Thread by @Lcars24

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.
—Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more—if more should be required—the future of human civilization is at stake.
—Al Gore

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
—Al Gore

The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.
—Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
—Al Gore

Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.
—Al Gore

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
—Al Gore

The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
—Al Gore

We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home Earth is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.
—Al Gore

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.
—Theodore C. Sorensen

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now, the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.
—Al Gore

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them now.
—Al Gore

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
—Al Gore

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
—Al Gore

I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use such innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.
—Al Gore

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
—Kurt Vonnegut

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
—Kurt Vonnegut

We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap.
—Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2014)

Iceberg A-68, containing twice as much water as Lake Erie, broke off Antarctica's Larson-C ice shelf in July 2017 and will eventually add to the sea level. We are due for a meter of rise no matter what, but when the Ross Ice Shelf collapses it will add 5 meters to sea levels.