Al Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics

LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – Former U.S. Vice President  Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of  the link between climate change and extreme weather events this  week in a 24-hour global multi-media event.
“24 Hours of Reality” will broadcast a presentation by Al  Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from  Wednesday to Thursday, with the aim of convincing climate change  deniers and driving action against global warming among  households, schools and businesses.
The campaign also asks people to hand over control of their  social networking accounts on Facebook and Twitter to it for 24  hours to deliver Gore’s message.
“There will be 200 new slides arguing the connection between  more extreme weather and climate change,” Trewin Restorick,  chief executive of the event’s UK partner Global Action Plan,  told Reuters on Monday.
“There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics,  exploring where they get their funding from.”
Gore tried to raise awareness about global warming in the  2006 documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth”, which earned $49  million at the box office worldwide. The film was criticised by  some climate change skeptics for being one-sided.
Concern about climate change in the United States, the  world’s second biggest emitter, has fallen steadily to 48  percent in 2011, from 62 percent in 2007, an opinion poll showed  in August.
Gore’s presentation will be available at: http://climaterealityproject.org/