A climate gadfly’s job - CSMonitor.com

A lot has changed in the five years since Al Gore won an Oscar for his documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” and a Nobel Peace Prize for his dramatic warning about the dangers of climate change.

Back then concerns over climate seemed to be winning hearts and minds. The question was shifting from “Should we do something about climate change?” to “How are we going to do it?”
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Responsible climate scientists won’t insist that any specific climate disaster is the result of climate change. But the general pattern fits with their predictions of a changing climate: hotter, drier than before in some regions, wetter and stormier in others.

As a gadfly, Gore needs to keep biting, until America again pays attention.

If the Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years, how many of those years were not "hotter, drier than before in some regions, wetter and stormier in others"?