TED2009
Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
Al Gore advarer om den seneste klimaudvikling
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Under TED2009 viser Al Gore nye slides fra hele kloden som understreger, at den skræmmende klimaudvikling er endnu værre end forskere forudså. Samtidig advarer Gore om begrebet "rent kul".
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. Full bio
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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Sidste år viste jeg de her to slides
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demonstrate that the arctic ice cap,
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for at illustrere, at isen omkring Nordpolen
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which for most of the last three million years
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- som i de fleste af de sidste tre millioner år
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has been the size of the lower 48 states,
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har været på størrelse med USA minus Alaska -
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has shrunk by 40 percent.
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er skrumpet med 40 procent.
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But this understates the seriousness of this particular problem
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Men billedet underspiller alvoren i problemet
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because it doesn't show the thickness of the ice.
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fordi det ikke viser isens tykkelse.
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The arctic ice cap is, in a sense,
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Isen omkring Nordpolen er, på sin vis,
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the beating heart of the global climate system.
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det bankende hjerte i klodens klima-system.
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It expands in winter and contracts in summer.
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Det udvides om vinteren. Trækkes sammen om sommeren.
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The next slide I show you will be
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Den næste slide jeg viser er en hurtig
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a rapid fast-forward of what's happened over the last 25 years.
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spolen frem gennem de sidste 25 år.
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The permanent ice is marked in red.
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Den permanente iskappe er vist med rødt.
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As you see, it expands to the dark blue --
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Som man kan se, udvider isen sig.
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that's the annual ice in winter,
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Det er den årlige is om vinteren.
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and it contracts in summer.
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Og sammentrækning om sommeren.
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The so-called permanent ice, five years old or older,
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Den såkaldte permanente is, fem år eller ældre,
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you can see is almost like blood,
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kan man se er næsten som blod -
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spilling out of the body here.
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- der løber ud af kroppen. På 25 år
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In 25 years it's gone from this, to this.
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er det gået fra det her. Til det her.
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This is a problem because the warming
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Det er et problem fordi temperaturstigningerne
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heats up the frozen ground around the Arctic Ocean,
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opvarmer de frosne landmasser omkring ishavet
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where there is a massive amount of frozen carbon
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hvor der er store forekomster af frosset carbon
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which, when it thaws, is turned into methane by microbes.
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som mikrober forvandler til methan-gas mens det smelter.
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Compared to the total amount of global warming pollution in the atmosphere,
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Sammenlignet med den samlede opvarmning af atmosfæren
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that amount could double if we cross this tipping point.
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så kan mængden fordobles, hvis vi overtræder vendepunktet.
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Already in some shallow lakes in Alaska,
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I nogle stillestående søer i Alaska
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methane is actively bubbling up out of the water.
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bobler aktive methangasser op gennem vandet.
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Professor Katey Walter from the University of Alaska
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Professor Katey Walter fra Unitersity of Alaska
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went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter.
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tog sammen med endnu et hold ud til en ny sø sidste vinter.
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Video: Whoa! (Laughter)
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Whoa!
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Al Gore: She's okay. The question is whether we will be.
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Hun er okay. Spørgsmålet er om vi forbliver okay.
01:53
And one reason is, this enormous heat sink
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En årsag er, at den enorme varmefordeler
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heats up Greenland from the north.
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opvarmer Grønland fra Nord.
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This is an annual melting river.
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Det er en årlig smeltevands-flod.
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But the volumes are much larger than ever.
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Mængden er meget større end nogensinde.
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This is the Kangerlussuaq River in southwest Greenland.
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Her er bræen ved Søndre Strømfjord i Grønland.
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If you want to know how sea level rises
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Hvis man vil vide hvordan havspejlet stiger
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from land-base ice melting
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på grund af indlandsis som smelter
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this is where it reaches the sea.
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så er det lige her, at det når ud i havet.
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These flows are increasing very rapidly.
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Disse strømme forøges meget hurtigt.
02:15
At the other end of the planet, Antarctica
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Og i den anden ende af kloden, Antarktis,
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the largest mass of ice on the planet.
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den største ismasse på vores planet.
02:19
Last month scientists reported the entire continent
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Sidste måned fortalte forskere, at hele verdensdelen
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is now in negative ice balance.
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nu har en negativ isbalance.
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And west Antarctica cropped up on top some under-sea islands,
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Og Vestantarktis med sine undersøiske øer
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is particularly rapid in its melting.
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smelter særlig hurtigt. Det svarer til seks
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That's equal to 20 feet of sea level, as is Greenland.
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meters havoverflade. Samme som Grønland.
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In the Himalayas, the third largest mass of ice:
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I Himmalaya, verdens tredje største forekomst af is,
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at the top you see new lakes, which a few years ago were glaciers.
