Former Vice President Al Gore greets Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown after Gore's speech on global warming.
Posted on 06/04/2005 8:06:13 PM PDT by SmithL
When former Vice President Al Gore gave a long list of doom-and- gloom statistics Saturday about global warming -- warning people that rising sea levels could drown out parts of Florida, Louisiana and Manhattan -- there were no loud gasps or headshakes of disbelief from a roomful of Bay Area environmentalists.
At the World Environment Day conference in San Francisco -- a five-day U. N. gathering dedicated to adopting sound environmental practices for urban centers -- he was preaching to the choir.
"To an audience like this, Al Gore needs little introduction," Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest Action Network, told the crowd before Gore took the stage for his keynote address.
Gore, who has made environmental activism a key component of his life since running for president in 2000, delivered an hourlong speech about climate change and global warming, which he called a "planetary emergency."
"We can't ignore it," he told the packed audience at the Fort Mason Center. "We can't put our heads in the sand."
When he wasn't presenting charts about rising levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere or speaking about the ways global warming rapidly sucks moisture out of the Earth's soil at high levels, he was, at times, uncharacteristically funny.
There were lots of strategically placed one-liners, even a cartoon skit about global warming based on "The Simpsons."
"I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States," he said to a laughing crowd. "I don't find that particularly funny."
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You never had a sense of humor.
Given Gore's insulation, no wonder he worries about global warming. Just why he lives in Nashville escapes me. He needs to move into a Ben and Jerry's locker up there in Burlington Vermont.
Man, Gore looks fat as h***. Can't help but wonder how much his bodily emissions alone warm the planet...(shudder)
Yuck. What a fat, greasy looking man.
The caption should read: "Al Gore eyes his next meal."
I don't remember that. When was that, fat@$$?
Jerry Brown looks a lot like Joe Biden in that photo...
And Al would make a good Santa at the DNC Christmas...er...Winter Solstice party next year!
That is a scary scenario. Thousands of minds numbed - simultaneously - by incessant, juvenile pontificating.
Apparently Gore intends to fight global warming by blocking the sun from the Northern Hemisphere using his body as a massive shield.
It looks like old Al Bore is creating his very own universe, he is the main source of gravity. (he really sucks)
What a tub of lard.
Have another donut, Al.
We get to call it like it is. The Dems in the audience have to pretend they're awestruck. Maybe some of the sicker ones are.
With the possible exception of Zell Miller, there is no Democrat worth listening to, even casually. The last Democrat that I could stand to listen to for more five minutes at a stetch was Daniel Patrick Moynihan. RIP.
Remember Al in his tight Jeans? No way he could ever stuff that rolled up newspaper in the crotch of them again.
All fooling aside - humans should use honest science to figure out how to maintain a hospitable environment on earth - as it has fluctuated periodically over the past million years due to known, natural influences, from good to quite bad for humans.
The final graph in the article leads one to the conclusion that after we burn our last barrel of oil (50-100 years hence), we are going to crash into a serious ice age.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
How come the libs don't use their same logic that they spew over the worries about Social Security? That problem is way off to 20-30 years. Global warming 100 or more years?
He used the same tired jokes in his commencement speech at Johns Hopkins a couple weeks ago. I lasted through maybe half the speech on CSPAN, it was the same boilerplate as always, IOW all about Al, and he still sounds angry. Pathetic character.
Proof that leftists can never do things on time or within budget.
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