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Rick Rys
August 7, 2023 at 5:23 pm
An emotional talk about the oil and gas industry lobbying machine holding back environmental progress.
Dana Ross
August 7, 2023 at 5:29 pm
This man has been fighting so long. If only Supreme Court hadn’t stopped the Florida recount in 2000 what a different world it would be. 110 degrees outside – all the birds panting outside crowding around the bird baths. Day after day. Beyond heart breaking. Soul crushing. But we can still turn this ship around I have to believe!
Max Vaessen
August 7, 2023 at 5:33 pm
Thanks Mr Gore! I talked to my brother in law the other day and he was convinced the petrol companies were going to solve the problem with co2 capturing and turning it into fuel. Refused the idea that it was wasting energy, like you said.
I hope many people will see this and start using their brain. I hope we’ll make it in time
Poker Genius Or Donkey
August 7, 2023 at 5:35 pm
You know some of the radical right-wingers are going to eventually figure out the lies of the oil execs and they are not going to be happy when they lose their home to a disaster.
Poker Genius Or Donkey
August 7, 2023 at 5:40 pm
He’s right, there is no miracle technology. We need to spend and do the work. We need to go door to door, insulating homes, planting trees, installing solar, and more. There will be no return on investment.
mrgelvis
August 7, 2023 at 5:42 pm
While listening to this I kept thinking about Trump and couldn’t for the life of me imagine him up there making this impassioned plea.
66Block
August 7, 2023 at 5:47 pm
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
johnxpaulson
August 7, 2023 at 6:11 pm
Thank you for posting this!🙏🏾🤍
shincuteyhoney
August 7, 2023 at 6:15 pm
What’s he wrong about 15, 20 years ago? What makes him think he is right this time? Just rich bashing.
Ceres K. Lee
August 7, 2023 at 6:17 pm
My, gawd, Al Gore is ON FIRE! So welcome, this voice!
João Pinto
August 7, 2023 at 6:24 pm
Exactly!
I really get pissed off when I say that we should focus more on proven and already commercial scale green technology, and when I use nuclear as an example people be like:
NO, THAT’S TOO EXPENSIVE!
I mean, what? Are we seriously choosing to destroy the planet we live on than rather than pay the price to save it?
But I get that this kind of thinking comes from the misunderstanding so people have that “investments in nuclear take money away from renewables”.
It’s not true, we need both technologies because they complement one another. The money we should be putting into them both is the money that currently goes to fossil fuel subsidies. So there is no contradiction. China is a great example in this sense. It is the country who annually most expands its installed capacity in both nuclear AND renewables.
We don’t need to choose one over the other. We need BOTH!
s r
August 7, 2023 at 6:38 pm
The oil industry and OPEC has put Humanity behind 100 years… GOOD JOB Psychopaths…
spectrumofreality
August 7, 2023 at 7:04 pm
There’s no such thing as fossil fuel this is a manufactured misnomer created to obfuscate nothing more, nothing less!~
Kritiker313
August 7, 2023 at 7:10 pm
This is yet one more example of how powerful and wealthy capitalists lay waste to the planet for the sake of profit. As much as we need them out of our way, we also need to reform our political system so this kind of interference can’t happen in the future.
Ana Flores
August 7, 2023 at 7:13 pm
I freaking love his passion! I wanna be transported to the timeline where he was elected president 😭
Emilio G.
August 7, 2023 at 7:30 pm
I love his passion and dedication but it’s too little too late. This planet is doomed. Humans have destroyed it.
Bri Lar
August 7, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Scammer. Lots of his inconvenient truth predictions were proven false 15 years on.
RedRock CRF
August 7, 2023 at 7:57 pm
At 1.1 trillion in subsidies, they could pay that to nationalise and take control of those companies.
no name
August 7, 2023 at 7:59 pm
What about all the mining for lithium for batteries? I know Toyota has created a solid state battery, but they need to take it to scale which is a challenge in itself.
policeman 110
August 7, 2023 at 8:24 pm
It’s bad but still much more environmentally friendly than normal cars over their lifespan..
no name
August 7, 2023 at 8:35 pm
@policeman 110 toyota has been working on Hydrogen for years now with working models. This is part of the reason they haven’t gone full on with it yet.
C+O2
August 7, 2023 at 8:11 pm
“More regenerative agriculture, that’s the way to really grab carbon out of the air” C+O2 create the new.
no name
August 7, 2023 at 8:19 pm
Plant MORE 🌳 🌲 🌴 🌳 🌲 🌴
David Harrison
August 7, 2023 at 8:53 pm
Al Gore will be on the right side of history.
