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<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/</a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Did Gore invent the Internet?</div><section class="title-container" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.42;">Actually, the vice president never claimed to have done so -- but he did help the Net along. Some people would rather forget that.</h2></section><div id="try_in_app_wrapper" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="in_app_button" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <section class="writer-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2em; padding: 0px 11px 0px 0px;"><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5rem;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/writer/scott_rosenberg" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">SCOTT ROSENBERG</a></h5><h6 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; padding-bottom: 0.5rem; margin: 0px;">OCTOBER 5, 2000 </h6></section><article style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.9em;">That <a href="https://www.salon.com/directory/topics/al_gore/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Al Gore</a> once claimed to have "invented the Internet" is now part of electoral folklore -- one item in a litany of Gore "exaggerations" or "lies" that his opponents trot out to discredit him. At Tuesday's debate the line became the basis for a flatfooted one-liner <a href="https://www.salon.com/directory/topics/george_w_bush/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">George W. Bush</a> lobbed to deflect Gore's onslaught of statistics: "This is a man who has great numbers -- I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, he invented the calculator."The sheer cheek of Gore's purported claim invites mockery. Everybody knows the Internet is an extraordinarily complex piece of engineering that only incredibly smart scientists could have "invented." Politicians need not apply.But things that "everybody knows" are always worth examining for defects. And the "Gore claims he invented the Net" trope is so full of holes that it makes you wish there were product recalls for bad information.Gore never claimed to have "invented" the Internet. What he said was: <blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 2em; padding: 1em; border-left: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.</blockquote>As my colleague Jake Tapper <a href="https://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/08/04/gore/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">carefully reported</a> here last year, at worst that statement is a minor exaggeration of Gore's legislative record -- and miles away from the "I built it from scratch!" lie into which it has been twisted.The life trajectory of the "I invented the Internet" Gore meme has been well traced by <a target="new" href="http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE.Al.Gore.and.the.Inte.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Phil Agre</a> back to the <a target="new" href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18390,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">original coverage</a> of Gore's comment by Wired News' Declan McCullagh. McCullagh's first report, while never using the word "invent," interpreted Gore's statement as an outrageously false boast, and supported that view with one quotation from a conservative foundation spokesman. (That quote -- "Gore played no positive role in the decisions that led to the creation of the Internet as it now exists -- that is, in the opening of the Internet to commercial traffic" -- offers its own wildly distorted view of Internet history, narrowing its focus to "the opening of the Internet to commercial traffic" as the only significant milestone to shape today's Net.)From McCullagh, the tidbit got picked up by the TV pundits and became the butt of late-night political jokes. The word "invent" practically leaped into Gore's mouth. News outlets across the board -- including <a target="new" href="https://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/10/03/bush/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Salon</a> -- have now burned the distortion of the vice president's words into the public mind.If that were the end of the tale, we could just dismiss it as one more round of election-year spin and counter-spin in which the lies won out over the truth. But this particular snow job springs from a deeper ideological well, and that makes it more interesting.Several of the people who could claim to have "invented" the Internet, or key pieces of its protocols -- in particular, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -- are out there on the Net today <a target="new" href="http://216.110.36.217/article.pl?sid=00/09/29/0711253&mode=thread" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">defending Gore,</a> asserting that he was the politician in Washington who took the "initiative" to support the Net in its early days.Implicit in their argument is a broader awareness of what it took to create the Internet. Anything as successful as the Net is not and cannot be successful as technology alone; technology does not exist in a vacuum. And just as the Internet required the services of brains like Kahn and Cerf and all the others who contributed code to its foundations, it also needed bureaucratic and legislative patrons.It took social engineers as well as software engineers to build the Net. And that may be why the response to Gore's original statement was so savage: Not because his claim was a lie, but because it was a truth that a lot of people today are trying to forget or bury.The Internet didn't spring full-blown out of some scientists' heads, nor did it just grow, like some techno-Topsy powered by the mysterious magic of the marketplace. It emerged from the world of government-subsidized university research, and every step of the way along its passage from academic network to global information infrastructure was shepherded by the state. As the Net's parent, the government didn't do everything right; but it managed to nurture the network through its youth -- then get out of the way once it was mature enough to move out of its parents' digs and shack up with private industry.Libertarians and conservatives are uncomfortable admitting this. Their vision of Net history is a stirring saga of markets overwhelming states, technological imperatives vanquishing stifling bureaucracies and free information "routing around" government blockages. There's some truth in this vision -- but it's only part of the story.The other part of the Net's history is a complex, and sometimes dull, chronicle of federal research grants, bureaucratic infighting and legislative initiatives that stitched together a messy but functional patchwork quilt of linked computers -- the famous "network of networks" that arose primarily in the 1980s, when the term "Internet" first came into play, and that remained a dark horse in the race to connect the public until around 1994.Government alone couldn't have built today's Internet, but private industry, left to its own devices, wouldn't have, either. Without the critical spark of government-funded research lighting a fire of networked inventiveness, we'd probably have been stuck with the morass of competing proprietary online spaces that vied for the consumer's dollars in the early 1990s -- when <a href="https://www.salon.com/directory/topics/aol/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">AOL,</a> Prodigy, Compuserve, the prototypical MSN and other long-forgotten entrants like AT&T's Interchange and Apple's E-world all stared at each other across unbridgeable technological and business divides.In those days the Internet was, we were told, too complex and geeky to ever reach the masses. That piece of conventional wisdom died a fast death as, one by one, the proprietary spaces folded or took down their walls and accepted that Internet connections were what people wanted.Libertarians typically believe that the government can't do anything right, and they prefer to forget or ignore the part government has played in the Net's triumph. Giving Gore credit means admitting the government's role; distorting and mocking his claims helps deny it.McCullagh, who is outspoken in his libertarian views, argues that, though he didn't use the word "invent," it is "a not entirely unreasonable paraphrase of the vice president's remarks," and suggests that the pro-Gore comments from Cerf may have a partisan basis: "I'm a big fan of Vint Cerf, and I think he's an able defender of the vice president, but let's put his defense of the vice president in context. Cerf is an executive at a large telecommunications company, and I suspect he acts more like a Washingtonian than a technologist nowadays. For instance, Cerf was a guest of honor at the White House's New Year's Eve gala, appeared with the president and first lady at an October 1999 White House 'Millennium Evening' lecture, and joined the president and vice president at a July 1997 event to introduce administration policy proposals."Well, technologists do have a right to their political leanings, don't they? But the defense of Gore currently underway feels to me less like a party-line effort than like the repayment of a debt of gratitude by Internet pioneers who feel that Gore is being unfairly smeared.That's what you'll hear from Phillip Hallam-Baker, a former member of the CERN Web development team that created the basic structure of the World Wide Web. Hallam-Baker calls the campaign to tar Gore as a delusional Internet inventor "a calculated piece of political propaganda to deny Gore credit for what is probably his biggest achievement.""In the early days of the Web," says Hallam-Baker, who was there, "he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established -- he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned 'Not Found' the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep."That sounds like a pretty good description of the kind of "initiative" Gore claimed credit for in the first place. So the next time you hear an "Al Gore, Internet inventor" joke, think about the strange twisted path a politician's words can take in other people's hands -- and be glad we can use the Internet to try to straighten it out.</article> <section class="writer-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2em; padding: 0px 11px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1em;">SCOTT ROSENBERG</h3>Salon co-founder Scott Rosenberg is director of <a href="http://www.mediabugs.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">MediaBugs.org</a>. He is the author of <a href="http://www.sayeverything.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">"Say Everything"</a> and <a href="http://www.dreamingincode.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Dreaming in Code</a> and blogs at <a href="http://www.wordyard.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Wordyard.com</a>.MORE FROM <a href="https://www.salon.com/writer/scott_rosenberg" class="writer-social" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">SCOTT ROSENBERG</a></section></div></div>That film was mocked and dismissed by climate deniers. For instance, an <a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=257863" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">editorial in the Wall Street Journal</a>, written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of atmospheric science Richard Lindzen, argued that Gore falsely claimed there was scientific consensus around the reality of climate change. We’re currently observing the spectacle of Republicans in Congress fighting tooth and nail to sink President Obama’s Clean Power Plant proposal, even going so far as to suggest to governors that their states break the law to defy the federal government and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.So when you find Democrat Al Gore on the same side of an environmental issue as a far-right Tea Party leader, it’s eye-opening. But left and right are coming together over the issue of distributed <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">solar power</a> and the right of homeowners and businesses to install rooftop photovoltaic solar panels.That shared interest was highlighted this week when Gore spoke at the <a href="http://about.bnef.com/summit/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Bloomberg New Energy Finance</a> conference in New York this week back-to-back with Debbie Dooley, a national Tea Party activist, chairman of the Atlanta Tea Party and founder of Conservatives for Energy Freedom.But while Gore has focused on the climate impacts of dirty energy and the need to switch to clean energy sources to prevent global catastrophe, Dooley ignores climate change altogether to focus on individual freedom and the “free market.”