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FACTS ALONE will NOT PERSUADE AmeriKKKunts on Climate Change - AL Gore

http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/04/stories/2009110450030900.htm

Al Gore turns to God to help spread climate message


Suzanne Goldenberg



To appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to
protect the planet.




To appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to
protect the planet.




Al Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenient Truth was published on
Tuesday, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to
act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way
forward.

In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man
who won a Nobel peace prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on the
consequences of climate change, concludes: "Simply laying out the facts won't
work."

Instead, Mr. Gore told Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, he
had been adapting his fact-based message - now put out by hundreds of
volunteers - to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious
duty to protect the planet.

"I've done a Christian [-based] training programme; I have a Muslim training
programme and a Jewish training programme coming up, also a Hindu programme
coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in
Nashville in a version of the slideshow that is filled with scriptural
references. It's probably my favourite version, but I don't use it very
often because it can come off as proselytising," Mr. Gore said.

Mr. Gore's book - which arrives at a time of intense scrutiny of U.S.
environment policy, with the international meeting on global warming at
Copenhagen just over a month away - draws on the scholarly approach of An
Inconvenient Truth. Since 2007 the former Vice-President has been calling
experts together from fields ranging from agriculture to neuroscience to
discuss possible solutions to climate change.

The book draws on 30 such "solutions summits," as well as Mr. Gore's
conversations with scientists. New polling last month showed a steep decline
in the number of Americans who share Mr. Gore's sense of urgency in acting
on climate change. - © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2009

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