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Al Gore at Hampshire College: Global warming is real and needs to be addressed now
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Posted on 04/29/2012 9:04:03 AM PDT by matt04

Former Vice president Al Gore on Friday refuted claims that global warning is a myth, saying that 97 to 98 percent of the worlds’ scientists attest to its veracity.

Gore was the keynote speaker at the inauguration of Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash Friday. The theme of Lash’s inauguration was “Educating for Change: critical thinking in a critical time.”

“Now there are some talk radio show hosts, they say that (global warming is) not (real)," Gore said. "It’s up to you; my point is we must respond. What the scientists tell us is going to take place if we do not is too awful to contemplate.”

Just before Gore spoke, he was he introduced by Hampshire alumnus Gary Hirshberg, co-founder of the New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm, who announced a $1 million donation to the college for its commitment to the environment.

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In 2007, Gore won the Nobel Prize with the U.N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “An Inconvenient Truth,” a film about his campaign to educate people about global warming, won two Oscars in 2006. Since then some have contested the veracity of the claims that climate change is caused by humans.

Gore said that some claim environmental change is caused by sunspots or volcanoes. ”That’s not true. It’s an urgent problem that requires urgent attention and must be addressed,” he said.

Gore told students that some doubted the wisdom of President John F. Kennedy saying in the early 1960s that the United State would land on the moon within a decade. “You will have the opportunity to do things greater than you can possibly imagine," Gore said. "And now is the time. We need an American spring this spring. We need to occupy democracy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: algore; amherst; globalwarming; hampshire; manbearpig
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To: matt04
Mitt Romney: Humans contribute to global warming
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20068782-503544.html

41 posted on 04/29/2012 10:02:40 AM PDT by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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To: matt04

The real AlGore ... Nobel Prize laureate ... inventor of the Internet ... savior of the planet ... dumber than a box of rocks!

42 posted on 04/29/2012 10:14:11 AM PDT by Zakeet (Obama loves to wok dogs)
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To: matt04
Every time algore speaks he hears the "ka-ching" of his investment porfolio rising by another 10%.

But you've gotta feel for the guy...if only he had managed to carry his HOME STATE in 2000 he'd be "Mr President" today.

BWAHAHAHAHA!


43 posted on 04/29/2012 10:27:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Huskrrrr

hahaha


44 posted on 04/29/2012 10:30:16 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: matt04

Gore has really morphed into an old lunatic Cleveland Amory type. Looks like he’s been on the sauce too.


45 posted on 04/29/2012 10:30:47 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Liberalism: Carrying adolescent values and behavior into adult life.)
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To: matt04

The boys at Kleiner Perkins and Byers are heavily invested in the global warming hoax. It is imperative for hucksters like them to maintain the myth until they can cash out.


46 posted on 04/29/2012 10:50:17 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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To: matt04

Can someone post a pic of Gore’s giant office with three huge flat screens and his Nashville residence that burns more energy in a month than the average American home does in a year?

By the way, does Al Gore toddle around in a chauffeured SUV and take chartered private jet flights?


47 posted on 04/29/2012 11:07:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Yeah, Al, Global warming is real...

Tell that to my poor garden plants that froze last night.... in Southern NM.


48 posted on 04/29/2012 11:19:07 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Zakeet

Uuuuhhhh, what you got against “rocks?” :))


49 posted on 04/29/2012 11:25:08 AM PDT by jennings2004 (President Hayes, Mount Rushmore, telephone, Dear Leader...what a mix!)
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What I found really odd is that after Gore predicted that the seas will rise by 20 feet, he then went out and bought a $9 million oceanfront villa.

Why would anyone plop that kind of money down on property that, if their predictions were true, would end up being washed out to sea?

50 posted on 04/29/2012 12:40:04 PM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: raisetheroof

This Al creep needs to fade away.


51 posted on 04/29/2012 3:06:11 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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52 posted on 04/29/2012 8:43:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: matt04

Is Gore’s carbon footprint so large he needs some more ill gotten gains?


53 posted on 04/30/2012 3:29:27 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: matt04
...saying that 97 to 98 percent of the worlds’ scientists attest to its veracity.

Yep, that's how science 'does it' - by vote.

54 posted on 04/30/2012 7:46:29 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Zimmered": To make a crime victim a criminal so racists can make money. freeper GrandJediMasterYoda)
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To: matt04
50+ posts and no one has posted this yet? People, your're slipping!


55 posted on 04/30/2012 8:22:30 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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To: matt04

IMHO..the Western Socialist/Communist governments were anticipating carbon taxation as their financial salvation.


56 posted on 04/30/2012 10:05:24 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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