Live blog: Al Gore at the Web 2.0 Summit

Former Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore is scheduled to talk to attendees of this year's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco at 4:30 p.m. PST Friday. Here, you'll find our take on his speech, in real time.

Update: The talk is now finished, but you can catch up on the entire thing by clicking the replay button below.

[lowenbrau212]

Al Gore? Speaking at a Web 2.0 conference? I guess its appropriate. Web 2.0 being nothing more than a marketing initiative and Al Gore pretending to be an authority and popular scientific or technological topics. The two fakes deserve each other.

At least the Democratic party stopped returning his phone calls and told him to bug off.

[C_G_K]

Al Gore has been one of the most useful tools for skeptics of the "sky is falling" global warming hysteria. Mr. Gore is known to be a pathological exaggerator (remember he invented the internet?). His overblown rhetoric and propaganda, no matter what media he uses, has made people very skeptical about the dire warnings we hear from politically motivated loons like him. Thanks Al, couldn't have done it without ya! :-)

Let's push aside people like Mr. Gore and focus the true lens of science on the issue, only then will we understand thereal nature and extent of the problem.

[gonzojive]

C_G_K, you obviously have only a cursory understanding of the facts regarding Mr. Gore. He never stated that he invented the internet--it was a quotation taken out of context and then pimped hard by the Republican National Committee and subsequently op-ed columnists and fellow inane commentators. See http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh120302.shtml or, if you prefer a neutral source, Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Anyway, people don't believe climate change rhetoric not because it's coming form Mr. Gore, but because it's NOT coming from the mainstream media. The same media that kept their traps shut all through the 1990s and up to 2006 is still underplaying climate change hard. In particular they are letting congress get away with doing very little about climate change. Don't bash Gore, bash the media.

[UITD]

Al Gore, and inconvenient jackass. Was he telling people to donate web 2.0 credits to his cause?