Pleased
I’ve been a stranger at my own blog. Sorry about that, but I have been crazy busy the past few weeks. One thing I really wanted to post about was getting to hear Al Gore give his climate change lecture. The amazing Parris (George R.R.’s lady) had bought tickets and invited Daniel and I to join her and George at the talk. It was a bit of a comedy of errors because the tickets said the Santa Ana Event Center. Well, I lived in Bernalillo, and the Santa Ana casino was just down the road. We thought we knew where we were going. But no. Turns out the event center was halfway to Grants (well west of Albuquerque) I exaggerate, but it was still waaay out on the west mesa. Because so many people had gone to the wrong venue that held off starting until 8:00 rather than the advertised 7:30 start time.
It was amazing, sobering, fascinating, educational and flatly terrifying. And Al Gore is a statesman and an inspiring figure. I wish his damn handlers had let him be himself during the 2000 campaign. The lady sitting next to me was in tears at his passionate conclusion, and I had a lump in my throat. All I could think was this man was President, should have been President, and how different things would be if he had been occupying the White House for the past seven years.
Things have changed since the movie, folks. The Greenland ice sheet is melting at a stunning pace as is a large section of Antarctica. This is land ice, and that will raise water levels all around the world unlike the loss of the North polar ice cap. Tough on the polar bears, but it won’t innundate Los Angeles and New York and London, and Holland, etc. etc.
If any of you have an opportunity to hear this lecture I urge you to go. And then he won the Nobel and I was thrilled. He deserves it.