Al Gore's crusade comes to Stanford

DELIVERS LECTURE ON GLOBAL WARMING

By Paul Rogers

Mercury News


There were no grades, pop quizzes or textbooks. But a speech by former Vice President Al Gore at Stanford University on Tuesday night offered more than 1,000 pupils a crash course in global warming.

Speaking at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, Gore presented little in the way of politics or sound bites, delivering a 90-minute tutorial on climate change, and its causes, effects and predicted remedies.

``If we allow this to happen, it is profoundly unethical,'' he said, stalking the stage without notes, clicking away furiously at a video presentation on a giant screen. ``It is deeply immoral. This is not a political issue, it is a moral issue.''

The 10 hottest years since the mid-1800s all have occurred since 1990, he noted. Species worldwide, from birds to amphibians to polar bears, already are exhibiting symptoms of disruption and harm. Coral reefs, bleached from warmer, more acidic ocean water, are dying at unprecedented rates.

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Can we please elect this man President again?!!

Olaf

``The No. 1 thing President Bush says he will do to address global warming?'' Tamminen asked as the audience roared. ``Wait two years. President Al Gore will fix it.''


Olaf

President comment in there because he is still weighing another run. One can hope. What do you have if you don't have hope?

Olaf