Originally published January 8 2006
Al Gore addresses the issue of global warming to an audience of Stanford students
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Former Vice President Al Gore recently spoke to students at Stanford University about global warming and voiced criticism of the current administration's failure to prioritize environmental issues.
These nightmare scenarios, among others, were outlined by former Vice President Al Gore in a speech Tuesday night to a packed Memorial Auditorium crowd.
For more than an hour-and-a-half, Gore passionately made the case that global warming is already exacting dangerous consequences on the planet and warned of catastrophic outcomes on earth in the decades to come if nothing is done.
"Terrorism is a serious problem, but we also ought to be worried about other threats facing our society," he said, explaining that the world is playing its own game of Russian roulette by allowing the risk of catastrophic climate change without taking strong action.
The former congressman who initially built a national following in the 1980s and early 1990s by focusing on environmental issues juxtaposed pictures of mountains and glaciers taken decades ago with pictures from today.
"It is relentless, continuing and accelerating," Gore said of carbon dioxide releases, which he said will lead to an even greater spike in global temperatures in years to come.
Gore singled out both U.S. State Department Senior Climate Negotiator Harlan Watson and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton as politicians who he said have tried to hide the truth about global warming from the American people by suppressing the release of important reports.
He commended a collaboration of Silicon Valley businesses that has successfully reduced its carbon dioxide emissions over the past four years.
In November, Gore had a similar message for business school students about the environment.
In the audience were the directors of the National Wildlife Fund, Natural Resource Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund and World Resources Institute.
Kimberly Heiman, a Ph.D. candidate in Marine Biology, drove with 10 classmates from the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterrey just to see Gore's speech.
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