This past week, I, along with ~250 others, were in a training session with Al Gore on the global warming issue. I came back home late on Thursday night and am still trying to recover from the emotional high and calm down enough to write a rational report on it!
It was just amazing -- I am a Professor, I talk for about 75 minutes at a time and do it 4 times a week. He spoke from 8 am one morning to 5:45 pm that day, with two 10 minute breaks and one 1 hour break for lunch (and yet he could not finish his part of the lecture and so conducted another one hour session at 7:30 the next morning!): that is a total of about 8 and a half hours that he was fully engaged with us.
I am trying to say this as dispassionately as I possibly can: but his command of the scientific issues, his intelligent engagement with the audience, his passion for the issue, his absolutely amazing stamina, and above all, the spellbound and yet alert attention that he was completely given by the audience, is just unbelievable.
Follow me over the fold for the report from the training...
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