Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & TechnologyNobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man who won a Nobel prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on disappearing polar ice and other consequences of climate change, concludes: "Simply laying out the facts won't work."
Instead, Gore tells Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, that he has been adapting his fact-based message - now put out by hundreds of volunteers - to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.
"I've done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It's probably my favourite version, but I don't use it very often because it can come off as proselytising," Gore tells Newsweek.
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tadair9193 weeks, 3 days ago
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there's a sequel? oh, i can't wait to see if he uses the hydrolic lift, again!
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http://www.czerniec.com/2007/04/27/an-inconvenient...
although, since his predictions flopped, i guess he will be using the stepping stool.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s307/MSimon6808...
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tadair9193 weeks, 3 days ago
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http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2009/07/10/lob...
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tadair9193 weeks, 3 days ago
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see chart here: http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2009/07/10/lob...
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almos_vagyok3 weeks, 3 days ago
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I know that this is truly inconvenient, but maybe some of
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you global-warming-nay-sayers should look at the scientific
literature. You may wish to start with
Science 2 October 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5949, pp. 28 - 29
Climate Change:
What Happened to Global Warming? Scientists Say Just Wait a Bit
Richard A. Kerr
The blogosphere has been having a field day with global warming's apparent decade-long stagnation. But climatologists are finding that although global warming has indeed paused, it is likely to return with a vengeance within a few years.
Now, I know that Science is the magazine of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
and therefore some of you think that it is run by
ACORN. I can't help you if you feel that way. I am
just a minor scientist who has got into this field
because I knew that that it is a much surer way to
get to be filthy rich than doing something truly
productive like subprime mortgage derivatives.
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