The Gore Lecture

It seems this is a speech worth remembering, if you believe this Dispatch from the Nobel Prize Ceremony, by Laurie David at the Huffington Post. Says David:

It was an incredible speech. Read it yourself, gather your family and read it to them. Pass it around at your office. Take a beat, and then feel the urgency of what everyone In that room felt today.

Here's the text, on the Nobel website. Just a small part:

So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer. And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.

As a result, the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is wrong.

We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.

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Also at Huffington Post, James Boyce notes today is also the 7th anniversary of the day Gore conceded the 2000 election after the Florida vote count fiasco. Oh dear.