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@leviefrauim1425
July 4, 2025 at 3:00 pm
How does anyone take AlGore seriously? For decades this grifter has been saying the world was coming to an end and yet… nothing. There’s absolutely nothing- zero, zilch, nada, bupkis- to support his ludicrous claims. The Earth continues and laughs at AlGore and his claims. There’s no decreased ice sheet; to that point, it’s increased. There’s no increased sea levels; to that point, picutres clearly show there’s been no change in the last 100 years. He’s a clown and TedX continues to promote him. What does that say about TedX? Ya know the only thing that’s increased since AlGore made his claims of eco-terrorism? His big, fat wallet and bank account. What a fraud. Shame on you, TedX.
@quantx6572
July 4, 2025 at 4:47 pm
Please educate yourself. Your comment is utterly ridiculous and makes absolutely no sense.
@jaymacpherson8167
July 4, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Al, I have a request. Please use “the science based on physics tells us that…” instead of “the climate scientists tell us that…” Why? Because few can doubt the simplicity of long established physics, while many doubt people who are assumed to have hidden agendas.
@marcos5647
July 4, 2025 at 8:45 pm
Good point. I agree
@Anurag-2309
July 4, 2025 at 4:19 pm
legend
@whoaskedforthisbs
July 4, 2025 at 4:44 pm
“The trmp administration…” immediate headache.
@jasonjohnson3393
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 pm
Let’s talk about the increase in vegetation coverage due to carbon dioxide!
@jasonjohnson3393
July 4, 2025 at 4:59 pm
Germany has spent 1 trillion euros on renewable energy
@CitiesForTheFuture2030
July 4, 2025 at 5:04 pm
Tx for the update. There ARE solutions to most industrial challenges – e.g. steel & cement – they just need to be scaled up then implemented. Agriculture is a biggie – it requires a shift towards a more plant-based diet but most consumers are resistant. Urban agriculture is one solution to food security. Another biggie is to reduce the manufacture of plastics. Here, too, progress is being made via bamboo, hemp, rattan, mycelium (mushroom roots) & kelp etc.
Thank you for highlighting Africa’s potential to power the world – we’re not in the centre of the world map for no reason…
Not mentioned in this otherwise great presentation is the role of cities. It’s estimated that 70 – 80% people will live in cities by 2050. Cities have the potential to be food, water & energy etc secure to relieve pressure on rural resources meaning there’s an opportunity to restore ecosystems that draw down GHGs (e.g. oceans, kelp forests & seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, peat lands, tropical forests & soils). It’s critical that we get urban development & management right. Also, no mention of the Agenda 2030 nor the New Urban Agenda – all ratified by all states in 2015. Local governance & mayors play a critical role here.
The biggest mistake the environmental movement makes is to appeal to society’s moral & ethical duty to protect our planet and for social justice & equity. Unfortunately to the top 1% the rest of us are irrelevant – our lives simply have no value & our future is of no interest to them; not for even a nanosecond.
@FJS-RIP-2025
July 4, 2025 at 5:07 pm
Gore the greentech billionaire And pusher 😂😂😂😂
@francesbernard2445
July 4, 2025 at 5:12 pm
Why kind of huiman activity is most responsible for climate change. I very much doubt that has anything to do with renewable energy initiatives topic which Al Gore brings up while discussing climate action as opposed to climate realism. Would that kind of human activity most responsible for climate change have anything to do with working long hours in weaponry manufacturing facilities and with extracting oil out of the ground to help supply energy during the use of them or what? Anything to do with climate change while mens group meeting leaders all say there is no way for any of the men showing up there at those mens groups all over the world to avoid from time to time waring with one another with that kind of equipment only because well that is what men do. Perhaps if they were in better solidarity with one another against cranky old women too telling them to get a job, any job including to be working in the miitary for their entire life if they have to then we would all be a whole lot better off. Some Roman Catholic priests are scientists too.
@alandavidroth
July 4, 2025 at 6:00 pm
I’m so glad he still has the strength and insight to do this. I wish he could speak to stadiums of Americans to motivate them to fight harder.
@guppygrease9767
July 4, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Transparency of speculated value fatline autocratic way of life from equation we the people of Earth share, innovation still happen.
@VishalSeth-h6y
July 4, 2025 at 6:04 pm
To anyone reading this we’ve never met, but I genuinely hope the best for you. If you’re going through something right now, I get it. I spent years chasing goals but never actually feeling in control of the outcomes. I believed effort alone was enough… until I found The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas. That book opened my eyes to the real reasons things were stuck. Since reading it, not only has my income shifted my entire energy feels different. Life responds differently when you understand how it’s wired. If you’re seeing this, maybe it’s because something in you is ready. Wishing you peace and everything you’ve been waiting for ❤️❤️
@lakshmiselvam575
July 4, 2025 at 6:04 pm
amen
@subavarsha8612
July 4, 2025 at 6:04 pm
I wasn’t going to post anything here, but something nudged me to. Maybe because I know what it’s like to be scrolling through comments, hoping for something to click some small sign that you’re not crazy for wanting more. For a long time, I was doing all the “right” things, but still feeling stuck. It’s like I could see the life I wanted, but couldn’t reach it. I didn’t have language for what I was missing until I found The Cancelled Laws of Reality by Selene Veritas. It didn’t force me into some flashy transformation it just helped me see how the laws behind reality actually work. It showed me how to stop forcing and start aligning. If that speaks to where you’re at, maybe this will find you like it found me.
