Gore-a-Thon: ’24 Hours of Reality’

By Doug Powers  •  September 12, 2011 12:34 PM

**Written by Doug Powers

It isn’t often you hear the words “Al Gore” and “reality” in the same sentence in any place that doesn’t have straps on the beds, let alone hear them for 24 straight hours:

Former 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.

Considering “24 Hours of Reality” is being promoted by a guy who is hell-bent to become the first carbon billionaire, this part is especially funny (warning: if you’re drinking coffee, cover your monitor with cellophane):

“There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics, exploring where they get their funding from.”

Is Mr. Haney questioning the motives of Oliver Douglas? It sounds that way.

Sources tell me that, to close out the Gore-a-Thon, Al will take the stage and sing an emotional rendition of Big Yellow Taxi.

**Written by Doug Powers

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  1. #101
    On September 13th, 2011 at 3:49 am, tbear44 said:

    Launch giant venetian blinds into space to a point where they will block the suns rays to earth. Open and close as needed. Problem solved. See Al? That wasn’t so difficult was it?

  2. #102
    On September 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    It isn’t often you hear the words “Al Gore” and “reality” in the same sentence

    A speaker should never speak on a subject they’re not familiar with

  3. #103
    On September 13th, 2011 at 9:30 am, mondamay said:

    On September 12th, 2011 at 4:08 pm, T-Bone said:

    I’ll tell you. Our Sun will eventually run out of fuel and will basically die. When it dies, we all die, probably in a massive explosion. This is certain because the Sun is a star and we have observed how stars have worked in the past. While still science, which indicates its not totally proven, the universe does offer several clues about the behaviour of stars.

    The closest star that is reaching that point is the Giant Red star Betelguese which is the brightest star in the Orion constellation. It takes 8 years for the light from Betelguese to reach the earth. It is possible it has already exploded but we can’t see it yet. Its also possible that that explosion may impact the earth. While that is still speculation, our Sun ending is not. Millions of years, billions? Whatever. One day it will.

    Betelgeuse is not 8 light years from Earth, it is estimated to be 430 to 650 light years from Earth. It’s mass is estimated to be 13 to 17 time the mass of the Sun. It is in a red supergiant phase and will likely end as a massive explosion. It has had a much shorter estimated life of something on the order of 10-12 million years, as opposed to our star’s estimated lifespan of around 10 billion years.

    Our own Sun is far too small to enter this type of phase. It is expected to finish it’s life as a red giant, and die as a planetary nebula with a white dwarf at its center.

    Our planet would become uninhabitable during or possibly even before the red giant phase, so explosions would be kinda moot by then, anyway. The Sun is getting hotter (at least on a long-range timescale) because as the hydrogen core shrinks, the remaining hydrogen is fused faster resulting in ever-rising temperatures.

  4. #104
    On September 13th, 2011 at 9:48 am, NY Andy said:

    Isn’t he still in Colorado looking for man-bear-pig?

  5. #105
    On September 13th, 2011 at 11:57 am, thejim said:

    We’re not every other species. We’re Man. With a capital “M”.

    I’ll see your “M” and raise you a big “D” dinosaur

  6. #106
    On September 13th, 2011 at 6:28 pm, Mike From Stumptown said:

    I wouldn’t let Al.gore control my Facebook page and Twitter account for 24 seconds, let alone 24 hours.

  7. #107
    On September 14th, 2011 at 4:40 pm, GaijinBob said:

    We’re not every other species. We’re Man. With a capital “M”.

    Give us a million years, and we’ll have spread into space, and we will last as long as the universe. Maybe longer.
    I give us a thousand years to become independent of Earth.

    Given our current trend, I’d put money on an Eloi/Morlock future.

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