Brother Albert Gore, pastor of the Universal Church of Global Warming, was preaching to the choir, but received a standing ovation twice from the thousands who already heard his sermon on environmental gloom and doom.
The former vice president has stayed on the lecture circuit ? though his presentation about the causes and impact of planetary climate change has become an Academy Award-winning documentary.
“It is among the most compelling PowerPoint presentations you will ever see,” Constellation Energy Chairman Mayo Shattuck told the audience Tuesday night at the Arbutus campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
There was a certain irony that one of the largest U.S. producers of electricity and power ? parent of BGE ? was a corporate sponsor of the event, the fourth part of the Maryland Forum put on by the Annapolis and Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce.
Sixty percent of Constellation?s electricity is from nuclear power and is “emissions free,” Shattuck said.
The 90-minute show was a live rerun of Gore?s “Inconvenient Truth,” with some updated data.
“We?ve always had tornadoes in Kansas and we?ve always had hurricanes, but they?re starting to get stronger” and more frequent, Gore said.
Think this is controversial media hype? The problem is the media, Gore conceded.
More than half of 600-plus media stories reviewed have called global warming in doubt, he said, but none of the more than 900 of the most-recent peer-reviewed scientific journal articles question the phenomenon.
But it?s not too late to do something, Gore said, listing measures that could bring global emissions down to 1970 levels.
“We have the tools, but lack the political will,” Gore said.
“President Gore!” shouted a man in the audience at the end of the lecture, but Gore did not acknowledge the remark and made no reference to any political plans.
