Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke -- 01/15/2004

Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke -- 01/15/2004: "Former Vice President Al Gore's speech on global warming to MoveOn.org Thursday is getting booed by a public policy research group, after the Democrat called the president a 'moral coward' who abandoned the public's environmental interests to placate his financial supporters.

Gore made his speech to a crowd at New York's Beacon Theater on the coldest day in the city in decades. He said at times it seems 'the Bush-Cheney administration is wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining industries.'

'While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward,' the former vice president said.

Gore also took the administration to task for its efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He accused the White House of gutting environmental laws and not doing anything to prevent global warming.
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