“She is an activist for solar energy and decentralizing the grid, working with conservatives across the country who believe expanding renewable energy markets and customer choice are consistent with free-market principles,” <a href="http://about.bnef.com/summit/speakers/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">says her bio</a>. “She believes our nation is in the midst of a clean-energy revolution that unites grassroots activists from the left and right.”An <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-13/al-gore-joins-tea-party-in-battle-against-utilities" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">article in Bloomberg News</a> called Gore and Dooley a “political odd couple” and noted that Dooley never mentioned climate change in her presentation, focusing rather on consumer choice.“Solar equals independence—solar equals freedom,” she said, using a favorite Tea Party word. “Tea Party activists don’t like strong centralized units. There’s nothing more centralized than a utility, than the government telling you what power to buy. This is a battle that we will win. I am literally floored with the response I have been getting from conservatives with the right message.”Gore had a startlingly similar message.“People want their own opportunity to shape their own future, and renewable energy is part of that,” he said. “There is a war on solar with these legacy utilities, and coal companies using their historic political power, campaign contributions and lobbying to pass the most ridiculous laws and tax the people who want to put solar panels on their roof.”Dooley’s activism began when she joined forces with the Sierra Club to prevent Georgia Power from billing customers in advance for two nuclear plants projected to have huge cost overruns. She also helped fight off an effort by Georgia utilities to charge owners of rooftop solar an extra fee on their monthly bill, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/27/solar-under-attack-koch-brothers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">something utilities, backed by conservative groups like Americans for Prosperity, are pushing around the country</a>. Currently, Dooley is one of the leaders of a battle in Florida to protect and expand the ability of homeowners and businesses to generate their own rooftop solar and sell it to their neighbors, bypassing big utility companies. The effort is<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/08/solar-energy-amendment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">engaging both conservative and liberal environmentalists</a>.“They have a lot of policies in Florida that actually effectively block the sun,” <a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/debbie_dooley_interview_why_this_tea_party_leader_is_seeing_green_on_solar_energy/2859/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Dooley told Yale Environment 360</a>. “So you have the Sunshine State that has policies put in place by these powerful utilities to stifle competition, and I just felt like something needed to be done.”“We’re going to work together to accomplish something,” she said. “Those on the left believe in climate change and coal’s bad. Those on the right don’t like government-created monopolies— we believe in free-market choice and national security. It doesn’t matter what your reasons are, as long as we work together to accomplish a common goal. That’s all that matters, and we’re much more successful when we’re able to do that.”YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/16/al-gore-sxsw-punish-climate-deniers/#" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’</a><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/08/solar-energy-amendment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Tea Party Members and Environmentalists Join Forces in Support of Solar Energy</a><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/27/solar-under-attack-koch-brothers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">4 States Where Solar is Under Attack by Koch-Funded Front Groups</a>...For the third time in the last few years, <a href="http://ecowatch.com/author/agore/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Al Gore</a>, founder and chairman of the <a href="http://climaterealityproject.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Climate Reality Project</a>, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">climate crisis</a>. The former vice president focused on the need to “<a href="https://ecowatch.com/2015/03/13/climate-change-fantasy-tournament/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">punish climate-change deniers</a>, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,'” said the <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-sxsw-al-gore-penny-pritzker-bsi-20150313-story.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Chicago Tribune</a>.Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">fossil fuels</a> and towards companies investing in <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">renewable energy</a>. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/19/whitehouse-carbon-tax-bill/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">proposed federal cap-and-trade system</a> that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/12/millennials-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Millenials</a>, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers. “We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/04/julia-roberts-mother-nature/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Mother Nature is weighing in</a>.”Years from now, Gore said the next generation will look back at us and ask: “How did you change?,” <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2896641/al-gore-challenges-sxsw-to-focus-online-actvism-on-climate-change.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">according to Macworld</a>. “Part of the answer may well be that a group of people came to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2015 and helped to make a revolution,” Gore said.Gore wanted these young, tech-savvy attendees to start a grassroots movement using social media like they did when “net neutrality was threatened or when the Stop Online Piracy Act threatened to blacklist websites that offered so-called illegal content,” said Macworld. That means signing petitions to fight climate change, utilizing social media to call out climate deniers in Congress and streaming the <a href="http://liveearth.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Live Earth Road to Paris concert</a> on June 18, an event designed to draw attention to the climate talks in Paris this December.The former Veep even gave a nod to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/15/pope-francis-visits-philippines/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Pope Francis</a> during his talk, showing a slide of the pontiff and saying “How about this Pope?” Pope Francis celebrated his two-year anniversary as Pope on Friday, riding a wave of popularity “that has reinvigorated the Catholic Church in ways not seen since the days of St. John Paul II,” said the Chicago Tribune. Gore said he was looking forward to the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment which is due to be released in June or July. “I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”In addition to Al Gore and Climate Reality Project President and CEO Ken Berlin, a variety of international celebrities, musicians, advocates and other special guests will join the broadcast, including: filmmaker Vanessa Black, singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat, activist Rodne Galicha, environmentalist Wanjira Mathai, singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, entreprenuer Patrick Ngowi, founder of the Barefoot College Bunker Roy, actor and activist <a href="http://ecowatch.com/author/mruffalo/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px;">Mark Ruffalo</a>, actor and model<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/02/double-down-renewable-energy-beyond-coal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 25px;">Ian Somerhalder</a>, Johan van der Berg and Daniela Velasco.<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618?print=true">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618?print=true</a>~ kochs, mythsA growing number of large investors – including pension funds, university endowments (Stanford announced its decision in May), family offices and others – have announced decisions to divest themselves from carbonintensive assets. Activist and "impact" investors are pushing for divestment from carbonrich assets and new investments in renewable and sustainable assets.Several large banks and asset managers around the world (full disclosure: Generation Investment Management, which I co-founded with David Blood and for which I serve as chairman, is in this group) have advised their clients of the danger that <a href="http://genfound.org/media/pdf-generation-foundation-stranded-carbon-assets-v1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">carbon assets will become "stranded."</a> A "stranded asset" is one whose price is vulnerable to a sudden decline when markets belatedly recognize the truth about their underlying value – just as the infamous "subprime mortgages" suddenly lost their value in 2007 to 2008 once investors came to grips with the fact that the borrowers had absolutely no ability to pay off their mortgages.Shareholder activists and public campaigners have pressed carbon-dependent corporations to deal with these growing concerns. But the biggest ones are still behaving as if they are in denial. In May 2013, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson responded to those pointing out the need to stop using the Earth's atmosphere as a sewer by asking, "What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,2000</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore</a><a href="http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181">http://archive.democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181</a><a href="http://www.irregulartimes.com/gorebalispeech.html">http://www.irregulartimes.com/gorebalispeech.html</a> bali speechI am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties. So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that, but my country is not the only one that can take steps to ensure that we move forward from Bali with progress and with hope. =<a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/">http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/</a> invented=snopes on house http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
