{"id":22449,"date":"2017-10-18T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=22449"},"modified":"2022-03-16T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:25:27","slug":"climate-reality-campus-corps-students-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/climate-reality-campus-corps-students-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Reality\u2019s Campus Corps: How Students Can Tackle Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019re messing with Mother Nature and we\u2019re making all these extreme events more intense and more common,\u201d Al Gore told a packed room of climate activists today at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It\u2019s Day Two of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training, and Gore was offering a summary of a scientific panel he just moderated. <\/span><\/p>\n

He continued:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut now we\u2019re also messing with the sort of basic circulation patterns of the planet, and you know human civilizations, the first cities were less than 10,000 years ago. After the last Ice Age ended, it took maybe a millennium for a new equilibrium pattern to settle in. That\u2019s all that we\u2019ve ever known. And based on that pattern, that\u2019s where we located our cities, that\u2019s where we located the productive farming areas, \u2026 that\u2019s the pattern within which human civilization has arisen, and now we\u2019re messing with all of that. … [Hurricane] Harvey was such an awful event, but it fits into this new pattern that also explains so many of the other phenomena that we\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Climate Reality Leadership Corps is the 36th training program Gore has led, and is the biggest ever. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s event is filled with scientists, teachers, student and other activists from around the world. To them, climate change is a reality, not fiction. <\/span><\/p>\n

That was driven home in 2006, when Al Gore\u2019s film \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d was released, setting the world on fire and placing climate change on everyone\u2019s lips. <\/span><\/p>\n

The critical state of our planet was further highlighted this past summer with the release of \u201cAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,\u201d which documents Gore\u2019s continuing battle against climate change as he traveled around the world training ordinary citizens to be Climate Reality Leaders and meeting with global leaders to build a global alliance on climate action. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Climate Reality Project<\/b><\/h2>\n

In 2006, Gore also founded <\/span>The Climate Reality Project<\/span><\/a>, an organization peopled with passionate climate activists, all eager to raise awareness of the climate crisis and propel everyone into action.<\/span><\/p>\n