Al Gore urges scientists to get involved in climate change debate
Part three of Al Gore’s 2009 presentation to AAAS, from YouTube
Scientific American is reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science that “At AAAS, Al Gore urges scientists to get involved in climate change debate“.
Fresh from adding a Grammy to his mantle Sunday, former vice president Al Gore told scientists gathered here for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to push administration officials and the general public for solutions to climate change.
“Scientists can no longer in good conscience accept this division between the work you do and the civilization in which you live,” Gore said.
“Keep your day jobs, but get involved in the debate,” he added.
In about a 45-minute speech, Gore reviewed the evidence for global warming, showing a set a slides that has evolved since An Inconvenient Truth. (A few of our Twitter followers–yes, we live-Twittered Gore’s talk, so you can see the blow-by-blow here–pointed out that he had presented a lot of the slides at the recent TED conference.)
He began by noting a parallel between the mortgage crisis and global warming, saying the world has $7 trillion in subprime carbon assets that it can’t get rid of.
No matter your political persuasion, Al Gore demands to be heard. His message transcends petty political point scoring. He’s kept his Inconvenient Truth slides up to date and has scored something of a trifecta, winning an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Prize. Nice one Al, keep up the good work. — DS