Notat
August 7, 2023 at 8:54 pm
what private plane did he fly in on?
Dean Christie
August 7, 2023 at 9:17 pm
A healthy economy can solve any problem. Shutting down energy production, shuts down the economy. Therefore, the solution is pushed further into the future. Climate change is caused by the energy from the sun. Life, food production, population survive because on CO2 in the ecosystem. Please wake up before it is too late.
JSH
August 8, 2023 at 10:47 am
The world’s number one climate grifter.
hiva
August 8, 2023 at 11:16 am
this seems like a political speech, biased and driven by his own personal agenda. He is not talking science and leaves tons of facts behind. We can’t keep thinking the oil and gas industry are the evils if we consumers are demanding low prices of energy and of products. Change starts from the consumer. Change starts with laws and regulations to make it more evident for people how their consumption impacts the environment (think carbo tax). Also, what is the solution he is proposing? Nothing… he is just incentivizing a crowd to hate the oil industry, an industry that has delivered what has been asked for from consumers like you and me. He also talks down on carbon capture and sequestration, then what is his solution? Solar and wind…? really? with your own words “do you take us for fools?” Sadly, in this situation, probably yes. People will sadly believe your words.
João Carrapa
August 8, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Sure, hydropower, solar energy, wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy, and ocean energy, you name it. What is your argument, after all? “really?” is not an argument.
Steffen Landgraf
August 8, 2023 at 11:44 am
Powerful speech.
Still, I want to throw up seeing a former high level politician blaming others for lying and talking about moral hazard. As a supporter of war like in the Persian Gulf and Kosovo (always consuming so much oil), he was part of the system he appears to be fighting now.
João Carrapa
August 8, 2023 at 6:48 pm
Sources, please.
Maker Man X
August 8, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Yo its the dude who made the internet cool
TheInspire96
August 8, 2023 at 12:15 pm
physically shut them down and arrest the ceo’s
TheInspire96
August 8, 2023 at 12:16 pm
start crashing stock prices for oil
Zeno of Caledonia
August 8, 2023 at 1:16 pm
How misanthropic and narcissistic must you be to drive an SUV? Not only are you actively opposed to preventing climate change, but the main reason they own one is to say to everyone else, “I’m better than you”. We should shun these people.
Daniel Douglas Clemens
August 8, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Too little new information and too much aggression going on. I am all for saving the environment and trying to make a difference. But instead of criticism what about presenting solutions? What can we do about the wrong people in charge? I wasn’t asked to vote on them. And even if I was, it’s unlikely that it’s going to have any impact. That’s how most of us feel – helpless. I can see why this man is so aggressive, but it won’t change a thing… Sadly. Any solutions – please let me know in the comments!
Nick
August 8, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Should go viral !
Cool Girl 007
August 8, 2023 at 2:02 pm
The universe should go big bang and start all over again
o0O-JD-O0o
August 8, 2023 at 2:44 pm
I used to hate Joe Biden when he first became president but I think it’s because I didn’t have all the information that I needed and I didn’t have the big picture of what he’s doing but now that I’m seeing it I can understand some of the things he does now and why he did them and that changes it from me hating him to “oh now I get it” ….
Yasha
August 8, 2023 at 3:52 pm
Why doesn’t mention any examples of froad or lobbing. Any proves? Nothing. He is just screaming. No data. Just somebody’s quotes. Everybody is lieng besides him. Thumbs down for this dude.
Glenn Cooper
August 8, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Fantastic – thanks!!
Hollo Matlala
August 8, 2023 at 4:09 pm
Its been long since I’ve seen so much RED colour on screen telling the “TRUTH”.
Javier Urquizu
August 8, 2023 at 4:17 pm
This man needs to run for president, we need to elect someone like him who can summon the collective willpower needed to take back our planet from the fossil fuel industry. Similar to what JFK did for the space age, or Eistenhower for the interstate highway system
TGenoRock
August 8, 2023 at 5:13 pm
One word.. Gullible.. (cheering crowd to this self-righteous pap) another..
Fear.. (tool to avoid intellect)
I hear anger too (authoritarian imbalance).. these fit perfectly..
Scawy words from the man who had to somehow redeem himself after falsely contesting an election.. he led the way baby!
Like the UN sec gen is an authority… not… he is a politician.. authoritarian, yes.
AlGore is laughing all the way to the bank – sells a media company to petro-interests for obscene millions!
The real money isn’t taking you for fools.. scamsters, yes. Hot and bothered, political authoritarians blowing smoke.
