Al Gore at Climate Film Anniversary: 'We're Going to Win' — SkimNews
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- Al Gore marked the 20th anniversary of "An Inconvenient Truth" at a New York climate week event, saying scientists have been "proven absolutely correct" and may have even understated the climate damage.
- Gore said the fossil fuel industry has "captured control of too many governments" and the UN's climate science apparatus, citing Guardian reporting that Saudi oil operatives helped craft high-profile UN climate reports.
- Since the 2006 film, Gore's Climate Reality Project has built a grassroots network of 4.5 million climate activists across 196 countries.
- Gore warned of looming tipping points including rampant ice sheet melting and the Amazon turning into a savanna, while expressing belief the world is near a "positive tipping point" of unstoppable public opinion.
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres, speaking at a separate headline UN climate event, said ongoing fossil fuel expansion is "defying science, economics and common sense" but that renewables are now the "cheapest, fastest and most secure source of new electricity."
- Rapid clean energy deployment has made previously dire projections of 4C+ warming by century's end now considered unlikely, the source notes.
Why it matters: Gore and Guterres converge on a market-shift argument: renewables are now routinely cheaper than fossil fuels, moving the climate fight from moral appeal to economic inevitability. The 4.5 million-strong Climate Reality network gives Gore's optimism an organized constituency to push back against what he called fossil-fuel capture of governments and UN science bodies.
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