{"id":1570086,"date":"2022-07-25T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570086"},"modified":"2022-07-25T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:23:25","slug":"al-gore-compares-climate-skeptics-to-uvalde-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-gore-compares-climate-skeptics-to-uvalde-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore Compares Climate Skeptics to Uvalde Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fal-gore-compares-climate-skeptics-to-uvalde-cops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1570086&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former vice president Al Gore on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1550896080581165057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1550896080581165057%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fal-gore-compares-climate-change-deniers-botched-law-enforcement-uvalde-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">likened<\/a> those unsure of climate change to the Uvalde, Texas, police officers widely criticized for not intervening in a mass shooting that claimed the lives of 19 elementary school students and 2 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Gore said &#8220;climate deniers&#8221; are similar to the &#8220;almost 400 law enforcement officers&#8221; who waited &#8220;outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred,&#8221; during an appearance on MSNBC\u2019s <em>Meet the Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They heard the scream, they heard the gunshots\u2014and nobody stepped forward,&#8221; Gore said.<\/p>\n<p>Gore has a financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-18\/al-gore-s-investment-firm-unveils-1-7-billion-sustainable-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interest<\/a> in government-backed subsidies for green companies that aim reduce carbon emissions. A fund he cofounded is heavily invested in such firms, raising $55 million in financing for electric battery company Proterra in 2017. Last year, he lobbied President Joe Biden to put climate concerns front and center as part of his administration&#8217;s infrastructure bill push. The legislation passed with tens of millions of dollars allocated for electric vehicle subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his business dealings, Gore has a history of making outlandish statements. In 2008, the former vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2009\/12\/al_gore_trips_on_artic_ice_mis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted<\/a> all the ice on the North Pole would melt by 2013. He also claims to have invented the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Texas officials have called the Uvalde Police Department\u2019s response to the Robb Elementary School shooting an &#8220;abject failure.&#8221; Had they acted, officials said, police could have stopped the shooter and saved lives.<\/p>\n<p>Around 39 percent of Americans are not concerned about the effects of climate change in their lifetimes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2021\/09\/14\/in-response-to-climate-change-citizens-in-advanced-economies-are-willing-to-alter-how-they-live-and-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 2021 Pew Research poll<\/a>. After having compared those Americans to the disgraced cops, Gore made a call for national unity, saying climate change &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t be a partisan issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gore currently runs a $36 billion investment fund dedicated to environmental and social sustainability. That fund, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/inconvenient-truth-al-gores-woke-firm-invests-in-chinese-slave-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in May, has invested in companies that profit from Chinese slave labor and aids the Chinese Communist Party in censoring the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice president Al Gore on Sunday likened those unsure of climate change to the Uvalde, Texas, police officers widely criticized for not intervening in a mass shooting that claimed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}