Al Gore: "We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation"

"We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation," says Al Gore in the PBS Newshour interview that aired Monday, Al Gore: We need to restore American democracy's immunity to blatant falsehoods 03/13/2017:

The contexct of that comment was this:

And that’s a perfect example of the problem that I’m describing in “The Assault on Reason.” Again, at some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.

But putting someone in the EPA who denies even the most basic scientific truth about this, you know, it’s — the old cliches are, you can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn’t mean you’re going to fall off the edge.