DURHAM, N.C. -- Former Vice President Albert A. Gore Jr., who received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of environmental causes, will give the 2010 spring Duke Environment and Society Lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 8.
Sponsored by Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, the free public lecture will take place in Page Auditorium on Duke’s West Campus. Tickets are required for admittance. Ticket and event information are available online at www.nicholas.duke.edu/deanseries.
“Since the beginning of his career, Al Gore has been relentless in his quest to bring the truth about global warming to the world, even when the world wasn’t listening,” said William L. Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School. “But the world can hear him now. We are fortunate and thrilled to have him bring his message to Duke.”
Gore, the 45th vice president and former presidential candidate, emerged from the political arena in 2000 to write “An Inconvenient Truth,” the best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming. The movie made from the book received an Academy Award in 2007 and is one of the best-known documentary films in history.
On Oct. 12, 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations’ global warming committee.
Gore was an early voice for confronting climate change, championing the cause in both the House and the Senate, where he served from 1977 to 1985. He discussed these efforts in his 1992 book “Earth in Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,” describing the struggle over environmental damage as the central organizing principle of world civilization. As vice president, he led the administration’s efforts to protect the environment in ways that strengthened the economy.
Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. He also is co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism.
Gore is also on the board of directors of Apple Inc. and is a senior adviser to Google Inc.
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The Duke Environment and Society Lecture is part of an ongoing series instituted in 2009 by Chameides to bring to Duke major players who are helping build a sustainable future. Energy expert Amory Lovins, one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of Our Planet,” gave the first lecture in October.
Sponsored by Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, the free public lecture will take place in Page Auditorium on Duke’s West Campus. Tickets are required for admittance. Ticket and event information are available online at www.nicholas.duke.edu/deanseries.
“Since the beginning of his career, Al Gore has been relentless in his quest to bring the truth about global warming to the world, even when the world wasn’t listening,” said William L. Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School. “But the world can hear him now. We are fortunate and thrilled to have him bring his message to Duke.”
Gore, the 45th vice president and former presidential candidate, emerged from the political arena in 2000 to write “An Inconvenient Truth,” the best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming. The movie made from the book received an Academy Award in 2007 and is one of the best-known documentary films in history.
On Oct. 12, 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations’ global warming committee.
Gore was an early voice for confronting climate change, championing the cause in both the House and the Senate, where he served from 1977 to 1985. He discussed these efforts in his 1992 book “Earth in Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,” describing the struggle over environmental damage as the central organizing principle of world civilization. As vice president, he led the administration’s efforts to protect the environment in ways that strengthened the economy.
Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. He also is co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism.
Gore is also on the board of directors of Apple Inc. and is a senior adviser to Google Inc.
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The Duke Environment and Society Lecture is part of an ongoing series instituted in 2009 by Chameides to bring to Duke major players who are helping build a sustainable future. Energy expert Amory Lovins, one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of Our Planet,” gave the first lecture in October.
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Main reasons for not believing in AGW fetish!
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* There is no scientific consensus on the causes of recent (~last 150 years) global warming.
* Data and debate from solar physics, geological, archaeological, and historical circles is ignored in the media and within the political process.
* Gross, unscientific, major distortions of data and debate is occurring, largely due to ideological agendas, and parallels Soviet Union agricultural science and policies.
* Amongst other examples, scientific fraud has been committed with relation to the `hockeystick' graph of Mann et al. regarding temperature in the last ~1000 years, which has been widely circulated (eg IPCC 2001), and which shows distorted temperature trends.
* The influence of changes particularly in the sun, and in cloudiness, cosmic rays and volcanoes on climate changes has been under-estimated.
* There is a correlation between changes in solar activity and earth temperatures, including in the last 150 years of warming.
* Recent global warming since about 1850 is minor and largely not related to human activities, but is being driven by the sun and is part of a natural climatic variation since the Little Ice Age.
* There has been no global warming since 1998 (at May 2009), and analysis of solar activity suggests a natural cooling trend in coming decades, which has already begun.
* Influence of increase in C02 level on temperature in the atmosphere tapers off once a certain level is reached. (Rather than `runaway greenhouse', we have 'atmospheric buffer')
* The `precautionary principle' is not a scientific principle, it is a social and political one (I concur).
* There is no such thing as a `tipping point' in science (I disagree-e.g. the term `catalyst' comes to mind).
* IPCC climate models do not accurately model observed temperature trends since 1998, undermining their projected global warming models.
* Computer models used by the IPCC are `computer games', as global climate trends are too big and complicated to meaningfully forecast.
* The global climate is too big for humans to have any meaningful effect.
By Spiller
03/02/2010