22 June 2006

Quote of the week

Al Gore
Global warming deniers were the sort of people who believed "the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona or that the earth is still flat"

He went on to say something that is beginning to seem self-evidently true and worth marking.
he also accused a "small group of very well-to-do polluters" of spending millions of dollars trying to persuade the public there was still a debate to be had. It is exactly the same thing that was done by some of the tobacco companies after the doctors and scientists firmly linked lung disease to smoking."

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Brown meets Gore over climate change:

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"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

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