Al Gore Returns With New Climate Campaign (The "Climate Reality Project")

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Climate Reality Project aims to expose reality of global warming crisis and kicks off with a 24-hour live streamed event

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent | Tuesday July 12 2011 17.20 BST

It should almost be called Inconvenient Truth 2.0. Five years after Al Gore launched his original documentary project, the former vice-president returned on Tuesday with a new campaign aimed at exposing the full scale of the climate crisis.

Gore's Climate Reality project announced it would kick off with a 24-hour live streamed event on 14 September. The day's events will include a new multimedia presentation by Gore that will "connect the dots" between extreme weather events and climate change, a statement said.

The campaign represents a modest comeback for Gore who has reduced his public profile on climate action in the past few years – probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.

It is being launched four years after Inconvenient Truth, based on Gore's climate change slide-show, won an Oscar for best documentary.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/12/al-gore-climate-change

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[Red1]

1. Maybe Indicates

An interest by the public?
Are we really in envirnmental deep doo doo?
Will anyone take the ball and get the country organized for an all out lifestyle change?

nope..we are doomed to live with the mess we created..

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicons have been spending billions to lie about and hide reality

no doubt they will work hard to obscure and occult it further now -- for their own narrow, greedy profit...crapping on everyone else. As usual.

[existentialist]

8. You're right, and they've locked themselves into

a terrible position, and on this--like the debt ceiling negotiations--they are holding a gun to the heads of everyone.

But why? This question baffles me. Do they not realize that this same gun is held to their own heads as well?


I really cannot comprehend the level of arrogance that insists on taking the United States, and the world, and definitely including themselves on this suicide course.


Sorry if this is a bit of a preaching to the choir rant. I don't think I need to convince you, but as I see it you posited a threshold understanding (which is fairly common here) that is basic to discussion of deeper issues, and I have attempted to posit one of the most deeply puzzling of those issues here.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. thank you!

spread the word.

Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/ClimateReality

[YvonneCa]

4. I'm not sure he ever...

...left??? ;)

[Scottybeamer70]

5. and will he call for an even bigger carbon tax this time?

Sorry.......I don't buy it. Every time the "climate changes" from what they told would happen,
to something entirely different, then it's time for "another change."
I realize I'm probably the only one on this site that doesn't actually care for what Gore
comes up with next, but that's all right. It's just another excuse for another tax.

[Red1]

14. Don't Feel Bad

those that don't understand an annual load of a trillion tons of CO2 into the upper reaches might screw up something...your not in a minority..which reminds me of those astounded mccain/palin made the last race as close as they did...

those of us that understand the situation is very volatile and is ever changing just shake our heads at you....

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Turborama.:thumbsup:

[trud]

7. I was wondering why he was so quiet

Another bad mark against Obama. I'm glad Gore is speaking up again.

[123forgood]

9. Inconvenient Truth????

No...a cold hard slap in the face truth..........triple digit temps all over this country....what's it going to take to wake people up??? Dead bodies on the sidewalk???

[tclambert]

12. That's what did it in Europe. A heatwave in 2003 killed over 40,000 people.

But they weren't Americans, so they don't count.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

[simonmagnus]

10. Carbon credits

Our government should establish a Manhattan-type project for alternative renewable energy. Last time we placed many scientists together to solve a problem we ended up with the most powerful energetic weapon in history. Why can't we apply the same principle to solving other problems? If we had the technology to run machines anywhere 24x7, they could help clean the environment.

I voted for Al Gore and still believe the election was corrupt but I find the whole carbon-credit system complete questionable. No one should have the ability to buy and shift their responsibilities elsewhere. The fact that Gore established a company that deals with carbon credits makes me skeptical. Skeptical in the messenger, not the science. There is a conflict of interest with profit motive.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Hardly, whether you wish to acknowledge it or not, the vast majority of the developed world

operates on a profit basis.

The timetable to curb the burning of global warming inducing carbon is too short, to completely reinvent all forms of energy and business from scratch, all tools should remain on the table in this endeavor and carbon credits is just one method to ease and thus speed the transition.

In the martial art of JuJitsu, your opponent's energy is used against them to reach the desired result, such is the way with carbon credits, any "responsibilities shifted elsewhere" would work toward the overall goal of reducing the burning of global warming magnifying fossil fuels.

Or course carbon credits are by no means the only answer, as you mention we do need a "Manhattan Project" directed toward the research, development and implementation of renewable sustainable energy sources.

[tclambert]

13. I have mixed feelings about this, as I did about his movie.

Because Al Gore got attached to global warming, many Republicans feel obligated to oppose the whole idea. This should not be a partisan issue. More and more, the Republicans make themselves the anti-science party. Science should not be partisan. And reality should not be partisan.

I'm not blaming global warming, science, or reality for leaning toward Democrats. The Republicans went to the crazy place on their own. Maybe someday that anti-science insanity will hurt them at the polls. Meanwhile, we have scientists playing awkward political roles, and good science facing partisan political obstacles. I don't know that the red flag of Al Gore will do much more than enrage the reactionary right.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Any Democrat that supports or champions critical issues based on science will be attacked

by the Republicans if it bucks their existing status quo power base, in this case that being fossil fuel corporations.

Should the Democrats or Democratic Party then abandon law or policy based on reason and science for fear of being attacked and made a red flag by the Republicans?

Al Gore has stated numerous times that global warming is not a partisan issue, and he's never tried to make it one, Gore has spoken to numerous conservative and religious forums on this subject.

The Republicans' self destructive rigidity is the problem, not the messenger, as the Republicans have done their best to discredit neutral, objective and overwhelming peer reviewed scientific evidence, some political or former political leaders must have the courage to speak out in favor of it, or nothing will change.