ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Al Gore - Climate advocate
Nobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions.

Why you should listen

Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. While he’s is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors, Gore spends the majority of his time as chair of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis.

He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.

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TED2009

Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

Al Gore warns on the latest climate trends

Filmed:
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At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal."
- Climate advocate
Nobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions. Full bio

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Last year I showed these two slides so that
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Sist år viste eg desse to lysbileta
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demonstrate that the arctic ice cap,
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for å visa at isen på Nordpolen
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which for most of the last three million years
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som for mesteparten av dei siste tre millionar åra
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has been the size of the lower 48 states,
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har vore på storleiken av nær heile USA utanom Alaska
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has shrunk by 40 percent.
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har minka med 40 prosent
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But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem
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Dette underkommuniserer alvoret av dette problemet
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because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice.
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fordi det viser ikkje tjukkleiken på isen
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The arctic ice cap is, in a sense,
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Isen på Nordpolen er på mange måtar
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the beating heart of the global climate system.
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det bankande hjartet i det globale klimasystemet.
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It expands in winter and contracts in summer.
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Det utvidar seg om vinteren og trekkjer seg saman om sommaren
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The next slide I show you will be
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Det neste lysbiletet eg viser dykk
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a rapid fast-forward of what's happened over the last 25 years.
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spolar raskt fram kva som har skjedd dei siste 25 åra.
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The permanent ice is marked in red.
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Den permanente isen er markert i raudt.
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As you see, it expands to the dark blue --
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Som du ser utvidar han seg til mørkeblått.
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that's the annual ice in winter,
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Dette er den årlege vinterisen.
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and it contracts in summer.
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Og denne minkar om sommaren.
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The so-called permanent ice, five years old or older,
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Den såkalla permanente isen, som er fem år eller eldre,
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you can see is almost like blood,
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kan du nesten sjå er som blod
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spilling out of the body here.
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som strøymer ut av kroppen her.
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In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
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På 25 år har han gått frå slik, til slik.
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This is a problem because the warming
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Dette er eit problem fordi oppvarminga
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heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean,
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varmar opp tundraen kring det arktiske hav
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where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon
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der det er massive mengder frosen karbon
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which, when it thaws, is turned into methane by microbes.
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som, når han smeltar, blir omdanna til metan av mikrobar.
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Compared to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere,
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Den totale mengden av globale klimagassar i atmosfæren
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that amount could double if we cross this tipping point.
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kan doblast viss ein vippar over.
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Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska,
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Allereie i grunne innsjøar i Alaska
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methane is actively bubbling up out of the water.
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boblar det med metan ut av det smeltande vatnet.
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Professor Katey Walter from the University of Alaska
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Professor Katey Walter frå University of Alaska
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went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter.
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drog ut med eit team til ein annan grunn innsjø sist vinter.
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Video: Whoa! (Laughter)
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Whoa! (latter)
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Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
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Det gjekk greitt med ho. Spørsmålet er om det vil gå bra med oss.
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And one reason is, this enormous heat sink
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Ein grunn til dette, er denne enorme kjøleribba
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heats up Greenland from the north.
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som varmar opp Grønland frå nord.
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This is an annual melting river.
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Dette er den årlege vårflaumen.
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But the volumes are much larger than ever.
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Men mengden med vatn er større enn nokon gong.
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This is the Kangerlussuaq River in southwest Greenland.
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Dette er Kangerlussuaq-elva sørvest på Grønland.
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If you want to know how sea level rises
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Viss du lurer på korleis havet stig
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from land-base ice melting
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frå landbasert issmelting,
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this is where it reaches the sea.
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her ser du kvar elva når havet.
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These flows are increasing very rapidly.
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Desse flaumane aukar kvart år veldig raskt.
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At the other end of the planet, Antarctica
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På den andre sida av jorda, i Antarktis,
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the largest mass of ice on the planet.
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finn me den største samlinga av is på jorda.
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Last month scientists reported the entire continent
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Sist månad rapporterte vitskapsfolk at heile kontinentet
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is now in negative ice balance.
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har ein negativ isbalanse.
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And west Antarctica cropped up on top some under-sea islands,
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I den vestre delen av Antarktis, som blir delt opp av nokre undersjøiske øyar,
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is particularly rapid in its melting.
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smeltar isen særleg raskt.
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That's equal to 20 feet of sea level, as is Greenland.
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Dette er det same som 20 fot høgare havnivå, som Grønland.
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In the Himalayas, the third largest mass of ice:
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I Himalaya, som er den tredje største samlinga av is,
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at the top you see new lakes, which a few years ago were glaciers.
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ser du no innsjøar, der det for få år sidan var isbrear.
