Al Gore

In our class we viewed a speech given by Al Gore on TED.  I must say he is a phenomenal speaker, who captures a crowd with his charismatic attitude and humorous bits.  His attack on the issue of climate change keeps me intrigue on a subject that i often can not usually become fully interested in.  In the video Al Gore's New Thinking on climate crisis he presents the idea, evidence and realization that the pace of climate change may be worst than what researchers predicted and believed it to be.  What really captured my attention were the arctic sea ice extent.  The pole ice cap was equal to the surface are of the united states minus Arizona.  In 2005 the amount that disappeared was equal to everything east of the Mississippi.  And then presents the amount remaining could be gone in as little as 5 years.  If that idea isn't scary or life-threatening i don't know what is.  This could completely flood us out, and make a national case of Katrina in Louisiana.  We have all this information being presenting to us making us knowledgeable of what we are doing to the environment.  What will it take to make us want to change?