Gore Returns to Senate to Butt Heads With Climate Change Skeptics, Propose Real Solutions

"Today at 2:30 EST, at the behest of Barbara Boxer (D-California), the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Gore got 30 minutes to speak before a packed house."

Here is my summary (okay, cut & paste) of the former Vice President's 9 point plan for immediately addressing carbon emissions:

1. An immediate freeze on CO₂ reductions and start from there.
2. Cut taxes on employment and make up the difference with pollution taxes - principally CO₂ taxes.
3. Ratify a cap and trade system [like Kyoto] so the market will work for us rather than against us.
4. A moratorium on new coal plants that are not fixed with carbon capture and sequestration technology.
5. Congress should fix a date beyond which incadescent lightbulbs are banned.
6. Encourage widely distributed power generation. We ought to take off the caps and let individuals sell back as much as they want on the grid.
7. Raise the CAFE standards.
8. Pass a carbon-neutral mortgage association.
9. Require corporate disclosure of carbon emissions.