Lighting up the TED stage, Nobel laureate and climate advocate Al Gore takes stock of the current state of climate progress and calls attention to institutions that have failed to honor their promises by continuing to pour money into polluting sectors. He explains how the financial interests of fossil fuel companies have blocked the policymaking process in key countries — and calls for a global epiphany to take on the climate crisis. “Do not give up hope,” Gore says. “And remember always that political will is itself a renewable resource.”
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Jennings Naquin
May 23, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Yes I totally agree, but it’s hard to listen to man who has single handedly added more carbon into the atmosphere then 1000 average people. Sick of the elite blaming us for the problem.
Kevin VanGelder
May 23, 2022 at 8:31 pm
We have to stop listening to old fools and liars. *ALL* of his predictions are demonstrably false!!! Climate Change is *actual* disinformation.
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May 23, 2022 at 8:44 pm
The best scientific evidence (Antarctic ice core analysis) demonstrates that climate change is due to naturally recurring 100 thousand year cycles. We are nearing the peak of a warming cycle that has not yet reached previous maximum levels … still 2 degrees C colder than previous (when humans were not around) . That Earth may be warming, therefore, is not surprising. But global temperature has increased less than 1 degree C over the past 50 years. The models predicting large temperature increases have been discredited for using debunked Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity “factors”. No evidence exists that human impact on the warming is significant. If you think you have real hard evidence … provide it … Now!
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May 23, 2022 at 9:04 pm
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May 23, 2022 at 9:05 pm
Nice of Al to hop on his private jet to give these speeches.
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May 23, 2022 at 9:46 pm
So unfortunate he did not once refer to eliminating animal agriculture
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May 23, 2022 at 10:12 pm
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May 23, 2022 at 10:17 pm
Go watch the documentary about the wood chip fuel factory on Amazon. Al Gore lost a lot credibility when it was revealed he was behind the funding. Prove me wrong please.
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May 23, 2022 at 10:39 pm
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May 23, 2022 at 10:41 pm
Al Gore look gewd old! 😘
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May 23, 2022 at 10:43 pm
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May 23, 2022 at 11:14 pm
Al Gore Is a BOZO
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May 23, 2022 at 11:19 pm
Why couldn’t this guy be in the seat Biden holds????
Mark Henry
May 23, 2022 at 11:24 pm
We have to stop listening to liars.
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May 23, 2022 at 11:28 pm
its been said that the blind will lead the sight…. they know its already happening right in front but noooooooooo… money will be useless by then
REMINEX
May 24, 2022 at 12:16 am
Uh… I don’t trust humanity will make it through, good video anyway…
Sachi Perez
May 24, 2022 at 12:22 am
Decades this man has been fighting for all of us!
Kevin Carter
May 24, 2022 at 12:23 am
Can’t believe after all the lies and bull that Al Gore has made up, that he’s invited to speak on Ted! Very disappointing…
Jeffrey Green
May 24, 2022 at 12:32 am
until we find a way to get big money on our side, we will never change the game for alternate energy. you must play the same ruthless business tactics that businesses do to each other for control. it won’t be pretty, but it’s the way.
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May 24, 2022 at 1:01 am
So.. its not called global warming anymore? Lets spin it to get more people to swallow the Kool-Aid by another name. Go ahead Al, don’t talk about the the tobacco your family sold that killed more people than so called “climate change” Ooops, sorry “Climate Crisis”. Enjoy the word salad Al is g out. Did he fly in on his electric airplane? In this bad acting attempt he’d be better off as a fire and brimstone preacher. He sounds a lot like Howard Dean. Sorry for the reference I should realize most people don’t know political history to help understand what blowhards they (politicians) are. Term limits my friends, term limits is what we should be talking about.
Toni
May 24, 2022 at 1:08 am
I’m sick of the thought that I know we eat this stuff. It is constantly sprayed on our food. Millions of tons of weed killers, every year made from this toxin and it’s being eaten by us and making us ill.
Jack Spellman
May 24, 2022 at 1:14 am
Get rid of Biden
Orest Shepetyuk
May 24, 2022 at 7:04 am
They are lying about climate change in terms of it’s distraction character. Planet is fine. People are fuc*ed
None of your Damn Business
May 24, 2022 at 7:56 am
*It’s all about money 🙄*
Fernan*
May 24, 2022 at 8:01 am
simple. No industry, No car whith petrol.
Sacda Abdurhman-Personal Growth
May 24, 2022 at 8:32 am
“You are the only one who can define your success”.
The 4B's
May 24, 2022 at 8:48 am
We all need to thank Al for inventing the internet
Robo
May 24, 2022 at 10:29 am
Thanks to Al and the series of tubes which help make his invention accessible to all
The 4B's
May 24, 2022 at 9:01 am
100 companies are responsible for 70% of the emissions, so Al should start there and leave us alone with his carbon taxes, lockdowns and paper straws
BrightBlueJim
May 24, 2022 at 9:08 am
Jesus. I’m a progressive Democrat, but this guy is a clown. He will change exactly nobody’s mind.
