“Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real. It is time to act.”
– Al Gore, commenting on President Obama‘s climate change policy in an essay published in Rolling Stone. The 7,000 word essay, which defends climate change as a problem worthy of legislative solutions, charged the president with not taking a stronger leadership role on the issue.
