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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:46 PM
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Global warming, meet your new adversary - Al Gore's film turns a Tampa woman into an activist
Global warming, meet your new adversary
A film turns a Tampa woman into an activist.
By DAVID ADAMS, Times Latin America Correspondent
Published January 22, 2007


TAMPA - To help her presentation on global warming, Roberta Fernandez flashes a map of Florida.

It shows the southern half of the state underwater, including Tampa Bay. "If Greenland melts the sea will rise 20 feet," says Fernandez, who calls herself a Climate Messenger.

There are gasps in the audience of smart, but mostly uninformed staffers at a local mortgage and real estate firm who have given up their lunch hour to hear her message.

Seven months ago she was just like them. But that was before she saw An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore's hit climate change documentary.

"I was astounded. I knew about global warming, but not in that way," said Fernandez, 48, who lives in Tampa and owns a Montessori school.

After she came home she found the film's Web site and learned that Gore was looking to personally train 1,000 "Climate Change Messengers" to spread the word on global warming. She signed up.

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http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/22/Tampabay/Global_warming__meet_.shtml



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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 11:51 PM
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1. All politics (and change) is local....
Good on her (and the other 999 people) who are the frontrunners of this most important message. I believe/hope these these 'first adopters' will begin a geometric progression that will greatly begin to roll-back some of the damage that we humans have wrought.

K & R
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 10:30 AM
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2. 'All politics (and change) is local....'
So true. I think this is a great way to wake up a lot of people. One on one, in your own community.



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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:18 AM
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3. K&R
Excellent piece, excellent news. :toast:
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:21 AM
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4. Fucking awesome. If anyone hasn't seen "An Inconvenient Truth" yet...
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Balbus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:25 AM
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5. I wish Al would send some global warming my way...
coldest winter in 50 years for us in AZ and I don't care for it.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-23-07 11:27 AM
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6. Good strategy...taking it to the real estate people who
will really get hit hard....

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