Former VP Al Gore warns of 'boiling oceans' and 'rain bombs' during 'unhinged' ... trends now
Former Vice President Al Gore gave an 'impassioned' and 'unhinged' speech about climate change while on stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The eco-warrior warned the crowd of 'rain bombs' and boiling oceans while discussing the concerns facing Earth if drastic changes aren't made to address the environmental concerns.
Gore, who also voiced support for climate activist Greta Thunberg after her recent arrest for protesting a coal mine in Germany, said the world would soon fall into peril if citizens continue to treat the atmosphere as an 'open-air sewer.'
The video of his speech has ignited criticism online from those claiming the former politician has been 'wrong about everything' and calling him a 'shill.'
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Former Vice President Al Gore gave an 'impassioned' and 'unhinged' speech about climate change while on stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum guest said the situation is more dire than people realize and claimed the current output of greenhouse gases is sending heat into the atmosphere that is equivalent to '600,000 Hiroshima' bombs ever day.
Gore also pointed to 'xenophobia' and 'political authoritarian trends' as contributors to the ongoing climate issues and increase in refugees.
'Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees,' the activist said.
'What about a billion?! We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world! We have to act,' he yelled out, referencing how it's predicted the world will see one billion refugees 'in this century.'
Gore has spent the better half of the last two decades 'sounding the alarm' on how humanity is 'failing' when it comes to climate change.
He says the heat created from greenhouse gases is responsible for the climate disasters the world has seen in recent years.
'That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees,' Gore exclaimed during the forum.
The World Economic Forum guest said the situation is more dire than people realize and claimed the current output of greenhouse gases is sending heat into the atmosphere that is equivalent to '600,000 Hiroshima' bombs ever day
Gore was vice president alongside former President Bill Clinton
The environmental activist also mentioned the troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, which he calls a 'thin blue line.'
'People are familiar with that thin blue line that the astronauts bring back in their pictures from space? That's the part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and it's only five to seven kilometers thick,' he says.
'That's what we're using as an open sewer,' Gore continued.
That's the moment when the former vice president shared his a dire warning about the heat created by humans being pumped into the troposphere.
'We're still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day,' he said.
'The accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth,' Gore claimed.
'The accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth,' Gore said
Gore also pointed to 'xenophobia' and 'political authoritarian trends' as contributors to the ongoing climate issues and increase in refugees
Twitter users were quick to jump on Gore's speech, calling the eco-warrior 'unhinged' and
