An even more divided one probably. He was shown to be speaking absolute bullshit in 2005 and that nothing he was predicting has happened. Why are you people so gullible?
@@norml.hugh-mann which (unfortunately) was probably why he isn't still a politician. Cuz our political system currently is about personal grievances and greasing the wheels of capitalism, for the benefits of a few. (See Clarence Thomas)
This old lady really miss this wonderful Man AL Gore. He conceded the Presidential race with dignity and grace. Well educated and always learning to help Americans and the World. What a True American Patriot!!!
It is also made into survival of the special, and the parasites of wanting to steal 70% of what goes into the "survival of the species." Trojan horse into every big issue.
@@millanferende6723 Yes, the lies and manipulations of the far right are causing devastation to civilization, nature, & the human mind. They need to be removed from power & wealth.
Is it though? Didn’t Gore predict the oceans would be “20 feet higher” by now? The ice caps were supposed to be gone by 2016…. Still here, Al. Climate refugees would be in the Billions…. Also not happening y’all. Meanwhile, Dems are buying up ocean front properties. It’s a scam people, and he’s their angriest salesman. (Maybe tied with Greta 😉)
I love that the right doesn’t trust the government or scientists on climate change but they DO trust fossil fuel companies. Way to lick the boots of rich people that don’t care about you at all.
Never saw him so angry. He is so right. Treat fossil fuels as we treat cigarettes. Ban them from coming to un. We are regulating them not negotiating with them. They have no say.
In reality…. US strong tornadoes have been DECREASING for 60 years (see NOAA data). Hurricanes and Typhoons have been STEADY for 45 years (see Dr Ryan Maue data). Heatwaves over 100 f have been DECREASING since the 1930s (see NOAA data). N Hemisphere snow extent has been INCREASING for 50 years. (see Rutgers snow-lab). Polar bear numbers have been increasing for 60 years. (see DR Sue Crockford data:) S Hemisphere sea-ice extent was INCREASING for 40 years, before a storm in 2017. (and extent is climbing back up again) (see NSIDC on climate4you) Ralph.
I remember when Al Gore was the butt of every joke regarding Climate Change. Now history has vindicated him. He knew way back then the inevitable was coming and staked his reputation on it.
Not so much the butt of every joke, but instead the target of fossil fuel funded propaganda. They used our money to try to fool us. For many, the deception worked.
He still is the butt of every joke......according to him my home should have been under water by now.....but still, he keeps on fooling people....money makes the world go round.
We need lots of nuclear energy from Uranium and not least Thorium. A lifetime of Thorium energy for 1 person (everything included) costs $100 because it is everywhere.
He actually won the popular vote, but the stupid, antiquated electoral college and messed up voting system in Florida (big surprise) took the win from him.
Yes. 😁 I was all the time thinking this TED conference looks like a political rally - and it is. The biggest problems to solve are political. Chilean here. My country is doing what it can to reduce emissions, like large solar projects to produce electricity. The neighbor country, Argentina, caught in eternal political turmoil and economic crises, is trying its damnedest to develop oil projects 😥 The main one is located in a place called Vaca Muerta. Dead Cow. What a fitting name.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Well, here in the US the politics go in crazy girations. The Democrats (the main left wing party) comes in and does make real progress, then the Republicans come in and try to sabotage all efforts to change. Fortunately for the climate, the Republicans appear to be imploding right now (whether that continues remains unclear, although I hope it does as someone on the left of US politics), which seems to make it unlikely that climate efforts will fail for a little while.
@@unconventionalideas5683 I have been attentively (sometimes worriedly) following USA politics since Trump descended the escalator. To international standards, the Democratic party is not leftist - it just leans slightly to the left. I have also pointed at the ""Republicans break everything - then the Democrats pick up the pieces"" dynamic to a bunch of people in UA-cam comments. You have no idea how many people around the world are warily watching what's going on there... Good luck.
@@unconventionalideas5683 I think that having Gore as a major spokesperson on this issue is a two-edged sword. On one hand, he is effective at getting the message out. However, having a politician as mouthpiece also helps to give credence to the idea that the science itself is a political issue.
This is a great talk! I would have liked for him to spend some time on regenerative agriculture. The technology for carbon capture was invented about 2 billion years ago. Plants and soil biology are a large part of the answer. We just need to deploy it!
@@robertlee8805It's actually happening but very slowly. We need to shift the incentives away from current monoculture till system to the systems being employed by Gabe Brown in ND and Brandt in OH, Mark Shepard in WI. These guys should be running the USDA !
@@DistinctiveBlend There are something like 100 potential methods of carbon capture. Many of them aren't expensive. Some of them are. If only we took a piece of the $14 trillion in subsidies (not counting military expenditures) the fossil fuel industry STILL gets every year and gave it to a number of them, we could easily pull this off.
@@squamish4244 I'm aware of a few methods of carbon capture. However of those many don't scale, aren't very efficient, and are just cost prohibitive... but that isn't to say some (all?) shouldn't be undertaken. Collectively we gained a lot of energy releasing these emissions and it will therefore require relatively equal amounts of energy to get them all back. Just the fact you'd have to filter through a million parts to capture the mere 421 you're after should make anyone pause. Plus you have to consider how much carbon the oceans are holding and so as you remove it from the atmosphere the oceans will replace whatever we capture. Even if many carbon capture projects were implemented it's gonna be a massive battle and far from easy.
Not only nationalized, but governments - as new (or old) owners - have to be forced to comply with fierce global legislation that is prescribing exact rates of reducing ff production. Of course countries that have to reduce their ff production or refrain from drilling are entitled to financial compensation by an international fund.
@@achenarmyst2156 Of course you know there IS no fierce legislation, only the Paris agreement that’s a mass murder-suicide pact, & smaller agreements that are about as tough. Countries have had more than half a century to comply with principles of mutual survival & compassion; most have ignored or drastically downplayed the danger & still are. They deserve nothing except a death sentence for the corporations, & for the individuals, a choice between a long prison term & a serious truth & reconciliation process involving forfeiture of everything & suspended sentence, in exchange for a full confession & turning over all documentation of collaboration. If they want an income let them lobby their new progressive governments to pass a Universal Basic Income law or constitutional amendment.
Capitalist points at other capitalisdt, "It's all his fault!" No. It is OUR fault for tolerating egotistical pursuit of wealth and power. Our fault for being lazy brained and letting them just string us along. Our fault for not teaching our children better. Our fault for years of complacency and disgruntled whining without action.
See Naomi Oreskes writings or talks for some background on where climate change denialism came from. It's an artifact of the ideological obsession with defending the supposed "free market." To see how bogus the whole pack of arguments is, one need simply notice the fact that the "free market" does not exist and never has. What the free market cultists are really defending is the right of rich people to do as they please no matter the consequences, even if it means massive loss of life.
@@panayoteskarabotsos3772 I wish electric cars were affordable so I could ditch my gasoline car. I wish our country had better public transportation but oil companies bribe our politicians into wasting our taxes on gifts to oil companies instead of using that same money to research cheaper electric cars and better public transit. Big companies are blocking both solutions to profit themselves. They enslave us to gas powered cars. In Spain I lived in a big city where I did not need a car and that was better than polluting the air.
If you want ACTION -- get going yourself -- Chop your own firewood for heating and cooking. Collect water from a stream or rain for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing. Dispose of your own trash and wastes yourself. Only travel via horse, bicycle, or other human-powered conveyance. Grow your own food, slaughter your own animals, make your own candles and soap, textiles, and footwear. Give up all electric and electronic devices, give up all gas-powered tools and recreational equipment. Learn mining, metalworking, weaving, sewing, animal husbandry, seed saving, bee keeping, ice harvesting, forestry and tree cutting, making your own medicines, and whatever other skills you need to survive without fossil fuels. There ARE solutions and alternatives to every use of petrol, electricity, and fossil fuels. Of course, it means living like it's the year 1820, but humans survived then so I assume they can now. It just requires hard work and shorter lifespans.
Due to corruption in our government-owned electricity company we here in South Africa have many electricity blackouts but this has been a good thing in one way - so many people are installing solar panels for their houses and businesses. If you can afford it, install solar panels and you will be helping the planet.
