Alert! Alert! Alert! Hyperbole approaching at warp speed...
Al Gore, on global warming:
"We must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization," he said. And: "This is the most serious challenge the world has ever faced." And: It "could completely end human civilization, and it is rushing at us with such speed and force."
The only guy who is even in Gore's class as a hyperbolist is Andrew Sullivan.