Gore says Bush admin. is paying scientists off

[laserfocused]

Just wondering what facts exist to support this statement.

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/po...on-paying.html

very short article

[decoski]

I seriously doubt if it is true. Gore is a typical left-wing wacko who lies about Bush. Laughably, the left-wing nutjobs have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. What does making a film about global warming have anything to do with promoting world peace?

[BillyBob]

Al Gore is as reputable as Kent Hovind.

[We need a 'Liar' smilie]

[alkech]

From the article:

Editor's Note:

In an earlier version of this story, former Vice President Al Gore is quoted responding to a question asked by Cuatro, a television channel in Spain and a CNN affiliate, about a recent report in a London newspaper that payments were being made to scientists to dispute the issue of global warming. Gore responded to a question that incorrectly implied the Bush administration was making payments to scientists to debunk global warming. The Cuatro interviewer should have noted the Guardian Newspaper alleged that the American Enterprise Institute -- a Washington, DC-based think tank -- was offering to pay economists and scientists to dispute a United Nations report on global warming. AEI acknowledges soliciting authors to examine both the "strengths and weaknesses" of the report and did offer an honoraria of $10,000. Gore did answer the question as posed by the Cuatro interviewer.

I don't know too much about Global warming, but it's clear that Gore did not explicitly make the claim.

Yet, what I would like to know is given the bribing of Armstrong Williams, and some other journalist I can't recall by the Bush admin, why are some so quick to exonerate Bush et al when they in fact have a history of bribing people to affect policy?

Not saying there's proof, but one would think a pause should be considered given past history.

[BillyBob]

This is just a lame attempt to discredit real science and the scientists who refuse to tow the liberal party line and pretend man made global warming is real.

Al Gore is a scumbag.

[Rahab]

From the article:
I don't know too much about Global warming, but it's clear that Gore did not explicitly make the claim.

Yet, what I would like to know is given the bribing of Armstrong Williams, and some other journalist I can't recall by the Bush admin, why are some so quick to exonerate Bush et al when they in fact have a history of bribing people to affect policy?

Not saying there's proof, but one would think a pause should be considered given past history.

Since fossil fuel combustion remains Gore's primary designated culprit in an "Inconvenient truth", it seems to me that oil corporations would have a motive to attempt to corrupt scientific research pointing to their major contribution to the increase of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The US automobile industry is equaly targeted for remaining way behind the production of low emission vehicles.

What is interesting to me is that those who deny the human responsibility for the current atmospheric pollution have no arguments other than shooting the messengers.

I would think that no matter which political label one favors, we would all consider realisticaly the future of our planet and educate ourselves as to what we can do NOW to preserve our natural and vital habitat. Adopting a contentious response based on political partisanship is IMO irresponsible.

[Jim_Casy]

I seriously doubt if it is true. Gore is a typical left-wing wacko who lies about Bush. Laughably, the left-wing nutjobs have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. What does making a film about global warming have anything to do with promoting world peace?

While I disagree with most of your characterizations of "left-wing" nutjobs/wackos, I agree that a campaign about climate change should be insufficient to warrant a "peace prize". Afterall, his other positions and legacy are more hawkish than that.

[Thomas More]

Of course big fat juicy grants to study global warming from orginizations that lean towards that Gore hypothesis have absolutely no effect on the research for more grant money.

The congressional report was pretty damning on the 19000% of scientist agree with Gore aspect of it.

[historic salve]

I didn't know Al Gore was into slandering people.

[Tickle Me Mercury]

There will always be issues when politics dips its fingers into the scientific community. Vested interests, conflicts of interest and all that.

It's not clear what the accusation is. That people are taking money to falsify results? Or that people in the employ of the government/oil companies happen to be getting results that are favorable to the government/oil companies.

[FlimFlamboyant]

Man, don't you people realize that the more money we spend on bribing scientists, the less we'll have to buy carbon offsets from Al?

Sheesh.

[jgarden]

I seriously doubt if it is true. Gore is a typical left-wing wacko who lies about Bush. Laughably, the left-wing nutjobs have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. What does making a film about global warming have anything to do with promoting world peace?

Gore, Moore and those "left-wing wackoes" have organized a worldwide conspiracy to infiltrate the world's scientific community and bribe the vast majority of the world's scientists.

This new world order of dastardly "left wing nutjobs" have "brainwashed" the following nations to sign the Kyoto Accords.

