SON OF HARRY HOPE
2006-09-29 18:49:50 UTC
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats
and staff on Thursday evening about the perils
of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant
contributor to global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the
world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that
threatens the future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in
to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New
York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves
in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the
sea.
"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk
is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of
Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and
more about his political future, Annan bid
"adios" to Gore.
Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin
selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The
Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It,"
$19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S.
media."
---Noam Chomsky (1928- ) US educator and linguist
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats
and staff on Thursday evening about the perils
of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant
contributor to global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the
world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that
threatens the future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in
to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New
York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves
in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the
sea.
"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk
is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of
Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and
more about his political future, Annan bid
"adios" to Gore.
Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin
selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The
Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It,"
$19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S.
media."
---Noam Chomsky (1928- ) US educator and linguist