{"id":2080,"date":"2008-04-11T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/11\/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-cl\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T20:13:07","slug":"al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-cl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-cl\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Al Gore&#8217;s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of &#8220;generational mission&#8221; &#8212; the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement &#8212; to set it right. Gore&#8217;s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&#038;A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates&#8217; climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"432\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted2\/flash\/loader.swf\"><PARAM NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/ALGORE-AUTODESK-2008_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Al Gore&#8217;s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of &#8220;generational mission&#8221; &#8212; the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement &#8212; to set it right. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/al-gore-new-thinking-on-the-cl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,97,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-xy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}