Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Al Gore returns with new climate campaign - Climate Reality Project aims to expose reality of global warming crisis and kicks off with a 24-hour live streamed event

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent – The Guardian, UK

It should almost be called Inconvenient Truth 2.0. Five years after Al Gore launched his original documentary project, the former vice-president returned on Tuesday with a new campaign aimed at exposing the full scale of the climate crisis.

Gore's Climate Reality project announced it would kick off with a 24-hour live streamed event on 14 September. The day's events will include a new multimedia presentation by Gore that will "connect the dots" between extreme weather events and climate change, a statement said.

For full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/12/al-gore-climate-change

What is the Climate Reality Project?

Click: http://climaterealityproject.org/about-us/