 = she and scalise went after gore:milloy version:<h2 id="post-1043" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gore lies to Congress about personal finances</h2>April 24, 2009<div class="entry" style="line-height: 1.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn confronted Al Gore with his profiteering from global warming legislation at today’s House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Al Gore said that every penny he ever made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts. [See transcript below.]That is a flat-out lie, according to this March 6, 2008 <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a7li9Nhmhvg0&refer=home" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bloomberg report</a> that indicates that Al Gore invested $35 million of his own money in various for-profit endeavors.<blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px 0px 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he’s making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships.Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming.</blockquote>Kudos to Rep. Blackburn for asking one of the “<a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31584" style="text-decoration-line: none;">10 Questions for Al Gore</a>” and exposing Gore as the fundamentally dishonest operator that he is.Here’s the transcript from the April 24, 2009 exchange between Al Gore and Rep. Blackburn. Note that not only does Al Gore lie to Rep. Blackburn, he tries to turn the tables by implicitly accusing her of being anti-business.<blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px 0px 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);">Rep. Blackburn: …You talked a little about [that] people have to have trust in what you’re doing and I think you know that this bill is going to fundamentally change the way America works and it’s going to effect families. We’ve all talked about how it affects individuals and what it’s going to do to their budgets and… ah… what it’s going to do to jobs in this country. And given the magnitude of those changes, I think it’s really important that no suspicion or shadow fall on the foremost advocates of climate change legislation. So I wanted to give you the opportunity to kind of clear the air about your motives and to set the record straight about your motives for some of your former constituents. And I’ve got an article from [the] October 8 [2008]New York Times Magazine about a firm called Kleiner Perkins… a capital firm called Kleiner Perkins. Are you aware of that company?Al Gore: Well, yes. I’m a partner at Kleiner Perkins.Rep. Blackburn: So you’re a partner in Kleiner Perkins. OK. Now they have invested about a billion dollars in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap-and-trade legislation. So is the legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?Al Gore: [Sigh]… I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us. And I have invested in it. But every penny that I have made, I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge. And, Congresswoman, if you’re… if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me.Rep. Blackburn: No, sir, I’m not making accusations. I’m asking questions that have been asked of me. And individuals… constituents… that were seeking a point of clarity. So I am asking…Al Gore: I understand exactly what you’re doing Congresswoman. Everybody here does.Rep. Blackburn: Well, are you willing to divest yourself of any profit. Does all of it go to a not-for-profit. Is it an education not-for-profit?Al Gore: Every penny that I have made has gone to it. Every penny from the movie, the book… uh… from any investments from renewable energy. I’ve been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?Rep. Blackburn: I am simply asking for clarification on the relationship.Al Gore: I’m proud of it. I’m proud of it.Rep. Blackburn: Thank you and I appreciate the answer…</blockquote></div> =bloomberg: note this says nothing about profits<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; background: no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gore Invests $35 Million for Hedge Funds With EBay Billionaire</h1><div id="story_meta" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; line-height: 14px; background: no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);"><cite class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px; display: block; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3em; background: transparent;">By Miles Weiss - March 6, 2008 00:07 EST</cite></div><div class="clearfix" id="story_content" style="margin: 8px 0px 10px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6em; background: no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gore invested the money with Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, California, firm that selects the private funds for clients and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products, according to a Feb. 1 securities filing. Capricorn was founded by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, former president of EBay Inc. and an executive producer of Gore's Oscar-winning documentary film on global warming.March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Vice President <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Al+Gore&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Al Gore</a> left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he's making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships.Since losing the 2000 presidential election to <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=George+W.%0ABush&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">George W. Bush</a>, Gore, 59, is best <a href="http://www.algore.com/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">known</a> for focusing attention on climate change through his book and movie, An Inconvenient Truth,'' which helped him win a Nobel Peace Prize. Gore's newfound wealth resulted, in part, from speaking engagements and ties to Silicon Valley firms with soaring stock market values, such as Google Inc. and Apple Inc.Gore got a lot of support from Silicon Valley when he ran for president because they knew the Internet was one of his primary concerns,'' said Tony Coelho, a former congressman and investment banker who served as chairman of Gore's 2000 campaign.It's very legit that these people would pursue him'' after he left office, Coelho said, adding that Gore received Google and Apple stock options before their shares went into the stratosphere.''<a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Kalee+Kreider&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Kalee Kreider</a>, a spokeswoman for Gore and his wife, Tipper, declined to comment on the hedge-fund investment or how Gore has made his money.Private Citizen'He is a private citizen, and as a private citizen he has never commented on his private finances,'' said Kreider, who works out of Nashville, Tennessee.Gore donated his proceeds from the global-warming book and movie to his <a href="http://www.climateprotect.org/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a>, Kreider added.John Jonson, chief operating officer at Capricorn, also had no comment.Gore's investment, disclosed in a private-placement filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was made through Carthage LP. The partnership, formed in December, has the same name as the ex-vice president's home town in Tennessee.Skoll, 43, founded Capricorn after deciding in late 2001 that he wanted to diversify his wealth, at the time comprised primarily of EBay stock. The firm began taking on a few outside clients last year, according to SEC filings.Father's EstateIn the last personal finance report he filed as vice president, Gore disclosed on May 22, 2000, that the value of his assets totaled between $780,000 and $1.9 million. In addition, Gore listed an interest in his father's estate that included <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=OXY:US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Occidental Petroleum Corp.</a> stock worth as much as $1 million.He and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Tipper+Gore&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Tipper Gore</a> released tax returns for 1998 showing they earned $224,376 that year, less than half the income of President <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Bill+Clinton&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Hillary+Clinton&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Hillary Clinton</a>, news reports at the time said.Now Gore charges a $175,000 speaking fee and has a net worth well in excess'' of $100 million, including pre-public offering Google stock options, according to an <a href="http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/06/21/al_gores_100_million_makeover.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">article</a> in Fastcompany.com last year. Kreider said the speaking fees vary and Gore doesn't disclose them.Gore has served as a senior adviser to Mountain View, California-based Google since February 2001, shortly after leaving public office. Google spokesman <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Jon+Murchinson&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Jon Murchinson</a> said in an e-mail: We have not provided comment on if or how we compensate Mr. Gore in his role as an advisor to Google.''Metropolitan WestThe former vice president also served as vice chairman of Metropolitan West Financial Inc., a money manager run in part by former Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. executives, starting in 2001.He co-founded Current Media Inc., a cable television and Internet company, in 2002 and is listed as its executive chairman in a January SEC filing for the company's initial public offering. It said he earned $1 million in salary and bonus last year, and owned 3.7 million shares of company stock.Gore joined Apple's board in 2003 and co-founded London-based Generation Investment Management in 2004. Last November, he became a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.Capricorn, in managing Skoll's fortune -- estimated at $4.2 billion by Forbes magazine last March -- primarily allocates money to different private partnerships, including hedge funds and energy and real-estate funds.Skoll FoundationOne of Capricorn's clients, the <a href="http://www.skollfoundation.org/?gclid=CNOag7ef8pECFQJvHgod1XoTrA" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Skoll Foundation</a>, had almost $264 million, or 78 percent of its assets, invested in more than 75 partnerships at June 30, 2006, according to its most recently available tax filing with the Internal Revenue Service.The funds included <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Eric+Mindich&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Eric Mindich</a>'s Eton Park Capital Management LP, <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Ralph+Whitworth&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Ralph Whitworth</a>'s Relational Investors LLC, and <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Arthur+Samberg&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Arthur Samberg</a>'s Pequot Capital Management Inc.`They don't put all their eggs in one basket,'' said Homi Vazifdar, a managing director at the<a href="http://www.canyonequity.com/our_people/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Canyon Group</a>, of Larkspur, California, who is familiar with Capricorn's investment style.Stephen George, Capricorn's chief investment officer, previously worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. specializing in helping technology clients develop expertise in e-commerce. New York-based Goldman underwrote San Jose, California-based EBay's initial public offering.To contact the reporter on this story: <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Miles+Weiss&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Miles Weiss</a> in Washington at <a href="mailto:mweiss@bloomberg.net" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">mweiss@bloomberg.net</a>To contact the editor responsible for this story: <a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Larry+Edelman&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">Larry Edelman</a> in Boston at<a href="mailto:ledelman3@bloomberg.net" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: no-repeat transparent;">ledelman3@bloomberg.net</a></div>wiki<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="background-image: none;">Al Gore</a> is the former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Vice President of the United States</a> (1993–2001), the 2000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Democratic Party</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_nominee" title="Presidential nominee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">presidential nominee</a>, and the co-recipient of the 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Nobel Peace Prize</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a>. He has been involved with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">environmental activist movement</a> for a number of decades.