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Global Warming Threat Akin to Nazis': Gore

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 7, 2009 2:27 PM CDT

(Newser) – Al Gore today likened the challenge of global warming to the threat from Nazi Germany and the Axis powers, the Times of London reports. Gore reminded a British audience that “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilization in World War II,” saying the situation now is no different. “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

“The only way politicians will act,” Gore continued, “is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.” Our descendants’ reaction “will either be ‘what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes?’” he said. “Or they will ask ‘how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’”

Al Gore speaking at The Times/Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment at Keble College in Oxford today.
Al Gore speaking at The Times/Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment at Keble College in Oxford today.   (AP Photo)
Al Gore speaks at The Times/Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment at Keble College in Oxford, England today.
Al Gore speaks at The Times/Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment at Keble College in Oxford, England today.   (AP Photo)
Adolf Hitler salutes German troops parading in Vienna in 1938.
Adolf Hitler salutes German troops parading in Vienna in 1938.   (AP Photo)
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COMMENTS
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JohnEd
Jul 5, 2010 2:28 AM CDT
Nazi's Gore?
Ucantusethatname
Jul 20, 2009 2:03 AM CDT
Which is worse: ice melting or the global and national economy tanking?
RobN
Jul 8, 2009 12:41 PM CDT
No, it's not a deep dark secret. Does that make his profitting somehow less of a conflict of interest?

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