Clinton brings in Gore as closer on climate change
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Former Vice President Al Gore was interviewed in Nov. 2015 in Nashville, Tenn. Gore, a longtime environmental activist, will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a rally in Miami today.
DES MOINES, Iowa » Hillary Clinton is bringing in Al Gore as her closer on climate change as she struggles to appeal to young voters who consider the issue a priority.
Vice president during her husband’s eight years in the White House and a longtime environmental activist, Gore will join the Democratic presidential candidate at a rally in Miami today. During the event, Clinton will emphasizing her plans to develop more clean energy, reduce fossil fuel production and build more weather-resistant infrastructure. She will also continue her attacks on Republican Donald Trump.
Speaking at Ohio State University Monday night, Clinton said: “I’m running against somebody who doesn’t believe in climate change or at least he says he doesn’t, who has even said he thinks it’s a hoax created by the Chinese.”
During the primary contest against progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton offered clean energy plans and came out against the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is opposed by environmentalists.
“Climate change is one of the issues where the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is night and day,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon. “For many of the core supporters we are seeking to galvanize in the remaining weeks of the campaign, including young voters, communicating the boldness of her plan is important.”
Trump has repeatedly questioned climate change and said he plans to “renegotiate” the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty designed to curb the rise in global temperatures.
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The world is on pace for the hottest year on record, breaking marks set in 2015, 2014, and 2010. It is about 1.8 degrees warmer than a century ago. Scientists have also connected man-made climate change to deadly heat waves, droughts and flood-inducing downpours.
Gore explored global warming in his 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Advocacy group NextGen Climate, founded by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, is backing Clinton and has put $25 million into a millennial outreach program. Their surveys of young people showed that early in the summer, many did not see a difference between Clinton and Trump on climate, but as they learned more, they moved toward Clinton.
“We’ve seen throughout this campaign that climate change is an issue that millennials care about deeply,” said NextGen’s political director Heather Hargreaves.
Despite Clinton’s promotion of energy policies aimed at lessening climate change, there has not always been unanimity among her campaign aides about how strong that support should be. A message released today by Wikileaks from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked email account shows some aides were not totally on board with Clinton’s promise in June 2015 to raise fees on companies involved in oil exploration and fossil fuel production on federal land.
Clinton had broached the idea in her campaign launch speech in June 2015, but raising energy royalties could be politically explosive in western states where oil and gas firms have spent billions of dollars on extracting fuels.
In July 2015, campaign speechwriting director Dan Schwerin told Podesta in an email that “I think we’re going to have to make peace with our fossil fuels royalties, since she’s already promised that.”
On July 15, 2015, Clinton said she wanted to raise fees and phase out fuel extraction operating on public lands, but warned it could not be done quickly because “we still have to run our economy, we still have to turn on the lights.”
The leaked emails also show a discussion on how Clinton could show her opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. Wrote Schwerin on August 7, 2015: “We are trying to find a good way to leak her opposition to the pipeline without her having to actually say it and give up her principled stand about not second-guessing the president in public.”
Clinton announced her opposition during a town hall in Iowa the following month, in response to a question from the audience.
Stephen Braun and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Donald must really have Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton’s knickers in a twist if she is now so desperate she has to resort to Lurch Gore and his phony claims about man-made this, that or the other.
Gore has all the verve and excitement of a cigar store indian. To assume that he will appear heroic and exciting to a cadre of young people – – who can see hypocrisy (eg. Gore’s massive, electricity consuming estate) and pretentious fluff when it is rolled out – – is one heck of a gamble.
Gore might be there to enliven the youngest voters, but for the boomer generation, the tableau of the two aging Democrats will also bring back memories of the 1990s, two days after Donald Trump revisited the decade by bringing up the sex scandals of Bill Clinton’s past at the second presidential debate.
And it was in large part because of those scandals that Gore tried to cut ties with the Clintons when he launched his presidential campaign in 1999, and initiated what became a famously strained relationship.
That year, Bill Clinton wanted Gore to run, essentially, for a third Clinton term. But Gore’s team decided a connection to the scandal-tarred president would be a problem in the battleground states and chose to run away from Bill Clinton instead. Gore announced his presidential run on June 16, 1999, in Tennessee, when the Clinton family was vacationing in Europe. The morning when Gore was set to accept his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Bill Clinton called up Shrum, Gore’s chief adviser, and asked him to read him the speech. Gore instructed him not to share it with the president — he had found a different, more populist voice, and didn’t want the heavy-handed Clinton meddling.