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background-image: none;">Contents</h2>   [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Childhood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">1 Childhood</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">2 Politics</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">2.1 Congress</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Vice_presidency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">2.2 Vice presidency</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#2001-present" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3 2001 - present</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Generation_Investment_Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.1 Generation Investment Management</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#We_Can_Solve_It" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.2 We Can Solve It</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Lectures_and_conferences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.3 Lectures and conferences</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Repower_America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.4 Repower America</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Civil_disobedience_to_stop_coal_plants" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.5 Civil disobedience to stop coal plants</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Climate_Reality_Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.6 Climate Reality Project</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Environmental_criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">3.7 Environmental criticism</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Books.2C_film.2C_television.2C_and_live_performances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4 Books, film, television, and live performances</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#An_Inconvenient_Truth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.1 An Inconvenient Truth</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.2 Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Futurama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.3 Futurama</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Live_Earth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">4.4 Live Earth</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize_and_India" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">5 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and India</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Selected_honors_and_awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">6 Selected honors and awards</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Selected_publications" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">7 Selected publications</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Books_2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">7.1 Books</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Articles.2C_speeches.2C_and_introductions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">7.2 Articles, speeches, and introductions</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Glossary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">8 Glossary</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">9 Further reading</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">10 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">11 Notes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">12 External links</a></li></ul></div> <h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Childhood<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Childhood" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Childhood" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Gore stated in an interview for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">New York Times</a> that his interest in environmentalism began when he was a teenager:<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">As I was entering high school, my mother was reading Silent Spring and the dinner table conversation was about pesticides and the environment [...] The year I graduated from college the momentum was building for Earth Day. After Vietnam, as I was entering divinity school, the Club of Rome report came out and the limits to growth was a main issue.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-nytgreen-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Politics<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Politics" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Congress<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Congress" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>Gore has been involved with the environment for a number of decades. In 1976, after joining the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">United States House of Representatives</a>, Gore held the "first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsor[ed] hearings on toxic waste and global warming."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-guadiantimeline-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-nation-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a> He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-timegreen-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a> and was known as one of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Democrat" title="Atari Democrat" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Atari Democrats</a>, later called the "Democrats' Greens, politicians who see issues like clean air, clean water and global warming as the key to future victories for their party."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-nytgreen-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-biosen-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a>In 1989, while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Washington Post</a>, in which he argued<blockquote style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with the planet Earth. The world's forests are being destroyed; an enormous hole is opening in the ozone layer. Living species are dying at an unprecedented rate.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a></blockquote>In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan" title="Global Marshall Plan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Global Marshall Plan</a>, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a>The Concord Monitor says that Gore "was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vice presidency<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Vice presidency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Vice presidency" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>As Vice-President, Gore was involved in a number of initiatives related to the environment. He launched the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLOBE_program" title="GLOBE program" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">GLOBE program</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day" title="Earth Day" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Earth Day</a>1994, an education and science activity that, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_magazine" title="Forbes magazine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Forbes magazine</a>, "made extensive use of the Internet to increase student awareness of their environment".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a> In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Kyoto Protocol</a>, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[11]</a> He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95–0) the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrd%E2%80%93Hagel_Resolution" title="Byrd–Hagel Resolution" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Byrd–Hagel Resolution</a> (S. Res. 98),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[12]</a> which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[13]</a> On November 12, 1998, Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lieberman" title="Joseph Lieberman" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Joseph Lieberman</a> indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[14]</a> The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification. In 1998, Gore began promoting a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">NASA</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite" title="Satellite" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">satellite</a> that would provide a constant view of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" title="Earth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Earth</a>, marking the first time such an image would have been made since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble" title="The Blue Marble" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">The Blue Marble</a> photo from the 1972 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Apollo 17</a> mission. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triana(satellite)" title="Triana (satellite)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">"Triana" satellite</a> would have been permanently mounted in the L1 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_Point" title="Lagrangian Point" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Lagrangian Point</a>, 1.5 million km away.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[15]</a> During this time, he also became associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Earth" title="Digital Earth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Digital Earth</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[16]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2001 - present<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2001 - present" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2001 - present" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Generation Investment Management<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Generation Investment Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Generation Investment Management" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In 2004, Gore co-launched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Investment_Management" title="Generation Investment Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Generation Investment Management</a>, a company for which he serves as Chair. The company was "a new London fund management firm that plans to create environment-friendly portfolios. Generation Investment will manage assets of institutional investors, such as pension funds, foundations and endowments, as well as those of '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_net_worth_individual" title="High net worth individual" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">high net worth individuals</a>,' from offices in London and Washington, D.C."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-business-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[17]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We Can Solve It<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: We Can Solve It" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: We Can Solve It" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>Gore and The Alliance for Climate Protection created the We Can Solve It organization, a web-based program with multiple advertisements on television focused on spreading awareness for climate crisis (global warming) and petitioning for the press putting more attention on the crisis, the government doing more to help the environment, and their ultimate goal is the end to global warming. Although focused mostly upon the United States, and Americans, it is an international petition and effort. It already has over one million signatures.