Al Gore Keeping It Real At TED

Al Gore spoke at the TED Conference in February.  His 20min presentation plus 10min of Q&A was fascinating.  I kept meaning to watch a couple minutes and to watch it later with my wife.  Thirty minutes later after it was done I had to start it over again. 

He started the presentation by explaining how he’s given the “Inconvenient Truth” presentation over 2,000 times.  This was the first time ever delivering this new presentation.  You’d have never known it, though.  It was filled with interesting graphics and even some video clips. 

As with Inconvenient Truth, there are riveting statistics and images.  One of them is an image of the polar ice cap in 1980, then the same picture in 2007.  Scary stuff!  Another great segment is the number of questions asked during presidential debates by each news outlet and how many of them were on climate change.  I hate to ruin it for you, but for the hundreds of questions by most news outlets - 2 were about global warming (on average per outlet).

Al Gore is also working on a new book.  It’s titled The Path To Survival.  When we talked about it in February, the last date we saw was a release date of April 22, Earth Day.  It looks like that has been postponed until 2009.  Oh well…

I want to thank La Marguerite for bringing this new presentation to my attention.

Now take the 30min - sit back and relax - and listen (and watch) Al Gore’s new presentation.