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Climate change is very real. All Donald can do is to pander to coal miners who well know how dangerous and dirty coal is to the environment. Trump has zero plans for the environment or anything else other than massive tax cuts and an exploded federal debt. The tax cuts go mainly to the very rich of course.
Yep this is all about reaching out to millennials who overwhelming believe that global warming is an issue of their time and Al Gore is viewed with high regard. Its not desperation, Gore is part of Clinton’s closing to millennials. She is solid with her base (as is Trump), and the independents are moving her way as the polls show, but the millennials represent a voting block that if she can mobilize, can help her it two ways; first it can help her down ballot in critical Senate and House races. There are some races that are close that will hinge on turnout and if she can mobilize millennials to vote it could swing down ballot races toward the Dems. Second it can hep put her over the top in close races like Ohio. Chump has not one who can speak to millennials his kids are viewed as kids of privilege and many of his surrogates don’t even believe global warming is an issue. Smart play on her part.
The latest batch of emails from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta show New York Times reporter and CNBC anchor John Harwood giving the Clinton campaign tips about other candidates and bragging about feeling vindicated by provoking Donald Trump as a debate moderator.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/nytcnbcs-john-harwood-advises-clinton-campaign-gloats-about-provoking-trump-at-debate/#ixzz4Mp4hRAd8
What’s the sense for America to lead the charge in global warming when we don’t make anything anymore. You are barking up the wrong tree again.
Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, GM, Alcoa, General Electric, Caterpillar, Harley Davidson, Delphi, Proctor and Gamble, 3M, Abbott Labs, among others would disagree that America doesn’t make anything any more
Climate changes all the time, so of course it’s real. However whether it “caused” by human activities, and can be “solved” by progressive democrats grabbing tax dollars, wielding total control over our economy and lining their own pockets is extremely dubious.
OHG “Gore” – Is this one of those Evil Clowns Incidents?
Bubba Clinton…Al Gore…Anthony Weiner…does hiLIARy have any men near her who are clean & normal and are not predators? (intelligence: optional)
Not on the debate stage, anyway. The predator lurking behind her was especially scary and lacking the optional intelligence.
looking at “her”….no wonder Bubba has roaming eyes.
al jereeza gore?
Hillary drags “Weird Al’s” carcass out in a desperate attempt to get the attention of young voters. Al’s been pushing the man made climate change lie so long that he makes Bernie Sanders look like less of the crazy uncle in the attic than he is. The problem with the climate change push is there are no freebies attached to it to bait low info democrats. But don’t look for democrats to ever abandon it soon. It’s too juicy to give up. Imagine the control they could exercise over us if they manage to push through climate change legislation. You wouldn’t be able to pass wind without it being regulated and or taxed.
“Shades of Gore”
http://www.businessinsider.com/two-more-women-accuse-al-gore-of-assault-2010-7
gretchen klungness says: “The quality of the Trump campaign and his demeanor is so indescribably awful that I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
vice president al gore groped a masseuse in his Oregon hotel room four years ago.
gretchen, what’s your take on al jereeza gore’s demeanor?
Gore is one of the leading proponents of climate change yet he is one of the biggest “fossil fuel” burners around. He also owns a $9 million dollar mansion on the beach in the
Los Angeles area which he purchased in 2010 in addition to a very large mansion in Tennessee. He is driven around in large SUV caravans and jets all over the world on private jets
all the while preaching that all you peons need to reduce your use of carbon based energy. He has profited handsomely from pushing climate change and is involved in
selling carbon credits in a company based in London, Generation Investment Management (GIM) which he co-founded in 2004.
It is just a scam involving the buying and selling so called carbon credits. If a person, company or country buys carbon credits, this allows them to burn carbon based fuels.
In essence it is a license to pollute but only those that buy these carbon credits get to to this.
According to Gore, the increasing C02 will cause the melting of the polar ice caps causing sea rise, yet he buys a large mansion on the beach in LA.
What a load of bull this guy is. No wonder he is fronting for crooked Hillary.
Gore is a giant fraud.
I don’t understand why Gore is supporting Hillary. If it had not been for Bill Clinton’s numerous sex scandals while he was President, Gore most likely would have succeeded him in the Oval Office.