Posted on 09/21/2006 1:00:28 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE — Former vice-president Al Gore, the unexpected film star of a documentary derived from a slide show, is about to begin training 1,000 "Climate Project" volunteers to help spread his global-warming message around the globe.
Gore has been promoting his documentary and book "An Inconvenient Truth" and encouraging volunteers to apply for his training sessions to learn how to give a shorter version of his PowerPoint-style presentations.
<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://adsremote.scripps.com/event.ng/Type=click&FlightID=2035536&AdID=2044432&TargetID=2019127&Targets=2011020,2003385,2020041,2011361,2022424,2011448,2019991,2017830,2011669,2019127&RawValues=&Redirect=http:%2f%2fwww.advertisersite.com"><IMG SRC="http://images.scripps.com/1x1.gif" WIDTH=336 HEIGHT=280 BORDER=0></A> Several thousand have already applied to be among the 1,000 volunteers Gore expects to train within the next six months, said spokeswoman Kalee Kreider. The first session with about 50 volunteers begins this weekend in Nashville, Gore's hometown.
Gore, a Democrat who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, has criticized the lack of action on global warming by politicians across the ideological spectrum.
Gore's film has become one of the highest-grossing documentaries, while a companion book on the topic has become a national best-seller.
The wave of publicity about his initiative has raised questions about whether Gore will run for president again in 2008. Gore has said he has no plans to become a candidate, but he hasn't ruled it out either.
Gore plans to participate in the instruction at the sessions but will also have scientists and other experts help train the activists, Kreider said. There are no plans to hold any sessions outside Nashville.
Activists will have to pay their own airfare and accommodations, but the training sessions — which are expected to run Sundays through Tuesdays — are free. Scholarships will be available for some participants, Kreider said.
Kreider said there are no immediate plans to release the names of the volunteers, and the first session will not be open to the media.
"People need to be able to ask all these questions about basic science ... and we really want people to feel comfortable to ask any questions they need to ask," Kreider said.
Annapolis, Md., Mayor Ellen O. Moyer is among the initial group of activists heading to Nashville.
"I'm honored to be a part of this first training program," she told The (Baltimore) Sun. "There comes a point in time when we have to say, 'Enough is enough.'"
Liberals with SUVs alert!
"John Kerry promised to give Native Americans the respect and dignity they deserve. Then he got into his Jeep Grand Cherokee and drove away."
Now Algore wants to start a Global Jihad!
Thank God he's not training 1,000 volunteers to work for an '08 Presidential Campaign.
I hear kool-aid is getting hard to find on store shelves.
Is there a connection?
Now that's a good one!
"But, Excuse Me, Sir, Mr. Gore, Sir, what if this hockey-stick thing turns out to be wrong - you see according to this study I found while researching a class project..."
Gore: (to 999 other acolytes) "We do not need any further inconvenient truths... educate this young man!"
Very good! Is it yours or did you borrow that graphic?
What's next?
They gonna cut off their nuts, buy jogging suits and "ride the comet".
Works for me.
Remembered it from another thread and though it was appropriate for this thread for sure.
What about all the jet fuel that'll be burned?
What about all the energy the air conditioning in the hotel rooms will use?
What about all those poor, poor trees that will have to be cut down to produce all that paper money?
No, it's 1004.
From another FR thread, not mine but highly appropriate considering the topic IMO.
I think they've already been cut off.
"People need to be able to ask all these questions about basic science ... and we really want people to feel comfortable to ask any questions they need to ask," Kreider said.
Somebody ask me about the basic science! The science these wackos use is Toon Science. It is imaginary. You might as well be telling people that based on all we know about biology, if a dolphin mated with an elephant, dolphins would be exist on land and interact with civilization.
Here it the first part of the class:
"Before we start today, everyone please take the pill you were given on your way in."
And Branson just promised $3 Billion. The "warming" thing is their excuse to try to tyrannize over us in a thousand different ways, and dream up new ways to seize our property and make us miserable. This was the guy who gave us the "Al Gore Four-flusher"--the toilets that don't work.
They will want to pick daisies for their hair but that will ba no-no-Can't pick the daisies!!
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