Climate change 'getting worse faster than we are mobilizing to solve it': Al Gore

[Uncle Joe]

Former Vice President Al Gore called for unity and urgency in the American response to climate change, saying he was encouraged by growing climate activism around the world, but alarmed by what he said is the imminence of irreversible, continuing environmental damage.

"There’s both bad news and good news," he said in an interview with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl. "The problem’s getting worse faster than we are mobilizing to solve it. However … we now have an upsurge in climate activism."

Gore acknowledged that climate change is "a global crisis that requires a global response," and that to be successful, climate policies require international cooperation. But he held that the U.S. has a responsibility to facilitate this cooperation.

"The United States of America -- and only the United States of America -- can provide the necessary leadership to rally nations around the world to do the right thing," he said.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/climate-change-worse-faster-mobilizing-solve-al-gore/story?id=64862944

[ananda]

1. I have always liked Al Gore and trusted him on this issue.

nt

[Uncle Joe]

2. I have as well ananda not to mention his work in championing the Internet.

[Takket]

3. And we haven't mobilized a damn thing

[roamer65]

4. There is only one way to reverse it.

Stringent population control.

[Kaleva]

5. Once you are past the tipping point, it's here to stay.

We are already past the tipping point or very near it. Population control was a good idea a few decades ago.

[roamer65]

6. Earth would bring the CO2 back under control if given a chance.

The CO2 level in the late Cretaceous, about 66 mya, was well above 1000ppm and it eventually came down to around the 200’s.

Absence of humans would help heal the planet. Never too late to start.

[Kaleva]

7. It could take hundreds to thousands of years for CO2 to return to 'normal' levels

"Rather than talking about this CO2 molecule or that, since some would be absorbed into the ocean or by rock weathering immediately, it’s more useful to ask how long it would take for the overall level of CO2 to return to the natural equilibrium of 280ppm, at which point the natural processes that absorb CO2 are balanced by the natural processes that emit CO2.

The answer to the is several centuries to get close, and hundreds of thousands of years to get all the back to that 280ppm baseline."

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-carbon-dioxide-CO2-stay-in-the-atmosphere

"It turns out that while much of the “pulse” of extra CO2 accumulating in the atmosphere would be absorbed over the next century if emissions miraculously were to end today, about 20 percent of that CO2 would remain for at least tens of thousands of years."

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2010/12/common-climate-misconceptions-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide/

[roamer65]

9. Don't worry, we will soon solve the CO2 problem.

It’s coming.

[backtoblue]

8. Imagine what we could have had

...with President Gore

[orleans]

11. it still breaks my heart

and pisses me off to no end

[Duppers]

12. I often do.

I'm with ya...

That stolen election was the reason I sought online forums for like-minded folks.

[misanthrope]

10. Have you ever seen a dog around something that worries it?

It refuses to look at whatever the source of the anxiety is. If you move the object, the dog turns its head away. If it can't turn its head, it will cut its eyes away.

That is how humanity is with the environmental catastrophe we have made. It will soon be too late and there's nothing to blame but ourselves.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Household Carbon Footprint Calculator

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/household-carbon-footprint-calculator

Take this quiz. It also allows you to plan out how you can reduce your household carbon footprint.

Mine is half the national average.