UCSD Helen Edison Lecture Series

Al Gore

05/21/07 - 5:30pm

"Al Gore Presents an Inconvenient Truth "

Vice President Al Gore will lecture at the University of California, San Diego at

5:30 p.m. May 21 in RIMAC Arena. The public is invited to attend the free event.

Sponsors for the lecture, “Al Gore Presents an Inconvenient Truth,” are the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the San Diego Foundation and the UCSD Helen Edison Lecture Series. No tickets are necessary. Seating is limited and on a first-come basis.

Attendees are asked to enter the UCSD campus at North Point Drive and park in designated areas.

Gore will enlarge on the argument presented in his book and film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” that the world can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue but rather, as the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.

Since the 2000 election, Gore has re-channeled his energy to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. With an engaging and humorous style, his lecture delivers the message about what he calls our “planetary emergency.”

Vice President Gore’s political career began when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 where he served eight years, He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and re-elected in 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1993.