Gore upbeat about political climate change attitude

One time American vice-president, Al Gore, has given an optimistic evaluation of the international attitude towards climate change.

He believes a crucial political trade off point has been reached, which will open the road to prevent an environmental disaster to all nations’ leaders

According to an interview with the Guardian newspaper, Gore, a Nobel peace prize-winner, believes that the election of Barack Obama as President, together with increased understanding of the problem by business executives, has resulted in sufficient impetus to deal with the biggest danger to the planet.

He is sure that a world agreement will be achieved at the UN enabled climate meeting set for December in Copenhagen.

He agrees that there are still major trials ahead, but he believes there are now more grounds for optimism.

Al Gore won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth”, his documentary made in 2006.

He had private talks last December with President Obama when they apparently discussed the environmental components of the $787bn US stimulus package that became law in February.

Gore said top businessmen who were still disbelievers, should see a warning in the disintegration of the sub-prime mortgage markets.

There are now quite a few trillions dollars worth of sub-prime carbon resources whose value presupposes that CO2 is free and 70m tonnes of it being emitted into the atmosphere daily is not a problem.

The originator of the Gaia theory, James Lovelock, said the European carbon trading system was ruinous.

Gore said that Lovelock understands more about science than he ever will but his frustration over political systems is maybe hiding some of the prospects for change in the political system.