Gore: ‘We Are Losing Badly’ in the Climate-Change Battle Mike Spector reports on the climate crisis. Former Vice President Al Gore compared climate change to the subprime mortgage crisis, saying the world could no longer rely on assumptions that carbon emissions would come without consequences. During a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative Wednesday, Gore criticized moves by Wall Street to repackage mortgages into securities and said those who burn dirty fuels will also feel pain in coming years. “The current economic crisis was triggered, of course, by the sudden collapse of an assumption,” Gore...