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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.
Here are some quotes from Gore’s “Climate of Denial” article in Rolling Stone, at
Those are five wild overstatements, especially the last two. I haven’t seen any contrarian mass media ads. And, if there’d been any big contrarian lobbying effort, some of the lobbyists’ unconvinced targets would have made a big stink about it. Heartland mails out its reports to legislators nationwide, but that’s about the biggest lobbying effort I’ve heard of. This lobbying activity is an extrapolation from the money warmists infer is being spent on political activity in general by opponents of carbon tax legislation.
Gore is using the smear technique employed by environmental savior groups to conflate money spent on all political activities by, say, Big Oil, with the lesser amount of money devoted exclusively to the climate change issue. And he’s conflating all money received by free-market think tanks with the lesser amount of money spent on the climate change issue. (E.g., Heartland is spending maybe 15% or 20% of its $6.5 million in annual revenue on the climate issue.)
As for the first three, the media is 90% or more on-board the warmist bandwagon. Check out the slant of articles on the topic in the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. Playing the victim card here is preposterous. The MSM is 95% on board. The public hasn’t been confused by any false balance.
“They are financing pseudoscientists whose job is to manufacture doubt.” There are plenty of unfinanced scientists who are doubtful, and said so. See The Deniers. And anyway, such an ad hom doesn’t dispose of the doubters’ arguments.
“[They are] buying elected officials wholesale.” That’s raving. If Big Business could buy votes this easily, they could stop every Democratic Party program they wanted. Politicians in the US who refused to vote for cap-and-trade were concerned about two things: That it wouldn’t make any sense to punish ourselves economically if China wasn’t on board with the program–it would merely be a gesture. And that it would punish our economy and push more manufacturing abroad to Asia, where emissions are worse.
Gore again:
More raving. Climategate was studiously ignored for two weeks after it occurred, and thereafter got only dismissive mentions in the media.
Oops–I forgot to provide the link to Gore’s “Climate of Denial” article in Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-of-denial-20110622?page=1
eck says:
March 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm
I’m planning on being outside with a “Gore-approriate” sign. Where’s the warming? Better suggestions?
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“Real Science is NEVER settled”
“For Gore green means Petrodollars”
“Big Al = Big Oil”
“Al Gore eats polar bears for lunch”
“Al Gore is in Climate Denial”
Let’s keep this ball rolling. More suggestions….
I am still alive & live in Paris,France. Should I go to Stanford and tell him that Rasool & Schneider 1971 model was though simple but largely correct. But I dont have a private jet !!!
I am still alive & live in Paris,France. Should I go to Stanford and tell him that Rasool & Schneider 1971 model was though simple but largely correct? But I dont have a private jet !!!