After recent fossil-fueled trips to Japan, Greenland, and Wales, Canadian alarmist criticizes guy for using a blow-dryer

Gore’s adviser urges pupils to save planet - WalesOnline

AN environment expert who worked on Al Gore’s Oscar-winning climate change film, An Inconvenient Truth, has urged hundreds of pupils to save the planet.

Canadian David Noble, an adviser to the former US Vice President and Nobel Prize winner, made a special trip to Wales after receiving an invitation from teenage environmental ambassador James Fletcher.

Seventeen-year-old James, one of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Climate Change Champions, bumped into Mr Noble at a climate conference in Japan earlier this year.

James invited Mr Noble to visit Lewis School in Gilfach, near Bargoed, where he addressed more than 350 young people from the school and others across South Wales, including Rhymney and Barry comprehensives.

Mr Noble said: “It was great to visit Wales and address a group of young people who care about taking positive action on climate change. We seem to have already got climate change fatigue, but the reality is we haven’t actually done anything to halt its effects yet.”

As well as his work with Gore, Mr Noble spoke about the Cape Farewell project, a recent trip he took to the western coast of Greenland with a group of climate scientists and well-known artists, including singers Jarvis Cocker and KT Tunstall.

The expedition was part of a series of trips to the deep Arctic intended as a cultural response to climate change. Mr Noble worked with the artists on the trip to bring home stories and artworks that tell how a warming planet is impacting on the wilderness.

“I was recently in the locker room at my gym and there was a man in a towel blow-drying his armpit hair. We are constantly talking about how precious energy is yet we’re still wasting it on silly things like this. It’s time to take action to preserve our world,” said Mr Noble .