al gore got it right. he says dealing with climate change is not so much an environmental, scientific political or economic issue as it is a moral one. at some point, our children or our grandchildren will ask us, how could you have not seen what was happening and why didn't you do more to stop it? we have to be able to look them in the eyes and say truthfully, as soon as we recognized the problem, we did everything we could to solve it. thank you for giving me the privilege of talking with you today. . >> i'd like to say good morning to everybody. it's a great privilege to* for me to be here. it's going to be a very exciting two days for me and i hope for you as well. i'd like to say thank you very much to the organizers for inviting

okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this period or rough period is the fact that there are orbital properties of the solar system and planets resolve around them and in this case the exintrinsicty of the earths budget that changes and that goes, it has about a hundred thousand year period and low and behold there was a guy that was kind of able to reproduce temperature records going back and that's an old story that's well-

i think, and i'll close with this, that al gore summed it up best. rare is it in human history that we all connect on a purpose greater than our own. this is a remarkable opportunity not just a crisis, an extraordinary opportunity and i think we should look at it accordingly. i am optimistic. i am absolutely proud of the progress that our department of environment, susan -- miss new puc have accomplished and i'm wildly enthusiastic about the ideas that will be generated by this two day conference. our goal is to manifest your ideas and make them real. in closing, i'll say one final thing. the politics of this is remarkable. i don't think any of us could imagine 3 years ago we'd be where we are today. there are few people save a few folks on these right wing talk shows that still are just saying it's all about volcanos or something and global warming is not happening. i mean, it's humiliating on behalf of their families i am embarrassed. that being said, the consensus on this is extraordinary. so we have this unique and spirited opportunity and i'm he

and the presidential election process there's no doubt in my mind that al gore was elected president. he will see the most votes nationwide and moderated he also received the most votes in far as long as we cannot express ourselves at the ballot box. with al gore getting so many more popular votes than bush in two thousand well in a normal country and that would be the election and we should arrange our elections really weird when. it's back to an eighteenth century. trick. voter fraud is not a problem in this country election fraud is a huge problem voter fraud. you know it's something that the bad guys like to put out there as if it's a problem in fact for example league of women voters did a study of the last two national elections in ohio and found that nine over nine million votes cast there was exactly four cases of voter fraud that was discovered it's not the people it's the voting machine companies who are running these elections with secret software who are privatizing it it's the congressmen and the senators and the state officials who are allowing them to do so there's noth

i saw al gore do his slide show, and like everybody, i was greatly affected by it, and i said to myself "what can i do to help him get his message out?" and of course i had the nutty idea to make a movie out of it. and we had a great team of people-- obviously the director, david guggenheim, did an amazing job, and we worked with al for a chunk of time. and we were in the edit room, and we became very close. because when you're in that room that much, you're really fighting to make the best thing, and it was-- it was really an honor and an extremely amazing experience to go through that process with him. >> rose: so after that, you look around and you think about what is there other than the threat to the planet and it's another threat to the planet. >> exactly. well, two main things happened. first of all, the movie comes out, and-- >> rose: wins an oscar. >> wins an oscar, exactly, and that's a dream. that's i dream come true. but as equally important-- really more important-- the movie had a big effect. now, the policy hasn't gone as far and hasn't kept up to the-- what happened-- >>

will try to answer this question next in spotlight with al gore and all of stay with us. hello again or welcome to the spotlight the interview show on r.t. and al green of and today my guest in the studio is joris i'll fill up. russia is building its version of the silicon valley in the village of skull colony a mosque up the would be silicon valley will get special tax rates and other incentives but will this project make russia the country of world class and evasive products nobel prize winner and co.

susan got me here and if you saw the al gore movie, she told me i would be a lost speaker and she said, and that's where you do your best works a you wrap up. i'm here is a the chair of american water resource foundation. i'm going to talk about a report done that's fundamentally the best resource any water manager could have right now. many of us have too much to read and someone said here's a 3 hundred page thing and this is called primer. i actually read it, 65 pages and it has a very detailed cd. what this starts is how many of us can tell us the fundamentals of climate and weather change. most of us, one man? then you don't need to read this. the fundamentals of that we learn listening to the radio or watching the weather man and that's not good enough for us because we have to learn the hand gauge because we don't want to sit around feeling unnerved when someone says sea levels can go 25 feet. that's not where leaders take others. we have to know what's real and in the range of possibility. so this report is the best primer on what is effective climate. secondly, we all here abou

