November 27, 2006
It's been six months since the surprise hit movie and book An Inconvenient Truth transformed Al Gore from the man who, as he puts it, "used to be the next President of the United States" to global warming's archenemy
We have to stop dumping 70 million tons [64 million metric tons] of global warming pollution every single day into the Earth's atmosphere.So, Al Gore has decided to become carbon neutral, which means we reduce CO2 [carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes to warming in the atmosphere] to the maximum and then purchase offsets to offset the remainder with reductions in CO2 elsewhere.
HOW?
Well, he has changed the lightbulbs to the more efficient kind [compact fluorescent, or CFL, lightbulbs] and switched to a hybrid [vehicle], and we use clock thermostats, and we're installing solar panels.
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