Former Vice President Al Gore compares climate deniers' inaction to Uvalde law enforcement officers
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- Al Gore compared climate change deniers to Uvalde law enforcement officers in an interview with NBC News airing Sunday.
- "They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots and nobody stepped forward," Gore said.
- Gore was vice president in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001.
Former vice president and global warming activist Al Gore compared climate change deniers to Uvalde law enforcement officers in an interview with NBC News airing Sunday.
Gore told NBC News' "Meet the Press" that "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."
Uvalde police have come under intense scrutiny after how they reacted to a mass shooting on May 24, where 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Gore's comments come in light of numerous climate change-related disasters unfolding in the UK, Portugal, and Spain. On Tuesday, the UK broke a heat record with temperatures of 102.4°F (40.2°C).
He added that the US's response to climate change is not rational.
According to The Daily Wire, Gore said, "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. We have to have unity as a nation, to come together and stop making this a political football. It shouldn't be a partisan issue."
Gore was vice president in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001.