Just how much can WE change Global Warming? Let’s do the calculations Have you ever asked “How much global warming has there been since the START of the industrial revolution?" Ask Google, Ans from NOAA: “1°C since 1750? So how much change is that a year in °F 1.8F/272 years = 0.0066°F /year How much is actually caused by the USA? OK Lets ask Google ,Ans: 27% So the USA has caused (27%) * . 0.0066° /year or .0017° F /year. Have you ever asked what is the half life of CO2 in the atmosphere? Ans: 120 years WOW!!By using NOAA’s historical records after reaching NETZERO in the USA, the MAXIMUM change expected in global warming is .0017°F /year And it will take 120 years to realize an actual reduction of .00085 °F You have just been presented with the SCIENCE of Global Warming.
@@gadabout694 Another admirable attempt at disinformation. You assumed a linear temperature rise since 1750 and made it sound like it came from NOAA. Neither is true. I really don't know what keeps you people working for oil billionaires.
@@peterjohnstaples I wouldn't call Gore's Ted Talk nor global warming a premeditated swindle. How we address global warming however is a swindle conducted by conservative business interests - finance, insurance, marketing, sales, manufacture, car-dependent housing and commercial districts (urban & suburban), pay to park, pay to drive toll roads, maintenance, repair, etc. Petroleum industry is near last on the list because the other interests don't care HOW we power our cars and trucks. They only care that we remain dependent upon cars, trucks, ships and airplanes to get every need met including escapist entertainment.
Sadly, some of the main oil producing countries could actually be world leaders in solar and wind energy production. They have all the conditions to lead the economic transition. The fact that they are not makes me doubt the intelligence and creativity of their national leaders and their national companies CEOs.
That would work if the wind always blew or the sum always shined, but it don't. Some day that may come up with a more effective way to produce they power demand, but they are years away from that.
@@shawncummings4653 - Nuclear power could fill in the gaps and newer designs are walk-away safe with no 'melt-down' possible even without external AC power. Also we have a lot of new design batteries that can fill in the gaps in wind/solar for less cost than new coal/gas plants.
@@WJV9 I live in a state they shut down our nuclear power plants, then they tried shutting down our hydro dams. Witch are both clean energy. This by demacrats. And storage batters take a lot of coal to produce. In China.
Please look into the opposing point of view before you spread this lie to the next generation. The Global Warming Crisis" has created more problems than it has fixed. And Gore, who unqualified to present this topic has twisted the truth.
When desire for common sense surpasses the pathology of profit, and people like Biden and Obama become targets under a different spotlight instead of shadow totalitarians.
I love hearing a person with the most southern drawl who you'd expect because of that to be the most insane drill baby drill guy, but he's actually just a southern guy with reason and concern for the longevity of the planet.
100% of his predictions have been wrong. The only certainty is the fortune he's made from this )))) (begins with sc and rhymes with ham) -- as well as his huge carbon footprint Well done Al you fooled a lot of greenies
Thats a major goal we need to accomplish. More energy production and a more robust grid. We can't migrate to full electrification without a system capable of delivering that power.
Remove all of the government subsidies! This should have been started decades ago. Maybe that will change their incentives for participating in new energy development, which they do not see as profitable enough. Not enough! Well, take away the subsidies.
CO2 is in no way a horrible gas, it is the foundation of all life on the planet except chemotroph bacteria living in places where there is no oxygen. There is only 0,04% CO2 in the atmosphere and if we should go below 0,02% plants would suffocate and we would all die (except for the for bacteria I mentioned before). Our planet has never in hundreds of millions of years been this low except for the previous 100 years and we should consider ourselves lucky that it has reversed a little. That is also why our planet is getting greener and the deserts are shrinking, because plants need less water when CO2 levels get higher.
I am lost. We already knew that the oil companies are corrupt. That's not news. The question is how do we put pressure on the industry to change? I didn't come away with even one thing I could do to make the situation better. Which politicians should be pressured and how? How can we protest the companies in a way that will make sense? Where was his explanation of a way to specifically empower anyone to do anything?
@bry Yes, same problem as only having personal lifestyle changes listed in the solutions at the end of An Inconvenient Truth. He’s made some progress but still lags way behind reality & the worsening of the climate catastrophe. The problem is that there is virtually no functional democracy left in the US; if voting worked they’d make it illegal. The far right has made it clear over 40 years they’ll never allow effective change. The only answer is to remove the intractable psychopaths in both parties from both power & wealth, those being interchangeable commodities. For strong peaceful action, see your local Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, or other group. Pachamama Alliance has a couple of very good online or in-person courses: Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, & Game-Changer Intensive. I’m sure the other groups have activist trainings, too. Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects is excellent for clearing away emotional blocks that can diminish personal effectiveness. It’s great to know the subject matter, too. U of Q has an excellent free online Climate Denial 101 course (starts with basic climate science & includes the specific techniques used to lie about climate (and tobacco, & evolution, & Covid...) Good luck.
Like who for instance? Oh well what is happening is competitive market the monopoly is still up for grabs this time it will be as always share holdings but you can't win playing with the big boy's so no sore losers just saying it is easier for a 🐫 to enter through the eye of the needle than a poor man to enter through the narrow gate . Mexicos new President she will be able good luck Seniora.
Governments need to force oil and gas companies to invest 90% of their profits into environmental projects that actively reduce the worlds temperature.
Same here, only took my second array which cost $2800 to completely offset my driving (up to 10,000 miles) a year. Generates 3mWh each year. The main array is over double that for my house.
If corruption is truly as deep as displayed by this video, I can’t help but think that no president or politician can help us out of this situation. It will have to be civil disobedience by majority of the population in solidarity against our own Government.
@@seanhewitt603 I guess you don't understand how and why the oil execs have so much power and influence. With out the backing of the U.S Government, oil companies have no power to continue destroying the Planet. Politicians get in power by having their campaigns financed by donations from corporations, these same corporations want something in return for getting them in power (usually tax breaks or lifting regulations). At the end of the day, this corruption will continue until we forcibly take back control of our Government and law makers from the clutches of private donations from corporations. Going after oil executives will prove futile unless our own Government is taken back under control of her people. Side note: The U.S. military is the biggest consumer of oil. Do you think that our Government is willing to fight the same corporations that have helped them become the most powerful military force in the world? I don't think so
1. Because of the Constitutional anachronism of the Electoral College, which handed his opponent the 2000 presidential election, despite Gore having won the popular vote by a margin approximately three times larger than JFK's popular vote margin over Nixon in 1960, thereby altering the outcome of a Presidential election (and the course of history) for the first (but, sadly, not the last) time in well over a century. 2. Because of his systematically negative treatment by the elite Washington press corps, both in that election (meaning in the Democratic primary as well as in the General Election) and for long afterwards, which treatment succeeded in labeling him, in the popular imagination, despite the absence of any actual evidence, as a politician somehow uniquely given to lies and deception, in a sort of preview of the inane & hysterically vilifying ("but her emails!") coverage of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. That latter election of course brought to power the anti-Al Gore -- the least prepared and least capable president in modern US history, by a wide margin. Al Gore would be have been the diametric opposite of that. On climate, in particular, he was quite simply decades ahead of the conventional wisdom at the time. His 2000 loss (and attendant media vilification) effectively cast him out of national politics--and demoted vigorous climate action from the halls of power for the better part of a generation. We are only now crawling back out of that hole.
@craig It should be a more important part, but radical equality is necessary for that & try to convince most politicians in the US to voice that! Electrifying primary energy will reduce that by 60% so that’s something. (Saul Griffith, David Roberts) Amory Lovins & RMI have a lot of excellent unconventional ideas on efficiency.
@@achenarmyst2884 Activists, journalists, & others. Never heard a scientist say anything like that. And it’s not about euphemismism; it’s about being accurate, about pointing out misconceptions. Equality & a vast reduction in the exploitation of people & the rest of nature will make everyone’s lives better, including those reducing most.
Contrary to popular belief, "More electric vehicles" doesn't reduce climate impacts as much as "Less driving, more living close to where we need to be on a daily basis".
@John That may or may not be true; since neither is quantified it’s impossible to say. Both are good; EVs are an absolutely crucial part of electrifying primary energy, which is necessary to renewablize it. It’s not just “more” EVs, it includes all vehicles, from service & emergency vehicles, delivery trucks & scooters, tuk tuks, farm, construction, logging, mining, to military.
Here in California we get extreme heat/drought and bomb cyclones alternately in the same locations. A couple of years ago, we got 22 inches of rain in little more than 8 hours! That’s about what “rainy London” gets all year, we just get it all in a few days. Thanks, Mr. VP Gore for enlightening so many about the global climate crisis. No one believed us scientists until “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Science is not based on models, Its based on fact. Your in California, Believe it or not, Weather has been changing in California for Hundreds of years. California climate is where it should be. The earth is doing just fine.