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på toppen ses nu nye søer, som for få år siden var gletchere.
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40 percent of all the people in the world
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40 procent af alle verdens mennesker
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get half of their drinking water from that melting flow.
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får halvdelen af deres drikkevand fra smeltevand.
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In the Andes, this glacier is the
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I Andesbjergene er denne gletcher
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source of drinking water for this city.
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kilden til drikkevand for denne by.
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The flows have increased.
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Smeltevandet er forøget.
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But when they go away, so does much of the drinking water.
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Når der ikke er mere at smelte, så forsvinder drikkevandet.
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In California there has been a 40 percent
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I Californien er snekappen på
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decline in the Sierra snowpack.
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Sierra-bjergene blevet 40 procent mindre.
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This is hitting the reservoirs.
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Det går ud over vandbeholdningen.
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And the predictions, as you've read, are serious.
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Og fremskrivningerne er alvorlige.
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This drying around the world has lead to
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Tørke rundt om på kloden har ført til en
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a dramatic increase in fires.
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dramatisk stigning i antallet af skovbrande.
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And the disasters around the world
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Katastroferne i hele verden
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have been increasing at an absolutely extraordinary
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er vokset med en absolut ekstraordinær
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and unprecedented rate.
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og uforudset hastighed.
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Four times as many in the last 30 years
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Fire gange så mange i de sidste 30 år
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as in the previous 75.
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som i de sidste 75.
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This is a completely unsustainable pattern.
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Det er et fuldstændig uholdbart mønster.
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If you look at in the context of history
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Hvis man ser på det historiske perspektiv
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you can see what this is doing.
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kan man se hvad det her gør.
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In the last five years
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I de sidste fem år har vi
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we've added 70 million tons of CO2
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tilført 70 millioner tons CO2 ...
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every 24 hours --
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... hvert døgn --
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25 million tons every day to the oceans.
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25 millioner tons hvert døgn til havene.
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Look carefully at the area of the eastern Pacific,
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Se godt på området i det østlige Stillehav.
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from the Americas, extending westward,
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Fra Amerika og vestpå og på
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and on either side of the Indian subcontinent,
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begge sider af det indiske landområde
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where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans.
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hvor der et massivt ilsvind i havene.
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The biggest single cause of global warming,
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Den største årsag til global opvarmning - sammen med skovhugst
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along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
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som er 20 procent af det - er afbrændingen af fossilt brændstof.
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Oil is a problem, and coal is the most serious problem.
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Olie er et problem. Og kul er det mest alvorlige problem.
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The United States is one of the two
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USA er en af de to største
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largest emitters, along with China.
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syndere sammen med Kina.
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And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.
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Og løsningen har været flere kulværker.
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But we're beginning to see a sea change.
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Men vi begynder at se forandring.
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Here are the ones that have been cancelled in the last few years
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Her er dem som i de sidste år er blevet erstattet
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with some green alternatives proposed.
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med nogle grønne alternative forslag.
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(Applause)
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(Klapsalver)
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However there is a political battle
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Men der er en politisk kamp
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in our country.
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i vores land.
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And the coal industries and the oil industries
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Og kulbranchen og oliebranchen
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spent a quarter of a billion dollars in the last calendar year
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brugte en kvart millliard dollars det sidste kalender-år
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promoting clean coal,
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på at markedsføre "rent kul".
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which is an oxymoron.
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hvilket jo er en selvmodsigelse.
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That image reminded me of something.
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Det billede mindede mig om noget.
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(Laughter)
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(Latter)
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Around Christmas, in my home in Tennessee,
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Ved juletid i min hjemegn i Tennessee,
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a billion gallons of coal sludge was spilled.
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var der et udslip på 3,8 milliard liter kulslam.
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You probably saw it on the news.
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I så det måske i nyhedsudsendelserne.
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This, all over the country, is the second largest waste stream in America.
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Det var det næststørste udslip af forurening i America.
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This happened around Christmas.
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Det skete lige omkring jul.
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One of the coal industry's ads around Christmas was this one.
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Omkring jul var det her en af kulbranchens reklamer.
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Video: ♪♫ Frosty the coal man is a jolly, happy soul.
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♪♫ Kulmanden Frosty er en glad, lykkelig fyr.
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He's abundant here in America,
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Han er rigelig her i Amerika
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and he helps our economy grow.
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og han hjælper vores økonomi med at trille.
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Frosty the coal man is getting cleaner everyday.
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Kulmanden Frosty bliver renere hver dag.
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He's affordable and adorable, and workers keep their pay.
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Han er billig og skøn - og arbejderne beholder deres løn. ♪♫
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Al Gore: This is the source of much of the coal in West Virginia.
