Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore used a sobering analogy to explain why climate change is driving natural disasters around the world.
"We're putting 162 million tons of manmade global warming pollution into that part of the sky that's blue, it's only five to seven kilometers thick. It's a very thin shell. And 162 million tons every day added. It lingers there on average, each molecule about 100 years," Gore said Monday at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Deer Valley, Utah. "So it builds up and it traps as much extra heat every day as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class, atomic bombs exploding on the Earth every day."