Darin Herrick
August 8, 2023 at 5:48 pm
A better solution would be a “vacuum” for Dioxins (nerve gas) produced by plastic and tailpipe emissions.
Darin Herrick
August 8, 2023 at 5:59 pm
Bigger problem is that MOST emissions are NOT from the fossil fuel industry!
The whole world needs to go vegan too if you want to save it.
Britton Green
August 8, 2023 at 6:25 pm
Agree with everything but he needs a consultant to teach him how to better portray his messaging to a wider audience. Talking COP and vacuums and yada yada isn’t going to change people’s minds. He needs to be concise, clear and be effective to wider audiences when he speaks. Yelling to a TV audience isn’t going to win friends.
TGenoRock
August 8, 2023 at 6:52 pm
I can agree with Al Gore that we should eliminate energy subsidies.. oil, gas, wind, solar, etc. All of them.
I did get the sense from this video that I should learn more.. specifically, what the tell-tale signs are of a cult.. please all.. look it it up.
There are real signs that there is a climate cult at work. It ain’t pretty from the outside, and must be a bit traumatic on the inside.
Darko Nomad
August 8, 2023 at 7:38 pm
Planting trees is one of “technologies” suitable for carbon capture that can employ millions of people who are directly suffering from CO2 emissions.
Why oil industry and governments simply don’t invest in that???
Vladimir Pavlov
August 8, 2023 at 7:54 pm
starts with cringe
sajin shrestha
August 8, 2023 at 7:59 pm
So many problems, only solution is human consiousness.
Nadeem Khattak
August 8, 2023 at 8:10 pm
very right!
Reagen
August 8, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Al Gore is 5 years younger than Biden.
Luis Munevar
August 8, 2023 at 9:49 pm
Get ready for these people to tax us for every CO2 particle we emmit… Totalitarian state
Mustafa Hasan
August 8, 2023 at 10:01 pm
He should also include US Defence Forces as one of the major polluting entity covered well in a documentary – “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” by Abby Martin.
Andrew Stewart
August 8, 2023 at 11:12 pm
The first positive news I have heard on climate change in years! I thought we were doomed because of environmental feedback loops accelerating the problem. But Al’s good news is, that if we reach net zero, global temperatures will actually stop rising. 🥳
T G
August 8, 2023 at 11:20 pm
Someone should ask AL how he got to this Ted talk. Of how he heats his home. The drug pusher will go broke if his clients stops using the drug. The question he does not address is what are we going to use in place of fossil fuels. If dose not say Hydrogen then his complaints are mute.
T G
August 8, 2023 at 11:23 pm
More electric vehicles will produce more CO2 then ever. Batteries are not the answer.
T G
August 8, 2023 at 11:27 pm
Global temperatures will not stop going up because the permafrost is thawing,causing Methane to be released which is a worse GHG than CO2. We cannot refreeze the ground. And we can not remove enough Methane from the atmosphere. This is called thermal runaway. Sorry to say.
Toxic
August 9, 2023 at 3:49 am
If only Al Gore would run for president, what kinda of world might it be…..
Toxic
August 9, 2023 at 4:07 am
“I’m so glad that destroying the planet has been so profitable.” – Said by no one ever in 20 years.
david cassidy
August 9, 2023 at 4:19 am
We need world leaders like Al. Excellent points, made with passion.
ณัฐชยา ทองเนื้อห้า
August 9, 2023 at 9:41 am
แอด เมื่อก่อนมีซับไทยด้วย หาดูได้ทางไหนคะ
John Seth
August 9, 2023 at 9:51 am
I give money to politicians who fight for climate solutions, and to organizations that fight in court to protect and defend our natural resources and environment. I make personal sacrifices to do so, and am willing to endure the consequences of complete removal of fossil fuel usage immediately. NUCLEAR POWER today can provide a near ZERO-CARBON 100% solution to mankind’s energy needs, along with being the cleanest, safest, most energy dense, and most (TRUE COST) economical energy solution. DON’T tell me the fossil fuel industry ISN’T the problem when the ecosystem no longer supports human life in a way that we call living.
Dion Dixon
August 9, 2023 at 10:20 am
I don’t like the picture at the end.
This girl flies more planes a year than I have in my entire life. phew
현정 조의 평범한 일상
August 9, 2023 at 10:26 am
Al gore는 제가 가장 신뢰하는 미국의 정치가입니다.
그와 함께 할 것입니다.