@@tobymofield6597 the art's, music, theater with the variety or did you all decide on prison flautas and ramen burritos? 😂 you volunteer to the foresters or community youth sport's?
@mr Not exactly, but close enough, & a great conversation starter. Like many things, it’s more appropriately considered a disease than a crime. "Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition” Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk.
@J4Zonian is there any scientific research to identify the causes of greed, if it is a disease, it rival's cancer and other nefarious diseases. I would consider a donation to that research...
United States has not in any way been in the forefront of reducing pollution and the greenhouse effect. On the contrary, there has always been "business as usual"
I sometimes wonder if oil executives/ boards/ investors think that the absolute heartlessness of their manner of dealing with everyone will be at some point reflected upon them for their choices? I think it will as things get worse and people begin starving...
It's not the oil industry. It's the consumers. 8 billion people demand oil every day including yourself and your family. Posting a YT comment requires oil.
They are given billions in govt subsidies annually, while suppressing alternative forms of energy. They have denied the truth and lied about the truth for decades. Average consumers have no affordable alternate choice. And none of us have the skills or the constitution to go live off the land like our ancestors, much less access to land to live on.
Big Oil receives billions in govt subsidies annually, while denying and lying about the truth for decades. Alternative energy has been suppressed and isn't affordable to families like mine. Modern humans don't have the skills or constitution to go off grid and live off the land, much less access to land to live on. Yes, we're all complicit to greater and lesser degrees. I can't afford electric car but drive one that gets 32 mpg, leave my thermostat on 81 in daytime, 80 at night, use zero inside lights during the day, very few at night, all that. But still I consume the evil.@@freetrade8830
@@freetrade8830 Thats ignorant of you. Big oil lobbied to create national infrastructure that depended on them. The also lobbied against nuclear energy meaning that most consumers, especially in the US, didnt even have the choice to use clean technology. If we could all have simply decided to start using the subway and public transportation we'd have a fraction of the emissions we do now but most of us dont have that choice.
I don't know if that's true (that al gore said what you claim) but models change as time passes. Climate change study was in it's infancy then and didn't have the power of super computers like today. Models today are much more accurate.
Al Gore, I appreciate your passion and commitment. You are undoubtedly correct about the fact that the fossil fuel industry is doing everything it can to continue business as usual at the expense of environmental sustainability and the continued habitability of our beloved Earth. But you are dead wrong, and this is a life or death matter, when you say "the climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis." Surely you know that should we follow your idea that the solution to resolving the climate crisis is to "phase out fossil fuels" will not work without a simultaneous change in diets towards plants and a major reduction in methane and other short-lived climate forcers. Surely you understand that if we reach net zero on fossil fuels without simultaneous reductions in methane from all major sources, we will see a dangerous increase in heating in the short term, heating that will take us well over the 1.5º C increase and probably the 2º threshold as well. Why won't you acknowledge the powerful, positive impact of drastically reducing animal agriculture and reforesting or rewilding the land freed up from pastures and feed crop cultivation? I'm fine with you primarily focusing on fossil fuels, but you are not being truthful if you don't at least let people know that fossil fuels alone are not driving the planetary heating.
Al gore is no scientist by training, but he has an unbelievable ability to galvanize action towards solving this existential threat. The world owes him a debt of gratitude, and I have huge respect for him ❤👏👏
Exactly, he has no scientific training. So why are you listening to him . He's a politician and they lie and tell you what you want to hear. You should be listening to real scientists like Richard lindzen , Steve koonan and many others . Also maybe watch planet of the humans. There's a bit about al gore in that. Maybe it will change your perspective.
The Persian gulf states, and especially those on the Arabian Peninsula, each receive enough solar and wind energy every day to power the world, with zero emissions. Why isn't that being discussed (or is it, in which case, my apology)?
@Roger It is, but not nearly enough. Saudi Arabia has kept announcing massive investments in renewable energy & never has anything to show for it. ???? All the rest of MENA is pathetically & disgustingly but effectively resisting renewables, obviously because they all survive as autocracies by selling oil domestically & abroad. (The resource curse)... Except for Morocco, which is almost 40% RE, twice the US despite Morocco’s poverty. Its Noor series of projects (Arabic for light) have made it a world leader in combining PV & dispatchable, 24/7/365 CSP. (also 20% hydro). Obviously it would be dumm to try to power the world from 1 spot but they could make a huge 24/7 contribution to Europe, the rest of Africa, Central Asia... See video "The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa", though with a grain of sand or whatever.
The current problem with wind and solar (pardon my pun) is transmission. No one wants to invest in new transmission lines until renewable sites are approved and work has begun. But no company will invest in a renewable site unless there are high capacity transmission lines that allow them to sell their power. Another big issue, at least in industrialized countries, is “not in my backyard.” Towers and high voltage lines are not pretty, and everywhere they are proposed people fight them tooth and nail. Just look at where most new wind power installations are being proposed. Offshore, so only nearby coastal “neighbors” to object to the loss of view, and almost all are near existing or retired fossil fuel generation facilities. That’s because those existing facilities already have high power connectivity to the grid. So only a line or two need to be run from the wind farm to shore to achieve a grid connection. But beach communities are fighting even that minor change.
@@broddr Yes, those are challenges. David Roberts just did a podcast (yesterday? Haven’t read/listened yet) on some of that, & several with Saul Griffith (Electrify), & lots of people have been discussing it. The administration just came up with a plan but I think anything they do will be inadequate until Biden packs the Supreme Court (all the courts) and declares a national emergency, which he quite insanely refuses to do. "States Doing End Run Around Clean Energy Misinformers" Climate Crock of the Week, August 30, 2023 Rooftop solar & offshore wind are relatively immune to these holdups, so they’re special targets for other delays-Koch/ALEC legislation against rooftop solar, lawsuits, regulatory delays, fake rumors about whales... In a larger sense, in the face of Republican gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. Democrats have to embrace an all-out progressive agenda to get a big enough majority to ensure the safety of climate solutions. I’m sure that will happen voluntarily at the time porcine beings aviate. A revolution will be necessary.
So much misinformation, so much nuances glossed over, so one sided. It’s scary to see people in the comments agree with him so passionately without doing more research or hearing different point of views…
What about Thermolysis ? Concerning overextracted oil and gas : redirect the use of Carbon ... Take and use the Hydrogen - generated by Thermolysis - and keep the C out ( from the oil and therefore Not letting it in the atmosphere ) . Put the C into the ground or into ( invent ) artificial wood, Graphite,Carbonfibres ( also - additional methods - in combination with extracted CO2 from the atmosphere ) ...for buildings ( Houses, Bridges,Skycrapers ) ... The idea is possible and can have a good energy outcome ( due to the H ) and has worth, due to the effect of creating a counter-usage ( redirecting the C away from the atmosphere ) of overextracted oil and gas. The oil and gas industry can't prevent a different usage instead of simply burning it. Thermolysis gives Energy and pure C ... use the C for constructing Something hard , i.e. Graphite, Carbonfibres, artificial wood ( - instead of burning - ). ❤ ? 25:10
The unfortunate truth about this talk by Al Gore is that money, as the current system is, cannot and will never help us with a solution to our problems. It can't help because it is the problem.
In a certain sense, you are absolutely correct. See Naomi Oreskes' writings and talks for some background on where climate change denialism came from. It is an artifact of the long term project to create and defend the bogus notion of the "free market."
This is an oversimplification. This talk touches on some of the money issues, such as World Bank financing, which is improving. And part of the reason Mr. Gore is publicizing the issue is that we can help regulate the for-profit corporations with our votes and public protests. There is hope. We have to keep trying, not wallowing in self-pity and despair.
@@pechaa This is true. It is very important that we do all we can, and because of the nature of the problem, time is really of the essence. A big challenge is that the "free market" approach will not do it, and serious government "intervention" is necessary on many fronts. This means that we'll have to break the grip of the free marketeers and the fossil fuel interests (which overlap) before we can get a handle on the problem. Well, we've seen it happen before, in late 2007. The US government acted to save the banks and heavy industry. Hopefully, the same forces can be moved to act against climate change.
Imagine taking the 1 trillion oil subsidy and distributing it to the financially struggling population for alternative energy use. It would equate to $20,000 each for 50 million families. The oil industry has bled the world with its greed and will have to pay the Piper someday.
