Al Gore’s Nobel Presentation

in Current Affairs | December 10th, 2007 Leave a Comment

Al gore accepted his nobel prize earlier today in oslo and delivered an accompanying speech that issued a stark warning (read text here, watch video here):

[w]ithout realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself. now, we and the earth’s climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: “mutually assured destruction. ”

More than two decades ago,scientists calculated that nuclear war could throw so much debris and smoke into the air that it would block life-giving sunlight from our atmosphere, causing a “nuclear winter. ” their eloquent warnings here in oslo helped galvanize the world’s resolve to halt the nuclear arms race.

Now science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent “carbon summer. ”

As the american poet robert frost wrote, ” some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice. ” either, he notes, “would suffice. ”

But neither need be our fate. it is time to make peace with the planet.

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Sundaymarked 25 years since the death of georgia o€™keeffe, one of america’s foremost artists. the anniversary of her death coincides with the beginning of women€™s history month. so we figured why not offer a little piece on her. born in 1887 in sun prairie, wisconsin, o€™keeffe grew up knowing she wanted to be an artist. []

Cirque Calder

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Alexander “sandy” calder (1898 €“ 1976) was one of america’s foremost modern artists, internationally recognized for his invention of the mobile and his large-scale sculptures. at the age of eight, he started working with wire to make kinetic sculpture (one of his first was a small duck that would rock when pushed, done at the []