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david-lettermanWe are continuing with David Letterman’s interview with former Vice-President who was promoting his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis and an eco-friendly master class ensued.This is the third installment of our ever-continuing coverage of this fascinating interview; the next subject of conversation was coral.

David Letterman asked a well formulated question, which I will paraphrase.  He had heard that coral in general is dying and cannot be saved as it now exists in the sea.  As a result it is being moved out of the sea so it can be saved – like an eco-friendly intervention of sorts. Gore replied that Dave’s comments/question was primarily true as coral is in danger around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef. So why in an eco-friendly age as this is this happening? There are two main reasons the first is due to global warming.  Water temperatures are rising and this is hurtful to the coral. The second reason is that there is 90 million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere, of that 25 millions tons go into the water. That CO2 becomes carbonic acid, which changes the acidity level of the ocean. The process for coral production includes taking calcium carbonate that is in the water and turning it into hard coral.  When the acid level is too high, it is as if the coral has osteoporosis, meaning that the coral is dissolved/ depleted as it tries to regenerate/ form.

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al-goreWe continue with Al Gore’s recent appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, to promote his latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis, which turned into an eco-friendly master class on the subject. In our first installment we explored their conversation on the status of the Ozone layer, the next topic of conversation is climate change.

Letterman asked, what Gore believed would happen if we simply ignored climate change? Basically and tragically, the former vice-president said that it could end civilization on earth, as we know it. Gore gave an eco-friendly explanation that humans need a narrow climate balance to live, if we wreck it, it would create a hostile environment in which humans could not survive. So what is the narrow temperature range that our species needs to flourish? The going consensus is a 2-degree centigrade increase would be safe. In fact we have incurred a much smaller change and the polar ice caps are melting, so who in fact was it that deemed this increase safe? This was an eco-friendly compromise between what politicians can achieve and what the scientists believe, so this 2 degrees centigrade is not a completely scientific number.

Gore stressed the fact that humans cannot adapt to the unrestrained effects of global warming as already we are seeing those that are forced to adapt to the current environmental changes around the world.  Specific examples were given in this interview; they included the fact that those living near the Nile Delta are less than 1 meter above sea level due to the rising water levels. Another example was the Maldives, who recently held a cabinet meeting under water to help draw media attention to their environmental plight.

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al-gore-and-david-lettermanYou may have missed it, but former American Vice-President and Noble Prize winner Al Gore made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.  The result was eco friendly television gold.  This segment was a master class in eco friendly television and current environmental issues and cannot be covered in just one blog. What made the interview so much more than just another boring conversation on the topic was the camaraderie between the pair. Where to begin?

It would be prudent to start with the fact that, just like his Noble Prize money the proceeds from the book are going to The Alliance for Climate Protection. The very first topic is one that has long been the focus of environmental discussion, but has seemingly taken a back seat of late and that is the Ozone Layer. Dave went right to the heart of the issue asking Gore if the hole in the Ozone layer was closed up? Surprising Gore said in the eco friendly television interview, that the Ozone layer was closing. He attributed this environmental success to the fact that world leaders came together with a treaty that was first thought to be a weak move but then toughened up. According to the EPA what Gore was talking about was the “over 190 countries, including the major industrialized nations such as the United States, have signed the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which calls for elimination of chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone.

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