Al Gore and Global Warming

By: Eric Walker

Al Gore and Global Warming

By: Eric Walker

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AL Gore

Founded the Climate Reality project Known as a “Champion of the

Environment” An Inconvenient Truth won the award for

best documentary Co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

for his environmental work

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Background

After he became vice president in 1993, Gore took the lead in shaping the Clinton administration’s environmental agenda

Most notable contribution to the environmental movement is him as an author

Made a carbon tax Gore saved the Kyoto Treaty in 1997

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Life after Politics

Gore began doing lectures to college students about global warming

In 2007 Time magazine named him runner-up to the person of the year

In 2013 Gore Published The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

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Global Warming Green

house gases get trapped in the atmosphere

Creates a lot of heat

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Affects of Global Warming Deaths from global warming will double

in just 25 years to 300,000 people a year

Global sea levels could rise by more than 20ft with the loss of the ice shelf in Greenland and Antarctica

More than a million species could become extinct

Heat waves will become more frequent The Arctic ocean could ice-free by 2050 2005 was hottest year on earth since

the late 19th Century

Svante August Arrhenius

A Swedish scientist He received the Nobel Prize for

Chemistry in 1903 In 1905 became Director of the Nobel

Institute where he remained until his death

In 1896 he was the first scientist to attempt to calculate how changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect

Things that could help

Recycle Car Pool New power sources Hydrogen Power Wind Power Solar Energy

“An Inconvenient Truth” Movie

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