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Al Gore at Hampshire College: Global warming is real and needs to be addressed now
The Republican ^

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

Al, you’re so yesterday. The latest is global cooling. The glaciers are coming.


21 posted on 04/29/2012 9:28:25 AM PDT by stboz
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To: Huskrrrr

Let us not forget all of the “gender challenged” Profs and students that attend said college!


22 posted on 04/29/2012 9:28:53 AM PDT by acapesket
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To: matt04

Pudge has his career at stake.


23 posted on 04/29/2012 9:29:27 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walked into a bar; barkeep said "Hi Mitt")
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To: matt04
AlGore as Forrest Gump:


24 posted on 04/29/2012 9:30:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: matt04

“I am honored to be invited here to speak to you at your college graduation. It’s not everyone who gets a D in Natural Science who is offered an honorary degree for his scientific brilliance!”


25 posted on 04/29/2012 9:31:38 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: matt04

26 posted on 04/29/2012 9:33:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: matt04

He looks like such a douche. Now a gray douche.


27 posted on 04/29/2012 9:33:49 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: matt04
Oh WOE is me... whys everybody always pickin on me???

listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!

28 posted on 04/29/2012 9:34:04 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m assuming Private Jet, small fleet of SUV’s and a limo.


29 posted on 04/29/2012 9:34:52 AM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04
In Livingston in Columbia County, one farmer has gone to some unusual lengths to keep his apple trees from freezing. Russell Bartolotta is using five helicopters to blow warm air down onto the trees. It's costing him between $50,000 and $70,000 for two nights.
30 posted on 04/29/2012 9:37:12 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (BO Threat Stream: http://blogsofwar.com/threatstream/index_barack_obama.html)
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To: matt04
It won't work any more chubby bubby...
31 posted on 04/29/2012 9:39:10 AM PDT by PLD (It is time the freeloaders leave the white house and go back to the hell hole where they came from..)
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To: matt04

With age Al has gotten a bit wiser: he gave this speech in the spring with much less chance of a blizzard making his message more laughable than it already is.


32 posted on 04/29/2012 9:39:56 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: matt04

33 posted on 04/29/2012 9:40:53 AM PDT by mirkwood
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To: DeFault User

Sat night (Gore spoke Fri PM) a freeze warning was in effect for Western MA and Northern CT.


34 posted on 04/29/2012 9:42:49 AM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

This fool will never give up... And he’ll never live long enough to see his nightmarish visions ‘not’ come true. Thankfully a great deal of his scare tactics have already been proven to be bunk, but he soldiers on regardless with his falsehoods claiming in his speech that 97% of scientist agree with him.

Global climate warming change is not science, it is speculative tripe.

The photograph says it all.


35 posted on 04/29/2012 9:42:49 AM PDT by jerod (They were Socialist, Pro-Abortionist, Gun Control Nuts & Excessive Environmentalist -the NAZI party)
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To: matt04
Photobucket
36 posted on 04/29/2012 9:44:13 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("God's light and God's life ooze over me like warm butter." -- Gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson)
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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?


37 posted on 04/29/2012 9:49:12 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: South Dakota
ChelseaMorph
38 posted on 04/29/2012 9:54:24 AM PDT by preacher (Communism has only killed 100 million people: Let's give it another chance!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How many million of gallons of applesauce = $50,000 - $70,000?


39 posted on 04/29/2012 9:55:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: matt04
Isn't Gore the guy who spends $30,000 a year for electricity for his mansions? Or is he the pervert who hits on hotel maids he thinks are hookers?Anyone remember?
40 posted on 04/29/2012 9:57:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were polygamists.-ALL,including Obama ate dogs!!)
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