"[Gore] goes on to say that "the emerging consensus" among climate scientists is that the "the trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming, and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful."
That phrase "emerging consensus" means NOTHING -- nothing, except Gore's OWN opinion, which he is foisting into the mouths of some vaguely specified grouping of others, others whom he hopes -- like any con artist -- the audience will accept as trustworthy experts.
It is most reasonable to take Gore's words to there most obvious meaning -- that is Gore is blaming the recent deadly cyclone on global warming.
Yes, to some it is true that a nit is not a louse. A louse is after all, to be exactingly exact in exactitude, a ADULT, and a nit is only an egg. So yes, I can understand how you, whom, I suspect would so argue that nits are not lice, would argue so nit-pickingly that Al Gore did NOT say what the ordinary listener would have heard him say.
Well, with more and more people populating "cyclone"-prone areas, that alone accounts for any increase in destruction.