The biggest obstacles to climate action

I know not everyone has time for Al Gore, but I wanted to share his latest TED talk, delivered at a recent event called TED Countdown Summit. It’s interesting both for its content and for its tone. If you remember Gore’s influential movie An Inconvenient Truth, you’ll know his measured style as he explains climate science. Here, he’s furious.

The object of his ire is the fossil fuel companies, and the way that they have used their power to prevent climate action, including the way that an oi...