Al Gore is an incredible human being, and has been non-stop correct about this issue and its solutions. He is a hero to me. All fossil fuel subsidies MUST be ELIMINATED NOW!
What an excellent presentation from a person who really knows the stuff. I think it is not going to be easy, the challenges are big, but we absolutely must do it, whatever it takes.
Al Gore is not a scientist and has no qualifications to talk about global warming. Trying to fix global warming has created more problems than it has fixed.
@nils And yet he didn’t. Gore has based everything he said about climate on science. He hasn’t been absolutely perfect but has been right for many years, while the climate denying delayalists & anti-renewable fanatics have been grossly wrong about everything.
@@pain8117 Need a quote to verify what he actually said. I’m betting it wasn’t what you’re claiming, that intentionally or not you’re spreading lies. If you don’t send a verifiable source everyone will know you’re now intentionally lying. "At a glance - Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth correct?" Skeptical Science, 20 June 2023
Unless the pitiful, absent moderation has finally worked for once, it seems pain8117 has deleted his or her comment rather than either come up with some pathetic fake citation I would immediately easily prove pathetic & fake, or god forbid, muster the courage to actually admit there aren’t any such predictions.
I see a lot of deniers, but it seems elementary to me, if you build a fire particulates are going to be released. And, the more fires you build the more particulates will be released.
I’ve spent my professional career (15 years and counting) in the trenches working to solve the climate crisis and keep our planet habitable by our species. My report from the front: we can solve this - but we aren’t there yet. We need more: more professionals making this their vocation, more policy support, more investment, more engaged voters to vote in climate candidates.
What we need are more fossil fuels. Poverty kills vastly more people than warming ever could. All climate policies induce greater poverty. Warming is science, the climate "crisis" is political. There is zero evidence of a climate "crisis".
As ever, its all about the money. The oil industry has for decades been a price manipulating cartel. If any other industries behaved as they do the CEOs would be in jail. The only real solution is for the rest of us to develop alternatives that make oil worthless. It's a grim situation.
Sad reality is that if we developed something that could replace oil, The oil companies would just buy it with the unfathomable amount of money they already have
Thats a fallacy , like they bought the car that runs on water and the everlasting lightbulb. They wouldnt buy it off me . Being a billionaire and the savior of the human race would be enough . I wouldn't need oil money. Sad reality is there isnt a viable replacement as yet and 50% of the people on the planet cant understand why we need to pull together and make one
One of the first thing we need to do is boycott the upcoming COP 28 scheduled to take place in Dubai starting November 30th 2023. The insanely absurd notion that a country whose national pastime is producing oil should hold a serious conference on climate change and on the need to stop relying on fossil fuel only serves to make a mockery of the whole process. Let the fossil fuel lobbyists meet as much as they like under whatever pretence they chose but let us ignore their ambitions and false pretences.
Poor soil health is a significant contributor to climate change. We need policies for making sure soil health is prioritized, meaning a minimum of 3 to 6% organic matter content should be present in the soils. Healthy soils sequester large amounts of carbon.
He found his true calling, it wasn't politics but something much greater! Saving the planet, and he has inside knowledge to add power to his statement. I almost don't recognize him, in a good way 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Speaking of climate conferences, they need to be by Zoom. No more in-person climate conferences, requiring people to fly from all over the world. Doesn't matter who the host country is; they all promote flying and consumerism.
It's almost unconceivable but there's to much compelling evidence around the world to say any different.Sad but So!! There's been 5 mass extinctions recorded in history.The 6th one is unfolding right before our eyes.And humanity is more than likely on the list of this mass extinction unfolding or four coming..
@@kmoses582 Including every single climate related disaster. All in precipitous decline. These people love to shriek about the science but ignore any science that ruins their narrative.
I can’t help but think what kind of world we would live in today if he had became the US president.
An even more divided one probably. He was shown to be speaking absolute bullshit in 2005 and that nothing he was predicting has happened.
Why are you people so gullible?
A better world.
But this kinda guys are not interested In becoming president, because if they become presidents they will not be able to speak as this guy does!!
They wont even let them be president:)
Never too late
I don't often applaud politicians, but this was brilliant and 100% to the point. Wow!
At this point, Mr AL Gore is an activist, and former politician. I would vote for him for president over Biden though if he ran
Did you also applaud speeches by Jimmy Swaggart and James Robison?
Well at this point I don't think Al gore is "in it" anymore. He's not trying to run anything, he wants to engage the public
@@90klh I know,
I just see him as being more invested in making America and the World a better place more so than most politicains
@@norml.hugh-mann which (unfortunately) was probably why he isn't still a politician. Cuz our political system currently is about personal grievances and greasing the wheels of capitalism, for the benefits of a few. (See Clarence Thomas)
This old lady really miss this wonderful Man AL Gore. He conceded the Presidential race with dignity and grace.
Well educated and always learning to help Americans and the World.
What a True American Patriot!!!
yeah ....educated like Biden...at the bottom of the class.
@cjendret not at the bottom like drumpf is.
@@alohatstyles ok olive oil
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
Ya, and it's quite a coincidence that all the court records from that trial were stored in WTC 7.
This has been made into a right vs left issue when it is really about survival of the species.
It is also made into survival of the special, and the parasites of wanting to steal 70% of what goes into the "survival of the species." Trojan horse into every big issue.
@@millanferende6723 Yes, the lies and manipulations of the far right are causing devastation to civilization, nature, & the human mind. They need to be removed from power & wealth.
Is it though? Didn’t Gore predict the oceans would be “20 feet higher” by now? The ice caps were supposed to be gone by 2016…. Still here, Al. Climate refugees would be in the Billions…. Also not happening y’all. Meanwhile, Dems are buying up ocean front properties.
It’s a scam people, and he’s their angriest salesman. (Maybe tied with Greta 😉)
There is no risk to humanity from AGW.
I love that the right doesn’t trust the government or scientists on climate change but they DO trust fossil fuel companies. Way to lick the boots of rich people that don’t care about you at all.
Never saw him so angry. He is so right. Treat fossil fuels as we treat cigarettes. Ban them from coming to un. We are regulating them not negotiating with them. They have no say.
Perfect comment.
UN regulations are worthless. Most major polluters just ignore them because they aren't enforceable.
indeed we have to treat them like cigarettes. hope we come to our senses quickly before we've smoked ourselves (active or passively) to death...
You are aware people still smoke cigarettes?
In reality….
US strong tornadoes have been DECREASING for 60 years
(see NOAA data).
Hurricanes and Typhoons have been STEADY for 45 years
(see Dr Ryan Maue data).
Heatwaves over 100 f have been DECREASING since the 1930s
(see NOAA data).
N Hemisphere snow extent has been INCREASING for 50 years.
(see Rutgers snow-lab).
Polar bear numbers have been increasing for 60 years.
(see DR Sue Crockford data:)
S Hemisphere sea-ice extent was INCREASING for 40 years,
before a storm in 2017. (and extent is climbing back up again)
(see NSIDC on climate4you)
Ralph.
I remember when Al Gore was the butt of every joke regarding Climate Change. Now history has vindicated him. He knew way back then the inevitable was coming and staked his reputation on it.
Exactly what I was thinking watching this
Not so much the butt of every joke, but instead the target of fossil fuel funded propaganda. They used our money to try to fool us. For many, the deception worked.
who is this Al Gore fellow he's got some good points
No it hasn't! This belief makes me sick!
He still is the butt of every joke......according to him my home should have been under water by now.....but still, he keeps on fooling people....money makes the world go round.
I love the emotion.... we need more passionate and emotional leaders who delve into courageous empathy
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
@@Crunch_dGH nah we need young leaders… time for older generations to retire :) they’ve done enough
Start calling out oil CEOs for being cowards obstructing innovation and change
@@PeterFnPorker What if we take everyone over 60, and put them someplace else
We need lots of nuclear energy from Uranium and not least Thorium. A lifetime of Thorium energy for 1 person (everything included) costs $100 because it is everywhere.
The US really messed up by not electing Al Gore when they had the chance.
Actually, the American people did.
He actually won the popular vote, but the stupid, antiquated electoral college and messed up voting system in Florida (big surprise) took the win from him.
He would be even richer than he is now.
If anyone ever had their election stolen it was Al Gore. Thank you again Florida.
The US people always make the wrong choice.
He has become a much more animated speaker than when he was a presidential candidate.
yeah and fat too.
Yes. 😁 I was all the time thinking this TED conference looks like a political rally - and it is. The biggest problems to solve are political.