@mathanmohan3959
July 4, 2025 at 6:06 pm
thank you
@KingTheodoreSP155
July 4, 2025 at 6:55 pm
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@BradleyPerkins-w2d
July 4, 2025 at 6:57 pm
I hope we wake up.
@HakuCell
July 4, 2025 at 7:03 pm
no mention of the need for dietary change? studies say that even if we could magically stop all fossil fuels immediately, it still wouldn’t be enough to stay within the target of 1.5°C of global warming set by the Paris Agreement, unless we reduce our global consumption of animal foods (especially beef and dairy, as highlighted by the United Nations). the fossil fuel industries are enemy number 1, but animal agriculture is enemy number 2. plus, eating more plant-based is healthier and more ethical. warning: don’t go vegan if you don’t have enough knowledge about nutrition and supplements; feel free to work with a nutrition expert; check out my youtube posts for some highly selected sources (not my uploads but my written posts). as one study put it, veganism has “transformative potential” for ecology (see my posts).
@phillipchavezjr273
July 4, 2025 at 7:36 pm
As a Native Indian, the elders talked of changes that have occurred and those that will come. At 68, I’ve traveled throughout the world, saw firsthand changes in climate, what’s happening to this planet is irreversible. The coming generations will suffer greatly for our consumption of natural resources.
@janshaw2132
July 4, 2025 at 7:56 pm
Invented the internet, nuff said 😢
@GeorgiiGrogan
July 4, 2025 at 8:02 pm
The only truly renewable human resources are stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, neither of those are going to help us, in spite of what the Democrats’ funders would have you believe.
@michaelschiessl8357
July 4, 2025 at 8:22 pm
Thank you TED talks and Al Gore for doing this video..We are definitely ready for another Inconvenient Truth movie now that the clown prince of coal and fossil fuels is taking away the US solar rebate s of 30% effective Dec 31st 2025..their slogan..let greed and fraud dictate US energy policy!!
@cynthiachristiansen8803
July 4, 2025 at 8:23 pm
We have been only solar for 4 years now. Hoping to get EV ability soon.
@razerginn
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 pm
I messed up my vote that year.
@luckymanindeed
July 4, 2025 at 9:18 pm
Thank you Al Gore for all you’ve done and continue to do! You rock my friend.
@MrBrew4321
July 5, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Thermodynamically the best you could possibly do with carbon capture is closed the system using an external power source to power the carbon capture basically the external power source would turn the car wouldn’t coming out of the smokestack into either a liquid or a solid fuel source that you could definitely set aside in theory this effectively would turn carbon into a battery but then you would have to make the argument why bother That’s really technologically complicated battery
@maxbootstrap7397
July 5, 2025 at 6:36 pm
*AL GORE IS A LIAR.* He and his fellow CO2 haters have been proven 100% completely and definitively wrong — *BY REALITY.* In roughly 1999 Al Gore made a very impressive presentation that “proved” (according to him, Michael Mann and his other “climate experts”) that CO2 would rise from 250ppm to 400ppm by 2014 and that the polar icecaps and glaciers worldwide would completely melt and the ocean levels would rise 30 meters thereby putting all oceanfront cities 30 meters under water. Us “climate realists” agreed that CO2 would likely rise to roughly 400ppm … but the “global warming” he and his experts promised would not happen (because their models are lies and BS intended to fleece the world of trillions of dollars and establish globalist totalitarianism worldwide).
Well, here we are 10 years *AFTER* their predictions and guess what? The CO2 levels are indeed about 425ppm … *BUT* … the average temperatures have not changed, the polar icecaps and worldwide glaciers are essentially unchanged (and not melted) and the ocean levels have not changed measurably or significantly.
For Al Gore and other “climate alarmists” AKA “elitist globalist totalitarian predators” to claim us “climate realists” are wrong is a *PROVEN OUTRAGEOUS LIE.* They lie, just as they have since the very beginning. CO2 is the molecule of life … of green plants … and the 250ppm levels of the 1980s are the lowest levels in the past 500 million years!
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 9:07 pm
Go get some education. And I don’t mean FOX News.
@lilbertsmom3561
July 5, 2025 at 9:15 pm
@@seppwurzel8212 The commenter above is likely a paid troll.
@Bonanno13
July 5, 2025 at 6:48 pm
Yes, yes, yes!!
