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Al Gore to Speak at Stanford
March 21, 2013
Former Vice President Al Gore will give a lecture on climate change on Tuesday, April 23, in honor of former Senior Fellow Stephen Schneider, a world-renowned climate scientist who died in 2010.
Former Vice President Al Gore, chairman of The Climate Reality Project, will share his thoughts on addressing climate change within our democracy and take questions from students at Stanford University on Tuesday, April 23, when he gives a lecture in honor of Stephen H. Schneider, the Stanford professor and world-renowned climate scientist who died in 2010.
The program, which is open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:15 p.m.) in Memorial Auditorium on the Stanford campus. Tickets are free, but seating is limited. Stanford students and postdoctoral fellows need only show their Stanford identification card to be admitted. All others should contact the Stanford Ticket Office on the second floor of Tresidder Union or by calling (650) 725-2787.
“Al Gore worked closely with Steve to sound the alarm about climate change, long before the average person understood there was a problem,” said Terry Root, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, which is sponsoring the event along with the Stanford Speakers Bureau and two student groups on campus: Students in Government and Students for a Sustainable Stanford. Root frequently collaborated with her late husband Steve Schneider on understanding environmental consequences of climate change.
The title of Gore’s address is “Peril and Opportunity: Solving the Climate Crisis and Reinvigorating Democracy.” He is the author of the best-sellers “Earth in the Balance,” “An Inconvenient Truth,” “The Assault on Reason” and “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” as well as a new book titled “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.” He is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 1993, and served eight years.
Steve Schneider was a leader in science communication and a world expert on interdisciplinary climate science. At the time of his death, he was the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute. His most recent work centered on communicating the possible risks, vulnerabilities and impacts of climate change to ensure that leaders were sufficiently informed to apply smart risk management strategies in climate-policy decision making.
Schneider founded the interdisciplinary journal “Climatic Change” and continued to serve as its editor-in-chief until his death. He consulted with federal agencies and/or White House staff in every U.S. presidential administration since the Nixon era. He was an author of the first four assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Memorial Auditorium is located at 551 Serra Mall on the Stanford campus. The free Marguerite shuttle can be taken from downtown Palo Alto or the Caltrain Palo Alto stations to Serra Mall. Shuttle information is available here. For parking information, click here.
BTW, from a recent Stanford grad young friend of mine. Certain departments (not naming them) of the University are “radically” (is that right?) in the catastrophic AGW, Gaia worship camp. The Profs there are preaching it in their classes. So what better place to host this propaganda dissemination?
Jimbo–You forgot to mention the posters/cover of An Inconvenient Truth–and the northern hemisphere hurricanes rotating the wrong way. Maybe Al “had a fever” when he was coming up with this.
It’s almost certainly very similar to his June 2011 effusion in Rolling Stone, here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/22/gores-rolling-stone-denier-diatribe/
Or possibly there was a later article of his in that magazine on the topic of Democracy. That’s my recollection.
I cannot think of anything more boring than attending a “lecture” by Al Gore. He’ll probably be introduced by Gleick.
“Former Vice President Al Gore will give a lecture on climate change on Tuesday, April 23, in honor of former Senior Fellow Stephen Schneider, a world-renowned climate scientist who died in 2010.”
I’m sure Big Al will honour the late Steven Schneider by getting the right ‘balance’ between being honest and being effective.
Al has always been very “effective”.
I wonder if Gore still have the magic to create colder than normal conditions every time he open his mouth in public about global warming?
Jimbo says:
March 29, 2013 at 2:26 pm
“Al Gore worked closely with Steve to sound the alarm about climate change, long before the average person understood there was a problem,” said Terry Root,……
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Given that it would appear that there is no problem, that is hardly a ringing endorsement!
By some strange coincidence, on the same day (23rd in USA is 24th in New Zealand) I shall be listening to a presentation by Lord Monckton in, of all places, Gore.
GeoLurking says:
March 29, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Sage? Heh.. maybe with the turkey. …
Hi Geo
More about that ‘turkey’ thing
Leif Svalgaard says: April 15, 2012 at 1:40 pm
The (solar wind) mass hitting the magnetosphere is equal to about one good-sized turkey per second.
‘Peril and Opportunity well its certainly been an ‘opportunity’ for him a noble prize and ton of cash has winged his way on the back of ‘the cause ‘ , consider that without AGW at best has a third rate politician he would otherwise haven been long forgotten about.
