In the months that went into planning 24 Hours of Reality, I saw firsthand the passion and energy of our Climate Presenters, staff and partners around the globe who are calling attention to the climate crisis and working to solve it.
Today, I was honored to see your passion and your energy. I can’t thank you enough for making 24 Hours of Reality a global success.
By the time our chairman, former Vice President Al Gore finished his presentation, the 24 hour long event had 8.6 million views.
I am incredibly proud that so many people around the world participated, but it’s also important to remember the individual actions it represents. There are countless stories of impressive grassroots mobilization. A company in Tel Aviv hosted a watch party at their headquarters. A group of graduate students in Athens, Georgia rented out a popular local movie theater. People across the world joined hands to say: Climate change is real, it’s happening now and the time to act is now.
But this is just the beginning. There are important actions you can take today:
- Request a presentation. There are more than 3,000 trained Climate Presenters around the globe. Organize an event and invite a Presenter to come to your community.
- Go local: Team up with our partners around the world and help solve the climate crisis. Visit our website to find a partner organization near you.
- Moving Planet: On Sept 24, hit the streets with http://350.org for a global day of action. Find an activity near you.
- Check our comprehensive video library to watch highlights from 24 Hours of Reality.
It is up to you to continue to stand up for reality and share the truth about the climate crisis. We will succeed because we must.
Posted by Maggie L. Fox, President & CEO
Ignacio Magaloni
September 16th
I deeply thank all of you for harnessing the best of human talent for the sake of our earth and its children.
Charl Strydom
September 16th
While 9 mil. viewers is a lot, I really thought you would have had more support and I’m sure it about people not knowing what’s going on in the World than the drive and effort you guy’s have put into it. Let’s hope the 24th will be at least 10 times better. Good luck.
Douglas Grandt
September 16th
BRAVO! Thanks to Al Gore and all who worked so hard to make it a success. It was 24X one-two-three punches to the deceitful deniers. I can’t wait to hear what the “deniers” have to say, to see if they have any self respect and the courage and humility to acknowledge the transparency that Al Gore gave to their little-mindedness and blatant deception.
Aayushi Patel
September 16th
Thank you so much the entire team of The Climate Reality Project…. small steps like this will help to create awareness in a large scale throughout the world. It was my pleasure to be the part of a project where people actually care about the environment.
Jan Moore
September 17th
I’m putting together my own presentation and spreading it to as many people as I can. I will also be writing to my representatives and my local papers and workin to solve this crisis and protect the environment as I have been for years. Thanks Mr. Gore for your inspiration all of these years.
Jan Moore
September 17th
What will we succeed in? As long as the world runs on oil and pipelines are continued to be built in Afghanistan, here and globally (possibly even in the Arctic as drilling has been approved already) what will we succeed in doing? How is my sending you five dollars going to stop this? Do you want honest opinion and conversation here from people who really care about the future or only flowery compliments? I left a comment here yesterday thanking Mr. Gore for doing this and it wasn’t even posted and believe me that is a turnoff. That is no way to treat people who have supported his endeavors for over twenty years and are sincere about solving this. The facts of this are as such: both oil and water are now being seen as ‘commodities’ (even though water is a human right) whose sources are becoming scarcer in the world (water mainly from pollution, privitization, waste and climate change.) Countries are jockeying for geopolitical advantage in controlling as much of these resources as possible due to “peak oil” and now “peak water.” As with Iraq and as we are now seeing in Afghanistan (TAPI pipeline) and in Libya where the Great Manmade River Project (truly a feat of engineering even if you didn’t like Gaddafi) has now been blown up and its source shut off to the people in Tripoli as its oil is conviscated. Countries including Norway, Russia, Canada and the U.S. are already jockeying to suck the Arctic dry of its resources as it melts. Alberta has already stated that it needs TWO more pipelines the same size as the Keystone XL to get their oil out and they don’t care if this one is approved or not they WILL get that oil out and more than likely it will go to China, the so called country making so many strides in “clean energy.” We are addicted to oil and the money it makes. So please tell me just how we are going to counter this now to win anything for our children’s future? I think it is exemplary if you are sincere in solving this to bring the facts of what we are doing by burning this to the people who need to know it. However, it is governments you need to reach now, not us. I have been out here as a citizen for forty years of my life supporting the environment and protesting these geopolitical excursions that have taken many lives in the process. And yet, even under Obama this still goes on. So what is the plan should he approve the Keystone XL even after all that has been done to warn people of the dangers of its carbon timebomb? How many are truly willing to be arrested and put it all on the line for the future? How do we truly break this addiction to oil? We are not transitioning to renewable energy fast enough to beat the curve of climate change or peak oil and that is detrimental to the continuance of life as we know it. So it would be nice to see this conversation posted, because it is a true reality along with the climate reality that needs discussing.
