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Dec 07, 2017jimg2000 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Al Gore's follow-up presentation on global warming and climate change, list of natural disasters, renewable energy, the climactic Paris Agreement and looking past Donald Trump. Chilling footage on earth's shrinking glacier and how the more extreme weather has affected global citizens, particularly the poor. These data stuck to my mind: ***The way you know global warming is real is if the hottest year ever is the year you're currently in. ***Something happened last night at one of the most iconic locations in New York the World Trade Center, Ground Zero. ***Houston's been hit between May of last year and May of this year. Two 1-in-500-year floods and one 1-in-1,000-year downpour. ***Days into his presidency, Donald Trump is sending chills down the spines of environmentalists and some EPA employees. ***You know, Florida's called the Sunshine State? The head of the second-biggest fossil fuel utility there was actually quoted as saying, "Yes, we're the Sunshine State," "but, remember, we're also the partly cloudy state." (Update - CNN reports on August 18. 2018: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/18/asia/kerala-floods/index.html Torrential rains in Kerala have triggered the state's worst flooding in nearly a century, destroying thousands of homes and roads. At least 324 people have been killed since the start of the monsoon season in late May but the death toll began rising considerably over the past week. )