Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize (sharing it with the IPCC). This is excellent for two reasons: one, the further affirmation and momentum it gives to the importance of fighting global climate change; and two, the fact that the wingnuts are probably gnawing their own faces off this morning, both because it's Gore and because it's global ( Read more... )

... from our new environmentalist overlord Al Gore: Moving Beyond Kyoto.

Just in the last few months, new studies have shown that the north polar ice cap - which helps the planet cool itself - is melting nearly three times faster than the most pessimistic computer models predicted. Unless we take action, summer ice could be completely gone in as ( Read more... )

1. Will Al Gore's new movie DESTROY OUR ECONOMY?!?


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And the McCain kerfuffle just keeps going. Luckily, it looks like good is triumphing.

Jean Rohe, the graduating speaker at The New School, who took visiting speaker John McCain to task in her speech, explains at HuffPo why she spoke up. One of McCain's staffers replies to this post and tells her she made herself look like an idiot and otherwise ( Read more... )

Hot off the heels of his brilliant SNL appearence, Al Gore lit up Boston.
In other words, here we are with two crises. A Climate crisis and a Democracy crisis. And we have to fix both of them. We can. The internet is beginning to bring changes in the way we communicate and just in time. We have to also rely upon what we have always relied ( Read more... )

"President" Al Gore on SNL last night. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Here's a "rough transcript" from a commenter at Crooks & Liars: ( We have way too much gasoline. Gas is down to $0.19 a gallon and the oil companies are hurting. )