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.”
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Al, you’re so yesterday. The latest is global cooling. The glaciers are coming.
Let us not forget all of the “gender challenged” Profs and students that attend said college!
Pudge has his career at stake.
“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!”
He looks like such a douche. Now a gray douche.
Oh WOE is me... whys everybody always pickin on me??? 
listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!
I’m assuming Private Jet, small fleet of SUV’s and a limo.
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.
Sat night (Gore spoke Fri PM) a freeze warning was in effect for Western MA and Northern CT.
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.
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?
How many million of gallons of applesauce = $50,000 - $70,000?
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