24 Hours of Climate Reality
Over the next 24 hours, Climate Reality Project is hosting twenty-four consecutive sixty-minute presentations from locations around the world highlighting the present reality of climate change as it is manifest in a wide diversity of locations. If you check out the site, you'll probably find a location near you. All the presenters are experts in their field and thus have a higher-than-average chance of being grounded in the reality of what is actually happening to our planet. Each hour will feature a presentation that addresses both the global and local picture.
Disclaimer: this is another project by Al Gore. His An Inconvenient Truth certainly helped to put the issue on the public agenda, but it also probably contributed to making it fiercely partisan in the US. Gore is far from perfect and is not himself a scientist, but he is a good communicator and worth listening to because he generally has his ear to the ground, listening to the real experts.
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This has been a fairly disappointing set of presentations. Too dry, too much focus on extreme weather, second-rate translators and patchy production quality. There are still some very good parts of the content, but there are simply too many distractions.
And why have a non-native English speaker as compère for London? The discussion hosts have also not been particularly good.
Your view is interesting. I felt like it was fine but pretty basic stuff and quite focused on debunking deniers. There were no surprises (eg. nothing I hadn't already heard from you!), but it was interesting to hear some of the location specifics. I watched during the Cape Verde and Greenland time slots tonight and it was interesting to hear more about a small island nation and glacial melt.
I guess I had hoped for more from someone with Gore's resources.
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