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.wecansolveit.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lectures and conferences<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Lectures and conferences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Lectures and conferences" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In recent years, Gore has remained busy traveling the world speaking and participating in events mainly aimed towards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">global warming</a>awareness and prevention.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[18]</a> His keynote presentation on global warming has received standing ovations, and he has presented it at least 1,000 times according to his monologue in An Inconvenient Truth. His speaking fee is $100,000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[19]</a> Gore's global warming presentations in several major cities have been associated with exceptionally severe cold weather, a juxtaposition since dubbed "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gore_Effect" title="The Gore Effect" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">the Gore Effect</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[20]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[21]</a> Gore is a vocal proponent of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_on_climate_change#Lifestyle_action" title="Action on climate change" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">carbon neutrality</a>, buying a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset" title="Carbon offset" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">carbon offset</a> each time he travels by aircraft.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[22]</a> Gore and his family drive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle" title="Hybrid vehicle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">hybrid vehicles</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[23]</a>In An Inconvenient Truth Gore calls for people to conserve energy. In 2007, Al Gore was the main non-official representative for the United States in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="United Nations Climate Change Conference" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">United Nations Climate Change Conference</a> in Bali, which is a series of discussions that plans to continue where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Kyoto Protocol</a> left off when it expires in 2012.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[24]</a> He used a famous<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">World War II</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came..." title="First they came..." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">poem</a> written by Pastor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller" title="Martin Niemöller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Martin Niemöller</a> to describe how the international community is eerily accomplishing nothing in the face of the greatest crisis in human history.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[25]</a> He ended the speech using his famous tag line: "However, political will is a renewable resource."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[26]</a>During <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commemorative_days#February" title="List of commemorative days" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Global Warming Awareness Month</a>, on February 9, 2007, Al Gore and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson" title="Richard Branson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Richard Branson</a> announced the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Earth_Challenge" title="Virgin Earth Challenge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Virgin Earth Challenge</a>, a competition offering a $25 million prize for the first person or organization to produce a viable design that results in the removal of atmospheric <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gases" title="Greenhouse gases" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">greenhouse gases</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[27]</a>A public lecture at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">University of Toronto</a> on February 21, 2007, on the topic of global warming, led to a crash of the ticket sales website within minutes of opening.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[28]</a>In March 2008, Gore gave a talk via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing" title="Videoconferencing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">videoconferencing</a> in order to promote this technology as a means, he argued, of fighting global warming.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[29]</a>On 17 July 2008, Gore gave a speech at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAR_Constitution_Hall" title="DAR Constitution Hall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">DAR Constitution Hall</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> in which he called for a move towards replacing a dependence upon "carbon-based fuels" with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_energy" title="Green energy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Green energy</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">United States</a> within the next ten years. Gore stated: "When <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">President John F. Kennedy</a> challenged our nation to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy#Space_program" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">land a man on the moon and bring him back safely</a> in 10 years, many people doubted we could accomplish that goal. But 8 years and 2 months later, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong" title="Neil Armstrong" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Neil Armstrong</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin" title="Buzz Aldrin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Buzz Aldrin</a> walked on the surface of the moon."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-july17text-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[30]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-july18green-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[31]</a> Some criticized his plan. According to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">BBC</a>, "Robby Diamond, president of a bipartisan <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">think tank</a> called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Securing_America%27s_Future_Energy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Securing America's Future Energy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Securing America's Future Energy</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[32]</a> said weaning the nation off <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">fossil fuels</a> could not be done in a decade. 'The country is not going to be able to go cold turkey [...] We have a hundred years of infrastructure with trillions of dollars of investment that is not simply going to be made obsolete.' " <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-bbccritic-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[33]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Repower America<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Repower America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Repower America" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>On July 21, 2008 Al Gore used a speech to challenge the United States to commit to producing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_electricity_from_renewable_sources" title="All electricity from renewable sources" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">all electricity from renewable sources</a> (AERS) like solar and wind power in 10 years .<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[34]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[35]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Al Gore</a>´s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection" title="Alliance for Climate Protection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a> has created the Repower America project to promote this goal.In this speech, Al Gore says that our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of the economic, environmental and national security crises. Our democracy has become sclerotic at a time when these crises require bold policy solutions.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[36]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Resource_Solutions" title="Center for Resource Solutions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Center for Resource Solutions</a> supports Al Gore's Repower America goal.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[37]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none;">Civil disobedience to stop coal plants<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Civil disobedience to stop coal plants" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Civil disobedience to stop coal plants" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>On September 24, 2008 Gore made the following statements in a speech given at the Clinton Global Initiative:"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[38]</a>These remarks were similar to ones he'd made the previous year:“I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers,” Mr. Gore said, “and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[39]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate Reality Project<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Climate Reality Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Climate Reality Project" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>In March 2010<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[40]</a> two nonprofit organizations founded by Al Gore, The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection" title="Alliance for Climate Protection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climate_Project" title="The Climate Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">The Climate Project</a>, joined together, and in July 2011 the combined organization was renamed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Reality_Project" title="Climate Reality Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Climate Reality Project</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[41]</a> In February 2012 the Climate Reality Project organized an expedition to the Antarctic with civic and business leaders, activists and concerned citizens from many countries.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[42]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Environmental criticism<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Environmental criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Environmental criticism" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>Four main environmental criticisms are regularly leveled at Gore: (1) he has an alleged conflict of interest from his role as both an investor in green-technology companies and as an advocate of taxpayer-funded green-technology subsidies,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[43]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[44]</a> (2) he allegedly makes erroneous scientific claims,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-Al_Gores_inconvenient_judgment-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[45]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[46]</a> (3) he consumes excessive amounts of energy,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[47]</a> and (4) he allegedly refuses to debate others on the subject of global warming.