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June 5, 2005
Gore Gushes on Global Glaciers
an Francisco (WitNit Newswire) -- Vice President Al Gore promoted a new Ice Age Saturday at the World Environment Day conference in San Francisco -- a five-day U. N. gathering dedicated to adopting sound environmental practices for urban centers .
Gore, who has made environmental activism a key component of his life since running for president in 2000, delivered an hourlong speech about climate change and global warming, which he called a "planetary emergency."
"We can't ignore it," he told the packed audience at the Fort Mason Center. "We can't put our heads in the sand. We should be putting our heads in ice. Global warming is destroying out glaciers."
In 15 years, Gore said, there will be no more glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro. As for Glacier National Park in Montana, he said, "Within 20 years, this is the park that will be formerly known as Glacier." And the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland "is almost completely gone," he said.
He denounced critics who say global warming is not a serious threat.
"It's been getting wamer on our planet ever since the last Ice Age," Gore said. "And what is the one thing that has happened since the last Ice Age? Technological Man. We humans are responsible for this desecration of our once-frozen planet."
He showed photos of rapidly melting glaciers in Antarctica and said that if half of Greenland and half of west Antarctica melted away, it would have a devastating effect through rising sea levels. Parts of Florida would be covered in water, he said. New Orleans would be virtually nonexistent, and the future World Trade Center memorial in New York would be underwater, he said.
Gore did not explain why when ice melts in a glass of water, that the water level doesn't rise.
"Is it only terrorists that we're worried about? Is that the only threat that is worth our attention?" Gore asked, red-faced and sweaty. "We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the Earth! Technological Man must go! We must return to the days of the woolly mammoth! To caves and natural hot springs for warmth!"
He then led his adoring San Franciscan crowd in an intoxicating chant: "NO MORE HU-MANS! NO MORE HU-MANS! NO MORE HU-MANS!"
Kool-Aid was then passed out to the entire crowd.
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