Former USA Vice President Al Gore has been a champion of climate change for a number of decades. Since his narrow loss to George W Bush in the presidential elections of 2000, He has been working hard to raise awareness about climate change, by delivering a slide show which shows the science behind climate change, the impacts of climate change, and some of the solutions that can be put in place to combat climate change.
In order to spread the message to a broader audience, Mr Gore produced a film and book called An Inconvenient Truth that were based around the slide show. His work to “disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change” won him the 2007 Nobel Peace prize in conjunction with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
While Mr Gore continues to deliver his slide show, he came to realise that his climate change efforts would be much more effective if there were hundreds of people out there spreading his climate change message. He developed a program known as The Climate Project designed to train people who were already passionate about climate change in how to deliver his slide show.
In Australia, The Climate Project is sponsored by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). It was through my membership of the ACF that I heard about The Climate Project and I volunteered for a training session that was going to be delivered by Al Gore personally in Melbourne at the end of September.
From a total of more than 2000 applicants, I was lucky to be one of the 160 individuals who were selected to attend the training. In undertaking the training, I made a commitment to deliver the slide show at least ten times over the course of the next twelve months. I hope to do MUCH more than this.
The slide show is more up-to-date than the film and book, including the most recent scientific findings on climate change. Slides pertaining to the recent UK High Court challenge have been modified and/or removed.
The slide show also includes many local examples of how climate change is impacting on our lives in Australia. As such I think it is even more powerful than the book and film.
Check out my current lecture schedule here.
If you would like me to deliver a lecture to your club, society, association, group, business or organisation, then please don’t hesitate to give me a call or send me an e-mail. If I can’t do it, I can find somebody else who can.