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[48]</a>In reference to Gore's alleged conflict of interest, some critics have labeled Gore a "carbon billionaire." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-ind1104-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[49]</a> In response to these criticisms Gore stated that it is “certainly not true” that he is a “carbon billionaire” and that he is "proud to put my money where my mouth is for the past 30 years. And though that is not the majority of my business activities, I absolutely believe in investing in accordance with my beliefs and my values."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-tel1105-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a>Gore was challenged on this topic by Tennessee Congresswoman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn" title="Marsha Blackburn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Marsha Blackburn</a> who asked him: "The legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-tel1105-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a> Gore responded by stating: "I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it." Gore also added that all earnings from his investments have gone to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection" title="Alliance for Climate Protection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a> and that "If you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-tel1105-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[50]</a> Finally, Gore told Blackburn: "Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country [...] I am proud of it. I am proud of it."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-nyt1102-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[51]</a>Criticisms of Gore's allegedly erroneous scientific statements tend to focus on a British High Court's ruling that Gore's Inconvenient Truth documentary was deemed by the court to have nine significant errors.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-Al_Gores_inconvenient_judgment-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[45]</a>Gore has also been the subject of criticism for his personal use of energy, including his use of private jets[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">citation needed</a>] and ownership of multiple very large homes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[52]</a> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Center_for_Policy_Research" title="Tennessee Center for Policy Research" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Tennessee Center for Policy Research</a> (TCPR) has twice criticized Gore for electricity consumption in his Tennessee home. In February 2007, TCPR stated that its analysis of records from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Electric_Service" title="Nashville Electric Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Nashville Electric Service</a> indicated that the Gore household uses "20 times as much electricity as the average household nationwide."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[53]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[54]</a> In reporting on TCPR's claims, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">MSNBC</a>'sCountdown With Keith Olbermann noted that the house has twenty rooms and home offices, and that the "green power switch" they chose to install incrsed their electric bill while decreasing their overall carbon pollution.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[55]</a> Philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C.Grayling" title="A. C. Grayling" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">A. C. Grayling</a> also defended Al Gore, arguing that Gore's personal lifestyle does nothing to impugn his message and that Gore's critics have committed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem_fallacy" title="Ad hominem fallacy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">ad hominem fallacy</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[56]</a>A few months later, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Associated Press</a> reported on December 13, 2007 that Gore "has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation's most environmentally friendly [...] 'Short of tearing it down and starting anew, I don't know how it could have been rated any higher,' said Kim Shinn of the non-profit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Green_Building_Council" title="U.S. Green Building Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">U.S. Green Building Council</a>, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[57]</a>Gore was criticized by the TCPR again in June 2008, after the group obtained his public utility bills from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Electric_Service" title="Nashville Electric Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Nashville Electric Service</a> and compared "electricity consumption between the 12 months before June 2007, when it says he installed his new technology, and the year since then."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[58]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-group-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[59]</a> According to their analysis, the Gores consumed 10% more energy in the year since their home received its eco-friendly modifications. TCPR also argued that, while the "average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year," the Gore residence "uses an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-group-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[59]</a> Gore's spokeswoman Kalee Kreider countered the claim by stating that the Gores' "utility bills have gone down 40 percent since the green retrofit." and that "the three-year renovation on the home wasn't complete until November, so it's a bit early to attempt a before-and-after comparison."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-meade-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[60]</a> She also noted that TCPR did not include Gore's gas bill in their analysis (which they had done the previous year) and that the gas "bill has gone down 90 percent [...] And when the Gores do power up, they pay for renewable resources, like wind and solar power or methane gas."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-pullsplug-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[61]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Media Matters for America</a> also discussed the fact that "100 percent of the electricity in his home comes from green power" and quoted the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> as stating that "[a]lthough no source of energy is impact-free, renewable resources create less waste and pollution."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-mm-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[62]</a>Furthermore, organizations such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETA" title="PETA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">PETA</a> have criticized Gore for not advocating vegetarianism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[63]</a> Gore responded by stating, "I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat [...] It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis - not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-veg-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[64]</a>Some have argued that Gore refuses to debate the topic of global warming. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg" title="Bjørn Lomborg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Bjørn Lomborg</a> asked him to debate the topic at a conference in California. Gore replied that he would not, stating that "The scientific community has gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time when we should pretend this is a ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ issue,” he said. “It’s not a matter of theory or conjecture, for goodness sake." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-debate-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[65]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Books, film, television, and live performances<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Books, film, television, and live performances" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Books, film, television, and live performances" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An Inconvenient Truth<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: An Inconvenient Truth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: An Inconvenient Truth" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth" title="An Inconvenient Truth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">An Inconvenient Truth</a></div>Gore starred in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">documentary film</a> An Inconvenient Truth, released on May 24, 2006. The film documents the evidence for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment" title="Human impact on the environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">anthropogenic</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">global warming</a> and warns of the consequences of people not making immediate changes to their behavior. It is the fourth-highest-grossing documentary in U.S. history.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-Box_Office_Mojo-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[66]</a>After An Inconvenient Truth was nominated for an Academy Award, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Brazile" title="Donna Brazile" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donna Brazile</a> (Gore's campaign chairwoman from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_presidential_campaign,2000" title="Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2000 campaign</a>) speculated that Gore might announce a possible presidential candidacy for the 2008 election. During a speech on January 31, 2007, at<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian_College" title="Moravian College" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Moravian College</a>, Brazile stated, "Wait till <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_awards" title="Academy awards" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oscar</a> night, I tell people: 'I'm dating. I haven't fallen in love yet. On Oscar night, if Al Gore has slimmed down 25 or 30 pounds, Lord knows.'"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[67]</a> During the award ceremony, Gore and actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio" title="Leonardo DiCaprio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> shared the stage to speak about the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening" title="Greening" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">greening</a>" of the ceremony itself. Gore began to give a speech that appeared to be leading up to an announcement that he would run for president. However, background music drowned him out and he was escorted offstage, implying that it was a rehearsed gag,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[68]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[69]</a> which he later acknowledged.