Nature News Blog: Invited guests weigh in on Al Gore's Climate Reality Project

Barry W. Brook, director of climate science, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia
Overall, I don't think this initiative will do much good. For one thing, Al Gore is now as much a hindrance as a help on climate change advocacy, as he's been characterized (probably unfairly) as a highly partisan figure, and so immediately gets about half of all folks offside.
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Judith Curry, chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
If the intent of Al Gore's telethon is to garner broad support for climate and energy policies such as proposed by the UNFCCC (e.g. the Kyoto protocol), I anticipate that this effort will backfire and energize the opposition to such policies. As a scientist I find the mantra "remove the doubt, reveal the deniers" to be objectionable

Climate change needs a Gandhi not a Gore | Under The Banyan

I actually avoided the Goreathon, and I guess that says something in itself.
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If he wants to change the way the world thinks about climate change he needs to be out there every day, visible and among the people who will be affected most or whom he says will need to change most – not on a pedestal performing periodic stunts and charging large sums for speaking engagements, books and DVDs.

One journalist I know in London went to a screening of the new Al Gore presentation tonight and sent me a text that said: “Gore gets gold for most boring and least galvanizing talk on climate, ever… That, and possibly damaging.”

Climate change needs a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King or a Mandela, and Al Gore is none of those.

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