Posted on 10/12/2018 5:37:31 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Vice President Al Gore said Friday that the United Nations' new report on climate change demonstrates that the world is experiencing a "global emergency."
“We have a global emergency,” Gore said in an interview on PBS NewsHour. "You use a phrase like that and some people immediately say, ‘okay calm down, it can’t be that bad.’ But it it is."
"What the scientists have warned us in this recent report is that if we do not take action quickly … then consequences down the road would be far, far worse than what we’re experiencing now," Gore added, stating that climate change could become an existential threat to civilization based on the report's findings.
His comments came days after the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that included a range of dire warnings about the globe's warming climate.
The report noted that climate change could have catastrophic consequences in the coming decades if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t cut drastically by 2030.
Gore, who has long been a champion of environmental causes, said the report's authors "torqued up" their warnings in an effort to get the attention of lawmakers.
But President Trump appeared to show some skepticism about the report's authors when asked about its findings this week.
“It was given to me and I want to look at who drew it, which group drew it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “Because I can give you reports that are fabulous and I can give you reports that aren’t so good."
Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on climate-related causes, ripped Trump over the comment, saying his approach to climate change is "literally insane" and that his reaction to the report is an "outlier."
"It's making the U.S. coming off like a rogue nation," Gore said, before adding that the "large carbon polluters" are Trump's buddies.
Trump's administration has weakened several Obama-era policies designed to cut back on emissions during his presidency. Last year, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate accord, an agreement reached by 195 countries to curb global greenhouse gas emissions through individual, nonbinding national plans.
Needs more money.
Well, just another Gorebal Warning.
Truely nothing to see here folks, move along.
Yeah. He said that 20 years ago too.
To stop traveling and only use Skype for meetings?
To sell his surplus mansions to NGOs for housing "climate refugees"?
If not, he can GFH and ES.
BROKEN! RECORD!
BROKEN! RECORD!
Climate change didn’t work...Russia, Russia didn’t work...Stormy didn’t work...Grabbing p*ssy didn’t work...War with NK didn’t work...
Now we’re back to climate change...
"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
--Christiane Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) 2015 speech
He’s got a lot of nerve showing his mug in public. Must be from his tortured Vietnam experience.
Al Gore, money whore...
Yet China, the country that emits far and away the most greenhouse gases in the world, somehow evades the nagging criticism of Gore and the other GW crusaders.
With the core being millions of degrees, what does one expect?
After all, manbearpig invented the Internet.
So the “originator of the Internet” and founder of the unproven Global Warming conspiracy theory is doing his periodic “Chicken Little” routine again and we should believe him when he has the same track record as Slow Joe Biden of being wrong on everything 100% of the time!!!!
We need to find somebody in 2024 who is just like DJT.
Drama Queen
Gore’s family trashed the Caney Fork River by letting lead and other crap from their pal Armand Hammer to flow into the river above Center Hill Lake in TN. Al was a REMF reporter in Vietnam.
turn off the lights Al;, your party’s over
In the light of the Trump presidency when I look back at that time I think man what a lousy choice we had between Bush and Gore.
I was a big W supporter too - sorry about that everyone I was wrong. The only way W doesn't/didn't look terrible is when you put him next to Gore or Kerry - otherwise he just Jeb Bush but less conservative ugh!
So many people died or maimed pointlessly because he started a maintenance war he didn't seem to want to finish. For heavens sake we are still in Afghanistan - I'm not sure why anymore.
Anyhow Al Gore sucks donkey he right there with Jeff Sessions
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