Al Gore on climate disasters that have been predicted by scientists

"We've already seen so many catastrophic consequences that are exactly what the scientists predicted would occur and yet it has not brought us across the political tipping point yet I think that it will. I recently checked to see what percentage of Americans have been under an extreme weather alert during the first eight months of this year. The answer, 100%. Every single person in the United States has been at one time or another this year under an extreme weather alert. And the extremes related to the climate are getting worse regularly. When I started giving my slideshows, Andrew, on climate, I would pick examples of the various impacts from 10 years ago, 5 years ago. Now, this was yesterday, this was the day before yesterday, this is going on right now. And right now you pointed to this intensifying hurricane coming toward the Gulf Coast. But at the same time we have once in a thousand year rainfalls in central Europe, unprecedented fires in Portugal unprecedented drought in Namibia and i could keep going it's happening all over the world but frankly the fact that it is global in its man of in its dimensions is one of the reasons is hard for us uh... and as human beings to were not to to deal with it because we're not used to thinking in that in that context."