"The Internet is a source of real hope," Gore said.
"Kind of like Star Wars, there is a rebellion," he said, "and it's alive on the Internet."
One of the biggest take-home points of the film is Gore's debunking of the Republican claims that the recent increases in temperature are simply parts of cycles in nature, like the Ice Age.
The recent increases in carbon dioxide, that is, are "off the charts," beyond anything we've ever seen before, and that includes 650,000 years of the Earth's history, Gore said.
Increases in carbon dioxide have historically been correlated with increases in temperatures. Therefore, we must worry that the planet will become hotter, 5 degrees at conservative estimates, Gore said.
"It's real; we're causing it; the results are catastrophic; we have to start fixing it; and it's not too late," Gore said. Those are his main five points, he said.
The mainstream media has posed the most serious impediment to Americans and politicians understanding the scientific consensus and knowledge of global warming, Gore said.
A striking slide in the film showed that 0% of a large sample of peer-reviewed scientific studies disputed global warming or its man-made, or anthropogenic, causes. Meanwhile, 53% of media accounts portrayed global warming as a debated issue, according to one study cited in the film.
Hurricane Katrina may have also been exacerbated by the warmer ocean waters in the Gulf of Mexico which are a result of global warming, the movie also showed.
"There are two symbols in the Chinese word for crisis: danger and opportunity," Gore said.
"We probably have ten years, maybe a little less, in which to make a significant start before we cross a point of no return," Gore said.
"Nothing else matters so much," Gore said.
"If we face down the danger, we have the opportunity to make a lot of changes," Gore said.
"The biggest opportunity not faced by other generations is a shared moral purpose, to transcend limitations... pettiness, and bickering," Gore said.
About the author:
Matthew Cardinale is the News Editor and a National Correspondent for Atlanta Progressive News and may be reached at matthew@atlantaprogressivenews.com
"Kind of like Star Wars, there is a rebellion," he said, "and it's alive on the Internet."
One of the biggest take-home points of the film is Gore's debunking of the Republican claims that the recent increases in temperature are simply parts of cycles in nature, like the Ice Age.
The recent increases in carbon dioxide, that is, are "off the charts," beyond anything we've ever seen before, and that includes 650,000 years of the Earth's history, Gore said.
"It's real; we're causing it; the results are catastrophic; we have to start fixing it; and it's not too late," Gore said. Those are his main five points, he said.
The mainstream media has posed the most serious impediment to Americans and politicians understanding the scientific consensus and knowledge of global warming, Gore said.
A striking slide in the film showed that 0% of a large sample of peer-reviewed scientific studies disputed global warming or its man-made, or anthropogenic, causes. Meanwhile, 53% of media accounts portrayed global warming as a debated issue, according to one study cited in the film.
Hurricane Katrina may have also been exacerbated by the warmer ocean waters in the Gulf of Mexico which are a result of global warming, the movie also showed.
"There are two symbols in the Chinese word for crisis: danger and opportunity," Gore said.
"We probably have ten years, maybe a little less, in which to make a significant start before we cross a point of no return," Gore said.
"Nothing else matters so much," Gore said.
"If we face down the danger, we have the opportunity to make a lot of changes," Gore said.
"The biggest opportunity not faced by other generations is a shared moral purpose, to transcend limitations... pettiness, and bickering," Gore said.
About the author:
Matthew Cardinale is the News Editor and a National Correspondent for Atlanta Progressive News and may be reached at matthew@atlantaprogressivenews.com
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