Jose Salvador Roqueni Gonzalez
August 9, 2023 at 10:34 am
Could you tell to volcanoes obey you?😅
Celtic Africanus
August 9, 2023 at 11:03 am
Yes, we need to reduce our emissions Al. But the thing that is going to wipe out humanity by 2045 is loss of our oxygen (no more plankton) and loss of our food (no more pollinators). Plankton produces over 70% of our daily oxygen and they should be booming (warmer seas, more CO2 as plant food). But our microplastic and toxic chemical pollution is wiping them out when it reaches the oceans. What’s more the industrial, chemical farming complex is wiping out our pollinators, who ultimately produce our food. We as consumers really also need to come to the table and stop supporting plastics and chemicals. And finally, China and India burn more than 70% of the world’s coal (current consumption around 8-bn tonnes), and this will rise to around 80% by 2050 (consumption around 5-bn tonnes) as other nations cut back faster. So once again, stop buying your cheap electronics from China and India, and offshoring your carbon emissions.
bayliner4387
August 9, 2023 at 11:22 am
Here is the problem with any ICE engines no one gets. In the USA alone, 19 Trillion cubic meters a year of AIR is being consumed by personal internal combustion engines. That figure does not include industrial engines, ships, aircraft, motorcycles, lawnmowers etc. You could triple that to 60 trillion and then quadruple that for the rest of the world or 240 TRILLION m3!!!. Here is the math: Average engine size in Lt. times Avg. rpm / Stroke times runtime (min) = total volume burned per day (1 Car) X total volume burned per year (1 Car X 365) X total number of personal & Commercial Vehicles in the USA (278063737 = m3 Air Consumption in the US 3 X 2800 /4 X 90=189,000lt X 365 / 1000 = 68,985 m3 X 278,063,737 = 19,182,226,896,945 m3.
To put it into human perspective thats 18.3 million Empire State Buildings volume of air burned each year in the USA alone. We simply don’t have enough trees to replenish that consumption and NO variation of ICE will solve the problem. Electric and Solar are our only hope. Burning Air equates to 240 Trillion m3 reduced to 24 trillion m3 of fine cancer causing particulates (10:1 compression ratio)
Vic Cooper
August 9, 2023 at 1:01 pm
Great talk Al Gore! I like the passion you have for calling out the oil companies and petro states for their greed. You inspire me to take action. I’m actually encouraged by how much I can personally do. I have the means to drive an EV and install solar panels and it feels great to not have to go to the gas station anymore. I working on replacing all my appliances with electric versions. My goal is to reduce my personal use of fossil fuels as much as possible. Of course, I want to stop polluting but it’s also simple economics. I mean, can someone tell me why I should pay some big corporation for my energy when I can get it much cheaper from the sky? I’m also reducing how much I fly and asking what is the cost of the pollution of my actions? Is there an alternative? Just asking these questions and taking what action I can is very empowering!
Frenchie Powell
August 9, 2023 at 1:53 pm
Great video
John
August 9, 2023 at 2:27 pm
If only he had won the election!!!🙏
sd mods
August 9, 2023 at 5:01 pm
Money talks. Enjoy Earth as she is today. Go on those vacations, go outside, take it all in while you can.
d w
August 9, 2023 at 5:29 pm
and to show the enormous illiterate minds of the United Hates of America…
former GOP Judge Luttig handling decisions for the 2020 transfer of power…
considered DJT as a domestic terrorist equivalent to Osama bin Laden….
unfortunately the antics of Clinton kept “Worthy Al” from saving our lives…
let’s see a show of hands of those thinking the Lewinsky story was worse than Stormy Daniels
🙉 🙊 🙈
Freddie Vee
August 9, 2023 at 7:10 pm
Do fossil fuel executives have gills so that they can live in the rising ocean levels?
ManuelZuletaX
August 9, 2023 at 8:17 pm
So obvious trump and reps have been denying whats obvious ans trying to protect .. producers like… Russia. Putin is behing the election interference? My guess is totally
Rob
August 9, 2023 at 8:25 pm
He really needs to give another go at the presidency. He’s a great orator, and a brilliant guy.
Mikael Svalgaard
August 10, 2023 at 11:12 am
I am the only thinking: Al Gore make a second run for president!
Peter Bengtsson
August 10, 2023 at 11:31 am
Sorry but he didnt say anything about nuclear. Wind and solar has to have a storage to be green. If you have much hyrdo power you can use that as battery.
Germany is a warning to us. The grid needs power sec to sec. If the Wind is not blowing the need gas. If it to much Wind you have to stop them. Wind and solar are greenwashing on a big scal. It can be green but right now it not. Do we can have time to gamble.
