"Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives. This political class will do everything it can to ensure subsidies for the extraction and use of fossil fuels, directly with taxpayers’ money and indirectly by letting the industry off the hook for environmental costs, while ridiculing technologies like solar."

Highlights from Al Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Reality event are available on Treehugger.com and provide a glimpse into the Climate Reality Project. The event reached approximately 9 million viewers who tuned in mostly online from all over the world.