Elmer Beaureguard
Al Gore, the self-appointed controller of the world's climate, on Wednesday called for a “Marshall plan” to address climate change and told President George W. Bush to make mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide emissions.
“THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!,” Mr Gore screamed at the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative. He then layed out some cockimamy plan to have developing countries bear the brunt of the climate change hysteria.
Gore said Bush should follow the example of former US president Ronald Reagan, who after much fear mongering finally responded in 1985 to the now disproven theory of the "Ozone Hole" in the ozone layer by supporting a marked reduction in chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. Nasa has now proven that this actually made the hole bigger.
“We have to have a binding reduction on carbon,’’ he said.
Even though China and India are the world’s top producers of carbon dioxide, as they create more energy to feed rampant economic growth. The rapid development of poorer countries is considered by many scientists and economists to be one of the chief challenges in tackling climate change.
The World Bank estimates that 1.6bn people around the world do not have access to electricity. The developing world currently has a funding gap of around half of the $160bn investment needed annually to fulfil growing demand for electricity, the bank says.
Bill Clinton, the former US president whose organisation is hosting the philanthropic forum for world leaders and top businesses, also called on the World Bank to promote ways of dealing with climate change to the governments it deals with. He argued that the organisation needed to persuade developing countries that they could grow in ways that would alleviate damage to the environment and benefit economic growth. (Yeah, Rigghhht!)