Thanks.
Oh, and once again, thank you Mr. Gore for all you have done and do. I know your heart is in this and I appreciate it greatly.
Jan Moore
September 19th
Well, hopefully I will be allowed to give some advice regarding winning this conversation. I have been out on the Internet since this event and I can tell you that much of what I have seen is negative outweighing positive so far. So what I have done on my own now as I did when Mr. Gore ran for president and also when he was first giving these presentations, I have been going out to these sites that print misinformation and lies about him or the science behind global warming ( I call it biodistress btw) and setting them straight because this is where it begins. For years many sites and papers have been printing misinformation and their comment sections have been filled with nothing but acidity and outright hatred towards Mr. Gore in an attempt to make people think that if they can discredit him they discredit global warming. And unfortunately, it apparently has been a tactic that has worked here because they know many don’t know much about the science and they believe it… and no one is countering it for the most part. I truly think there needs to be a media rapid response group that goes out to these sites and newspapers to give back what they give, only to give truthful information. Not to engage the trolls but to just make sure the information is out there. You can’t win the conversation unfortunately and especially in the US with just a slideshow regardless of how accurate and well presented it is. And when you have cult leaders like Alex Jones out here on You Tube spewing outright lies with people like Christopher Monckton on there spreading nothing but lies about the sea levels not rising and the ice in the Arctic growing back while this even was going on that hundreds will see and believe, this battle is not just in a slideshow presentation. I truly think that needs to be a consideration. You have to nip it at the source too.
Also, just one more comment about the event and then I will get my off my soap box. This event was seen on the Internet globally and in all honesty I think it was a mistake to ask people to donate every hour, especially considering that there may well have been people globally watching this on any type of connection they could get who live on less than a dollar a day in a place where people standing at a podium in high heel Gucci shoes and fancy dresses does not resinate. I think in order to get the message across effectively you also have to be aware of your entire audience and that many of the people watching this who are already experiencing the effects of biodistress are poor. As it is in the US the unemployment rate is over 9% and the poverty rate is increasing. The world economy teters on a precipice. It might just be to your advantage if pushing the donation wasn’t the primary focus because frankly out here on the Internet as well, people think this was done just for the money. I know that isn’t true but millions don’t. I also think it would have been noble of you to state that half of the donations would be donated to Somalia to help the famine victims since their drought is a classic case of climate change. Their droughts which used to come every ten years now come every two to five years with more severity. The Indian Ocean is also warming and changing rainfall patterns. This is a classic scenario of climate change now causing mass famine and migration in a place where war has been going on for over twenty years. A look at the future if we don’t get our act together, but not one mention of this though in you presentation. You may even have gotten more donations because there are those who are looking for a way to help there that they can trust. OK, so I’m done. I just think the message needs to be the primary focus and gets to as many as possible in as down to Earth a way as it can be, because I care about the world my son is going to live in as well as his children to come and all of us.
Thanks.
Robert Murphy
September 22nd
There’s an article at WUWT that says the viewership for the event was nowhere near 8.6 million people. I trust the analysis of people at WUWT as far as I can throw my house, but I was wondering if the derivation of the number could be explained. How were views calculated? They use Alexa, which I understand is not very accurate.
Thanks in advance.