Al Gore's Manila visit moved to June 8

Posted at 02/24/2010 6:07 PM | Updated as of 04/19/2010 5:55 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former US vice-president Al Gore is set to visit Manila in June to keynote a leadership conference at the SMX Convention Center at SM Mall of Asia.

A statement from SM Prime Holdings said Gore will present an Asian version of his landmark multimedia presentation "An Inconvenient Truth" at the leadership conference scheduled on June 8, 2010, instead of April 30.

Gore's presentation on the threat of climate change and solutions to global warming became the subject of the movie of the same title, which won an Academy Award.

Gore recently published "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis", his latest book which gathers in one place all of the most effective available measures that will help solve the climate crisis.

SM Prime Holdings president Hans Sy said Gore's visit is part of the SM Group's commitment to environmental preservation.

“Beyond our many environmental programs, we feel that we can further spread the advocacy by having more people learn about this global problem and how it impacts each and every one of us. This is why we are bringing in the world’s most influential authority on climate change.  We want the urgency of his message to be heard by Filipino leaders as well as Filipinos in general,” Sy said in a statement.


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In the western world right now, Global Warming science is getting its ass kicked.


Al Gore. Gore, author of Inconvenient Humans

Global warming expert, Geothermal scientist, Inventor of the internet and Almost President, Al Gore
“No, Really, It’s Global Warming…” Another Stoos Views Exclusive Interview With Al Gore
By William Kevin Stoos Monday, January 4, 2010

Hugh Betcha, Head of the Climate Change Bureau of the Stoos Views world wide media conglomerate, listened intently to the weather report this morning as he has for the past week. Today, January 4, 2010—five years away from the melting of the polar ice caps predicted by global warming expert, geothermal scientist, inventor of the internet and Almost President, Al Gore—it appeared that Gore’s prediction had finally come true.

Checking his thermometer outside the Stoos Views World Headquarters in Wynstone, South Dakota—where the air is clean, crime is low, people vote red, and the centre still holds—Hugh noticed the ambient temperature was a balmy 24 below Fahrenheit—clear evidence that Global Warming had invaded the Midwest. To his dismay, he learned that Okoboji, Iowa—where Hugh spends part of his summers—registered a cool 33 below Fahrenheit. As he dressed to remove the 3-4 feet of global warning residue from his driveway—remnants of the past two weeks of global warming residue visited upon his residence, he heard further disturbing news: it appeared that this day—January 4, 2010—two-thirds of the country was beset by lower than usual temperatures. It seems that the Deep South was registering temperatures in the teens and twenties—unheard of for this time of year. Dire predictions of a blizzard in Mississippi, Georgia and even Florida abounded. International news reports this date coming over the wire at Stoos Views headquarters, advised that in Bejing, China, schools were closed and residents of that city were issued snow shovels in order to clear the streets. South Korea reported record frigid temperatures, as well as other countries in Asia and Europe. Indeed, evidence of Global Warming abounded, and the situation was disturbing.

While some might see record lows, record snowfalls and ice storms as inconsistent with Mr. Gore’s predictions that the temperature of the globe was warming, Hugh did not. He knew better. From his desk in South Dakota, he placed a quick call to his friend and confidante, Al Gore. Gore, author of Inconvenient Humans, © 2009 Al Gore; No Really, It Is Global Warming, © 2009 Al Gore, A World Without Polar Bears, © 2009, Bye Bye North Pole, © 2009 Al Gore, and his soon to be released book, Earth: A Star is Born, © Al Gore, 2010—which details how the center of the earth is actually hotter than the sun and will in time melt the outer core of the planet, thus mooting any concerns about the demise of the planet from global warming. In an effort to explain to the world how the current frigid temps and abundant snowfall was actually global warming, Gore had contacted Hugh—the most trusted name in the news—requesting an audience. Hugh obligingly returned the call to Gore—as always.

“In a word, what is causing the record lows, unceasing snowfall, blizzards where they should not be and this brutal neo-ice age we are experiencing around the planet the last couple of years?” Hugh inquired.

“Glad you asked,” responded the Almost President, “there is a lot of misinformation. As shown by my comments during the Copenhagen Conference where I announced the melting of the ice caps in the next five years, and my statement not long ago that the center of the earth is actually hotter than the face of the sun (which most scientists did not even know), I am privy to many scientific facts that most uneducated people do not know. This is why I am able to fly all over the world in my private jet, live in a large mansion, own polluting zinc mines and still get paid enormous sums to lecture the world on what a mess mankind has made out of the environment.”

“Okay, but why this new ice age?”

“Very simple,” Gore replied confidently. “Polar Displacement.”

“Polar what?”

“Polar Displacement….You see, the polar ice cap is melting so fast, that if you flew over it right now, you could actually see steam rising. This hot, steamy air is rising upward and sideways, pushing the frigid air that used to surround the poles, south toward the equator. This arctic air is displaced, and must go somewhere. Thus, the term ‘polar displacement’. Simply put, what you are experiencing in South Dakota, Mississippi, Florida, China and elsewhere, is simply the melting of the polar bear and musk oxen habitat, and the displacement of frigid air toward the south. I expect this to last indefinitely. In fact, I do not expect temperatures in the United States to warm up until the polar ice caps melt.”

