Trump can't stop American progress on climate, Al Gore tells Cannes

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Mon May 22, 2017 | 4:25pm EDT

By Sarah Mills | CANNES, FRANCE

U.S. President Donald Trump cannot stop momentum to tackle climate change, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said on Monday as he promoted his latest film on global warming at the Cannes Film Festival.

"An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" is the follow up to "An Inconvenient Truth", the documentary credited with bringing climate change into mainstream political discourse in the United States a decade ago.

Shot mostly before Trump's election, it features the Republican candidate on the campaign trail promising to abolish environmental regulations and boost the coal and oil industries. At one point Trump tells a rally: "We need some global warming -- it's freezing!" But with legal and political obstacles, Gore said Trump would be unable to stop the momentum that would shift society away from fossil fuels.

"We now know after four months of the Trump administration, no one person, not even a president, can stop the climate movement," Gore told a news conference at the French film festival. "The courts have blocked parts of what President Trump has attempted and the Congress has refused to act on other parts of his agenda. The American people are determined to continue making progress and will do so," he added.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-cannes-gore-idUSKBN18I2IO

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Al Gore remains

a very shrewd mind that reads politics very well. For my money, second
only to Nancy Pelosi

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Completely agree.

As an aside, I have a bunch of pet peeves, but one of my biggest is whenever someone cracks an "Al Gore created the Internet" joke. I go NUTS whenever someone says it, even if the person isn't really politically minded.

And Pelosi was and remains the strongest caucus leader we've seen on either side in many decades - with Harry Reid a close second. The stuff she was able to get through the House during her four short years as Speaker was amazing, especially in 2009 and 2010. People forget that the House passed a version of the Affordable Care Act with a public option. She also passed cap and trade.