Al Gore Sees ‘Dirty Weather’ Ahead

This year’s version, scheduled for Nov. 14-15, is titled “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report.”
“The weather’s just that – dirty,” Mr. Gore said in the video, which was shown at the three-day Social Good Summit conference. “It’s fueled by dirty fossil fuel and misinformation.”
For the November event, Mr. Gore’s Climate Reality Project will stream content about “dirty weather that’s occurred around the world in the last year,” said Maggie L. Fox, the project’s chief executive, who appeared in person to announce the segment.

In an interview, Ms. Fox said that people were nonetheless beginning to understand that the climate is changing — and that humans’ heat-trapping emissions are a factor. “You know and I know that all through time there have been weather changes,” she said. “But now we have something different: this is dirty weather, not cyclical global weather.”
“With the frequency and the intensity of events, these stories are not making it into the press,” she said, so the November presentations will publicize “the events that don’t get coverage.”
As was evident in Mr. Gore’s taped speech, the event will focus not just on the fossil fuel industries but on organizations that sow doubt that climate change is under way, Ms. Fox said.
By filtering ideas, knowledge, and awareness of climate trends, she said, social media can be a tool for “overtaking the noise” created by climate skeptics.