Chilean here. My country is doing what it can to reduce emissions, like large solar projects to produce electricity. The neighbor country, Argentina, caught in eternal political turmoil and economic crises, is trying its damnedest to develop oil projects 😥 The main one is located in a place called Vaca Muerta. Dead Cow.
What a fitting name.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Well, here in the US the politics go in crazy girations. The Democrats (the main left wing party) comes in and does make real progress, then the Republicans come in and try to sabotage all efforts to change. Fortunately for the climate, the Republicans appear to be imploding right now (whether that continues remains unclear, although I hope it does as someone on the left of US politics), which seems to make it unlikely that climate efforts will fail for a little while.
@@unconventionalideas5683 I have been attentively (sometimes worriedly) following USA politics since Trump descended the escalator. To international standards, the Democratic party is not leftist - it just leans slightly to the left. I have also pointed at the ""Republicans break everything - then the Democrats pick up the pieces"" dynamic to a bunch of people in UA-cam comments. You have no idea how many people around the world are warily watching what's going on there... Good luck.
@@unconventionalideas5683 I think that having Gore as a major spokesperson on this issue is a two-edged sword. On one hand, he is effective at getting the message out. However, having a politician as mouthpiece also helps to give credence to the idea that the science itself is a political issue.
Guys...he is super ceral.
Manbearpig hear about this?
😂
Not about the person. Everything he says is true.
This is a great talk! I would have liked for him to spend some time on regenerative agriculture. The technology for carbon capture was invented about 2 billion years ago. Plants and soil biology are a large part of the answer. We just need to deploy it!
Agreed. Deployment now would be better than just saying it. How does society do this?
@@robertlee8805It's actually happening but very slowly. We need to shift the incentives away from current monoculture till system to the systems being employed by Gabe Brown in ND and Brandt in OH, Mark Shepard in WI. These guys should be running the USDA !
it's not enough, a lot more would need to be done to bring CO2 down
@@DistinctiveBlend There are something like 100 potential methods of carbon capture. Many of them aren't expensive. Some of them are. If only we took a piece of the $14 trillion in subsidies (not counting military expenditures) the fossil fuel industry STILL gets every year and gave it to a number of them, we could easily pull this off.
@@squamish4244 I'm aware of a few methods of carbon capture. However of those many don't scale, aren't very efficient, and are just cost prohibitive... but that isn't to say some (all?) shouldn't be undertaken.
Collectively we gained a lot of energy releasing these emissions and it will therefore require relatively equal amounts of energy to get them all back. Just the fact you'd have to filter through a million parts to capture the mere 421 you're after should make anyone pause.
Plus you have to consider how much carbon the oceans are holding and so as you remove it from the atmosphere the oceans will replace whatever we capture.
Even if many carbon capture projects were implemented it's gonna be a massive battle and far from easy.
The oil giants need to be nationalized and the CEO's put in prison as RICO charges. Let's get real here. They knew about this problem in 1985
@murray 1975.
Not only nationalized, but governments - as new (or old) owners - have to be forced to comply with fierce global legislation that is prescribing exact rates of reducing ff production. Of course countries that have to reduce their ff production or refrain from drilling are entitled to financial compensation by an international fund.
@@achenarmyst2156 Of course you know there IS no fierce legislation, only the Paris agreement that’s a mass murder-suicide pact, & smaller agreements that are about as tough. Countries have had more than half a century to comply with principles of mutual survival & compassion; most have ignored or drastically downplayed the danger & still are.
They deserve nothing except a death sentence for the corporations, & for the individuals, a choice between a long prison term & a serious truth & reconciliation process involving forfeiture of everything & suspended sentence, in exchange for a full confession & turning over all documentation of collaboration. If they want an income let them lobby their new progressive governments to pass a Universal Basic Income law or constitutional amendment.
@@J4Zonian I believe it was actually 1966, the first studies at Stanford University.
I wonder if he still lives in the house with 7 fireplaces.
The CEOs and upper Management of every Fossil Fuel company for the last 30 years in the world should be thrown in jail.
Or forced to live downwind from their smokestacks... like the poor people who cannot afford to live elsewhere do.
Chemical corporations as well.
I would like to see that too
Between Purdue and oxycotin vs gas companies and willful pollution, I wonder who has killed more people
Don't forgot the shareholders directing them.
Capitalist points at other capitalisdt, "It's all his fault!" No. It is OUR fault for tolerating egotistical pursuit of wealth and power. Our fault for being lazy brained and letting them just string us along. Our fault for not teaching our children better. Our fault for years of complacency and disgruntled whining without action.
See Naomi Oreskes writings or talks for some background on where climate change denialism came from.
It's an artifact of the ideological obsession with defending the supposed "free market."
To see how bogus the whole pack of arguments is, one need simply notice the fact that the "free market" does not exist and never has. What the free market cultists are really defending is the right of rich people to do as they please no matter the consequences, even if it means massive loss of life.
@@panayoteskarabotsos3772 I wish electric cars were affordable so I could ditch my gasoline car. I wish our country had better public transportation but oil companies bribe our politicians into wasting our taxes on gifts to oil companies instead of using that same money to research cheaper electric cars and better public transit. Big companies are blocking both solutions to profit themselves. They enslave us to gas powered cars. In Spain I lived in a big city where I did not need a car and that was better than polluting the air.
Best comment out of all the ones I read.
If you want ACTION -- get going yourself -- Chop your own firewood for heating and cooking. Collect water from a stream or rain for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing. Dispose of your own trash and wastes yourself. Only travel via horse, bicycle, or other human-powered conveyance. Grow your own food, slaughter your own animals, make your own candles and soap, textiles, and footwear. Give up all electric and electronic devices, give up all gas-powered tools and recreational equipment. Learn mining, metalworking, weaving, sewing, animal husbandry, seed saving, bee keeping, ice harvesting, forestry and tree cutting, making your own medicines, and whatever other skills you need to survive without fossil fuels.
There ARE solutions and alternatives to every use of petrol, electricity, and fossil fuels. Of course, it means living like it's the year 1820, but humans survived then so I assume they can now. It just requires hard work and shorter lifespans.
@@zz449944 This is dumb. We don't need eliminate every use. Only the most destructive uses.
Due to corruption in our government-owned electricity company we here in South Africa have many electricity blackouts but this has been a good thing in one way - so many people are installing solar panels for their houses and businesses. If you can afford it, install solar panels and you will be helping the planet.
Just how much can WE change Global Warming? Let’s do the calculations
Have you ever asked “How much global warming has there been since the START of the industrial revolution?"
Ask Google, Ans from NOAA: “1°C since 1750? So how much change is that a year in °F 1.8F/272 years = 0.0066°F /year
How much is actually caused by the USA?
OK Lets ask Google ,Ans: 27%
So the USA has caused (27%) * . 0.0066° /year or .0017° F /year.
Have you ever asked what is the half life of CO2 in the atmosphere? Ans: 120 years
WOW!!By using NOAA’s historical records after reaching NETZERO in the USA, the MAXIMUM change expected in global warming is .0017°F /year
And it will take 120 years to realize an actual reduction of .00085 °F
You have just been presented with the SCIENCE of Global Warming.
@@gadabout694so we should just keep pumping gas into the air and succumb to horrible death? Is that really your solution?
@@gadabout694ah wonderful. A UA-cam commenter is more qualified than hundreds of scientists that study this topic their whole life.
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
@@gadabout694 Another admirable attempt at disinformation. You assumed a linear temperature rise since 1750 and made it sound like it came from NOAA. Neither is true.
I really don't know what keeps you people working for oil billionaires.
Thank you for being so passionate and vocal on something that needs more recognition
The only recognition need here is the bin for this swindle.
@@peterjohnstaples I wouldn't call Gore's Ted Talk nor global warming a premeditated swindle. How we address global warming however is a swindle conducted by conservative business interests - finance, insurance, marketing, sales, manufacture, car-dependent housing and commercial districts (urban & suburban), pay to park, pay to drive toll roads, maintenance, repair, etc. Petroleum industry is near last on the list because the other interests don't care HOW we power our cars and trucks. They only care that we remain dependent upon cars, trucks, ships and airplanes to get every need met including escapist entertainment.
He wants you to have no access to energy and die when you är 40, just like we did before oil, plumbing and heating came along
Best Ted talk in years!!
That was incredibly inspiring! Run for President Al Gore! Run like you were meant too brother.
Run, run, as far away from all of us as you can.
@@anthonymorris5084troll
My, gawd, Al Gore is ON FIRE! So welcome, this voice!
