Former Vice President Al Gore warns of ‘boiling oceans’ and ‘rain bombs’ during ‘insane’ speech at Davos forum

Former Vice President Al Gore delivered an ‘impassioned’ and ‘insane’ speech on climate change 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 the Earth if drastic changes are not made to address environmental concerns.

Gore, who also voiced his support for climate activist Greta Thunberg after her recent arrest for protesting a coal mine in Germany, said the world would soon be in danger if citizens continued to treat the atmosphere like an ‘outdoor sewer’. .

The video of his speech has drawn criticism online from those who say the former politician has been “wrong about everything” and calling him an “accomplice”.

The World Economic Forum guest said the situation is more dire than people realize and claimed that current production of greenhouse gases is sending heat into the atmosphere equivalent to ‘600,000 Hiroshima bombs’ per day.

Gore also pointed to ‘xenophobia’ and ‘authoritarian political tendencies’ as contributors to ongoing climate problems and a rise in refugees.

“Look at the xenophobia and authoritarian political tendencies that have emerged from a few million refugees,” the activist said.

‘How about a billion?! We would lose our ability to govern ourselves in this world! We have to act,” he yelled, referring to how the world is predicted to see a billion refugees “in this century”.

Gore has spent the better part of the last two decades ‘sounding the alarm’ about how humanity is ‘failing’ when it comes to climate change.

He says that the heat generated by 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 rain pumps, and sucking moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of refugees. climatic”. Gore exclaimed during the forum.

The environmental activist also mentioned the troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere, which he calls a ‘thin blue line’.

‘Are people familiar with that thin blue line that astronauts bring up in their photographs from space? That’s the part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere, and it’s only five to seven kilometers thick,” she says.

“That’s what we’re using as an open sewer,” Gore continued.

That’s the moment the former vice president shared his dire warning about human-created heat being pumped into the troposphere.

‘We are still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] in it every day,’ he said.

“The accumulated amount is now trapping as much additional heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding on earth every day,” Gore said.

Twitter users were quick to jump on Gore’s speech, calling the eco-warrior ‘unhinged’ and asking ‘how does anyone take this seriously?’

“Al Gore continues to rant insanely, claiming we are ‘boiling the oceans’ and creating ‘rain bombs’ and ‘sucking moisture from the earth and creating droughts and melting ice and raising sea levels,'” Tom wrote. Elliot in a tweet.

He has been wrong about everything. Every wrong prediction. He is complicit and offers nothing worth considering regarding our climate,” one Twitter user said.

‘How can anyone take these things seriously?’ asked National Review editor Claude Thompson.

However, some on social media applauded Gore’s “impassionate” speech, saying they believe he was only taking an aggressive approach to raise concern about the climate issue.

‘Grateful that Al Gore continues to tell the truth. Contempt for all those people in positions of power (politicians, media, celebrities) who refuse to fully sound the #WeatherEmergency alarm,” wrote a verified Twitter user.

‘Go Al Go’ wrote one user. ‘Truth to power.’

“According to Al Gore,” wrote former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile. We are in a #ClimateCrisis. There is no denying what is happening. Why are we silent? continued the former president.

However, Gore’s claims did not end there.

He said he believes that taking action on climate change should require a large majority rather than unanimous agreement among global players.

“The world bank is completely failing to do its job,” Gore said. Everyone knows that the world bank is failing badly.

Gore believes that oil-rich states are companies that are complicating the process when it comes to taking action.

“We cannot allow the oil companies, the gas companies and the petrostates to tell us what is allowed,” he said. ‘At the last COP, we were not even allowed to discuss reducing oil and gas.’

COP is the name of the climate change conference organized by the United Nations.

Gore also expressed concern about the “appearance of conflict of interest” in having the head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., Sultan al-Jaber, as the next COP president.

‘Are we going to be able to discuss reducing oil and gas at the next COP or (are we) putting the oil industry in charge of the COP?’ he asked.

Gore also expressed his support for climate activist Greta Thunberg, who was arrested in Germany for protesting against a coal mine in the area.

“I agree with your efforts to stop that coal mine,” Gore said.

The former vice president’s remarks come as other world leaders during the summit said the world is in a “sorry state” due to “interrelated” challenges.

The group pointed to issues like climate change and Russia’s war in Ukraine that are “piling up like cars in a chain reaction crash.”

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made the remarks on the second day of the meeting.

Guterres said broader levels of geopolitical division and mistrust across generations are undermining efforts to tackle global problems, which also include growing inequality, a cost-of-living crisis sparked by skyrocketing inflation, an energy crisis and the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. and supply chain disruptions.

He singled out climate change as an “existential challenge” and said a global commitment to limit the rise in Earth’s temperature to 1.5°C “is almost going up in smoke.”

“We learned last week that certain fossil fuel producers were fully aware in the 1970s that their main product was baking our planet,” he said in his speech. ‘Some at Big Oil sold the big lie.’