A reader sends along some news of our our favorite ex-Veep, Al Gore, who spoke last night at the Value City Center in Columbus, Ohio. Admission was free for Ohio State students — nonstudents paid $37.50 –but only 3,000 people showed up (for Buckeye basketball, that number would be closer to 20,000.)

Undeterred by news of a global-cooling trend and Gore’s own rebranding of his climate alarmism, the Columbus Dispatch described the Goracle’s talk as “warnings about global warming.” Quoth the reader:

“He’s not saying anything new. He’s just collecting everything and presenting it in a forceful manner. He just makes the point very convincingly,” said Christian Schnell, a graduate student from Germany who is studying math. [emphasis mine — and truer words were never spoken.]

The Dispatch also quotes Robert Buchanan, president of Polar Bears International, who was ”in town to help promote the zoo’s upcoming polar bear exhibit.” Said Buchanan: “We lost 1 million square miles of ice last summer alone, and if you don’t have ice, you don’t have polar bears.”