Climate Change and HAARP – A Working Relationship?

To those attending the Folk Alliance International conference, he noted examples of flooding in locations both remote and closer to home, such as in Manitou Springs, Colo., where high water barreled down mountain highways last year, carrying cars along with it.

"They had never seen anything like this in Manitou Springs," Gore said. He cited the possibility of how flooding in Pakistan could destabilize that country, a nuclear power, and the possible effect that continuing drought in California might have on the world’s food supply.

"Think about that," he said. "The Dust Bowl is coming back, quickly, unless we act." Gore presented animation from his 2006 film depicting water pushing into the streets of lower Manhattan — much mocked at the time, Gore said — followed by images of water filling New York City subway tunnels during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.

Gore conceded the possible fatigue some may have with his warnings, as well as the possible sense of powerlessness as to what any one individual can do to affect what appear to be vast, unchangeable trends. "Do we really have to do this and — if the answer is yes — can we do it?"

... Gore urged those in attendance to write songs and spread a renewable energy message "all over this land." Folk music, he added, "played a positive role in resolving the central question in civil rights, as to what was truly right and truly wrong."