Al Gore

It really is quite extraordinary.

My goodness.

Nobody could have imagined that it would be this incredible, but it is, and it's right before us, and they still want to ignore it.

Since 2015, the world's installed twice as much solar as all fossil fuels combined.

Solar is the breakout winner in fuel sources.

Electric vehicles have increased 34 times over since the time of the Paris Agreement.

Vehicle sales in China, 52 percent are already EVs, and within five years, the prediction is 82 percent of all car sales will be electric vehicles.

Also, by the way, China in April installed 45 gigawatts of new solar capacity in one month.

That's the equivalent of 45 brand-new giant nuclear reactors in one month.

It's actually incredible what is happening, and the cost of all of these clean energy technologies has come down quite dramatically, particularly solar, and even more dramatic,

is utility-scale batteries, 87 percent down.

That's making a huge difference as well.

But I have to say this.

There's one thing that the so-called climate realists are right about.

In spite of this progress, we are still moving too slowly.

to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

We have got to accelerate it.

We have the ability to do so, but the single biggest reason we have not been able to move faster is the ferocious opposition to virtually every policy proposal to try to speed up this transition and reduce the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

And the fossil fuel industry has used a lot of bright, shiny objects to divert the public's attention and deceive them into thinking there are solutions other than reducing fossil fuel use.

For example, carbon capture and storage and direct air capture and the recycling of plastics.