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Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 23rd, 2011,
Here’s a trio of environmentally-themed videos to get you through the rough midsummer days and nights, take your mind off government austerity measures and remind you of the wondrous complexity of our natural planet. We’ll start off light-hearted and work our way towards more serious issues. First up we’ve got an Antarctic penguin that got lost and swam around 2,000 miles / 3,000 km off course to end up on a beach in New Zealand. (If video won’t play go here) Next we head to Brazil, where evidence of another isolated Amazonian tribe has been found near the borders…
Tags: Al Gore, amazon, climate policy, Obama, penguin, tribe, video
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 16th, 2009,
Despite prior communications that he would not attend the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Al Gore did in fact attend and speak at the conference last Tuesday. His floor time centered around two main issues: the U.S. Senate having enough votes to pass a climate and energy bill next April and the urgency of a binding agreement, too critical to allow for another’s year wait for additional negotiations in December 2010 at Cop16. Al Gore urged the U.N. to move up that date to July instead of December. A number of videos of Al Gore’s speech are already available on Youtube. Here…
Tags: Al Gore, Climate change, conference, cop15, copenhagen, glaciers
Climate Change, Politics, Nov 8th, 2009,
Climate change skeptics are not unique to the United States, but they do seem to find more receptive ears on their home turf. Nobel Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, while appearing on a segment for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, did not show much concern for these vocal climate change naysayers. Mr. Gore also gave his views on the domestic expansion of nuclear power, subsidies and nuclear weapons proliferation. The Rachel Maddow Show: ‘Al Gore on U.S. climate change deniers image abroad’ Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Another environmental…
Tags: Al Gore, Climate change, coal, Rachel Maddow, US
