In his previous roll as a tree trunk, fellow Tennessean Al Gore should be worried about immobility and global warming.

I am glad to see him uprooted and moving around again.  Anyone who has a shot at the leadership ring needs to be doing something.  Good for you, Al, go for it.

God knows the Bushzis won't.  They are too busy lying, breaking the law and paying off their friends with taxpayer dollars to be worried about global warming.

The good think about being shipped off to Guantanamo?  You have a better chance of getting a real Cuban cigar.

Cheers.

Hurray for big Al. I'm going to forward the article to all my friends and also to all my not such good friends, only because they are too mucked up to see the truth.

Hurray for Al Franken/Air America. Hurray for the Democratic Party and GOD Speed for 2006 and 2008. I'm getting more revved up each day. I see a big turn around.

From Waldo

AND One other Hurray. Hurray for Grist for the oportunity it gives us to speak out and also to be better informed.

Waldo Lewis

It's good to see Al get the applause he deserves.  He didn't have the evidence of the permafront melting the last time he spoke out about global warming back in the 1990s.

Now the evidence is in and it's happening faster than first predicted.  Hopefully there is still time to turn things around.

We can't affort to wait until 2006.  We need to follow Gore's lead now.  We all need to speak out just like he did - to our duly elected representatives in Congress, and at the state level, too.  Just like Arnold did.  

We need to tell them our home has caught fire and we need them to take some immediate action, now, before the fire begins to burn out of control.

Conserving energy in ALL the economic sectors - residential, transportation, industrial and commercial - is what's needed.  No more frivolous gasoline and jet fuel burning.  It's time to begin thinking about the sustainability of the planet for human beings the next century.  

The time is always ripe to do right.    
 - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I got to hear this same speech by Al Gore in Knoxville at the University of Tennessee, as the climax of their "semester for the environment" series of talks and events.  He received the same thunderous applause even here in Republican territory.  For those who haven't seen it, at its best points it's like he's channeling Thoreau and MLK at the same time.  Jaws were dropping; folks were expecting "Treebeard, the well-informed ent."  Unfortunately, there was no wine & cheese after the UT performance, at least for the unwashed masses.  Can't wait for the movie, so folks can see I wasn't crazy when I told them about this speech.

I haven't seen this new presentation yet; I'm sure it's brilliant, but Al Gore has been giving passionate speeches about climate change for a long time now. I went to see him talk at Harvard University two or three times during the early 1990s, and he was very dynamic even then...bounding around on the stage, shouting, even whipping off his belt at one point to illustrate a sinusoid curve.

I think he simply played the good solidier as vice president...that was Clinton's show, not his, and he kept his emotions more under wraps. And then, running for President he probably figured he needed to appear "presidential" and not go off screaming like Howard Dean. But I think what we're seeing now is the real Al Gore again...something we haven't seen since he was a senator.

Anybody know of where you can see the animations?  I can't wait until December!

At this point, I wonder it Al does more harm than good to the environmental movement. But then I would also wonder if Ralph Nader would do more bad than good if he suddenly again took up the banner for consumer safety.

Sometimes it seems like we have trouble bringing up new people to be our standard bearers. Al has overstayed in welcome in the public spotlight.

"Former Republican Rep. Pete McCloskey said the performance was 'Dynamite!'"  Good for him.  However, I believe former Rep. McCloskey is actually a Democrat.  He used to represent Bloomington, IN and surrounding communities prior to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.  He was replaced by a fellow by the name of Hostettler, who has recently made the news with his increasingly pugnacious, right-wing rhetoric.
I would imagine that it is quite an embarressment for the good faculty of Indiana University to be represented by such a person.