the environment. This is a backhanded way to eventually tax all of us for breathing. First off Al Gore (POS) does not own the air to sell it (carbon credits). If he cared so much about the environment he would walk the walk, not talk the talk. His carbon foot print is HUGE. He wants us to walk to work and live in a shack so he can fly around in his jet and live in a mansion.

    My dad told me about a comic book (Orphan Annie ? ) that was out in the the 1940′s that was making fun of an air tax. Who would have thought that 60 years later this joke would become a reality.

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  • connor_Tist
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:53pm

    Oh poor Al Gore. I guess he has to pay for his million dollar houses. His CSX global greenie exchange can’t make money until there’s a real crisis. And so if there isn’t one, he creates one.

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    • wisconsinlcm
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 9:47pm

      Yep big al made alot of money on the light bulbs that we are having to use now and lost it on the exchange they set up in chicago when his lies exsposed. So now he’s back peddling the same old stuff thinking no one will remember.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:51pm

    As far as I’m concerned we should never mention the fraud of man made global warming. It’s just a scheme by Gore to become the worlds first trillionaire,he’s a greedy fat cat and he should be fed to the OWS zombies,throw in lard @ss Mike Moore as well.

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  • papatom48
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:50pm

    Hey Algore, STFU and please take your fat buttocks somewhere else. Noone wants to hear your junk science and listen to you marketing the biggest hoax in human history.

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  • revelation2012
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:50pm

    I agree global warming is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ all geoengineered

    those that think they can do things better than Almighty GOD – He will NOT be mocked,,,

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  • jackact
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:49pm

    Of course you are right ALGORE, there are billions invested in crony federal government sponsored radical environmentalism.
    It’s a sure bet.
    Even if the proven result of politically correct environmentalism is total failure.
    We all know it is.
    90 billion down the drain in the name of the word ‘Green’.
    For naught.
    Does anyone remember the meaning of the word ‘Corruption’?
    I need a refresher course.
    :(

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  • Oneirishman
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:37pm

    Doomburg has a Goregasim. Film at 11.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:46pm

      yep war on coal………..closing down our coal fired power plants but china is building 1 every month……how are they saving anything , just taking our money

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    • Stelex
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 8:15pm

      Taking our money and choking our country.

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  • karen162
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:36pm

    What’s the matter Al? You not getting rich enough, fast enough off this freedom killing, job killing, poverty making scam?

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    • Fubared
      Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:47pm

      You really shouldn’t resort to calling their religion a scam. Manbearpig will get all cereal. It’s a farce and a scam, you are correct.

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  • OlefromMN
    Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:34pm

    Al sees his own irrelevance on the horizon and needs Obama to help him. There was a great story today on the Dead Sea and how we may experience another climate as occurred 100,000 years ago. Gee, I don’t recall GM having the Suburban back then.

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