Former Vice President Al Gore declared that scientists predicted hurricane "consequences" of climate change and warned "they're going to get a lot worse still until we stop using the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer."
Gore was reacting to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in which 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded there's currently a 12-year window to make “far-reaching and unprecedented changes” to avert dramatic effects of global warming.
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"Even without hurricanes, we get these so-called rain bombs that just devastate the places where it falls," he said. "...Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Harvey just stayed in place for days and days and days. That's something new too."
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...ier-and-wavier-so-we-have-a-global-emergency/
Gore was reacting to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in which 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded there's currently a 12-year window to make “far-reaching and unprecedented changes” to avert dramatic effects of global warming.
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"Even without hurricanes, we get these so-called rain bombs that just devastate the places where it falls," he said. "...Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Harvey just stayed in place for days and days and days. That's something new too."
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politi...ier-and-wavier-so-we-have-a-global-emergency/