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Al Gore Is Still an Optimist

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In front of a packed room at Heatmap House on Wednesday morning, former Vice President Al Gore made the case for optimism on climate change. “There is a possibility we will look back on this year of 2026 as the positive tipping point on climate,” he said. He started with some high water marks in renewable energy and electric vehicles. Last year was the first year that the production of energy from renewable sources exceeded the overall increase in global energy demand, for example. Whereas 20 years ago, when Gore’s landmark climate change film An Inconvenient Truth premiered, there were virtually no electric vehicles on the road, by the end of this year about 30% of all new cars sold globally will be EVs. On top of that, he later added, “the war in Iran marks the second time in four years that the fossil fuel supply chain has been disrupted, and price volatility has returned, and people around the world have reacted to this and in a really dramatic way.” Just in the past six months, EV