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Sat May 26 22:15:45 SAST 2012

Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics

Reuters | 12 September, 2011 14:11
Former US vice-president Al Gore. File photo.
Former US vice-president Al Gore. File photo.
Image by: STR / REUTERS

Former US vice-president Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multi-media event.

24 Hours of Reality will broadcast a presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday, with the aim of convincing climate change deniers and driving action against global warming among households, schools and businesses.  

The campaign also asks people to hand over control of their social networking accounts on Facebook and Twitter to it for 24 hours to deliver Gore’s message.  

“There will be 200 new slides arguing the connection between more extreme weather and climate change,” Trewin Restorick, chief executive of the event’s UK partner Global Action Plan, told Reuters on Monday.  

“There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics, exploring where they get their funding from.”  

Gore tried to raise awareness about global warming in the 2006 documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, which earned $49 million at the box office worldwide. The film was criticised by some climate change skeptics for being one-sided.  

Concern about climate change in the United States, the world’s second biggest emitter, has fallen steadily to 48% in 2011, from 62% in 2007, an opinion poll showed in August.  

Gore’s presentation will be available at: http://climaterealityproject.org/

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