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[70]</a>After winning the 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Documentary_Feature" title="Academy Award for Documentary Feature" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Academy Award for Documentary Feature</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-79th_Oscar-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[71]</a> the Oscar was awarded to director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Guggenheim" title="Davis Guggenheim" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Davis Guggenheim</a>, who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage. Gore then gave a brief speech, saying, "My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[72]</a>The official documentary film website is meaningfully called climatecrisis.net <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[73]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Books<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Books" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3>Gore wrote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance" title="Earth in the Balance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Earth in the Balance</a> (which was published in 1992) while his six-year-old son Albert was recovering from a serious accident. It became the first book written by a sitting Senator to make <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">The New York Times</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestseller" title="Bestseller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">bestseller</a> list since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">John F. Kennedy</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiles_in_Courage" title="Profiles in Courage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Profiles in Courage</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[74]</a>Gore also published the book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth:The_Planetary_Emergency_of_Global_Warming_and_What_We_Can_Do_About_It" title="An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It</a>, which became a bestseller. In reference to the use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power" title="Nuclear power" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">nuclear power</a> to mitigate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">global warming</a>, Gore has stated, "Nuclear energy is not the panacea for tackling global warming."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[75]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Futurama<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Futurama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Futurama" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 3px !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Gore_on_Futurama.png" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;"><img src="/fb1b79e8-01b8-55b6-b525-3ffe68edf51d.png"/></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; padding: 3px !important;"><div class="magnify" style="margin-left: 3px; float: right; border: none !important; background-image: none !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Gore_on_Futurama.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: block; background-image: none !important; border: none !important;"><img src="/7b33bf3b-d9a2-5719-817e-5029a011431a.png"/></a></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_human_characters_from_Futurama#Al_Gore" title="List of recurring human characters from Futurama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Gore's head in a jar</a> as depicted in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama" title="Futurama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Futurama</a> episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_of_the_Hot" title="Crimes of the Hot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Crimes of the Hot</a>".</div></div></div>Gore appeared in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Groening" title="Matt Groening" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Matt Groening</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama" title="Futurama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Futurama</a> as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_in_Futurama#Al_Gore" title="List of recurring characters in Futurama" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">himself and his own head in a jar</a> in episodes related to environmentalism. Gore also reprised the role in the 2007 film, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama:Bender%27s_Big_Score" title="Futurama: Bender's Big Score" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Futurama: Bender's Big Score</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[76]</a> In 2000 Gore had offered to appear in the 2000 season finale of Futurama, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_Interest_I" title="Anthology of Interest I" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Anthology of Interest I</a>". In this episode, Gore led his team of "Vice Presidential Action Rangers" in their goal to protect the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_continuum" title="Space-time continuum" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">space-time continuum</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[77]</a> In 2002, Gore appeared in the episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_of_the_Hot" title="Crimes of the Hot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Crimes of the Hot</a>".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[78]</a> In addition, Gore used a short clip from Futurama to explain how global warming works in his presentations as well as in An Inconvenient Truth.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[79]</a> An internet promo for An Inconvenient Truth titled A Terrifying Message From Al Gore was also produced by Groening and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X.Cohen" title="David X. Cohen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">David X. Cohen</a>, creators of Futurama, starring Gore and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender(Futurama)" title="Bender (Futurama)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Bender</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DiMaggio" title="John DiMaggio" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">John DiMaggio</a>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-BBSDVD-80" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[80]</a><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Live Earth<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Live Earth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Live Earth" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Earth" title="Live Earth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Live Earth</a></div>On July 7, 2007, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Earth(2007_concert)" title="Live Earth (2007 concert)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Live Earth</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_concert" title="Benefit concert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">benefit concerts</a> were held around the world in an effort to raise awareness about climate change. The event was the brainchild of Gore and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Wall" title="Kevin Wall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Kevin Wall</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Our_Selves" title="Save Our Selves" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Save Our Selves</a>. On July 21, 2007, Gore announced he was teaming with actress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Diaz" title="Cameron Diaz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Cameron Diaz</a> for a TV climate contest, 60 Seconds to Save the Earth, to gain people's support in solving the climate crisis.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[81]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2007 Nobel Peace Prize and India<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and India" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and India" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 222px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 3px !important;"><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; padding: 3px !important;">  </div></div></div>Gore was awarded the 2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Nobel Peace Prize</a>, which was shared by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a>, headed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_K.Pachauri" title="Rajendra K. Pachauri" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Rajendra K. Pachauri</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Delhi</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">India</a>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-82" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[82]</a> The award was given "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" on October 12, 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-nobel2007-83" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[83]</a>Gore made the following statement after receiving the prize:<blockquote class="toccolours" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 10px 15px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; float: none; display: table; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis—a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level. My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Climate_Protection" title="Alliance for Climate Protection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Alliance for Climate Protection</a>, a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan" title="Bipartisan" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">bipartisan</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization" title="Non-profit organization" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">non-profit organization</a> that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[84]</a></blockquote>Gore and Pachauri accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Oslo</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway" title="Norway" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Norway</a> on December 10, 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[85]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-86" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[86]</a>In a talk given during March 2008 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Delhi</a>, Gore argued that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">India</a>, as a leader in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">information technology</a>, is in a particularly strong position to also lead the way in climate change.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-87" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[87]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-88" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[88]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-89" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[89]</a> This talk coincided with the release of two children's books by Gore jointly published with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Habitat_Centre" title="India Habitat Centre" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">India Habitat Centre</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-autogenerated1-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[90]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Selected honors and awards<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Selected honors and awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Selected honors and awards" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2008 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_David_Prize" title="Dan David Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Dan David Prize</a>: "Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-91" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[91]</a></li></ul><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2008 The Gore resolution (HJR712) passed by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_House_of_Representatives" title="Tennessee House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Tennessee House of Representatives</a> which honors Gore's "efforts to curb global warming."