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40 percent of all the people in the world
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40 prosent av alle menneske i verda
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get half of their drinking water from that melting flow.
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får halvparten av drikkevatnet frå denne smeltande elva.
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In the Andes, this glacier is the
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I Andesfjella, er denne isbreen
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source of drinking water for this city.
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kjelda til drikkevatnet for denne byen.
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The flows have increased.
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Flaumane har auka,
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But when they go away, so does much of the drinking water.
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men når dei går vekk, så gjer drikkevatnet det òg.
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In California there has been a 40 percent
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I California har det vore ein reduksjon
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decline in the Sierra snowpack.
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av snøen i Sierra-fjella på 40 prosent.
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This is hitting the reservoirs.
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Dette går ut over vassmagasina.
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And the predictions, as you've read, are serious.
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Og prediksjonane, som du har lest, er alvorlege.
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This drying around the world has lead to
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Tørken kring jorda har ført til ein
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a dramatic increase in fires.
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dramatisk auke i talet på brannar.
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And the disasters around the world
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Og naturkatastrofane rundt heile verda
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have been increasing at an absolutely extraordinary
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viser ein ekstraordinær auke,
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and unprecedented rate.
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og har aldri vore så mange.
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Four times as many in the last 30 years
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Fire gonger så mange i dei siste 30 åra
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as in the previous 75.
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som på dei 75 åra før dette.
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This is a completely unsustainable pattern.
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Dette er ikkje eit berekraftig mønster
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If you look at in the context of history
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you can see what this is doing.
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kan du sjå kva dette gjer.
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In the last five years
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På dei siste fem åra
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we've added 70 million tons of CO2
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har me tilført 70 tonn CO2
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every 24 hours --
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kvart 24 timar --
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25 million tons every day to the oceans.
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25 tonn kvar dag til hava.
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Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific,
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from the Americas, extending westward,
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frå Amerika, og lenger vest,
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and on either side of the Indian subcontinent,
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og på begge sider av det indiske subkontinentet,
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where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans.
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er det ein enorm uttøming av oksygen i hava.
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The biggest single cause of global warming,
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Den største enkeltårsaka til global oppvarming
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along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
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forutan avskoging, som utgjer 20 prosent, er fossile brensel.
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Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.
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Olje er eit problem, og kol er det meste alvorlege problemet.
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The United States is one of the two
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Dei sameinte statane er ein av dei to
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largest emitters, along with China.
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største utslepparane, saman med Kina.
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And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.
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Og det er føreslått å byggja ei rekkje fleire kolkraftverk.
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But we're beginning to see a sea change.
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Men me er byrja å sjå at havet endra seg,
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Here are the ones that have been cancelled in the last few years
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Her er dei som det ikkje har blitt noko av dei siste få åra,
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with some green alternatives proposed.
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med nokre grøne alternativ i staden.
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(Applause)
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(Applaus)
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However there is a political battle
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Dette er likevel ein politisk kamp
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in our country.
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i landet vårt.
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And the coal industries and the oil industries
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Og kolindustrien og oljeindustrien
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spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year
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brukte ein kvart milliard dollar sist kalenderår
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promoting clean coal,
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for å promotera reint kol.
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which is an oxymoron.
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Noko som er sjølvmotseiande.
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That image reminded me of something.
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Dette biletet minna meg på noko.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
04:33
Around Christmas, in my home in Tennessee,
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Kring juletider, i heimen min i Tennessee,
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a billion gallons of coal sludge was spilled.
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nær 4 milliardar liter kolslam lekte ut.
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You probably saw it on the news.
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Du såg det sikkert på nyhenda.
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This, all over the country, is the second largest waste stream in America.
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Dette, over heile landet, er den nest største søppelstraumen i Amerika.
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This happened around Christmas.
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Dette skjedde kring juletider.
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One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.
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Ein av kolindustrien sine reklamar kring jul var denne.
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Video: ♪♫ Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul.
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Video: ♪♫ Frosty, kolmannen, er ei lystig, glad sjel.
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He's abundant here in America,
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Det er rikeleg av han her i Amerika,
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and he helps our economy grow.
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og han hjelper økonomien vår å veksa.
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Frosty the coal man is getting cleaner everyday.
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Frosty, kolmannen, blir reinare kvar dag.
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He's affordable and adorable, and workers keep their pay.
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Han er rimeleg og likandes, og arbeidarane held på lønningane.
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Al Gore: This is the source of much of the coal in West Virginia.
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Al Gore: Dette er kjelda til mykje av kolet i Vest Virginia.