MD J
May 24, 2022 at 10:48 am
funny how wack climate deniers get with these discussions–
maybe drink some hooch and head to the monster truck rally
mynlm
May 24, 2022 at 2:17 pm
Tell that to the biggest and the worst polluter communist China
Evan Graham
May 24, 2022 at 2:35 pm
If he truly believes everything he just said about climate change and rising sea levels why does he own a multi-million dollar mansion on the coast of California?
Brandon Bernhardt
May 24, 2022 at 2:48 pm
Did climate change start when the Bering land bridge was exposed some 13-16 thousand years ago?
Nico Fourie
May 24, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Al Gore is one of the evilest politicians on this planet.
Gacirũ
May 24, 2022 at 4:19 pm
He sounds like a baptist preacher..people just become climate saviours and end up saving yourself.
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May 24, 2022 at 6:49 pm
This is the biggest BS I’ve ever heard!
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May 24, 2022 at 8:13 pm
no one sees the al gore rhythm?
JAG
May 24, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Too late pal ! Go pray to the thermal gods
Elevated Apples
May 24, 2022 at 9:51 pm
Al Gore for president!!! ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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May 24, 2022 at 10:02 pm
Al Gore FOR PRESIDENT!!! Who’s with me??!!
Stefan Nikola
May 24, 2022 at 10:50 pm
It’s not just political will. It’s also the cultural will of the cultural elite on the spirituality mountaintop. It’s also societal will of the unwashed masses down here in the valley.
AngelMekk
May 24, 2022 at 10:50 pm
If Gore runs in 2024, he’s got my vote. ^_^
Jack87
May 24, 2022 at 11:48 pm
This guy is a class act
KevElliot
May 25, 2022 at 12:03 am
Go Al!!
Conversation Corner
May 25, 2022 at 1:46 am
This generation is living like there’s no tomorrow.
A-Aron Fpv
May 25, 2022 at 4:17 am
Al Gore…… 🤦♂️🤣 we should all be underwater by now from his projections
Stefan Nikola
May 25, 2022 at 4:54 am
It’s not just political will. It’s also the cultural will of the cultural elite on the spirituality mountaintop. It’s also the societal will of the unwashed masses down here in the valley.
Ken Ringer
May 25, 2022 at 6:42 am
Mate haven’t you made enough money from this already. It’s just trying to scare everyone to invest in electric and solar the world is going to warm if you don’t buy what I’m selling you .
Moomin Papa
May 25, 2022 at 6:45 am
I have huge respect for this man, he signed his own defeat as VP on 1/6 of 2001, and 20 years later on the same day, an orange man 🍊 destroyed democracy
Sui Sidnei Pereira
May 25, 2022 at 8:13 am
30% da poluição geral/global é gerada pela China, 15% da poluição geral/global é gerada pelos USA e, perto disso, parece que é 14% é gerada pela Europa, o que efetivamente está sendo aplicado a esses países, que pressão global efetivamente está sendo aplicado à China principalmente. Virem o disco senhores! Apliquem o correto discurso.🤔🙃
Craig McDonald
May 25, 2022 at 4:07 pm
I can’t listen to a hypocrite that lives in a 10,000 square foot mansion, flies the world in private jets, lies about everything to make himself richer. Gore does not set the example I want to follow.
Mā Jęđ
May 25, 2022 at 7:06 pm
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Mā Jęđ
May 25, 2022 at 7:06 pm
التي ستتم
Mā Jęđ
May 25, 2022 at 7:09 pm
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May 25, 2022 at 7:09 pm
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anon6116
May 26, 2022 at 12:52 am
How different things could have been. 😞
e.fortuny whitton
May 26, 2022 at 1:32 am
Stop ANIMAL AG. A vegan humanity could rewild an area slightly larger than the continent of Africa; intact ecological ecosystems are what capture carbon (not teslas, etc.). We have less than 4% of mammalian wildlife biomass on earth; earth is now made up of humans and the domestic animals they kill, at a rate of 73,000 per second globally (does not include sea life and wildlife that loses its home/habitat to make room for this madness.) Stop the consumerist culture. Mr. Gore: your comments are empty unless you discuss the COW in the room. This is absurd. What is even more absurd is not discussing the fact that when our oceans die, we die; 50% of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean (symbiotic relationship between whales and phytoplankton)… All of this is just: blah, blah, blah…
goldminor sanchez
May 26, 2022 at 3:48 am
The only change that I see is that the imaginary agw crisis story line is getting much harder to defend.
aristochat3
May 26, 2022 at 6:30 am
Where is that hockey stick you promised Al “ plantation owner” Gore?
Braunstein Freres
May 26, 2022 at 9:16 am
…. but like the lead people follow I think goes up in a clowns fire gag
srikar k
May 27, 2022 at 3:56 am
Agreed!
Tam
May 27, 2022 at 11:29 am
This is not a possum till war. This isn’t a war on political agenda of electronic everything is absolutely ridiculous. Covid, Ukraine, BLM, LGBQ, all these fear-based political agendas has decimated the country
Mathew Wright
May 27, 2022 at 9:47 pm
“Political will is itself a renewable resource.” Love it