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On Wednesday, former Vice President Al Gore appeared as the guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and field questions from the famously satirical host.

Gore is known for his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, an alarming look at the progressions of global warming and how humans are responsible both for the destruction of our atmosphere and for coming up with a solution.

On The Daily Show, Gore told Stewart, “We have all the tools we need to solve this – the only thing missing is political will.”Stewart, who shelved his typically comedic interrogation for smart, pointed questions, asked about the disconnect between the dire nature of the situation and our world’s slow, inefficient response: “Has the urgency of the language taken away from the message of the solutions?”

The urgency, Gore said, is no joke. There are some steps that have been taken, such as the development of a “super grid” that will transport solar energy across the US. But, he said, political cooperation, public participation and support from Big Oil is still missing.