24 hours of Reality

This is a great Video thanks for posting this.
Al Gore wants your Twitter account for climate push
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/12/algore-socialnetworking

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that something is more important than fear. This is now a time when great courage is needed.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/12/266057/al-gore-climate-realilty-project...

This will be an incredible event that I am definitely going to follow and participate in. It is way past time. Our oceans, our glaciers, our land, our ability to grow food, our water... the future of it all depends on us getting beyond this impasse put up by those who simply do not want to deal with reality.
This is what I have been saying as well for so long. People need to see how this is affecting the world, the pace of it and how it all ties together. There is no more time left to argue with those who simply for their own reasons will not accept what is happening. Our planet needs us now and I will be damned after all she gives to me that I will desert her. Thanks again to Al for being a true leader on this crisis and always seeing the bigger picture.
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Excerpt:
"This manifestation of climate change now is ultimately what lends urgency to Gore’s actions. Human-caused climate change is harming people now – and that’s with only a very small amount of warming to date. We are poised to warm 10 times as much this century if we don’t act swiftly.

Yesterday, I asked him specifically about the extreme weather issue, one of the subjects I have covered the most at Climate Progress:

CP: Obviously, we both talk a lot about the connection between global warming and climate change, making extreme events more likely, more water vapor in the atmosphere, but it gets a lot of pushback, you know, from the deniers and their allies in the media. I’m just wondering how you plan to talk about this and get over this threshold of talking about a subject that is so rife with complexity.

Gore: Well of course, and the truth is we’ve passed the threshold beyond which it’s any longer credible to say that the climate crisis is not a factor in a great many of these extreme weather events. I have paid very careful attention to the way Jim Hansen and Kevin Trenberth and other leading climate scientists have shifted the way in which they frame this connection. The old way of responding to questions about the linkage between the climate crisis and extreme weather events was to begin with the rote language of course every extreme weather event has many causes and you cannot say any one of them was caused by the climate crisis. But both Jim and Kevin, as well as others, have gone to some lengths to reframe that characterization by saying, if you ask the question “would this have happened in this way without the climate crisis?” the answer is almost certainly no.

For more on Hansen’s thinking, see NASA’s Hansen: Would recent extreme “events have occurred if atmospheric carbon dioxide had remained at its pre-industrial level of 280 ppm?” The “appropriate answer” is “almost certainly not.”

The very fact that there’s 4% more water vapor in the atmosphere above the oceans and extra water vapor over land masses, though not quite in that percentage, the fact that these storms reach out 2000 miles, often, and use water vapor as fuel for the storms means that every event is affected. There’s more water vapor, the shift upward in global temperatures also has an effect. So the predictions made years ago are now consistent with what we’re seeing in reality. And the predictions of what lies ahead, of these trends to become much much worse, unless we intervene in this pattern of adding 90 million tons of heat trapping pollution every 24 hours. And I think we’re at the point where we can’t tolerate the easy denial that there’s no connection between global warming pollution and global warming impacts in the form of more extreme weather events.

For more on Trenberth’s thinking, see “NCAR’s Trenberth on the link between global warming and extreme deluges.”

For all of the rhetoric and ideological arguments, many of them manufactured by the deniers, the crisis continues to worsen. And the reality is clear to see right in front of our eyes. And my home Nashville is one of the victims. And the 12 months just ended have seen more extreme weather events than anyone can remember. And Swiss Re , one of the largest re-insurance agencies is among one of those who is like “look, the science is consistent with what we are seeing happen in the world.” That’s not an ideologically motivated statement. They’re not looking for research grants. They’re looking at real world data – that’s their business.

Somewhere between 97 and 98 percent of all the climate scientists in the world agree with that consensus, every national academy of science in the world, every professional scientific association in every field connected to the study of climate. At what point do we conclude that that’s really enough to outweigh the eccentric arguments of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, I mean come on!"