Maybe this explains what Mr. gore is talking about and why have run up $65 Trillion in federal debts...
Our sun is overdue to explode...
ACCORDING to calculations of astronomers, an explosion of the sun is some 600,000,000 years overdue, assuming that our private star has the same number of outbursts as the average star—which may not necessarily be correct. A definite number of star explosions occur in a definite area of space in a given period, and from these facts it is computed that the average star explodes once in 400,000,000 years. Read full from modernmechanix.com
NOTE: (article from 1933 but so are all of are 'new ideas' lately ;-)