# ‘We need to stop using the sky as an open sewer’: Former US Vice-President Al Gore

https://mins.news/en/video/49034

- CNA, 2026-09-08 02:27 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qF6RD32wl8

> Former US Vice-President and climate advocate Al Gore said the world must stop using the sky as an “open sewer” or face catastrophic consequences from climate change. He warned of rising temperatures, melting ice and increasingly erratic weather, saying predictions he made 20 years ago in An Inconvenient Truth had proved “exactly accurate”.

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