.@AlGore: "Climate deniers are really in some ways similar to [the] 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams. They heard the gunshots & nobody has stepped forward" pic.twitter.com/HP73yz4LCT
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 24, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/07/24/gore-compares-climate-change-deniers-to-cops-at-uvalde/
Former Vice President Al Gore compared climate change deniers to the police officers who responded to the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting and waited in the hallway as 21 innocents were slaughtered.
The global warming activist said there are solutions available now to remedy the climate crisis, but a “broken” democracy is stifling the efforts. He encouraged voters to back “pro-climate” lawmakers in the House and Senate to turn the tide.
“We’ve got an election coming up. And this is time for all of us to step up,” he told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview aired Sunday.
“The climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward,” Gore, who served as vice president for eight years in the Clinton administration, said.
He added: ”God bless those families who’ve suffered so much.”
Law enforcement officials were seen on video waiting in the hallway of Robb Elementary School for more than an hour as a gunman armed with an assault rifle carried out a rampage on May 24, killing 21 people.
Gore said efforts to combat climate change are being thwarted by the 50-50 divide in the Senate and Democrats’ narrow majority in the House, saying that the fight against climate change “shouldn’t be a partisan issue.”
“Confronted with this global emergency, what we’re doing with our inaction and failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings. We do have the solutions. And I think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change minds,” said Gore, whose 2006 documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” raised the dangers of climate change.
“We have to have unity as a nation to come together and stop making this a political football,” he said.
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Today, @algore likened climate realists to the do-nothing Uvalde police.
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 24, 2022
In 1989, he likened CO2 emissions to the Nazis.
There is no science to the climate hoax.
That's why its advocates offer nothing but disgusting exaggeration. 2/ pic.twitter.com/f58gAuYDlm
