Gore campaigns to reduce effects of global warming

LIZ LAVIN DEPUTY EDITOR EAL723@CABRINI

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Former Vice President Al Gore is hoping to change the world with three years and a $300 million ad campaign. The goal of the costly campaign is to urge Americans to push for a more aggressive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Gore is launching the ad campaign with the Alliance for Climate Protection, a group he created in 2006. Both Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection feel the ad campaign is necessary to turn basic awareness of the problem into action.

The issue of global warming has been the center of debate for years. In 2007, the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change issued a report stating that since the 20th century, humans have been the main cause of global warming.

Gore has made it his personal mission to help solve the problem. With “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore urged Americans to make small changes in their everyday lives. He says what needs to happen now are policy changes by United States lawmakers.

“I think it’s great that Al Gore is doing this campaign,” Dr. David Dunbar, associate professor of biology, said. “I don’t think it would have worked even five years ago…but more and more individuals are now convinced global warming is ‘real.’”

Dr. Melissa Terlecki, assistant professor of psychology, agrees that the nationwide awareness of global warming has just recently increased. She says very few people realize how serious the global warming situation is because not many ordinary citizens are educated about the topic but that is changing with the many “going green” campaigns happening nationwide. The ads will run during shows like “American Idol” and “The