Sadly, some of the main oil producing countries could actually be world leaders in solar and wind energy production. They have all the conditions to lead the economic transition. The fact that they are not makes me doubt the intelligence and creativity of their national leaders and their national companies CEOs.
That would work if the wind always blew or the sum always shined, but it don't. Some day that may come up with a more effective way to produce they power demand, but they are years away from that.
@@shawncummings4653- Actually, you're years away from the reality of renewables. Years in the past, that is.
@@shawncummings4653 - Nuclear power could fill in the gaps and newer designs are walk-away safe with no 'melt-down' possible even without external AC power. Also we have a lot of new design batteries that can fill in the gaps in wind/solar for less cost than new coal/gas plants.
@@WJV9 I live in a state they shut down our nuclear power plants, then they tried shutting down our hydro dams. Witch are both clean energy. This by demacrats. And storage batters take a lot of coal to produce. In China.
Several of them are starting to go nuclear though. Which is a lot easier than wind and solar. And just as clean. And even safer.
Thank you, Vice President Gore! You are a true American patriot and leader for the world. I can't wait to share this video with my students!
Get your head out of the sand please…
@@leerichardson3904troll
Please look into the opposing point of view before you spread this lie to the next generation. The Global Warming Crisis" has created more problems than it has fixed. And Gore, who unqualified to present this topic has twisted the truth.
Al Gore will be on the right side of history.
There isn't going to be a history at the rate we are going at
I'm so grateful that Al Gore is still speaking about this and fighting the good fight. Thank you so much for all you have done and continue to do.
Do your homework, Jeff. Al Gore has become filthy rich with his scam about which he knows absolutely nothing.
I'm curious: When will human existence ever be worth more than human greed?
It’ll be too late by that point.
When desire for common sense surpasses the pathology of profit, and people like Biden and Obama become targets under a different spotlight instead of shadow totalitarians.
I don't normally applaud UA-cam videos, but I just cannot help myself with THIS one!!
I love hearing a person with the most southern drawl who you'd expect because of that to be the most insane drill baby drill guy, but he's actually just a southern guy with reason and concern for the longevity of the planet.
100% of his predictions have been wrong.
The only certainty is the fortune he's made from this )))) (begins with sc and rhymes with ham) -- as well as his huge carbon footprint
Well done Al you fooled a lot of greenies
Thats a major goal we need to accomplish. More energy production and a more robust grid. We can't migrate to full electrification without a system capable of delivering that power.
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
He is a con artist
Remove all of the government subsidies! This should have been started decades ago. Maybe that will change their incentives for participating in new energy development, which they do not see as profitable enough. Not enough! Well, take away the subsidies.
I am charged up after this speech! Bravo! Let’s do this
He gives me a spark of hope, despite us all being doomed anyway.
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
You've been brainwashed into thinking we're doomed. Do some research and stop listening to politicians who we all know lie.
CO2 is in no way a horrible gas, it is the foundation of all life on the planet except chemotroph bacteria living in places where there is no oxygen. There is only 0,04% CO2 in the atmosphere and if we should go below 0,02% plants would suffocate and we would all die (except for the for bacteria I mentioned before). Our planet has never in hundreds of millions of years been this low except for the previous 100 years and we should consider ourselves lucky that it has reversed a little. That is also why our planet is getting greener and the deserts are shrinking, because plants need less water when CO2 levels get higher.
I am lost. We already knew that the oil companies are corrupt. That's not news. The question is how do we put pressure on the industry to change? I didn't come away with even one thing I could do to make the situation better. Which politicians should be pressured and how? How can we protest the companies in a way that will make sense? Where was his explanation of a way to specifically empower anyone to do anything?
@bry Yes, same problem as only having personal lifestyle changes listed in the solutions at the end of An Inconvenient Truth. He’s made some progress but still lags way behind reality & the worsening of the climate catastrophe.
The problem is that there is virtually no functional democracy left in the US; if voting worked they’d make it illegal. The far right has made it clear over 40 years they’ll never allow effective change. The only answer is to remove the intractable psychopaths in both parties from both power & wealth, those being interchangeable commodities.
For strong peaceful action, see your local Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, or other group.
Pachamama Alliance has a couple of very good online or in-person courses: Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, & Game-Changer Intensive. I’m sure the other groups have activist trainings, too. Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects is excellent for clearing away emotional blocks that can diminish personal effectiveness.
It’s great to know the subject matter, too.
U of Q has an excellent free online Climate Denial 101 course (starts with basic climate science & includes the specific techniques used to lie about climate (and tobacco, & evolution, & Covid...) Good luck.
Like who for instance? Oh well what is happening is competitive market the monopoly is still up for grabs this time it will be as always share holdings but you can't win playing with the big boy's so no sore losers just saying it is easier for a 🐫 to enter through the eye of the needle than a poor man to enter through the narrow gate . Mexicos new President she will be able good luck Seniora.
Governments need to force oil and gas companies to invest 90% of their profits into environmental projects that actively reduce the worlds temperature.
@San Nationalizing them is the answer.
We got solar panels on our townhouse roof and an electric car. We are saving money!
Our second vehicle is still a gas guzzler, but we rarely use it.
Same here, only took my second array which cost $2800 to completely offset my driving (up to 10,000 miles) a year. Generates 3mWh each year. The main array is over double that for my house.
And how much in handouts or subsidies did you receive for doing so?@@whattheschmidt
Good for a start. But what‘s your carbon footprint right now? You will be surprised!
Excellent presentation and Mr. Gore is still ahead of the curve.
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
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Good on ya, keep making noise for the climate. You got my thumbs up 👍🏼
If corruption is truly as deep as displayed by this video, I can’t help but think that no president or politician can help us out of this situation. It will have to be civil disobedience by majority of the population in solidarity against our own Government.
An violent revolution. With a lot of blood spilled. And probably they would won. And that would be the Pyric victory for them.
You'll leave the oil company execs alone?!?, just go after the politicians?, wow... you ain't been payin' attention...
@@seanhewitt603 I guess you don't understand how and why the oil execs have so much power and influence. With out the backing of the U.S Government, oil companies have no power to continue destroying the Planet. Politicians get in power by having their campaigns financed by donations from corporations, these same corporations want something in return for getting them in power (usually tax breaks or lifting regulations). At the end of the day, this corruption will continue until we forcibly take back control of our Government and law makers from the clutches of private donations from corporations.
Going after oil executives will prove futile unless our own Government is taken back under control of her people.
Side note: The U.S. military is the biggest consumer of oil. Do you think that our Government is willing to fight the same corporations that have helped them become the most powerful military force in the world? I don't think so
Why is this man not in a key position in our government leading this effort !! Knowledge with passion = Results.
1. Because of the Constitutional anachronism of the Electoral College, which handed his opponent the 2000 presidential election, despite Gore having won the popular vote by a margin approximately three times larger than JFK's popular vote margin over Nixon in 1960, thereby altering the outcome of a Presidential election (and the course of history) for the first (but, sadly, not the last) time in well over a century.
2. Because of his systematically negative treatment by the elite Washington press corps, both in that election (meaning in the Democratic primary as well as in the General Election) and for long afterwards, which treatment succeeded in labeling him, in the popular imagination, despite the absence of any actual evidence, as a politician somehow uniquely given to lies and deception, in a sort of preview of the inane & hysterically vilifying ("but her emails!") coverage of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
That latter election of course brought to power the anti-Al Gore -- the least prepared and least capable president in modern US history, by a wide margin. Al Gore would be have been the diametric opposite of that. On climate, in particular, he was quite simply decades ahead of the conventional wisdom at the time. His 2000 loss (and attendant media vilification) effectively cast him out of national politics--and demoted vigorous climate action from the halls of power for the better part of a generation. We are only now crawling back out of that hole.
the anti-manbearpig lobby kept him out!
Because he doesn't know anything.
@@wbaumschlager he knows how to hold a hug far longer than you could possibly handle.
Thank God he isn't.
Go manbearpig....some of Matt and Treys best work.
Amazing speech
That's great and all...but where is 'Less consumption' in the mix of things we need to do?
@craig It should be a more important part, but radical equality is necessary for that & try to convince most politicians in the US to voice that! Electrifying primary energy will reduce that by 60% so that’s something. (Saul Griffith, David Roberts)
Amory Lovins & RMI have a lot of excellent unconventional ideas on efficiency.
Some scientists call it "sufficiency" because it sounds nicer than sacrifice.
