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Al Gore on Extreme Heat & the Fight Against Fossil Fuels
It’s been 17 yrs since fmr VP #AlGore raised the alarm about #ClimateChange w/his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Since then, he’s been shouting from the rooftops about the risks of #GlobalWarming more or less nonstop.
But the events of the past few wks have Gore even more worried than usual.
By David Gelles
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/climate/al-gore-on-extreme-heat-and-the-fight-against-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“Everywhere you look in the world, the extremes have now seemingly reached a new level,” he told me in an interview. “The temperatures in the North Atlantic & the unprecedented decline of the Antarctic Sea ice, both simultaneously. We see it in upstate New York, we see it in Vermont, we see it in southern Japan, we see it in India. We see it in the unprecedented drought in Uruguay & in Argentina.”
We can’t always say that a specific weather event was caused by #ClimateChange, but it is making certain extremes more likely. And this summer, the #ExtremeWeather chaos that #AlGore predicted in “An Inconvenient Truth” seems to have arrived all at once.
“Every night on the TV news is like taking a nature hike through the Book of Revelation,” Gore said.