GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING Fri
Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned
hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of
climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to
global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the
future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated
projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area,
New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in
Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.
"The planet itself
will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore
said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with
global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to
Gore.
Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin
selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global
Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.