@@achenarmyst2884 Activists, journalists, & others. Never heard a scientist say anything like that. And it’s not about euphemismism; it’s about being accurate, about pointing out misconceptions. Equality & a vast reduction in the exploitation of people & the rest of nature will make everyone’s lives better, including those reducing most.
Wow. The passion.
I LOVE HOW HE GETS ANGRY AND YELLS. IT MADE ME CRY FOR THE HOPE OF IT ALL.
It's a long time since I saw a TED talk that felt important. This one feels important. Well done Al.
Lv his clam intro then Boom let it out 🎉🎉🎉🎉
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Should go viral !
Let's do this!
"It's not the fossil fuels, it's the emissions " ....that tracks with their mentality
It is the emissions. We need CCS in order to meet targets.
Contrary to popular belief, "More electric vehicles" doesn't reduce climate impacts as much as "Less driving, more living close to where we need to be on a daily basis".
@John That may or may not be true; since neither is quantified it’s impossible to say. Both are good; EVs are an absolutely crucial part of electrifying primary energy, which is necessary to renewablize it. It’s not just “more” EVs, it includes all vehicles, from service & emergency vehicles, delivery trucks & scooters, tuk tuks, farm, construction, logging, mining, to military.
I wish he'd recognise that 'green' hydrogen is just more green washing from big oil/auto
We need green hydrogen but not for cars or heating. Instead for chemical and steel industry, and for energy storage.
@@achenarmyst2156And as long as the selfish keep flying and killing their children, it will be needed for planes until batteries improve enough.
Keep up the great work Mr Gore
Here in California we get extreme heat/drought and bomb cyclones alternately in the same locations. A couple of years ago, we got 22 inches of rain in little more than 8 hours! That’s about what “rainy London” gets all year, we just get it all in a few days. Thanks, Mr. VP Gore for enlightening so many about the global climate crisis. No one believed us scientists until “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Science is not based on models, Its based on fact. Your in California, Believe it or not, Weather has been changing in California for Hundreds of years. California climate
is where it should be. The earth is doing just fine.
Best thing to do is contain it right that's going to be good to use.
@@tobymofield6597 the art's, music, theater with the variety or did you all decide on prison flautas and ramen burritos? 😂 you volunteer to the foresters or community youth sport's?
If greed is the culprit, we should work on anti-greed laws on a world wide scope.
@mr Not exactly, but close enough, & a great conversation starter. Like many things, it’s more appropriately considered a disease than a crime.
"Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition” Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk.
@J4Zonian is there any scientific research to identify the causes of greed, if it is a disease, it rival's cancer and other nefarious diseases. I would consider a donation to that research...
@@J4Zonian oh, and thank you for the referral of the information. Cheers...
That's called communism, and it's dumb.
@@mrx1278 I wanted gold fangs but then I changed my mind and thought bugs bunny fronts and karatts talking like what up Doc ?
Please sir, get some sessions with a vocal instructor. We don't want you too loose your voice because we need it.
"More regenerative agriculture, that's the way to really grab carbon out of the air" C+O2 create the new.
Al Gore is fighting the good fight!
United States has not in any way been in the forefront of reducing pollution and the greenhouse effect. On the contrary, there has always been "business as usual"
I sometimes wonder if oil executives/ boards/ investors think that the absolute heartlessness of their manner of dealing with everyone will be at some point reflected upon them for their choices? I think it will as things get worse and people begin starving...
Maybe a few. Most are busy finding and building their safe sanctuaries away from the damage they've wrought.
It's not the oil industry. It's the consumers. 8 billion people demand oil every day including yourself and your family. Posting a YT comment requires oil.
They are given billions in govt subsidies annually, while suppressing alternative forms of energy. They have denied the truth and lied about the truth for decades. Average consumers have no affordable alternate choice. And none of us have the skills or the constitution to go live off the land like our ancestors, much less access to land to live on.
Big Oil receives billions in govt subsidies annually, while denying and lying about the truth for decades. Alternative energy has been suppressed and isn't affordable to families like mine. Modern humans don't have the skills or constitution to go off grid and live off the land, much less access to land to live on. Yes, we're all complicit to greater and lesser degrees. I can't afford electric car but drive one that gets 32 mpg, leave my thermostat on 81 in daytime, 80 at night, use zero inside lights during the day, very few at night, all that. But still I consume the evil.@@freetrade8830
@@freetrade8830 Thats ignorant of you. Big oil lobbied to create national infrastructure that depended on them. The also lobbied against nuclear energy meaning that most consumers, especially in the US, didnt even have the choice to use clean technology. If we could all have simply decided to start using the subway and public transportation we'd have a fraction of the emissions we do now but most of us dont have that choice.
put this man on the ballot
America fumbled the bag with this guy.
"The will to act is itself a renewable resource" is something we should all remember whenever we feel powerless
This the guy that told us we'd all burn up by 2013, with the coastal regions under water.
It will happen.
I don't know if that's true (that al gore said what you claim) but models change as time passes. Climate change study was in it's infancy then and didn't have the power of super computers like today. Models today are much more accurate.
Al Gore, I appreciate your passion and commitment. You are undoubtedly correct about the fact that the fossil fuel industry is doing everything it can to continue business as usual at the expense of environmental sustainability and the continued habitability of our beloved Earth. But you are dead wrong, and this is a life or death matter, when you say "the climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis." Surely you know that should we follow your idea that the solution to resolving the climate crisis is to "phase out fossil fuels" will not work without a simultaneous change in diets towards plants and a major reduction in methane and other short-lived climate forcers. Surely you understand that if we reach net zero on fossil fuels without simultaneous reductions in methane from all major sources, we will see a dangerous increase in heating in the short term, heating that will take us well over the 1.5º C increase and probably the 2º threshold as well. Why won't you acknowledge the powerful, positive impact of drastically reducing animal agriculture and reforesting or rewilding the land freed up from pastures and feed crop cultivation? I'm fine with you primarily focusing on fossil fuels, but you are not being truthful if you don't at least let people know that fossil fuels alone are not driving the planetary heating.
Gore for Prez 2024!
Great fellow, telling it as it really is, thanks Al Gore!
thanks al
PREACH AL🙌
Al gore is no scientist by training, but he has an unbelievable ability to galvanize action towards solving this existential threat. The world owes him a debt of gratitude, and I have huge respect for him ❤👏👏
Exactly, he has no scientific training. So why are you listening to him . He's a politician and they lie and tell you what you want to hear.
You should be listening to real scientists like Richard lindzen , Steve koonan and many others . Also maybe watch planet of the humans. There's a bit about al gore in that. Maybe it will change your perspective.
Looking at all these positive comments gives me hope.😃
I would vote for AL Gore for president!!
The Persian gulf states, and especially those on the Arabian Peninsula, each receive enough solar and wind energy every day to power the world, with zero emissions. Why isn't that being discussed (or is it, in which case, my apology)?
@Roger It is, but not nearly enough. Saudi Arabia has kept announcing massive investments in renewable energy & never has anything to show for it. ???? All the rest of MENA is pathetically & disgustingly but effectively resisting renewables, obviously because they all survive as autocracies by selling oil domestically & abroad. (The resource curse)...
Except for Morocco, which is almost 40% RE, twice the US despite Morocco’s poverty. Its Noor series of projects (Arabic for light) have made it a world leader in combining PV & dispatchable, 24/7/365 CSP. (also 20% hydro).
Obviously it would be dumm to try to power the world from 1 spot but they could make a huge 24/7 contribution to Europe, the rest of Africa, Central Asia...
See video "The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa", though with a grain of sand or whatever.
The current problem with wind and solar (pardon my pun) is transmission. No one wants to invest in new transmission lines until renewable sites are approved and work has begun. But no company will invest in a renewable site unless there are high capacity transmission lines that allow them to sell their power.
Another big issue, at least in industrialized countries, is “not in my backyard.” Towers and high voltage lines are not pretty, and everywhere they are proposed people fight them tooth and nail. Just look at where most new wind power installations are being proposed. Offshore, so only nearby coastal “neighbors” to object to the loss of view, and almost all are near existing or retired fossil fuel generation facilities.
That’s because those existing facilities already have high power connectivity to the grid. So only a line or two need to be run from the wind farm to shore to achieve a grid connection. But beach communities are fighting even that minor change.
