An inconvenient truth al gore
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They talked about the impacts of various types of greenhouse gases, the most prevalent denier claims and how to respond (check out Skeptical Science), political forces aligned against climate action (see Merchants of Doubt), the Montreal Protocol that phased out ozone-destroying CFCs as a model for climate action, how to get coal country on board (clean energy jobs), and the outlook for carbon capture and sequestration (too expensive for coal plants to implement), nuclear (too slow and expensive for our needs), and fracking (methane leakage and risks to water make it untenable, and we should just leapfrog to renewables). Xiuhtezcatl is also a plaintiff in the Our Children’s Trust lawsuit of 21 children against the federal government for not fulfilling its public trust to protect the climate for future generations.Īl Gore’s photo with youth trainees at the Climate Reality conference in Denver.ĭay 2 featured an incredible panel of scientists including Kevin Trenberth, climate scientist with NOAA Henry Pollack, geophysicist at University of Michigan and Don Henry, director of Climate Reality in Australia. The day ended with a performance by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his sister Isa Caress, indigenous hip hop artists.
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We also heard from Leah Greenberg, co-author of Indivisible, a guide by former Congressional staffers of best practices for making your elected representatives listen.
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Land-based plant and animal species are moving poleward at a rate of 15 feet per day.Air pollution kills 6.5 million people worldwide every year.Water scarcity now affects 40 percent of the world’s population.A 1✬ mean temperature rise decreases wheat yields by 21 percent.Seven 1,000-year floods have occurred in the United States in the last seven years.93 percent of the extra heat trapped by manmade global warming pollution goes into the oceans.2016 was the 40 th consecutive year with a global temperature above the 20 th century average.Extreme hot days are now 150 times more common than 30 years ago.The energy trapped by man-made global warming pollution is now equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day, 365 days a year.There I met hundreds of climate leaders from around the world and started learning about climate in depth. So two years ago, I attended my first Climate Reality training with Al Gore in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to find out what else I could do. Photo by Brian EttlingĬlearly individual action is not enough. No he doesn’t fly around on private jets. I was lucky to get this pic with Al Gore at the Cedar Rapids airport in May 2015.