Al Gore wishes global warming wasn't real

Former vice president Al Gore, the target of ridicule by climate skeptics this winter, says he wishes global warming was an "illusion."

Former vice president Al Gore has long warned of the dangers of global warming. He spoke about them during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.

Unfortunately, its dangers are real, despite mistakes by a leading United Nations climate-science panel, Gore writes Sunday in The New York Times. "The overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged," he says, adding:

In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

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