Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate Change. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Our Real World Leaders are Al Gore & Prince Charles

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An Inconvenient Truth, the must see climate change documentary by former US Vice President Al Gore, has opened across the UK. It looks at scientific evidence on the causes and likely impacts of a warming world and at climate change politics.

Al Gore says he wants to make ordinary people aware of the "terrifying" reality of climate change, and demand action from their political leaders.

More than two million people have seen it since its US release 16 weeks ago.

The UK release comes in a week which has seen scientists release evidence that: Old Arctic ice may be melting spectacularly fast; humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are probably stoking the power of hurricanes; Observed temperature rise cannot be explained directly by changes in the Sun's output.

Al Gore tried when Vice-President to act on Climate Change, and whatever failures that occurred were not for lack of his efforts, Al faced incredible resistance and denial by anal business interests, which is why he decided to reach out directly to the public, making this presentation more than 1,000 times, plus the movie and the book, in the hope that we the public will demand that political leaders stop paying it lip service and act!

Politicians act? Wishful thinking Al....!

He discusses the death of his sister from lung cancer, comparing the stance of tobacco companies then with the stance of oil, coal and car companies today. He cites cases of scientists who, he says, have been persecuted, even hounded from their jobs, because they have raised the "truth" about Climate Change - from which the movie gets its title.

In the US, An Inconvenient Truth has become the third highest grossing documentary of all time, returning more than $23m.

Environmental groups hope it will receive similar attention in Britain. "It's a cliche to say a book or film will change your life, but this film is truly inspirational," said Ashok Sinha, director of Stop Climate Chaos, an umbrella organisation for campaigning groups.

"It's brilliantly clear both on the science and the gravity of where the policy of business as usual has got us today, and where it will lead if we don't start taking personal and political action now."

Monday, 9 March 2009

Prince Charles will RANT on: 'ONLY 100 MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET'

The Prince of Wales is preparing to tell the world we have "less than 100 months to act" before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible. Charles will issue the warning in a speech to business leaders in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil next week.

He is visiting the country on a 10-day tour of South America with the Duchess of Cornwall.

A true Stroudy in spirit and life, Prince Charles has given a series of addresses over the past 12 months expressing his fears about climate change and the threat to the environment.

The Prince will tell his audience on Thursday it is vital for the business community to join the fight against global warming. He has been campaigning on the issue for some time and set up his Rainforests Project group in 2007 to help find a solution.

We will reprint the Prince Charles Stroudy Rant here soonest!