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Former Vice President Al Gore will discuss "The Climate Emergency" on Tuesday, April 13, at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel.
In recent speeches, Gore has said that to avert an environmental catastrophe, the world must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from smokestacks and tailpipes that contribute to global warming. Otherwise, he warns, forests will vanish and polar ice caps will eventually disappear as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide rise.
Gore has also argued that wind and solar energy have the potential to replace fossil fuels as the main sources of energy in the United States, which releases more of the world's greenhouse gases than any other country. The United States rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty setting limits on greenhouse gases that Gore signed in 1997 but that was never ratified by the U.S. Senate. The treaty has not been implemented because not enough countries have ratified it.
Gore, who lost a presidential bid in 2000 to George W. Bush, has long been an advocate of stricter environmental measures, which he proposed in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit." Gore is now senior adviser to Google Inc. and serves on the board of directors of Apple Computers Inc.
The lecture is sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the seminar on "Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Cycle." It is free and open to the Yale community.
For more information, contact the F&ES Dean's Office at (203) 432-5109 or fesdeansoffice@yale.edu.
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