Despite Big Honor for Gore, Climate Not Top Issue in U.S. (WP)

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Despite Big Honor for Gore, Climate Not Top Issue in U.S.

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page A09

Former vice president Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize meant
the same thing yesterday to both his supporters and
detractors: He ranks as the world's most effective
advocate for curbing global warming.

While an array of activists, politicians and business
leaders have all called in recent years for more stringent
limits on greenhouse gases linked to climate change, no
one more than Gore has reshaped public perception of
what was once a wonkish scientific debate. But for all
that, the issue remains far down the priority list for
Americans.

Through his tireless travel and slide-show presentations,
captured on screen in the 2006 film "An Inconvenient
Truth," Gore has inserted himself into the policy debate
at home and in other countries across the globe.

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Polls show that Gore's efforts have helped raise the profile
of global warming among Americans -- an April Washington
Post-ABC News survey found that the percentage of
respondents identifying climate change as their top
environmental concern had doubled from a year earlier,
to 33 percent -- but in the public's mind, it still lags far
behind such issues as the war in Iraq and health care in
importance.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201541.html

[flordehinojos]

1. sure the bushes owned propaganda machines have to bury the story of gore's nobel peace prize win ...

no one can top the bush tator and poppy wants to make sure of that.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Could that possibly be because the corporate media

has downplayed this story for well over a decade in spite of overwhelming peer approved scientific studies to the contrary.

I want to take a moment here to salute Robert Kennedy Jr. for his Today show interview this morning. I'm paraphrasing here but when he was asked why the issue had a hard time taking off, he quickly responded the media and followed that up by reciting the over thousands of peer approved scientific studies all coming to the conclusion that 1. Global warming was for real. 2. Human kind is causing it. 3. The process is accelerating faster than what the scientists had originally thought.

I believe he was about to follow up by stating that in spite of scientific consensus on this issue the media had reported it as a certainty only about 50+% of the time, this is the primary disconnect as to the American's People's current set of priorities. I take this figure from Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth", I don't know for certain that Kennedy was going to cite this last paragraph because they cut him off abruptly after the first paragraph. However I strongly believe the corporate media need to be called on camera for their prior behavior. I believe this is the only way the American People can regain control of their government.

So to Robert Kennedy Jr.:patriot:

[Jack Bone]

3. I didn't see it..thanx for the post!!

:patriot: