Gore blames 'dirty energy ... money' for 'dirty weather' | The Daily Caller

Former Vice President Al Gore showed that he isn’t giving up on sounding the alarm on global warming and its catastrophic consequences in an appearance on Current TV’s “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm” on Thursday.

Gore, who owns CurrentTV and appeared alongside former Obama administration “green jobs czar” Van Jones, explained that “dirty energy and dirty money” are thwarting a green economy. And that, according to the former vice president, is behind “dirty weather” due to “extreme climate events.”

“Let me add if I could briefly,” Gore said, “As Van said, it’s the intersection of dirty energy and dirty money. And we can’t forget it’s creating dirty weather because the extreme climate events that the scientific community has been telling us are connected to global warming are getting worse. We had 12 events last year here in the U.S. that cost more than a billion dollars that were connected to climate. And it’s getting worse. And now, we have this extensive drought in big areas of the country, dramatic floods, stronger storms — completely consistent with what people have been predicting.”

...Gore also maintained that there is a strong consensus in the scientific community, despite a long list of documented dissent, that these consequences are real and “horrendous.”

“And the consequences according to the scientific community are horrendous,” he continued. “Every single national academy of science in the world, every professional scientific society in these related fields in the world; but the coal companies and oil companies buy these all these ads, spend all this money … they seed the organization with these lobbyists, grants and experts that go out and try to gin up this Astroturf deal.”