Al Gore's Acceptance Speech in Oslo (recieved standing ovation)

[FourScore]

This speech should be emailed to everyone.

EXCERPT:

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.

Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is "falling off a cliff." One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.

THE COMPLETE SPEECH:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/gore-lecture_en.html

[CottonBear]

1. Aftenposten (English language paper) has lots of pictures and reports:

Prize Day, December 10, included appearances at a children's peace rally outside the Oslo City Hall. In the background, The Nobel Peace Center.
PHOTO: KYRRE LIEN / SCANPIX

Al Gore is so respected by the rest of the world! :)

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/bildeserier/article2145689.ece?start=1


?x=400&y=282&sig=qHr08tCSCPZota8B34g8gg--
Al & Tipper Gore photographed with King Harald V and Queen Sonja

http://members3.boardhost.com/scandinavia/msg/1197290420.html

[Pastiche423]

3. Thank you for the links!

[CottonBear]

5. You're welcome! Aftenposten is a good source for Norwegian news in English! n/t

[Rydz777]

2. Thanks for the post. nt

[MrMickeysMom]

4. I just read the entire speech. I am so energized. It's spectacular-

I'm getting ready to call my congressional representative and ask if they have a copy, elst I FAX them one. It MUST be read by every American who then walks the path...

Several things have emotionally stayed with me since reading it...

That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries of what is possible. In the words of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, “Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk... We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

Again, read it all at Al's Journal page---


http://blog.algore.com/2007/12/nobel_prize_acceptance_speech.html

[Neurotica]

6. Is there video available yet?

I saw most of it, but I want to show my children.