‘A conference call with the world’…at the Rock Cut? | The Nelson Daily

The Climate Reality Project, a 24-hour worldwide event spearheaded by Al Gore to combat misinformation spread by "big oil and big coal," is on its way to Rossland.
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Gore is taking direct aim at the "naysayers," Thuot explained. Despite a gargantuan effort to discredit climate science, the scientific community is unified: "This isn't about opinions," Thuot said. "There's no discussion anymore. There is climate change, it is happening, and it is impacting places." The one hour event will help clarify "the reality," and "move us towards understanding and action."

The project has faced off with the big money behind the campaign to present climate change as a hoax. Gore promises to "remove the doubt, reveal the deniers, and catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us."

"Across the globe, cataclysmic weather events are happening with such regularity that it's being called a new normal, but there's nothing normal about it," he says. He wants to "focus the world's attention on the full truth, scope, scale, and impact" of climate change.

Coun. Kathy Moore plugged the event at council on Tuesday evening, beginning by notin that, "One thing that is very interesting, and Mr. Mayor, you'll appreciate this …" but Mayor Greg Granstrom promptly interjected, "I probably won't."
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For many, it seems obvious that human industry has the power, through its impacts and outputs, to cause noticeable shifts in the climate. Others have found comfort in big industry's insistent message that the whole idea of climate change is a boondoggle to raise money for radical environmental groups. For the latter, Gore intends to use Sept. 14 in order to administer a global dose of scientifically-irrefutable reality.

Andrew Revkin: Confronting the Anthropocene - YouTube

[13-minute video] It's a new era...at least that's what some geologists are now arguing. What is the Anthropocene and why do experts think that framing the climate change debate with this label will give us the wake up call we need?

BBC News - A White House 'sceptic': Would it matter?

Given the politics yet to unfold, it may be a bit premature to assume that a climate change sceptic or denier will be running the White House when the dust settles.

But the rest of the world has to recognise that whatever transpires, the US is unlikely to be pushing a radical green line any time soon.

Then again, it has been this way since the hanging chads of Florida carried Mr Bush to the White House in 2001.