J T
August 10, 2023 at 12:30 pm
This man is the epitome of a patriot. He’s fighting for the world as a while as others support those plundering our gift from God.
Dana Nicolay
August 10, 2023 at 12:36 pm
Al Gore for president!!! And for all you Christian nationalists out there, what do we worship god or Mammon? Faith in action values God’s creation above money!
Dave Stagner
August 10, 2023 at 1:02 pm
I hate to throw more gasoline on the fire as it were, but I now think about “overshoot”, not just CO2 and global warming. Dumping CO2 into the atmosphere is just one form of environmental overshoot. So is draining aquifers that took millions of years to fill. So is producing millions of tons of single-use plastic that does not biodegrade, and is now showing up as microplastics in our bodies and our food chain. So is damming and dredging rivers and paving over wetlands that used to absorb flooding. So is deforestation and mass extinctions.
Ending fossil fuel consumption is vital, but so is addressing all the other forms of overshoot we’re currently inflicting on our environment.
Heavy Metal Homesteading and Primitive Skills
August 10, 2023 at 1:10 pm
Former prez Al Gore….the real stolen election.
Jakobus P H Steyn
August 10, 2023 at 2:19 pm
What keeps on being a mystery is the fact that politicians has suddenly become scientists. They are politicians and have the distinction of being able to tell half truths which is the same as a total lies. They sit with the country’s purse strings in their hands and fund research as they see fit and have the ability to drive issues to suit their agendas. That big business is in for profit is undeniable, that they have to clean up their act is also undeniable and that is true for many big corporations like the arms industry, pharma, and data but to name a few. Governments subsidies should also be much more transparent. To my mind this whole CO2 drama is not proven at all and the costs of the so-called green energy is not open and transparent. The worlds climate has always been subject to change and will always be so. Our influence is measurable and in many cases negative, especially to pollution and habitat destruction, which is something we can solve and do something about, but efforts is rather half hearted. Leave the science for scientists and allow open debate and start looking on the ground what is happening and get away from computer modeling on such a vast and complex issue as that modeling can never be even close to accurate. Thus far from the 1970s onward we had the world freezing and now boiling. Non of the “science” done then and definitely now has been proved. This very accurate measurements now from satellites is very new technology and jumping to conclusions with 30 year data on a process with many cycles up to millions of years makes no sense what so ever. The world has lost reason, reality, practicality and common sense in the people who somehow or other came into positions of power with not nearly enough checks and balances to get them to do what they are suposed to namely look out for the genuine wellbeing of people and the planet.
chinookvalley
August 10, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Oil royalty payments give the oil companies Carte Blanche to do whatever they want, for as long as they want, wherever those oil royalties are placed. If you are making money from oil royalties, you are part of the problem. Face reality. Wildlife and habitat are dying from the permission oil royalties provide. It’s about money, not life.
Matt M.
August 10, 2023 at 3:27 pm
He was right in 2006 – still right. History will wonder why we did not arrest the CEOs that are trying to KILL humanity…… if we have a history at all.
The EARTH will go on, WE WILL NOT.
Thank GREED and stupidity.
Andrey S
August 10, 2023 at 3:38 pm
Jeez, don’t scream at me!
PlaterYto
August 10, 2023 at 4:10 pm
I’m still skeptical about US role on climate change, but Al Gore’s voice definitely more welcome than others
DayWalker
August 10, 2023 at 4:41 pm
The passion and presentation from this man is on another level. I need to watch more of his talks.
Alessandro Maniscalco
August 10, 2023 at 4:42 pm
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) models, achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, while ambitious, still necessitates the use of natural gas. Often referred to as the ‘transition fuel’, natural gas provides a reliable and lower-emission energy source. As it stands, we will continue using fossil fuels until viable alternatives emerge. Thus, there’s an urgent need to increase investments in clean technologies. For this to happen, government subsidies are essential.
While it might seem paradoxical for governments to subsidize oil and gas production, this approach can help stabilize energy prices, benefiting consumers.
I’m a 17-year-old boy aspiring for a brighter future, and I’m eager to contribute to the advancement of these pivotal technologies.
Mike K
August 10, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Total government propagandist. His climate models have been wrong for decades. The terminology even changed from global warming to climate change. Even if the problem is forecasted correctly and with such dire consequences, the solutions come from free market innovation and not massive government spending. This has become a religion where we call on our masters to save us from an elusive problem where the goalposts always change but the calls for authoritarianism are constant. Furthermore, academia is a big part of the issue where research in to climate hysteria gets massive backing from government grants resulting in biased data and political agency. Finally, big oil is also a player in this racket where they engage in non competitive practices and have used government lobbying to freeze new energy infrastructure like nuclear. Corruption all the way down.