‘Former Vice President Al Gore will give a lecture on climate change on Tuesday, April 23’
weather forecast cold and real risk of storms due to the ‘Gore’ effect
eck says:
I’m planning on being outside with a “Gore-appropriate” sign. Where’s the warming? Better suggestions?
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Fertile ground…. how about:
“Lock up your daughters”
“Al Gore: size 16E carbon footprint”
“Getting rich on warming ever since the warming stopped”
“CO2 up, temperature flat… oh, well, it was fun while it lasted!”
“If we don’t see warming in 10… uh, 15… uh, wait… 20 years, we’re gonna have to re-think this thing!”
“No hanging chad in temperature record… sorry Al, you lose again (but you can keep the money).”
“How’s that solar-powered private jet working out for ya, Big Al?”
“Keep talkin’ Al, we love ya! …….. Warm regards, the Skeptics”
“Al Gore is to climate science what Kim Kardashian is to molecular genetics!”
“Somebody tell those polar bears to stop reproducing!”
“Global warming causes cold. Don’t ask questions.”
“Definition of irony: Al Gore ‘out-greened’ by George W. Bush.”
“Consensus science: no warming in 16 years”
“Would you buy a used private jet from this man?”
“Settled science: C-students can make a difference too!”
“Al Gore… saving the planet one useful idiot at a time”
Validation at last. Mr. Gore is my scientist of acclaimed knowledge. From the beginning Political Science was a magnet – No facts necessary-make it up as you go.
Its actually going to be a seance, not a lecture. Al will channel Stephen Schneider, and Schneider will deliver the lecture through Al. At the conclusion, Al will raise his arms to the heavens and ascend on all of the rising CO2 in the room to meet Stephen … While everybody is looking up, the gorebots will lift your wallets.
I forgot the most obvious one…
“An inconvenient truth: it’s not warming!”
And of course…
“A convenient truth: there’s lots of money in this “climate change” thing!”
Better bring your winter coats. Remember the Gore effect.
Stanford having 27 billionaires (with a collective net worth of $76 billion) as alumni, (most probably anxious to funnel back money to the school to “make a difference” and “give back”) there is no shortage of funds for noble causes and scope for noble cause corruption.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100475323
With Stanford ranking only number three at the moment (I guess that is why they keep calling me) the influence of the US university political monoculture and view of the world combined with massive financial power, must be one of the planets most powerful, yet rarely examined, unnatural forces.
Al Gore would be boring even if he had something interesting to say – I’ll pass on this one
Reinvigorating democracy? Is that in the sense of the “democracy” of the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea?
The alarmist agenda is tyranny, not democracy, with a healthy dose of kleptocracy.
Sorry, I’m in Ireland, can’t make it.
(Okay, I’m going home on Monday, but I can’t imagine being to tolerate a couple hours of that man. I lay all the utterly bogus and unnecessary “green” crap the Irish are being forced to embrace directly at Gore’s feet of clay.)
“Steve Schneider was a leader in science communication”
Lie, exaggerate, hide your doubts. I think this is also Al’s formula for re-invigorating democracy: fill people up with lies and exaggeration and then let them voted for this stuff.
Give Trenberth the nod, tell him if he turns up he’ll find his missing heat.
They are “alarmists” by their own self-description. This is why I think it is most appropriate to designate the fervent agitators for urgent “action” on climate change as “Alarmists” — that is the best label for what distinguishes their view from others (including varieties of “lukewarmers” as well as those more critical of AGW). The most important distinction for all of these debates, both scientific and policy, is between who thinks there should be grave “alarm” now vs. all other varieties of views which allow for more time for research and debate. This also helps to explain why claims of a vast “consensus” of scientists on AGW are worse than meaningless (actively misleading) if the issues are not posed in terms of grave alarm and danger. Plenty of people both in and out of climate science think that some form(s) of human impact on climate *may* occur without thinking we see grounds for serious ***Alarm*** ***Alarm*** ***Alarm***
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Glad to hear he is going to be at Stanford. It has been an unusually hot and dry winter, so we can use the snow.
He’ll likely be pitching his new book, mentioned above, “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change”,
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12758
He talks about the future that he sees and what those drivers of change are. One, lest we forget, is climate change.