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Come on, Al, you can't be serious.

Former Vice President Al Gore is coming to New Mexico next week to address, apparently in secret, an otherwise open environmental conference aimed at greening up America's cities.

Some 300 people are going to it, including Mayor Martin Chavez, who will be talking his head off about the greening of Albuquerque. He isn't insisting on any secret address - though some of us might not mind if he did.

So, what exactly is Gore going to say that he doesn't want the media telling everybody about?

The increasingly popular author and film star of the Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth," will be at the Tamaya Resort and Spa near Bernalillo to speak at the Sustainable Operations Summit.

However, according to Tribune political reporter Kate Nash's story Wednesday ("Gore's private party"), his speaking contract contains a clause precluding media coverage.

Stop the presses. The media can't be getting that inconvenient, Al.

Sure, recent interviews of Gore seem to focus more on the possibilities that he might seek the Democratic nomination for president than on the increasingly obvious facts that the Earth is getting warmer and may be facing the most catastrophic global crisis in human history.

Sure, the media have been making a big deal out of Gore's refusal to rule out a run for the Oval Office.

And sure, there have been a lot of reports that he's even losing weight in anticipation of a "Draft Al" movement.

Even so, you'd think that for Gore all that would be a brush fire compared to the heat he can generate about global warming.

Particularly here in New Mexico, where one federal study found that the Rio Grande - already pretty dry by river standards - would be the most afflicted river basin in the country during global climate change.

Besides, didn't New Mexico favor Gore in the 2000 presidential election? What is it that he doesn't want to say to all those New Mexico voters who supported him?

Come on, Al. Suck it up. Let us in. You can handle the torrid New Mexico media - no matter how inconvenient it might be.