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Her er udspringet for meget af kullet i West Virginia.
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The largest mountaintop miner is the head of Massey Coal.
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Den største bjergtops-udvinder er chefen for Massey Coal.
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Video: Don Blankenship: Let me be clear about it. Al Gore,
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Don Blankenship: Lad mig fastslå, at 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, de ved ikke hvad de taler om.
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Al Gore: So the Alliance for Climate Protection
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Så Alliancen for Klima Beskyttelse
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has launched two campaigns.
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har startet to kampagner.
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This is one of them, part of one of them.
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Det her er en af, en del af en af dem.
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Video: Actor: At COALergy we view climate change as a very serious
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Hos COALergy ser vi meget alvorligt på klimaforandringernes
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threat to our business.
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trussel -- mod vores forretning.
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That's why we've made it our primary goal
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Det er derfor har vi gjort det til vores formål
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to spend a large sum of money
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at bruge en stor bunke penge
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on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate
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på reklamer som hjælper med at komplicere
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the truth about coal.
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sandheden om kul.
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The fact is, coal isn't dirty.
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Sandheden er, at kul ikke er beskidt.
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We think it's clean --
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Vi synes, det er rent --
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smells good, too.
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og det dufter godt.
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So don't worry about climate change.
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Lad vær' med at bekymre jer om klimaforandringer.
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Leave that up to us.
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Lad os om det.
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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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Rent kul, vi har hørt meget 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 lad os tage en rundtur på denne state-of-the-art rent kul fabrik.
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Amazing! The machinery is kind of loud.
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Fantastisk! Maskinerne larmer godt nok.
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But that's the sound of clean coal technology.
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Men det er lyden af ren kul-teknologi.
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And while burning coal is one of the leading causes of global warming,
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Og mens afbrænding af kul er en af de vigtigste årsager til global opvarmning,
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the remarkable clean coal technology you see here
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så vil den bemærkelsesværdige rent-kul-teknologi som ses her
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changes everything.
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forandre alt.
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Take a good long look: this is today's clean coal technology.
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Tag et godt kig, dette er nutidens rent-kul-teknologi.
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Al Gore: Finally, the positive alternative
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Til sidst. Det positive alternativ
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meshes with our economic challenge
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forvansker vores økonomiske udfordring
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and our national security challenge.
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og vores nationale sikkerheds-udfordring.
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Video: Narrator: America is in crisis -- the economy,
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Amerika er i krise. Økonomien,
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national security, the climate crisis.
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sikkerheden, klimakrisen.
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The thread that links them all:
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Tråden som binder alle tre sammen,
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our addiction to carbon based fuels,
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er vores afhængighed af fossile brændstoffer,
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like dirty coal and foreign oil.
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som beskidt kul og udenlandsk olie.
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But now there is a bold new solution to get us out of this mess.
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Men nu er der en dristig ny mulighed for at få os ud af det rod.
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Repower America with 100 percent clean electricity
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Repower America med 100 procent ren elektricitet,
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within 10 years.
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indenfor 10 år.
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A plan to put America back to work,
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En plan som sætter Amerika i arbejde igen,
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make us more secure, and help stop global warming.
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som gør os mere trygge og som hjælper med at stoppe global opvarmning.
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Finally, a solution that's big enough to solve our problems.
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Omsider, en mulighed som er stor nok til at løse vores problemer.
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Repower America. Find out more.
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Repower America. Få mere at vide.
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Al Gore: This is the last one.
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Nu kommer den sidste.
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Video: Narrator: It's about repowering America.
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Det handler om at give Amerika styrken tilbage.
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One of the fastest ways to cut our dependence
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En af de hurtigste måder til at skabe uafhængighed
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on old dirty fuels that are killing our planet.
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fra gamle beskidte brændstoffer som dræber vores planet.
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Man: Future's over here. Wind, sun, a new energy grid.
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Fremtiden er herovre. Vind, sol og nyt forbrugsmønster.
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Man #2: New investments to create high-paying jobs.
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Nye investeringer som skaber højtlønnede arbejdspladser.
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Narrator: Repower America. It's time to get real.
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Giv Amerika styrken tilbage. Det er på tide at gøre noget.
07:26
Al Gore: There is an old African proverb that says,
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Der er et gammelt afrikansk ordsprog som lyder:
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"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
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"Hvis du vil gå hurtigt, gå alene."
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If you want to go far, go together."
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"Hvis du vil gå langt, gå sammen."
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We need to go far, quickly.
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Vi har brug for at gå langt, hurtigt.
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Thank you very much.
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Mange tak.
07:38
(Applause)
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(Klapsalve)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Al Gore - Climate advocateNobel 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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