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Harold Hutcheson
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Former Vice President Al Gore expressed anger at “polluters” and asked people to listen to scientists on climate change while speaking at a United Nations climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Speakers at the COP29 summit, which begins on Monday, have previously proposed taxing the meat and dairy industries and “climate finance” initiatives for less developed countries. Speaking at the conference, Gore claimed that climate scientists' predictions had been proven “totally correct.”
“The fact that the scientists who predicted all this decades ago have been proven to be absolutely right should make the rest of us pay even more attention to what they're telling us now!” Gore fiercely addressed the crowd, causing Cheers and applause from attendees. “Do we listen to polluters, who don’t want to do anything meaningful that might reduce fossil fuels, or do we listen to scientists, who keep telling us what needs to be done?” (Related: UN summit spokesperson claims “naming extreme heat events” will help combat climate change)
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“In the middle of this year, we had a very extreme drought in China, and what’s happening in the Amazon, the Solimos River, the Negro River, it’s the worst drought ever in the Amazon—90 percent of the river flow in Colombia is Overwhelmed. “In Namibia and Zimbabwe, they are now culling livestock – killing wild animals to help feed hungry people. How much longer are we going to let this get worse before we decide to take action? Sorry. , I’m pushing my own buttons these days.
Gore claimed that 30 million tons of Greenland ice was melting within an hour of his speech, and he warned that melting ice could have catastrophic consequences for the oceans.
“This is freshwater flowing from Greenland into the North Atlantic, which involves a critical part of the ocean circulation system. It could be disrupted,” he said. “Some scientists disagree, but increasingly they are sounding the alarm.” (Click here to watch the Daily Caller documentary “Anarchy U”)
“If you look at the statement at the bottom, these peer-reviewed scientists in this peer-reviewed study say, 'We estimate collapse around the middle of this century.' What? What?” Gore continued. “The entire planet Some of the load-bearing elements of the ecosystem are at risk. What are we doing? Just walking away, walking away, without much progress. Again, I'm excited here, so I'm going to try to calm down.
Multiple officials from the Biden administration — who dropped a major emissions initiative at the event — including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White House climate adviser John Podesta and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, are Azerbaijan participated in this event. According to Bloomberg, Podesta told attendees in a speech on Monday that the United States will continue to participate in the fight against climate change despite the election of former President Trump.
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