Mike K
August 10, 2023 at 5:13 pm
In other words. Government is a big part of the problem and is playing savior. Why hasn’t the EPA green lighted a nuclear plant for 50 years until recently?!
Daniel G
August 10, 2023 at 5:22 pm
And yet I don’t see any signs of distress that didn’t happen 10, 20, 50, 100 and 150 years ago…
glamdrag
August 10, 2023 at 5:35 pm
he is being super serial right now. man-bear-pig is here
Ecotropics
August 10, 2023 at 5:41 pm
Fierceless. Bold. Inspiring. Al Gore motivates us all to continue deploying climate solutions.
Andres Lot
August 10, 2023 at 5:45 pm
We don’t want electric cars, we need no more cars!! We need dense walkable and transit friendly cities, electric cars and huge “solar powered” homes that destroy thousands and thousands of square kilometers are not the solution.
jib the world
August 10, 2023 at 6:07 pm
Sure, the fossil fuel industry is a big problem, but isn’t it the capitalistic system that worships profit that manufactures these issues in everything?
Do you know or just believe?
August 10, 2023 at 6:27 pm
Al Gore is in it for the money. He makes a living talking about it.
He was VP for 8 years and did nothing to influence any change.
Climate Change is a career for many individuals and money grab for many governments. In the meantime Earth suffers from pollution caused by burning fossil fuels.
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August 10, 2023 at 6:39 pm
We will not change fast enough. While I don’t think the human race will go extinct we will have a massive global population reduction. I love how Elon thought we have unlimited natural resources too. We do not have unlimited resources. I just wonder how the decline will happen. Will we stop having children? Will we kill each other? It’s like the circle in pub G! Climate migration could cause like a Purge environment!
Michael Wolfe
August 10, 2023 at 8:36 pm
…wait on!… to filter the CO2 of course you have to pass the air through the filter…that’s what filtering is about! …maybe you filter it close to where there are large emissions to get as much as you can to start with.
Lightning Rod
August 10, 2023 at 8:44 pm
Al Gore WINS
YOU are a Hero to Me , and a 21stCentury LEADER
Thank MrGore for being Brave and making a stand, his generosity for this is no way benefits his career or income.
I would mimic MrGore if i had the economy to do so.
i do what i can,so , if a simple little troll’s gratitude in any way enhances YOUR Life MrGore,…
just KNOW i was listening.
millertas
August 10, 2023 at 8:51 pm
Fossil Fuel industry are acting like the Tobacco Industry did in the 1980s.
J Snel
August 11, 2023 at 12:35 pm
Can we time travel back to 2000 and make him President? Imagine what might have happened. Fixing problems instead of causing them like what we got stuck with.
CCx
August 11, 2023 at 1:02 pm
Climate town just nails on fossil companies
CCx
August 11, 2023 at 1:22 pm
India only G20 nation that has a target of achieved 40% of electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030 promised in 2015 Paris, now india has raised targets to 45% of energy mix to renewables
Peter Franz
August 11, 2023 at 1:28 pm
I would never say a word to defend the oil industry.
Quite the opposite.
But I always use the story of the scorpion to describe capitalism.
All companies should be EXPECTED to act in their interest. Which is to earn money for their shareholders.
It is up to US to regulate them.
Also, every transaction has two parties: a buyer and a seller.
WE are not blameless. Every single gallon of fuel used, has been purchased by individuals. Including me.
Are WE doing enough to eliminate fossil fuels from our lives?
Nerfherder42
August 11, 2023 at 1:35 pm
It’s amazing how changing from bunker fuel, which was causing reflective sulfur clouds, has affected the oceans so much. First year they cut the sulfur in their fuel. A short term bandaid ripped off. Now we are e going to really see how bad it’s gonna get.
leo hall
August 11, 2023 at 1:40 pm
al gore 2024 baby
arslongavitabrebis
August 11, 2023 at 1:51 pm
fertilizers in open see could create green algae patches to absorb co2.
A calculated and controlled eutrophication process in huge parts of the open see could create biomas with co2 creating a trophic cicle with phytoplankton.
We just need electric automatic satélite controlled boats to release gradually nutrients in the see.
The ocean could be a huge co2 sink.
