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Washington - President-elect Barack Obama will meet with former vice president Al Gore in Chicago on Wednesday to discuss global warming, Obama's transition office said in a statement. The two men, along with vice president-elect Joe Biden will "discuss energy and climate change and how policies in this area can stimulate the economy and create jobs," spokesman Nick Shapiro said. Gore served as vice president under Bill Clinton and narrowly lost his White House bid to President George W Bush in the controversial 2000 election. Since losing, Gore has championed effort to combat global warming. Gore won an Academy Award in 2006 for his documentary about climate change called An Inconvenient Truth. He won the Nobel Peace Prize the next year.
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Gore and Obama
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David Lewis ,
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:48:14 GMT
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Gore's big message of the moment is that "clean coal" technology doesn't exist, whereas Obama campaigned saying he was going to kick start this technology by facilitating the building of five full scale coal fired electricity generation plants that emit 90 - 95 % less carbon to the atmosphere than standard ones.
I've never heard of an activist who would campaign against a pollution control technology rather than to campaign for implementing it, but this is Gore. The IPCC, MIT, and McKinsey reports on carbon capture all say this is ready to go - the constraint is political, not technological. Politically, few want to pay the 2.5 cents to 3 cents a kw/hr extra that "clean coal" will cost, it is said to be impossible to put in a carbon tax high enough to force this technology in the US or almost anywhere else. Instead of campaigning for putting a price on carbon high enough to force industry to put "clean coal" in, Gore campaigns to get us to believe it doesn't exist.
If I were Obama, I'd ask Gore why it looks like he's lost his mind.
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