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Climate-change crusader Al Gore getting unlikely rock-star reception: experts
Wed Feb 21, 6:53 PM



By Gregory Bonnell

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TORONTO (CP) - If the world were an ocean liner bearing down on the melting iceberg known as climate change, there would be no shortage of people standing on the bow, waving their arms frantically in a desperate attempt to get someone's attention.


Who would have thought the most persuasive among them would be Al Gore? The former U.S. vice-president's conversion from wooden politician to inspired eco-warrior brought him to Canada on Wednesday to promote his popular Oscar-nominated climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" to sold-out audiences in Montreal and Toronto.


Activists who have served for decades in the trenches of Canada's environmental movement welcomed the events, crediting Gore's newfound celebrity status with helping to silence naysayers in Canada and bringing badly needed credibility to the science of global warming.


"I think Gore, the whole Gore phenomenon, has really put the issue over the top in Canada," said Stephen Hazell, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/gore_climate_change

[Milwaukiedave]

I found a copy of An Inconvenient Truth online (not a download, but streaming) and started watching it this evening. If anyone wants the link, send me a PM and I'll explain how to get there.

So far it is pretty interesting and informative.