Who said this?

“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says, ‘You have to intervene here,’ you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that says this isn’t important.'”

Why, it was none other than wooden old Al Gore—who keeps surprising me with his deft touch in explaining climate change in ways that just about anybody can understand. I mean, you’d have to be a pretty terrible parent to entrust your sick child to the care of a bunch of quacks.