It was November 7, 2006, and Los Angeles, California, had just set another record high temperature—97 degrees Fahrenheit. That fact was not lost on Al Gore. "It shouldn't be this hot in November," he said. It was also Election Day, and the former U.S. vice president was on the campaign trail again. These days he is no longer a candidate, but he is still campaigning. This time, his battle is waged against global warming. He wants to alert people to the seriousness of this crisis; and with his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, a book of the same title, and his traveling slide show, Gore is trying to reach as many people as possible with his message. This night, Gore was giving his presentation to a packed audience on the campus of the University of Redlands, in Redlands, California, where the headquarters of Esri is located.

To read the complete story, see the exclusive Winter 2006/2007 ArcNews Online article at www.esri.com/arcnews.

See also ""Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Communications Supported by GIS."