Miles Kredich
August 11, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Gore 2024
K.C. Sunshine
August 11, 2023 at 2:16 pm
I’m an Albertan and it is obvious to me that there are lobbyists actively slowing realistic solutions to climate change here. Those like Al Gore that can see through the smoke screen need to continue speaking up and pointing out the hypocrisy and dark triad traits of industry.
Pedro Sanchez Gonzalez
August 11, 2023 at 2:43 pm
Keep fighting al gore you will be remembered
Fake Account
August 11, 2023 at 3:02 pm
Did Al fly to the TED conference on his private jet?
Sloth girl
August 11, 2023 at 3:12 pm
This was like watching a gospel church service. I love it!🤘🏼🌎
Will Patton
August 11, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Imagine if AL Gore would have been our President instead of Bush, we probably wouldn’t be in this position 🤔
Will Patton
August 11, 2023 at 3:29 pm
He’s got my vote lol 😆
Ex Ell
August 11, 2023 at 3:33 pm
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.
mclau152
August 11, 2023 at 4:10 pm
I wish this guy won the election in 2000, we would have been wayyyy ahead of climate change compared to today!
Flem
August 11, 2023 at 4:31 pm
If climate change was a real threat money wouldn’t be an issue.
Dawn S. Tyler
August 11, 2023 at 8:31 pm
That’s like saying that smoking does not cause cancer because if it did, cigarette companies would find a way to come together to stop people from smoking. Are you really that naive about how some humans operate in this life?
What if climate change is real and the existing power structure just wants things to stay as they are because they’ve analyzed the profit margins on a clean energy revolution and see that it would hurt their bottom line and/or reduce their power? It is estimated that between 2-4% of the human population is sociopathic, meaning lack of empathy or none. These types see everything and everyone in terms of themselves. They only care about themselves and how things effect them directly because other people’s feelings do not effect them.
The ones that are smart enough to avoid jail are often attracted to positions of power and influence. Read “Snakes in Suits “. There are really selfish people in this world who will put personal interests above everything else. You are seriously underestimating the evil some people are capable of.
Shawn Ritch
August 11, 2023 at 4:34 pm
Fun fact: Most of the global warming problems from burning fossil fuels is not the CO2, but from the wasted energy released as heat that dissipates into our atmosphere; Therefore, heating up our planet. This goes for all power generation and use — even electricity. Also, the production of everything we consume.
Kitti McConnell
August 11, 2023 at 4:35 pm
During the Dust Bowl in the USA, Congress ignored the problem until those dust storms struck Washington DC. It will take a hurricane making landfall on Washington DC while Congress is in session for them to decide it’s time to act. Maybe then the USA will really take the right actions to stop global warming and climate change.
Shawn Ritch
August 11, 2023 at 4:52 pm
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.
David Menasco
August 11, 2023 at 5:28 pm
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.”
Rusty Spotted Cat
August 11, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Exactly.
iambiggus
August 11, 2023 at 7:15 pm
Wish he’d been our prez. ❤️
DigitaLimagination
August 11, 2023 at 8:44 pm
Brilliant! This man deserves an Oscar. So emotional and compelling.
DigitaLimagination
August 11, 2023 at 9:05 pm
So he says emissions are the enemy and doesn’t even mention nuclear? How did things turn out for Germany with their fast track push for renewable? How do the Dutch farmers feel about the regulations you’re pushing? Why put do much emphasis on the enemy (oil & gas companies) solving the problem? If your proposed solutions were better the market would reflect that. Wind and solar are much less energy dense and much more expensive. So you’re proposing to raise the cost of energy/living and push out the people of the world who live on the margins? All while preaching with an outlet, watch, and lifestyle that consumes much more fossil fuels than the average person on earth. Try making steel, concrete, plastics, and fertilizers with wind and solar. Or try running the world without them. All emotion and no reality. Spoiled delusional rich kids telling the world they can’t industrialize and lift themselves out of poverty.
Dawn S. Tyler
August 13, 2023 at 5:41 pm
I made a comment about Dr Steven Greer’s new documentary about clean energy cover up and it was censored.
morten Petersen
August 13, 2023 at 5:41 pm
brilliant, thanks mr Gore
Dawn S. Tyler
August 13, 2023 at 5:42 pm
I wrote a comment about fossil fuel industry and military suppression of clean energy solutions and it was censored.
Patt O'Neill
August 13, 2023 at 5:44 pm
While I applaud you for calling out the corruption and crime of Big Oil/Coal, you mention nothing about the corrupt politicians who are snorkeling down bribes to stand in the way of cleaning things up. It isn’t just the fossil fuel companies, it is all of their enablers in government. If we “need to do something about it,” just what would you suggest? Government is absolutely complicit here.
