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Issue date: 4/3/07 Section: News
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MONTREAL (CUP) - Concordia president Claude Lajeunesse was booed as he took the stage to give Al Gore an honorary doctorate from the university on March 22.
The brainchild of Concordia Student Union president Khaleed Juma, the doctorate was presented while the crowd, present to listen to speeches from Gore and David Suzuki, filed out the exits after the question and answer period with Gore was cancelled.
The talk took place in the cadre of Less Talk, More Action: A Youth Action Summit on Climate Change, organized by Youth Action Montreal members and Concordia University students Peter Schiefke and Mohamed Shuriye.
Gore and Suzuki's message was clear: The world is in imminent danger if we continue our current habits and don't change towards a more eco-friendly society.
The former U.S. vice-president's speech was effectively his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with updated statistics, and presented by an angrier, fist-shaking Gore.
His presentation was halted at least twice as opponents to his agenda began to shout out.
They called him a liar and a villain, and screamed, "What about your swimming pools?" in regards to recent allegations that the monthly electricity bill of Gore's estate rivalled a year's bill for the average American home.
This led Gore to joke, "I don't even know if you guys are left- or right-wing".
Suzuki also made a 45-minute speech on the topic du jour. The speech was punctuated by numerous bouts of applause from a rather enthusiastic audience.
He espoused that the media should play a more central role in the way it informs the public, saying, "Over half of all Nobel Prize winners are telling us we could have as little as 10 years to avoid a catastrophe and this is pronounced by our media as 'not newsworthy'.
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robert w
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:35 PM EST
Al Gore is a lying hypocrite that wouldn't know what truth was if it came up and bit him on his buttocks.
Mike
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:36 PM EST
If the world does not end in 10 years....will AlGore go away?
Chuck
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:37 PM EST
...Over half of all Nobel Prize Winners say 10 years to doomsday in global warming eh? Nobel Prize Winners in what? Journalism? Poetry? Peace?
How many Nobel Prize Winners in Climatology, Physics, Chemistry support this nonsense? Is there even a Nobel Prize in Climatology? Universities have been taken over by idiots from the soft side of the campus for so long. (Continued…)
Fred Stanton
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:40 PM EST
So to Al Gore your opinions only matter if you agree with him, judging from his "Left-wing, right-wing" crack int he article. Problem is, as he recently said in a speech, he used to support nuclear reactors as a large part of the cure for climate change, when he represented a large nuclear conglomerate. (Continued…)
Dustin
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:42 PM EST
Al Gore has always been a liar. Now we can add coward to his list of attributes. If he were a real man, he would have stayed for the question and answer period. (Continued…)
Joshua
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:42 PM EST
Finally now maybe the world is waking up to this fictional propoganda. Global Warming is definitely occuring, but naturally and by way of the sun's rays. (Continued…)
Democracyman
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:42 PM EST
It's about time someone calls this guy out for what he is -carbon neutral jack**s!
Frank White
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:44 PM EST
"'Over half of all Nobel Prize winners are telling us we could have as little as 10 years to avoid a catastrophe and this is pronounced by our media as 'not newsworthy'. (Continued…)
Pete
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:44 PM EST
Al Gore is an idiot,he deserrves to be bood. Talk about consumtion,have you seen the size of that guy!His farts contribute more to greenhouse gasses then the average americans energy consumption
Frank
posted 4/04/07 @ 5:46 PM EST
The blind shouting down the blind. It's unlikely the electricity that Gore consumes is generated by burning fossil fuels, as coal-burning power plants are largely a thing of the past. (Continued…)
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