In my heavily biased opinion, this discussion is pretty marginal to things Al Gore. It is also way too important of a theme to get buried in an Al Gore topic.
I invite Monk to start a new "Coffee House" topic. Some of the links in the message this is a reply to seem to be important things to include. You might also want to link back to this topic.
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