Its a well known medical fact that it is anatomically impossible to "brainwash" a Republican.
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List of Kyoto Protocol signatories - 174 states have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
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1 Fiji
2 Antigua and Barbuda
3 Tuvalu
4 Maldives
5 Turkmenistan
6 Trinidad and Tobago
7 Panama
8 Bahamas
9 Georgia
10 Federated States of Micronesia
11 Jamaica
12 Cyprus
13 Paraguay
14 Guatemala
15 Uzbekistan
16 Nicaragua
17 Bolivia
18 Palau
19 Mongolia
20 Ecuador
21 El Salvador
22 Honduras
23 Barbados
24 Equatorial Guinea
25 Lesotho
26 Guinea
27 Kiribati
28 Mexico
29 Azerbaijan
30 Samoa
31 Uruguay
32 Romania
33 Mauritius
34 Gambia
35 Vanuatu
36 Senegal
37 Nauru
38 Argentina
39 Burundi
40 Bangladesh
41 Malawi
42 Malta
43 Czech Republic
44 Colombia
45 Morocco
46 Dominican Republic
47 Benin
48 Djibouti
49 Uganda
50 Mali
51 Papua New Guinea
52 Cuba
53 Iceland
54 Norway
55 Austria
56 Belgium
57 Denmark
58 Finland
59 France
60 Germany
61 Greece
62 Ireland
63 Italy
64 Luxembourg
65 Netherlands
66 Portugal
67 Spain
68 Sweden
69 United Kingdom
70 Slovakia
71 Japan
72 Latvia
73 Seychelles
74 South Africa
75 Slovenia
76 Grenada
77 Costa Rica
78 Bulgaria
79 Hungary
80 Cambodia
81 Brazil
82 Bhutan
83 Chile
84 India member
85 Tanzania
86 Cameroon
87 Thailand
88 China
89 Sri Lanka
90 Malaysia
91 Peru
92 Vietnam
93 Estonia
94 Liberia
95 South Korea
96 Poland
97 Canada
98 New Zealand
99 Lithuania
100 Jordan
101 Tunisia
102 Laos
103 Solomon Islands
104 Moldova
105 Armenia
106 Kyrgyzstan
107 Ghana
108 Switzerland
109 Guyana
110 Botswana
111 Marshall Islands
112 Burma
113 Saint Lucia
114 Namibia
115 Madagascar
116 Belize
117 Philippines
118 Israel
119 Ukraine
120 Togo
121 Rwanda
122 Yemen
123 Niger
124 Sudan
125 Russia
127 Indonesia
128 Liechtenstein
129 Nigeria
130 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
131 Pakistan
132 Qatar
133 Egypt
134 Mozambique
135 Oman
136 Dominica
137 United Arab Emirates
138 Saudi Arabia
139 Algeria
140 Venezuela
141 Kenya
142 Kuwait
143 Democratic Republic of the Congo
144 Burkina Faso
145 Albania
146 Ethiopia
147 North Korea
148 Haiti
149 Mauritania
150 Eritrea
151 Iran
152 Belarus
153 Nepal
154 Guinea-Bissau
155 Swaziland
156 Syria
157 Bahrain
158 Cape Verde
159 Monaco
160 Singapore
161 Zambia
162 Libya
163 Suriname
164 Sierra Leone
165 Lebanon
166 Gabon
167 Congo
168 Bosnia and Herzegovina
169 Côte d'Ivoire
170 Croatia
171 Angola
172 Montenegro
173 Serbia
174 Australia

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[Teallaura]

Now ask how many are in compliance with Kyoto...

[jgarden]

Now ask how many are in compliance with Kyoto...

Not intending to ratify
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United States
total countries: members: 1

No position expressed yet
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1 Afghanistan
2 Andorra
3 Brunei
4 Central African Republic
5 Chad
6 Comoros
7 Iraq
8 Republic of China (Taiwan)
9 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
10 Saint Kitts and Nevis
11 San Marino
12 São Tomé and Príncipe
13 Somalia
14 Tajikistan
15 Timor-Leste
16 Tonga
17 Turkey
18 Vatican City observer
19 Zimbabwe
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Surrounded by her closest "friends," America "stands tall," - secure in the knowledge that the Bush Administration would never compromise its integrity on a matter of principle.

[Tickle Me Mercury]

Countries whose poverty stricken and fixed income classes will be spared the effects of economic ripples caused by the inevitable graft, incompetence, buffoonery, and unforseen consequences of forced compliance with Kyoto
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(Double Number 1!!) United States
1 Afghanistan
2 Andorra
3 Brunei
4 Central African Republic
5 Chad
6 Comoros
7 Iraq
8 Republic of China (Taiwan)
9 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
10 Saint Kitts and Nevis
11 San Marino
12 São Tomé and Príncipe
13 Somalia
14 Tajikistan
15 Timor-Leste
16 Tonga
17 Turkey
18 Vatican City observer
19 Zimbabwe