RALEIGH - Former Vice President Al Gore wants to chat with you about the effects of global warming and what you can do about it.

A screening of Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" will be at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Ferguson Auditorium of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.

Audiences in three cities -- Asheville, New York and Los Angeles --will be able to ask Gore questions after the movie through a satellite link i-Chat.

In his documentary film, Gore points to melting glaciers, increasing numbers of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, and the migration of 279 species of plants and animals from their habitats and closer to the poles as evidence of global warming aided by fossil fuels.

Asheville was picked because of residents' high interest in environmental concerns, said Adrian Talbott, co-founder and executive director of Generation Engage.

The nonpartisan nonprofit wants to involve more young people in the political process.

"What happens to the environment is not an ethereal thing in Asheville," Talbott said. "The ecotourism industry is huge in Western North Carolina. Asheville is one of strongest demographics in the country where a discussion of how local action can affect global change will really bring (young) people into the fold during this election cycle."

Global warming will bring profound effects on lifestyle and economics, said Taylor Barnhill, executive director of SouthWings, a nonprofit conservation organization in Asheville. "We will lose vast stretches of our coastal lands as the ocean rises," Barnhill said. "There is no aspect of our lives today that won't be affected by climate change. What we can do is take the best knowledge and technology we have and mitigate the impacts."

Jody Flemming, director of the Western North Carolina Alliance, a grass-roots environmental organization, said some crops such as the Christmas tree industry, and small family farms and organic farms in Madison County would be affected. "Those industries would go belly up," Flemming said. "The growing season would change, and they wouldn't be able to grow the colder weather crops."

The A-B Tech screening is free with an RSVP to Adrian Dellinger at adrian.dellinger@generationengage.org.