Gore claims ‘Extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago’ — ‘Extreme weather has made people wake up to climate change’ –

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Gore: Haiyan and Sandy-like storms are 'gamechanger' for public awareness of global warming - 'I think that these extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world [on climate change], and I think that is a gamechanger.'

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Bill Gates 'warned that growing prosperity as a result of development efforts could worsen global warming emissions, if energy was not generated in a clean way. 'As the poorest are being lifted up, as they're getting lights and refrigerators, we are going to use more energy. There's not a scenario here where we use less energy. We have to make the energy we use not emit any greenhouse gases, particularly CO2.'