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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Gore interview in Rolling Stone
There's an uncommonly good interview with Al Gore over at Rolling Stone. There are almost too many juicy bits to excerpt. I'll try to stick to stuff that we haven't heard before.
Here's one. He says: "I will make a prediction that within two years, Bush and Cheney themselves will change their position [on global warming]."
I've wondered about this myself. Public pressure is building up pretty rapidly on the issue. And once Bush and Cheney unambiguously acknowledge the problem, the range of meaningless, corporate-donor-friendly responses is fairly limited. They might actually have to do something real. That's if they acknowledge the issue. Can they fight off the pressure for 2.5 more years? Once I would have said No, but I'm through underestimating the toxic mix of malignity and delusion at work in this administration.
Gore also has some insights on Bush's 2000 campaign pledge to regulate CO2 as a pollutant:
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State-of-the-art Republican argument for drilling in ANWR
Brought to you by the proprietress of the blog Atlas Shrugs.
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