Dawn S. Tyler
August 13, 2023 at 5:44 pm
I made a comment about the real reason for the UFO cover up being about hiding clean energy solutions and it was censored.
Dawn S. Tyler
August 13, 2023 at 5:51 pm
This has been made into a right vs left issue when it is really about survival of the species.
Dawn S. Tyler
August 13, 2023 at 5:53 pm
Al Gore needs to speak with Steven Greer
Lui Lu
August 13, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Absolutely none of the items mentioned in this speech are a solution. Folks, we have adopted habits as a collective that require a different approach. It’s later than you think and we are most definitely behind the eight ball on this. Have you looked into the energy demand? How much of that demand is covered by “renewable energy”? What the cost will be to replace demand with alternative energy, both monetarily and from oil resources? I will give him this, he is a great actor. See ya!
Kenneth
August 13, 2023 at 6:07 pm
Al Gore cannot solve anything, nor can the climate industry. They can maybe solve overpopulation and that’s about it.
Michael
August 13, 2023 at 6:08 pm
Al “I invented the internet” Gore. Didn’t you claim that Miami would be under water by now in your book? I believe so…
Raoul Tesla
August 13, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Taking steps to get ready to try to think about going to the Oncologist for our Stage 3 Leukemia. Yah.
Zappy
August 13, 2023 at 6:29 pm
Governments don’t know the meaning of “promise”. What makes anyone think they understand what a “pledge” is.
As long as profits run the show, this won’t move anywhere near fast enough.
We need to impact profits. We need to make these companies feel the pain that our kids will feel if they do not shift their profit agenda.
jonasex
August 13, 2023 at 6:45 pm
Miami is under water already, just like he predicted! Genius!
Kenlwallace
August 13, 2023 at 6:49 pm
Agree, he needs to run again! He didn’t mention that for nearly half the world’s population, renewables such as solar, wind and batteries hit a glass ceiling at around 50% of the base load required for the 3x more electricity we will need as well as industrial heat. For the other neatly 50%, only fossil fuels and Nuclear can provide. Fortunately there are now 70 fourth-generation (all walk-away-safe) nuclear solutions underway, from micro nuclear’s 1 to 10 Megawatts, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs, meaning modular, mass-producible), under 300 Megawatts. Some designs will run primarily on old Nuclear waste. Some use Thorium, and some based of low-pressure, high-efficiency, high heat, Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs).
Thomas Cameron
August 13, 2023 at 7:28 pm
Hard watch considering this guy was literally 2nd in charge and is either not privy to suppressed technological advancements or literally lying through his teeth. We can’t have this conversation if you’re going to host it in imaginary land, either tell the truth or kick rocks.
Dogphlap
August 13, 2023 at 7:31 pm
I often reflect on what the world might be like today if he had not had his popular vote election victory snatched away from him by the Electoral College. Perhaps CO2 might still be climbing but the Iraq War would probably never have happened.
chris demelo
August 13, 2023 at 7:47 pm
I’m just here to say manbearpig!
Tom Webster
August 13, 2023 at 7:47 pm
SOOOOOO GOOOOOD to see Al PISSED OFF , LIKE WE ALL SHOULD BE!;))) Get angry and DO Something!
Will M
August 13, 2023 at 7:49 pm
The most mind-blowing thing is that global subsidies for oil and gas companies totalled 1.2 TRILLION in 2022!!!
Studeb
August 13, 2023 at 7:51 pm
People who down vote this are really bad and should have ended in mom’s mouth.
Guri Singh
August 13, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Once the old farts die, these young people will make this world better.
I am sick literally living next to Chevron plant.
Sooner or later, fossil fuel will be needed less and less.
Dale Leisenring
August 13, 2023 at 8:40 pm
Those oil and gas companies will gladly sell out every human on the planet for money. Including their own offspring. Do you trust such unlawful and unethical people? Not me. When half the planet cant breathe, they will still lie to get that last dollar!! Its the usual greed above all else!!
Hans Nagtzaam
August 13, 2023 at 8:55 pm
It won’t be a meteor that will destroy life on Earth. It is capitalism.
Julius James Lauresta
August 13, 2023 at 8:56 pm
As long as these applauding people have their own excuses to drive and not take the public transport, he’s talking to no one.
NickT
August 13, 2023 at 9:09 pm
What a huckster. The sad thing is he probably believes the propaganda he promotes.