Just saw Gore speak at Drew University, Madison, NJ...

[rfranklin]

A huge crowd turned out in the rain to listen to Al Gore speak as part of the Thomas Keane lecture series at Drew. Al started out with some one liners such as "I used to be the next President of the United States."

He then got down to the subject of his speech--global warming. Using a slide show of charts and photos with some video clips, Al showed how the problem is even worse than most of us know. Glaciers melting, hurricanes more frequent and with greater ferocity than we have ever know, and droughts that are catastrophic.

He showed how there is no question of global warming among scientists. There is only a disinformation campaign funded by Exxon and other corporations. He showed how even China has stricter pollution controls on their cars than the U.S. does. Yet our auto companies are saying that they can't be competitive if they have to meet less stringent standards. Et cetera.

Al showed how the Bush administration has Exxon employees censoring scientists who are trying to get out the message about global warming.

Then Al started rallying the crowd, taking us through the history of the USA, exhorting us to fulfill the aspirations of our national heritage. It was great.

There were only a few questions allowed after he finished his presentation.