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Al Gore fundamentalist exposes The Climate Project's true intention

On April 7, Seattle LaRouche Youth Movement members, along with a few collaborators, conspired to intervene on an event sponsored by Gore's Climate Project, at Western Washington University, one of the green strongholds of the Northwest. LeC. was our fortunate victim, as he was the Gore trainee presenting the "An Inconvenient Truth" slide-show.

The following is a sketch of the interchange throughout the evening:The truth will cause you to think

Though the LYM made scattered remarks throughout the beginning of presentation, the real battle began when LeC. was going through the consensus reports. A. interjected adamantly, "There is no consensus! Have you seen the Great Global Warming Swindle, Channel 4? One guy had to threaten to sue to get his name taken off the IPCC list." LeC. tried to stop her from continuing, so he called on J..

J.: "Actually, there are 17,000 scientists who signed a petition saying Global Warming is not true."

LeC.: "They're not peer reviewed scientists, with the IPCC. The peer review scientists all agree on this."

J.: "The author of the petition is the former President of the National Academy of Scientists, I have it right here (holding up the petition)."

LeC:. "...We'll take that up later, just let me get through my presentation."

At this point, LYM organizer, S. (wearing a white shirt reading "I Love Al Gore", holding a folder with pictures of Gore and a polar bear and sign-up sheets, and speaking in a southern Texas drawl), stood up in the front row, and explained that, indeed, there are many who disagree, but we just need to believe, and if there's enough of us, we'll get our consensus back. "All ya' gotta' do is sign up, if you believe. And we have to save the white polar bear, the only pure animal. Just sign right here (pointing to his petition as he flipped through it). And, we've gotta' ban the bulb. Ban the 'candescent light bulb. Just sign up." LeC. was already trying to get him to sit down after the polar bear remarks, but S. went as far as letting people know that they have to stop third world development. "Just sign up." As tense as the situation was, people couldn't help but laugh.The dominant force in politics, is youth with ideas

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At the end of the presentation, C. mentioned the graph that compares CO2levels with the temperature of the Earth, and asserted that LeC's graph is actually a fraud. "If you look closely, the CO2follows the warming by some 100 years or so." LeC. was quite perplexed by this, and, not knowing how to respond, he asked C. for information on the graph. S. piped up angrily, asserting, "Solar activity is magic, that's what Al Gore says. It's magic!"

One of the three contacts the LYM had invited to the event, L., asked how long it actually takes to heat the ocean. Giving the example of a pot of water, and how long it takes to get it boiling, L. said, "There's a time lag of some 80 years I've heard."

LeC.: "Well, it's complicated; it's not just one thing."

S. (defensively): "Yeah, he's no genius, it's complicated"(referring to LeC.).

L.: "Yeah, I agree, it's not just one specific thing." The whole room was buzzing at this point. J. was called on, and he denounced the Kyoto Protocol as a genocide policy. With this added tension, a group of young friends of LeC.'s complained (whiningly) that the countries had joined the Kyoto Treaty willingly. J. argued that nations don't want a supra-national entity deciding their fate. To which, S. piped in, "They don't have to sign the treaty, we'll just pay them money. Africa's just gonna' to have to wait their turn for the technology."

A big fight ensued over the development question. The kids up front wanted to know about the petition, who wrote it, what it said. Eventually, LeC. just asked J. to read to them the petition. So he read the petition which denounces global warming as a hoax. LeC. tried to cut him off, but J. assertedly asked to finish, and was given ample time to do so. At this time, there was so much going on, the controversy over the petition, and S. in the front row, urging the presenter on, that LeC. resignedly said, "I don't know whether it's true or not." He admitted that he didn't know enough, and that he would like to get all of our information on the issue.

Everyone was polarized. S. stood up again and declared, "We gotta kill all the termites, they produce 10 times more CO2than humans. We do that, and we're good."

"Yeah, cow farts too!" a young lady said.

S. then went off the deep end, "Yeah, we gotta kill all the cows too!... We're overpopulated!... Depopulation starts with you!" Throughout the presentation, the students in the audience couldn't hold back their laughter. At the end of the presentation, LeC. resignedly asked C. to come up and ask his questions, thus ending the "formal discussion." When LeC. put together that the LYM were all in on it, he loved it, and said so to S.. C. walked him toward his car, saying, "That was fun." LeC. seemed happy about our role that night and asked C. to get in touch with him, and send him all the info he had on the various issues we brought up.

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