But what can we do about it? The people in control just want money (as Mr. Gore stated). How do the common people of the world peacefully take back the power? I am tired of everyone talking about the problem with all solutions are outside of the abilities of the majority of people because it costs us too much money? Sure, we can compost, but how does one charge an EV in high density housing where most people live? Mr. Gore stated an answer when talking about Africa…and it needs investors to put out (aka loose) money. Again, the wealthy minority in charge of the majority!!! They are killing us, our children, our grand children…will they even be alive to have children?
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 7:10 pm
Share this speech with your conservative friends
@EricMeyer9
July 5, 2025 at 6:51 pm
45 GW of solar is not the same as 45 GW of nuclear, because the sun doesn’t always shine, and you’d need storage. It’s more like 10GW of nuclear. Still impressive for solar so not sure why he feels like he has to lie. Al Gore knows this but it seems he’s just a nuclear hater.
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 7:09 pm
Blablabla. Stop downplaying thie achievement by China. Nuclear is like 3GW every year in recent years. Btw in May, China doubled that number to 90GW. You just seem like a solar hater.
@davidzabronsky459
July 5, 2025 at 6:57 pm
How long have you been talking?? Maybe your time has expired?
@quesomquefaz
July 5, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Very informative, very rich content, but… very poor speaker. He lacks rythm, space between sentences and connection with his audience.
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 7:01 pm
Excellent speech!!!
@pragmatica1032
July 5, 2025 at 7:03 pm
I wonder what Al Gore thinks about the “Big Beautiful Bill” that prioritizes the fossil fuel industry over true climate solutions? Anyhow, he should have warned us 20 years ago… Oh wait…
@aaronvallejo8220
July 5, 2025 at 7:15 pm
Let’s rapidly build our renewably powered global economy together and everywhere 🌎.
@malice_wonderland
July 5, 2025 at 7:20 pm
He alarmism way of speaking just causes me stress and distracts from listening to what he is saying. I can’t even finish it, even though I want to hear his message. It’s not WHAT he is saying, it’s HOW he is presenting it. At his age he should understand this better.
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 9:06 pm
Well if you are not alarmed about climate change by now, you probably live with your head stuck in sand.
@ginapainter
July 5, 2025 at 7:21 pm
Glad to have you back!!!!!
@slimmacsquinty6125
July 5, 2025 at 7:23 pm
Al Gore is not a scientist, he has been proven to be utterly wrong with each and every one of his warnings though he has made a pretty good profit, maybe listen to Matt Ridley on Triggernometry last week
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 9:04 pm
He is merely presenting facts in this talk.
@bill8985
July 5, 2025 at 7:27 pm
There are about 3 times the number of humans on Earth today than when I was born. Sorry, folks, technology will not generate a solution to the problem.
@tinoyb9294
July 5, 2025 at 7:31 pm
And now, Kerrville, TX.
@rick8848
July 5, 2025 at 7:36 pm
Fossil fuels damage the climate, but animal agriculture destroys the foundation life depends on. It wipes out forests, collapses ecosystems, empties rivers, poisons soil, and kills more living beings than any industry in history. Fossil fuels power society. Animal products power nothing but preference. That is the difference. One is tied to infrastructure, the other to indulgence. And yet we focus on carbon while ignoring the system that erases biodiversity, stability, and future food security. If we care about survival, this is not a side issue. It is the core.
@moonwaxing1
July 5, 2025 at 7:45 pm
Excellent presentation, thanks Al.
@niclucci
July 5, 2025 at 7:48 pm
I care about climate change, and I’m sick of nuclear power denialists.
@timothye5936
July 5, 2025 at 7:57 pm
Sorry Al..The spreadsheet shows it’s cheaper to go extinct than to de-carbonize the economy
@64px3
July 5, 2025 at 8:11 pm
Fossil fuels ‘realism’ is yet another corporate scam..
@robertbheatcoker8638
July 5, 2025 at 8:15 pm
I only hear about this TED thing with a friend, and I hadn’t listen to any of them, not even this one, I believe this is a stupid propaganda for everything, anyway I will continue watching my news channels in Spain, and Spanish, and German in Germany.
@seppwurzel8212
July 5, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Ure the only thing stupid here. This talk is full of facts, you can Google all of them.
@jakobbauz
July 5, 2025 at 8:33 pm
The fact that they call it “realism” is just unbelievably audacious. We cannot let them have this term.
@dreamburn1
July 5, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Al Gore is such a champion for the environment, when he gets a good idea, a light emitting diode goes off in his head.
@trishanchetty5791
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Al for president 2028
@Lennybird91
July 5, 2025 at 8:56 pm
But my crazy uncle said volcanoes mean it doesn’t matter! 😂
@roderikvanl
July 5, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Too bad he simplifies ‘renewable’ energy….as it’s not so renewable unfortunately. More focus should be given on nuclear and development of fusion…