Al Gore: Interview with Joe Romm

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From Al Gore's blog:

http://blog.algore.com/2011/07/interview_with_joe_romm.html

Interview with Joe Romm
July 21, 2011 : 4:58 PM

Joe Romm recently interviewed me about the launch of The Climate Reality Project. You can read the interview by clicking here.

Here's the interview:

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/12/266057/al-gore-climate-realilty-project/

Exclusive: Al Gore On His ‘Climate Realilty Project’ Launch: “It’s Urgent To Rendezvous With Reality To Save The Future Of Civilization As We Know It.”

By Joe Romm on Jul 12, 2011 at 11:21 am

Today, Former Vice President Gore launched The Climate Reality Project “to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it.”

In an exclusive extended interview with Climate Progress, the Nobel-Prize winning champion of climate action discussed the “24 Hours of Reality” — a worldwide, live streamed event this September. He explained to CP why he strongly disagrees with those who suggest we are talking about climate change too much and and why he is making the link between extreme weather and global warming a major focus of his effort.

Let’s start with why he launched The Climate Reality Project, and why he changed the name of his effort from Alliance for Climate Protection. The short answer is that the goal of the group is to explain that the impacts of human-caused climate change are reality now (much as the solutions to human-caused climate change are reality now):

Gore: Well it really grew out of an extensive strategic review. The change in the name is intended to reflect the organization’s new strategic focus and our new campaign to provide context to the ongoing disclosure of scientific information – to defend the scientists, to defend the science. And to bring energy and focus to the climate issue by reaffirming the reality of the climate crisis and the urgency of the climate crisis.

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