It's Getting Hot In Here

Global warming is really scary. It is a problem affects every single person on the planet. It is a problem that is much bigger than partisan politics and national interests. These points were hammered home in a dozen different ways by Al Gore when he addressed “The Heat is On—Silicon Valley Takes on Global Warming” at Stanford on Tuesday. Everyone knows that Gore is very intelligent—that’s one of the reasons he won the popular vote. What was evident on Tuesday was not just that a very smart man had spent a lot of time thinking about and researching global warming. What became clear that Gore is a man of deep passions and able to take the moral high ground when important matters demand it.

Aside from the personal glee that SFist took from having an air of moral superiority snatched from the current administration, we were moved by Gore’s talk. Inspired actually. Environmental issues are something of a family legacy for us, and yet we’ve never felt so compelled to action as we did by Gore’s speech—whoever has criticized Gore for not being a charismatic speaker really needs to check out his newest act.

We haven’t been able to find the presentation that Gore gave (if any reader could post a link to in the comments we’d be forever grateful) but the links throughout this post lead to similar speeches and sites that have things you can do to have an impact on global warming. Also some really scary science for those who say global warming is a theory-- search this topic in google and you'll find an enormous number of sites devoted to debunking what they claim isn't proven. Right. Any google-ers out there that can fix the rankings on this topic?