Former Vice President Al Gore will join students at Stanford University this afternoon for a rally addressing climate change.

The 4 p.m. event at the university’s White Memorial Plaza is expected to draw more than 1,000 people, according to a Facebook post by Students for a Sustainable Stanford.

The rally is part of today’s day of action on climate change for the Know Tomorrow campaign, a national student-led effort taking place at more than 50 schools and in partnership with Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

“The impacts of climate change are severe, and they are being felt right now. Around the world — including the Bay Area — frontline communities are battling the effects of heat, drought, wildfire, sea level rise, and other effects of climate change,” according to a Facebook post for the event.

The rally is being held two months before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Paris, where world leaders are expected to negotiate and adopt a new universal climate change agreement.

The event will also feature representatives from Fossil Free Stanford, Stanford American Indian Organization and Communities for a Better Environment.

By Bay City News Service

By Bay City News Service

By Bay City News Service

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  1. Wow. We have a front-page article about Stanford students rallying against sexual misconduct and another article about Al Gore — a politician who was accused by several massage therapists of sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact prior to his divorce — coming to speak at Stanford. That is some remarkable irony!

  2. I am actually pleasantly surprised by this news, since I thought Stanford too shallow to listen to anything Al Gore has to say.

    Aren’t a majority of the faculty and students at Stanford Republican?

  3. Gore must have to spend much more time preparing illogical retorts now that the light of science is shining through the disingenuous, malignant fabric of anthropogenic global warming:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/massive_global_cooling_factor_discovered_ahead_of_paris_climate_talks/ it turns out inorganic reactions between the ocean’s surface and the sun’s rays emit twice the cooling, cloud-forming Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as all life in the ocean. This, in turn, means all climate models likely vastly overestimate effects of human CO2 emissions.

    http://tinyurl.com/qxwn4g4 ALMOST ALL US TEMPERATURE DATA USED IN GLOBAL WARMING MODELS IS ESTIMATED OR ALTERED

  4. You deniers just can’t help but put out garbage, time and time again.

    You really have no idea what you are talking about, do you?

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