Al Gore: global warming will cause more Hurricane Harvey's

Al Gore warned Texans on Monday that global warming will lead to more Hurricane Harvey's in coming years --but he urged them not to be discouraged.

Change, he said, can be made.

"We have to realize how big this thing is," Gore said. "We have got to change."

Gore, a former vice president and Noble Peace Prize winner, spoke Monday night at Rice University about climate change and the role it plays in major storms, such as Harvey. The speech comes just a few months after the release of his new climate change documentary, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." Gore's first climate change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was released 10 years ago and won an Oscar.

Hurricane Harvey made landfall Aug. 25, pummeling southern Texas with feet of rain and biting wind. The storm was one of the worst storms in U.S. history. And that, largely, has to do with climate change, Gore said.

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