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Algore is pure comedy gold. You can always count on the weather to immediately make a mockery of his pronouncements. He doesn't seem to realize we just had one of the earliest snowfalls in history.
Al Gore Climate Skepticism Will Haunt Republicans in 2016 - NationalJournal.com
Al Gore Climate Skepticism Will Haunt Republicans in 2016 - NationalJournal.com
September 17, 2014 Al Gore says Republicans seeking the White House in 2016 are in a bind on climate change.
Asked if it would hurt the GOP nominee to be a climate skeptic or advocate against taking action on global warming, Gore replied: "Oh, yes. Definitely."
"In a general election? At the national level, where moderate voters hold the balance? It would be extremely harmful to a Republican candidate," Gore told National Journal in an interview Wednesday.
But Gore doubts that a "pro-climate" Republican can get the GOP nod, because "carbon polluters and anti-government extremists control many of the state primaries, if not most."
Gore's comments arrive as potential 2016 Republican White House candidates are beginning to stake out turf on climate change and energy.
In a pair of appearances in Washington on Tuesday, Louisiana's GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal called for dismantling EPA's carbon-emissions rules while arguing it's still unclear whether--despite what the vast majority of scientists say--human activities are now largely driving climate change.
Yet Gore believes the national politics have shifted even since the 2012 election cycle. That year, Mitt Romney attacked EPA regulation and used his nomination acceptance speech to openly mock President Obama's 2008 vow to tackle global warming. (Obama, for his part, didn't emphasize his climate platform on the stump but has made it a second-term priority.)
"[A] lot of things have changed even since Mitt Romney ran. The prominence of the climate-related extreme weather events has caused millions of people to look at their hole cards to examine what the options really are . . . [lawmakers'] constituents are profoundly affected by this. As Bob Dylan sang, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," said Gore, speaking in New York City on the sidelines of his annual "24 Hours of Reality" multimedia event on climate change.
Asked if it would hurt the GOP nominee to be a climate skeptic or advocate against taking action on global warming, Gore replied: "Oh, yes. Definitely."
"In a general election? At the national level, where moderate voters hold the balance? It would be extremely harmful to a Republican candidate," Gore told National Journal in an interview Wednesday.
But Gore doubts that a "pro-climate" Republican can get the GOP nod, because "carbon polluters and anti-government extremists control many of the state primaries, if not most."
Gore's comments arrive as potential 2016 Republican White House candidates are beginning to stake out turf on climate change and energy.
In a pair of appearances in Washington on Tuesday, Louisiana's GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal called for dismantling EPA's carbon-emissions rules while arguing it's still unclear whether--despite what the vast majority of scientists say--human activities are now largely driving climate change.
Yet Gore believes the national politics have shifted even since the 2012 election cycle. That year, Mitt Romney attacked EPA regulation and used his nomination acceptance speech to openly mock President Obama's 2008 vow to tackle global warming. (Obama, for his part, didn't emphasize his climate platform on the stump but has made it a second-term priority.)
"[A] lot of things have changed even since Mitt Romney ran. The prominence of the climate-related extreme weather events has caused millions of people to look at their hole cards to examine what the options really are . . . [lawmakers'] constituents are profoundly affected by this. As Bob Dylan sang, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," said Gore, speaking in New York City on the sidelines of his annual "24 Hours of Reality" multimedia event on climate change.
