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Leonard Horwin
July 12, 2006
(310) 785-6600 tel.
(310) 785-6644 fax plaintalk@linkline.com http://www.leonardhorwinplaintalk.com |
Questions and Answers are cited below as "Q" and "A"
1. Q: An inconvenient truth about what?
A: "Global warming."
2. Q: What is "global warming"?
A: Gradual loss by our planetary occupants of breathable air and worldwide warming and rising of sea levels with the consequence of further limitations on reasonably safe human occupancy.
3. Q: How imminent and credible are the oncoming dangers?
A: The nation's top climate scientists are giving Al Gore's documentary on global warming, -"An Inconvenient Truth," "five stars for accuracy". (L.A. Times Movie Review, 6/30/06)
4. Q: Is there any visual depiction what we are coming to unless we can fight it off in time?
A: Yes. The Times movie reviewer writes:
The former vice president's movie is replete with the prospects of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets - mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from the Associated Press."
5. Q: In sum?
A: We are given the facts by unequivocal scientific climatic authority.
6. Q: Have we a short summary annexed to this Plain Talk?
A: Yes. L.A. Times June 30, 2006, p. E16: "Scientists give Gore's 'Truth' critical acclaim."
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cc: George W. Bush, President
George H.W. Bush, Former President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Colonel Oliver North
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security
Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel
His Excellency Daniel Ayalon Ambassador of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government
Israel's "Women In Green"
National Unity Coalition for Israel
Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist
Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense
Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East)
Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief - US News and World Report
Time Magazine
Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward
International Jerusalem Post The Weekly Standard - Bill Kristol, Editor
The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and Op-Ed Department
The New York Times, Op-Ed Department
Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department
Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips, Medical Books for China International
MoveOn PAC/www.MoveonPac.Org.
Richard Miniter, Author: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror