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Al Gore will be giving a public lecture at [[University of Toronto]] in [[21 February]] [[2007]] on the topic of global warming. Tickets went on sale (via box office and online) at 11am. The [[University of Toronto]]'s sales website crashed, however, within 3 minutes. This was due to the fact that 23,000 hits were registered.<ref>http://www.thestar.com/article/179465</ref>
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[[Image:An Inconvenient Truth.jpg|thumb|left|''An Inconvenient Truth'' Book Cover]]
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Coinciding with the release, Gore appeared on the May 13, 2006 episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. In the opening, he plays himself from a [[Multiverse (science)|parallel Earth]] in which he won the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential race]]. Gore then addresses the nation on the fact that: they stopped global warming and [[glacier]]s are now attacking America; [[gasoline]] costs 19¢ a gallon; George W. Bush is [[Baseball Commissioner]]; welfare and [[Social Security]] have been fixed and America now enjoys [[universal health care]]; Gore helped develop an anti-[[Tropical cyclone|hurricane]]/[[tornado]] machine; and the [[United States public debt|federal surplus]] is down to eleven trillion dollars. Gore later appeared on ''[[Weekend Update]]'' and engaged in a debate on global warming with [[Amy Poehler]].
On [[February 9]], [[2007]], Al Gore and [[Richard Branson]] announced the [[Virgin Earth Challenge]], a competition offering a $25 million prize for the first person or organization to come up with a way of scrubbing [[greenhouse gases]] out of the [[atmosphere]] in the battle to beat [[global warming]]. <ref>http://www.virginearth.com/</ref>
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