Gore kicks off a new project today designed to increase awareness around the issue of climate change. 24 Hours of Reality, a 24-hour live online event, will offer local perspectives on the impact of climate change from 24 locations around the world.
In the years since An Inconvenient Truth, polls show the American public has become increasingly skeptical about whether humans are the cause of rising global temperatures. Gore hopes that the overwhelming scientific consensus around climate change will help convince skeptics that it is prudent to respond.
"If 98 doctors told you you had a heart condition that required you to make some changes and two doctors say, 'Don't worry about it,' ... hopefully you'd go with the 98," Gore tells NPR's Neal Conan. "That's the condition we're in now."
Gore also argues that many companies and individuals are making positive changes, purely on economic grounds. "There are a great many people and businesses that don't care to engage in discussion or debate about climate science who are going ahead right now to become more efficient - cut their emissions, cut their costs - and in the process they're becoming more profitable, most often." Read the full report here.
Source: NPR.
