"President Biden should work for the removal of the head of the World Bank, former Vice President Al Gore said on Tuesday, calling him a “climate denier” at an event coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly.
Hours later, David Malpass, the development bank’s president, defended his record on climate, but refused to say directly whether he accepted the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously warming the planet.
Mr. Malpass called Mr. Gore’s remarks “very odd,” and noted that he was not a scientist himself when he declined to answer questions about whether he accepted climate science."
Manuela Andreoni reports for the New York Times September 20, 2022.
Source: NYTimes, 09/21/2022
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