@@broddr Yes, those are challenges. David Roberts just did a podcast (yesterday? Haven’t read/listened yet) on some of that, & several with Saul Griffith (Electrify), & lots of people have been discussing it. The administration just came up with a plan but I think anything they do will be inadequate until Biden packs the Supreme Court (all the courts) and declares a national emergency, which he quite insanely refuses to do.
"States Doing End Run Around Clean Energy Misinformers"
Climate Crock of the Week, August 30, 2023
Rooftop solar & offshore wind are relatively immune to these holdups, so they’re special targets for other delays-Koch/ALEC legislation against rooftop solar, lawsuits, regulatory delays, fake rumors about whales...
In a larger sense, in the face of Republican gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. Democrats have to embrace an all-out progressive agenda to get a big enough majority to ensure the safety of climate solutions. I’m sure that will happen voluntarily at the time porcine beings aviate. A revolution will be necessary.
I love to see this anger. It's indeed long past time to get angry.
He's an amazing speaker
So much misinformation, so much nuances glossed over, so one sided. It’s scary to see people in the comments agree with him so passionately without doing more research or hearing different point of views…
Great motivational talk!
What about Thermolysis ?
Concerning overextracted oil and gas :
redirect the use of Carbon ...
Take and use the Hydrogen - generated by Thermolysis - and keep the C out ( from the oil and therefore Not letting it in the atmosphere ) .
Put the C into the ground or into ( invent ) artificial wood, Graphite,Carbonfibres ( also - additional methods - in combination with extracted CO2 from the atmosphere ) ...for buildings ( Houses, Bridges,Skycrapers ) ... The idea is possible and can have a good energy outcome ( due to the H ) and has worth, due to the effect of creating a counter-usage ( redirecting the C away from the atmosphere ) of overextracted oil and gas. The oil and gas industry can't prevent a different usage instead of simply burning it. Thermolysis gives Energy and pure C ... use the C for constructing Something hard , i.e. Graphite, Carbonfibres, artificial wood ( - instead of burning - ). ❤ ? 25:10
Passion can’t be taught - He feels this deeply.
At 1.1 trillion in subsidies, they could pay that to nationalise and take control of those companies.
That is a bogus meaningless concocted number. Check out Venezuela to see how well nationalization works.
Renewables subsidies are vastly higher than alleged fossil fuel subsidies.
Thanks AL
The unfortunate truth about this talk by Al Gore is that money, as the current system is, cannot and will never help us with a solution to our problems. It can't help because it is the problem.
In a certain sense, you are absolutely correct.
See Naomi Oreskes' writings and talks for some background on where climate change denialism came from.
It is an artifact of the long term project to create and defend the bogus notion of the "free market."
This is an oversimplification. This talk touches on some of the money issues, such as World Bank financing, which is improving. And part of the reason Mr. Gore is publicizing the issue is that we can help regulate the for-profit corporations with our votes and public protests. There is hope. We have to keep trying, not wallowing in self-pity and despair.
@@pechaa This is true. It is very important that we do all we can, and because of the nature of the problem, time is really of the essence.
A big challenge is that the "free market" approach will not do it, and serious government "intervention" is necessary on many fronts.
This means that we'll have to break the grip of the free marketeers and the fossil fuel interests (which overlap) before we can get a handle on the problem.
Well, we've seen it happen before, in late 2007. The US government acted to save the banks and heavy industry. Hopefully, the same forces can be moved to act against climate change.
Wonderful and Excellent Your Video and your Motivation and Information, Thanks to you Sir
Imagine taking the 1 trillion oil subsidy and distributing it to the financially struggling population for alternative energy use. It would equate to $20,000 each for 50 million families.
The oil industry has bled the world with its greed and will have to pay the Piper someday.
I wonder if he had shown this much passion in 2000 if he would have won the presidency.
Al needs to run for president again. I am ready to start campaigning. 😊
Biden could ask him to join his team
Al Gore is an incredible human being, and has been non-stop correct about this issue and its solutions. He is a hero to me. All fossil fuel subsidies MUST be ELIMINATED NOW!
What an excellent presentation from a person who really knows the stuff. I think it is not going to be easy, the challenges are big, but we absolutely must do it, whatever it takes.
Al Gore is not a scientist and has no qualifications to talk about global warming. Trying to fix global warming has created more problems than it has fixed.
Read the Wikipedia article about him. He is a PR professional. He has been accused of using inaccurate data.
@nils And yet he didn’t. Gore has based everything he said about climate on science. He hasn’t been absolutely perfect but has been right for many years, while the climate denying delayalists & anti-renewable fanatics have been grossly wrong about everything.
@@pain8117 Quote it! What exactly did he say? Quote it or cite a video!
@@pain8117 Need a quote to verify what he actually said. I’m betting it wasn’t what you’re claiming, that intentionally or not you’re spreading lies. If you don’t send a verifiable source everyone will know you’re now intentionally lying.
"At a glance - Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth correct?"
Skeptical Science, 20 June 2023
Unless the pitiful, absent moderation has finally worked for once, it seems pain8117 has deleted his or her comment rather than either come up with some pathetic fake citation I would immediately easily prove pathetic & fake, or god forbid, muster the courage to actually admit there aren’t any such predictions.
I see a lot of deniers, but it seems elementary to me, if you build a fire particulates are going to be released. And, the more fires you build the more particulates will be released.
You can't expect a defense contractor to work hard on solutions for peace. Its not in their interest.
I can only imagine where environmental policy would be now if he was president. Not to mention we'd most certainly avoid Iraq at the very least.
Exactly. He said after 9/11 to treat bin Laden as a thug.
This deserves way more views!! Comon world, wake up!!
I’ve spent my professional career (15 years and counting) in the trenches working to solve the climate crisis and keep our planet habitable by our species. My report from the front: we can solve this - but we aren’t there yet. We need more: more professionals making this their vocation, more policy support, more investment, more engaged voters to vote in climate candidates.
What we need are more fossil fuels. Poverty kills vastly more people than warming ever could. All climate policies induce greater poverty. Warming is science, the climate "crisis" is political. There is zero evidence of a climate "crisis".
As ever, its all about the money. The oil industry has for decades been a price manipulating cartel. If any other industries behaved as they do the CEOs would be in jail. The only real solution is for the rest of us to develop alternatives that make oil worthless. It's a grim situation.
Sad reality is that if we developed something that could replace oil, The oil companies would just buy it with the unfathomable amount of money they already have
Thats a fallacy , like they bought the car that runs on water and the everlasting lightbulb.
They wouldnt buy it off me . Being a billionaire and the savior of the human race would be enough . I wouldn't need oil money.
Sad reality is there isnt a viable replacement as yet and 50% of the people on the planet cant understand why we need to pull together and make one
@@LeagueofWut You don't have to sell it. Or what do you mean by "we"?
One of the first thing we need to do is boycott the upcoming COP 28 scheduled to take place in Dubai starting November 30th 2023. The insanely absurd notion that a country whose national pastime is producing oil should hold a serious conference on climate change and on the need to stop relying on fossil fuel only serves to make a mockery of the whole process. Let the fossil fuel lobbyists meet as much as they like under whatever pretence they chose but let us ignore their ambitions and false pretences.
We need to change the economic system
Poor soil health is a significant contributor to climate change. We need policies for making sure soil health is prioritized, meaning a minimum of 3 to 6% organic matter content should be present in the soils. Healthy soils sequester large amounts of carbon.
He found his true calling, it wasn't politics but something much greater! Saving the planet, and he has inside knowledge to add power to his statement. I almost don't recognize him, in a good way 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
a lot of people know it already, they just don't acknowledge it to themselves.
Speaking of climate conferences, they need to be by Zoom. No more in-person climate conferences, requiring people to fly from all over the world. Doesn't matter who the host country is; they all promote flying and consumerism.
What Al doesn't want to tell people is that we ARE on the bleeding edge of human extinction right now. Time's up.
It's almost unconceivable but there's to much compelling evidence around the world to say any different.Sad but So!! There's been 5 mass extinctions recorded in history.The 6th one is unfolding right before our eyes.And humanity is more than likely on the list of this mass extinction unfolding or four coming..
We’re fine.
Al gore는 제가 가장 신뢰하는 미국의 정치가입니다.
그와 함께 할 것입니다.
DRAFT Gore for Pres! Any question?
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Too bad we don’t stand a chance. The people able to understand this problem are so few, the majority couldn’t care less.
Deaths from natural disasters have fallen since early 1900s, and you say we don't stand a chance?
@@kmoses582 Including every single climate related disaster. All in precipitous decline. These people love to shriek about the science but ignore any science that ruins their narrative.