Al Gore criticizes Obama on climate change and 'insane' Arctic drilling

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Al Gore criticizes Obama on climate change and 'insane' Arctic drilling

With Shell planning to begin drilling in the Chukchi Sea within days, Gore said
that Obama was wrong to ever allow drilling in the Arctic

Suzanne Goldenberg in Toronto
Thursday 16 July 2015 13.34 BST

The former US vice president and climate champion Al Gore has made a rare criticism of Barack Obama as Royal Dutch Shell prepares to drill an exploratory well in the Arctic Ocean, denouncing the venture as “insane” and calling for a ban on all oil and gas activity in the polar region.

With Shell planning to begin drilling in the oil-rich Chukchi Sea within days, Gore said in an interview with the Guardian that Obama was wrong to ever allow drilling in the Arctic.

It was the only real point of criticism from Gore of Obama’s efforts to fight climate change, at home and through a global deal to be negotiated in Paris at the end of the year.

“I think Arctic drilling is insane. I think that countries around the world would be very well advised to put restrictions on drilling for oil in the Arctic ocean,” Gore told the Guardian in Toronto, where he was passing on his techniques for talking about the climate crisis to 500 new recruits from his Climate Reality Project.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/16/al-gore-obama-climate-change-arctic-drilling

[Kurovski]

1. K&R

"The time is ripe, he said. Like same-sex marriage, like civil rights, he believes public opinion is about to make the massive shift in favour of action."

No thanks to the depraved and deranged oil cabal that stole the presidency in 2000.