By every estimation Vice President Al Gore should have left the stage long ago.
But, he knows.
He knows there is no leaving the stage. Leaving the stage means doom. People like Al Gore simply don't believe doom should be realized by the people of the world.
He was first a US House Representative when the issue received his attention and he traveled to Antarctica to speak to the scientists. The scientists that were on the front lines of DISCOVERY of the worst scenario of planet Earth.
His loss of Florida in 2000 was engineered. He lost by less than 400 votes and the voter rolls in Dade County was purged of over 8000 Democratic voters. Florida was his, but, it was stolen. Literally.
He has done the impossible for many years, he has kept a subject of disdain by very big political money on the map. He not only kept it on the map, he has moved it forward. He has enlisted young talent from every corner of the USA to take on the challenge of educating the public. He has succeeded without the spotlight.
I have no doubt he will continue his march to victory against heinous greed to take back Earth from a scenario that is not of god.
I appreciate Secretary Clinton's willingness to bring him to the stage. He is a great man. He deserves more than the stage. A leader is an understatement of this man who saw the future and believed the truth.
More than 25 years (click here) before the star-studded Los Angeles premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was about as far away from the red carpet as possible. It was 1978, and high in the rugged Andes, Thompson and fellow scientists were witnessing the first glimpses of a pending worldwide disaster. Rising temperatures were melting ancient titans of ice and snow. Mammoth glaciers were disappearing at unprecedented rates and withering to the smallest sizes in millennia. The delicate balance of Earth’s climate was upset.
As research mounted, scientists around the world from fields as diverse as chemistry and astronomy were coming to grips with a newfound truth: Carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel burning and other greenhouse gases were warming the world at an alarming rate, potentially threatening the health and livelihoods of millions of people. Despite the gravity and urgency of their findings, the scientists’ warnings fell mostly on deaf ears for years.
Until 2006. Six years after his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Al Gore reentered the national spotlight to release An Inconvenient Truth, which heavily featured Thompson’s mountaintop research. Thompson missed the premiere of the documentary because he was gearing up to return to South America’s vanishing ice. But the film did what he and other researchers had been unable to do: “It got climate change on the radar,” Thompson says. Last December, Gore was on hand in Paris as 195 nations committed to the most ambitious pledge yet to fight back against climate change and curb carbon emissions....
But, he knows.
He knows there is no leaving the stage. Leaving the stage means doom. People like Al Gore simply don't believe doom should be realized by the people of the world.
He was first a US House Representative when the issue received his attention and he traveled to Antarctica to speak to the scientists. The scientists that were on the front lines of DISCOVERY of the worst scenario of planet Earth.
His loss of Florida in 2000 was engineered. He lost by less than 400 votes and the voter rolls in Dade County was purged of over 8000 Democratic voters. Florida was his, but, it was stolen. Literally.
He has done the impossible for many years, he has kept a subject of disdain by very big political money on the map. He not only kept it on the map, he has moved it forward. He has enlisted young talent from every corner of the USA to take on the challenge of educating the public. He has succeeded without the spotlight.
I have no doubt he will continue his march to victory against heinous greed to take back Earth from a scenario that is not of god.
I appreciate Secretary Clinton's willingness to bring him to the stage. He is a great man. He deserves more than the stage. A leader is an understatement of this man who saw the future and believed the truth.
More than 25 years (click here) before the star-studded Los Angeles premiere of An Inconvenient Truth, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was about as far away from the red carpet as possible. It was 1978, and high in the rugged Andes, Thompson and fellow scientists were witnessing the first glimpses of a pending worldwide disaster. Rising temperatures were melting ancient titans of ice and snow. Mammoth glaciers were disappearing at unprecedented rates and withering to the smallest sizes in millennia. The delicate balance of Earth’s climate was upset.As research mounted, scientists around the world from fields as diverse as chemistry and astronomy were coming to grips with a newfound truth: Carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel burning and other greenhouse gases were warming the world at an alarming rate, potentially threatening the health and livelihoods of millions of people. Despite the gravity and urgency of their findings, the scientists’ warnings fell mostly on deaf ears for years.
Until 2006. Six years after his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Al Gore reentered the national spotlight to release An Inconvenient Truth, which heavily featured Thompson’s mountaintop research. Thompson missed the premiere of the documentary because he was gearing up to return to South America’s vanishing ice. But the film did what he and other researchers had been unable to do: “It got climate change on the radar,” Thompson says. Last December, Gore was on hand in Paris as 195 nations committed to the most ambitious pledge yet to fight back against climate change and curb carbon emissions....