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The largest mountaintop miner is the head of Massey Coal.
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Sjefen for Massey Coal er den største gruveslusken
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Video: Don Blankenship: Let me be clear about it. Al Gore,
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Don Blanenship: La meg vera klar! Al Gore,
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, they don't know what they're talking about.
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, dei veit ikkje kva dei snakkar om.
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Al Gore: So the Alliance for Climate Protection
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Al Gore: Alliance for Climate Protection har
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has launched two campaigns.
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lansert to kampanjar.
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This is one of them, part of one of them.
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Dette er ein av dei, del av ein av dei.
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Video: Actor: At COALergy we view climate change as a very serious
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Video: Skodespelar: COALergy ser på klimaendringane som ein
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threat to our business.
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veldig alvorleg trussel mot forretningsdrifta vår.
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That's why we've made it our primary goal
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Difor har me gjort det til vårt hovudmål
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to spend a large sum of money
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å bruka mykje pengar på
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on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate
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reklame som kompliserer
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the truth about coal.
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sanninga om kolet.
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The fact is, coal isn't dirty.
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Fakta er at kol ikkje er skitent.
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We think it's clean --
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Me synest det er reint -
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smells good, too.
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det luktar godt òg.
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So don't worry about climate change.
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Så ikkje uroa deg for klimaendringane.
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Leave that up to us.
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La det vera opp til oss.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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Video: Actor: Clean coal -- you've heard a lot about it.
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Video: Skodespelar: Reint kol, du har høyrt mykje om det.
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So let's take a tour of this state-of-the-art clean coal facility.
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Så la oss ta ein tur på denne førsteklasses fabrikken for reint kol.
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Amazing! The machinery is kind of loud.
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Utruleg! Maskinane bråkar mykje.
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But that's the sound of clean coal technology.
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Dette er lyden av teknologien for reint kol.
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And while burning coal is one of the leading causes of global warming,
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Og medan fyring med kol er ein av dei største årsaka til global oppvarming,
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the remarkable clean coal technology you see here
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endrar denne utrulege reint kol-teknologien
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changes everything.
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du ser her alt.
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Take a good long look: this is today's clean coal technology.
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Ta ein god kikk, dette er dagens reint kol-teknologi.
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Al Gore: Finally, the positive alternative
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Al Gore: Det positive alternativet
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meshes with our economic challenge
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gjer noko med den økonomiske utfordringa vår
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and our national security challenge.
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og den nasjonale tryggleiksutfordringa.
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Video: Narrator: America is in crisis -- the economy,
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Video: Forteljar: Amerika er i krise, økonomien,
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national security, the climate crisis.
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nasjonal tryggleik, klimakrisa.
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The thread that links them all:
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Tråden som lenkjer dei alle,
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our addiction to carbon based fuels,
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er avhengigheita vår til karbonbasert energi,
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like dirty coal and foreign oil.
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som skiten kol og utanlandsk olje.
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But now there is a bold new solution to get us out of this mess.
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Men no er det ei modig ny løysing som kan få oss ut av dette problemet.
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Repower America with 100 percent clean electricity
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Få Amerika til å bruka 100 prosent rein elektrisitet
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within 10 years.
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i løpet av 10 år.
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A plan to put America back to work,
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Ein plan som vil få Amerika tilbake i arbeid,
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make us more secure, and help stop global warming.
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gjera oss meir trygge og stoppa global oppvarming.
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Finally, a solution that's big enough to solve our problems.
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Endeleg ei løysing som er stor nok til å løysa problema våre.
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Repower America. Find out more.
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Ny energi til Amerika. Finn ut meir.
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Al Gore: This is the last one.
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Al Gore: Dette er den siste.
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Video: Narrator: It's about repowering America.
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Video: Forteljar: Det handlar om å gje Amerika ny energi.
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One of the fastest ways to cut our dependence
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Ein av dei raskaste måtane å kutta avhengigheita vår
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on old dirty fuels that are killing our planet.
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til gamle skitne brensel som drep planeten vår.
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Man: Future's over here. Wind, sun, a new energy grid.
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Mann: Framtida er over her. Vind, sol, eit nytt nett av energi.
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Man #2: New investments to create high-paying jobs.
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Mann 2: Nye investeringar som skaper nye høgt lønna jobbar.
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Narrator: Repower America. It's time to get real.
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Forteljar: Ny energi til Amerika. Det er på tide å gjera det.
07:26
Al Gore: There is an old African proverb that says,
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Al Gore: Det er eit gamal afrikansk ordtak som seier
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"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
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"Viss du vil gå raskt, gå åleine.
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If you want to go far, go together."
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Viss du vil gå langt, gå saman."
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We need to go far, quickly.
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Me må gå langt, og det raskt.
07:36
Thank you very much.
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Takk skal dykk ha!
07:38
(Applause)
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(Applaus)
Translated by Svein Olav Langåker
Reviewed by Martin Hassel

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Al Gore - Climate advocate
Nobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions.

Why you should listen

Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. While he’s is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors, Gore spends the majority of his time as chair of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis.

He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”

Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.

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