“What happens then?”

“The Atlantic Ocean will cover Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, in five years—at which time my mansion in Belle Meade will be ocean front property.”

William Kevin Stoos Bio
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Copyright © 2010 William Kevin Stoos
William Kevin Stoos (aka Hugh Betcha) is a writer, book reviewer, and attorney, whose feature and cover articles have appeared in the Liguorian, Carmelite Digest, Catholic Digest, Catholic Medical Association Ethics Journal, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Liberty Magazine, Social Justice Review, Wall Street Journal Online and other secular and religious publications. He is a regular contributing author for The Bread of Life Magazine in Canada. His review of Shadow World, by COL. Robert Chandler, propelled that book to best seller status. His book, The Woodcarver (And Other Stories of Faith and Inspiration) © 2009, William Kevin Stoos (Strategic Publishing Company)—a collection of feature and cover stories on matters of faith—was released in July of 2009. It can be purchased though many internet booksellers including Amazon, Tower, Barnes and Noble and others. Royalties from his writings go to support the Carmelites. He resides in Wynstone, South Dakota.


Hubris, thy name is Gore

By Neill Arnhart Wednesday, January 13, 2010
I just googled the phrase “how many ice ages have there been?”

What I learned is that there have been at least four major Ice ages, and dozens of smaller ones. Some of the essays I read said that there have been seven major ice ages, I guess because they differ in how they define “major.”

These global ice ages, and subsequent global warming periods, started long before the industrial revolution. Millions of years before.

The reasons put forth for all of these global cooling and warming periods include volcanic activity, solar activity, slight changes in the earth’s orbit, and tectonic movement.

One reason that isn’t mentioned is human activity. Good thing, since there weren’t any humans during most of the periods under discussion.
So my question is this.

If all of these global warming and cooling periods happened without any help from humans, what kind of hubris makes us think that we are causing all of this climate change, and that the only way to solve it is the total ruination of our national economy with onerous taxes, and a crazy cap and trade scheme?

Kirk Marsh, a professor of Geology at the University of Maine, says the following, writing for Nova Online:

“If ‘ice age’ is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today. Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances”

Not quite the gospel according to Al Gore, is it?

The entire article can be found here.
He also says:

“We are still in the midst of the third major cooling period that began around 3 million years ago, and its effect can be seen around the world, perhaps even in the development of our own species.”

So, am I being a denier? I don’t think so. In researching this subject, I made it a point to avoid articles that have an obvious ax to grind either for or against global warming. In fact, most of the reading I’ve done for this essay didn’t mention global warming at all. I just make my own conclusions, based on these types of articles.

Want to hear my conclusions? Too bad. Here they are anyway.

1.The climate is changing, because it is always changing. Always has, always will. Since the earth was first formed, the average temperatures have been going up and down, based on many different external forces, none of them human.
2.Whether the current trend is for temperatures to be rising or falling, we didn’t start it, and we can’t stop it.
3.Cap and trade will make billionaires of a few investors (Al Gore, for example), but increase the cost of EVERYTHING to EVERYBODY. Well, maybe not everything, but at least everything that the uses energy to manufacture. Bread, shoes, cars, candy, electronics, furniture, shirts, tires, repair services, potato chips, road construction, homes, baseballs, nail clippers, dog food, air plane travel, and lawn mowers are just a few of the items that will cost more to buy under cap and trade. So, maybe EVERYTHING is an appropriate word after all.
4.Once it starts costing more to make goods, and companies start passing along the extra costs in the form of higher prices, people will buy less of them, so the companies will lay off people, or go out of business, which will cost jobs.
5.The companies that don’t go out of business will try to control costs by sending operations overseas, which will cost more American jobs.
6.The countries where goods are manufactured will not be constrained by a crazy cap and trade scheme, so they will spew more carbon in the air than if those products were made in the US. Not that it matters in the long run, since man made greenhouse emissions are a drop in the bucket compared to the forces of nature, but it is worth pointing out the irony. We will pay more for products, and more pollution will go into the air than if we didn’t have the crazy cap and trade scheme to begin with.
Please, all you Al Gore apostles, stop listening to politicians on this, and stop listening to scientists that are funded by the efforts of politicians.

If global warming is inevitable, then let’s put our ingenuity to work figuring out how to deal with the rising sea level, rather than trying to stop the unstoppable. Let’s build levees, dykes, channels, canals, and seawalls. Let’s figure out how to move coastal homes and industries away from the shore.

Trying to stop climate change with a crazy cap and trade scheme is just spitting into the wind, but the effects on our economy will be disastrous.
That’s the way I see it.

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Neill Arnhart can be reached at: Letters@canadafreepress.com


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