This is what you’d call effi­cient. In two min­utes, we watch our plan­et take form. 600 mil­lion years of geo­log­i­cal his­to­ry whizzes by in a snap. Then we see what the next 100 mil­lion years may have in store for us. If you don’t have the patience to watch 700 mil­lion years unfold in 180 sec­onds (seri­ous­ly?), then we’ll give you this spoil­er: Coastal real estate is not a long-term buy…

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Two sci­en­tif­ic fields find them­selves under attack in the Unit­ed States. Evo­lu­tion­ary biol­o­gy and cli­ma­tol­ogy. No mat­ter what the sci­ence shows, no mat­ter how great the evi­dence, evan­gel­i­cals dis­miss the whole idea of evo­lu­tion, and our free mar­ket dog­ma­tists, oper­at­ing under the assump­tion that “the busi­ness of Amer­i­ca is busi­ness,” reject con­clu­sions accept­ed by 98% of cli­mate sci­en­tists — that human activ­i­ties are warm­ing the plan­et. Espe­cial­ly when it comes to cli­mate change, we put dog­ma before sci­ence at our own per­il. And that’s why The Real­i­ty Cli­mate Project, led by Al Gore, is host­ing today and tomor­row an online pro­gram called 24 Hours of Real­i­ty. Here’s what it’s all about:

24 Pre­sen­ters. 24 Time Zones. 13 Lan­guages. 1 Mes­sage. 24 Hours of Real­i­ty is a world­wide event to broad­cast the real­i­ty of the cli­mate cri­sis. It will con­sist of a new mul­ti­me­dia pre­sen­ta­tion cre­at­ed by Al Gore and deliv­ered once per hour for 24 hours, rep­re­sent­ing every time zone around the globe. Each hour peo­ple liv­ing with the real­i­ty of cli­mate change will con­nect the dots between recent extreme weath­er events — includ­ing floods, droughts and storms — and the man­made pol­lu­tion that is chang­ing our cli­mate. We will offer a round-the-clock, round-the-globe snap­shot of the cli­mate cri­sis in real time. The deniers may have mil­lions of dol­lars to spend, but we have a pow­er­ful advan­tage. We have real­i­ty.

Click here to find the loca­tion — or loca­tions — where you would like to watch a pre­sen­ta­tion.