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. >> al gore is saying i told you so. >> a lot of us think in the state and this state talked about splitting in two many times, it is worse in the south. it is worse in la. it is worse there, isn't it? >> it is true. when we were doing the story, the poor county that got hit the worst was san diego county. thousands of homes destroyed, malibou is famous for its fires. having said that, within the last five years, there have been disastrous fires in the mountains. one area we discovered that is dangerous just because a lot of people are moving there, el dorado county, the foothills. they have had bad wildfires and the bay area is very vulnerable. you remember the oakland berkeley hills fire of 1991. they had a fire back in the 1920s that people are still praying doesn't happen again. >> mill valley was almost destroyed in the 1923. i think that is right. and there is no reason in the couldn't happen again. the san francisco peninsula very vulnerable but there hasn't been a major fire. >> you talked to firefighters who were on the front lines. bob roper in ventura county, california who said s

something that really is critical, because unfortunately the polar ice caps are melting faster than al gore suggested a few years ago. climate change is upon us. it is happening fast. those of us who live in coastal areas will fill the affect of that first. we want to recognize the mayor's leadership in not just the opportunity of building such an important structure -- this is the first leed certified hospital in the state of california, and what that means is the rebuilding of the entire campus is to provide respect, dignity, and validation for all of the residents who will be here at laguna honda, but next importantly that we build something that will come from its conception, enhance the conservation of the water is an energy used in this building, and enhance the co2 emission reductions of this building. mayor, thank you for walking the walk as well as talking the talk. it is something to be proud of, leed-certified. to all the care givers and all the volunteers who make up the family of residents, to express our appreciation for your long hours and for your selfless service, and know

and rounding out the board is former vice president al gore. this group heads up a company worth $240 billion, making it the biggest publicly traded technology company in the u.s. nell minow is co-founder of the corporate governance research firm the corporate library and she doesn't like what she sees. >> i'd say apple is absolutely catastrophically a bad board. you couldn't have a worse board than apple. i mean, as a consumer, love them, but as a shareholder they're a terrible board. >> why do corporate governance experts think apple's board is rotten? they point to several reasons: the stock options backdating scandal in 2006. apple admits steve jobs knew options given to him and others were backdated. still, apple said jobs did not financially benefit. the securities and exchange commission did not bring action against the company, citing apple's swift and extraordinary cooperation with the agency. jobs' health. in 2004, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. in 2009 he suffered from a hormone imbalance, which forced him to take a six-mon

welcome back to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is that as i'll fill out of now bell prize winner and cochairman of scientific technical board of skulk of l. science city project at this hour for a while we we talked about this this new and this new project in skolkovo which russians are on already labeling as the as the second silicon valley well the question that i had immediately after after i realized that this is serious that this is going to happen is that the soviet union had research centers all around the country from france from from did not to novosibirsk they were they were called the so-called no confidence from the from the sixty's now did they proved to be insufficient in the end post so that russian what they should look at might be one of the best places and maybe in one it was a different divisions of russian academy of science they said marion braincells academics science one of the best one it may be. developed well and no it should be a descriptor idea i'm going to talk about a good place and sisters yes this is good s

of coming up next is al gore today his guest in spotlight as representative of one of the indigenous peoples of russia discussing if it's difficult to preserve their identity in the twenty first century. hello again and welcome to the show. i'm going to name my guest says. there are dozens of indigenous peoples and each of them with its unique culture our guest represents the people living in russia. how difficult is it to preserve their identity in the twenty first century in which the common problems people have to face to questions and we have the vice president russian association of indigenous peoples of the north in our studio to. the president of the russian association of northern people. belongs to the small to. begin with russia's far east and count about one and a half thousand people yet only four hundred of them claim the gaze of language the situation is similar for many natives who struggle to preserve their ethnic identity there are forty five of the regional peoples in russia some of them totaling below ten persons. today to talk about life and problems faced by russ

>> i think that was a big mistake, al gore is another guy i embedded with, and he and the environmentalcommunity back in 2006 or 2007 made a decision that they weren't going to engage on the science anymore, they were going to declare the debate settled and let's move on. and even though the scientific debate is largely settled, that was a mistake, because it ceded the messaging ground to the de insiders and the skeptics, i don't use that for everybody, i reserve it for the paid professional pr guys whose job it is to sew doubt and confusion about this issue. >> rose: and you said you are looking for the culprit. >> uh-huh. >> rose: is there one culprit? >> there are many, many culprits, there are a lot of them and i didn't expect to find such a big battle in the west wing. one of the culprits, frankly, is barack obama, he has not taken on this issue to the extent he needed to to get a bill passed. >> rose: even though he said that his priorities at the beginning of his administration and his stimulus bill, education, the environment and healthcare. >> larry summers, the economic adviso

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