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-92" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[92]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg" title="Gothenburg" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Gothenburg</a> Prize for Sustainable Development<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-93" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[93]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Nobel Peace Prize</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a> (IPCC) (environment)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Academy_of_Television_Arts_and_Sciences" title="International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences</a>: Founders Award for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_TV" title="Current TV" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Current TV</a> and for work in the area of global warming<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-94" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[94]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards" title="Prince of Asturias Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Prince of Asturias Award</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Spain</a> (environment)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-95" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[95]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2007 The Sir <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough" title="David Attenborough" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">David Attenborough</a> Award for Excellence in Nature Filmmaking (environment)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-96" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[96]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2006 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Awards" title="Quill Awards" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Quill Awards</a>: History/current events/politics, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth" title="An Inconvenient Truth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">An Inconvenient Truth</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Selected publications<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; 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vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Books" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Books" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii=");" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Choice" title="Our Choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Our Choice</a>. Rodale Books. 2009. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59486-734-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-59486-734-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">1-59486-734-8</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Al Gore. (2008). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Purpose:The_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Lecture_2007&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007 (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007</a>. Rodale Books. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-60529-990-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-60529-990-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">1-60529-990-1</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Know Climate Change and 101 Q and A on Climate Change from 'Save Planet Earth Series', 2008 (children's books) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-autogenerated1-90" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[90]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Al Gore. (2006). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth" title="An Inconvenient Truth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">An Inconvenient Truth</a>: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We can do about it. New York: Rodale Books. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59486-567-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-59486-567-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">1-59486-567-1</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Al Gore (1992). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance" title="Earth in the Balance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Earth in the Balance</a>: Forging a New Common Purpose. Earthscan. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-618-05664-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-618-05664-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">0-618-05664-5</a>.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; background-image: none;">Articles, speeches, and introductions<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Articles, speeches, and introductions" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change</a>." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">New York Times</a>, February 27, 2010.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?r=1&em=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=allm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">The Climate for Change</a>." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">New York Times</a>, 9 November 2008.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/speeches/2005-09-09algore.asp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Transcript of Al Gore's speech at the Sierra Summit, September 9, 2005</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isde5.org/al_gore_speech.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">The Digital Earth: Understanding our planet in the 21st Century, by Vice President Al Gore, Given at the California Science Center, Los Angeles, California, on January 31, 1998</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/Homepages/virtualopera/cyber24/SITE/essay/gore.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Vice President Al Gore's introduction to Earthwatch: 24 Hours In Cyberspace</a>. February 8, 1996. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_in_Cyberspace" title="24 Hours in Cyberspace" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">24 Hours in Cyberspace</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/k2570663t87507ug/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Understanding Earth: Retrospectives and Visions post conferences report</a>." Geojournal, Volume 37, Number 3 / November 1995.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uneco.org/ssalgoreintro.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Introduction</a>. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring" title="Silent Spring" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Silent Spring</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson" title="Rachel Carson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Rachel Carson</a>. 1994. New York : Houghton-Mifflin.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gcrio.org/USCCAP/toc.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">The Climate Change Action Plan</a>. Washington, D.C.: The White House, October 1993 (with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clinton" title="William Clinton" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">William Clinton</a>).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1590/is_n1_v50/ai_14390995/print" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">News briefs — Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., talks about the environment — Letter to the Editor</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_World(magazine)" title="Science World (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Science World</a>, 3 September 1993.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=12284961&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">"We must challenge the unthinkable"</a>. Integration. 1992 Mar;(31):18-23.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=7129230" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Gaining our eco-librium</a>." Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy ; Vol/Issue: 5:2, June 1, 1990.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D91F3AF931A15757C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">To Skeptics on Global Warming . . .</a>." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">New York Times</a>, April 22, 1990.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101200827_pf.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Earth's Fate Is the No. 1 National Security Issue</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Washington Post</a>, 14 May 1989</li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glossary<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Glossary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Glossary" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2>Al Gore uses the terms:<ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_crisis" title="Climate crisis" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Climate crisis</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">global warming</a>/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">climate change</a>).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_refugee" title="Climate refugee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Climate refugee</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Energy_tsunami&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Energy tsunami (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Energy tsunami</a> (a loss of access to foreign oil).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Megafire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Megafire (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Megafire</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kirk, Andrew G. Counterculture Green: The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog" title="Whole Earth Catalog" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Whole Earth Catalog</a> and American Environmentalism. Lawrence: Univ. of Kansas Press, 2007.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore#cite_note-97" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[97]</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See also<span class="mw-editsection mw-editsection-expanded" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; direction: ltr;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">edit source</a> | <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Environmental_activism_of_Al_Gore&veaction=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: See also" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">editbeta</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Reality_Project" title="Climate Reality Project" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">Climate Reality Project</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_philosophers" title="List of environmental philosophers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">List of environmental philosophers</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Resources_Institute" title="World Resources Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none;">World Resources Institute</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wri.org/about/board" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Board of Directors</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wri.org/about/board/al-gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;" xmlns:data="data">Biosketch for Al Gore</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notes</h2><h1>Is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accurate?</h1><div id="myth" style="border: 1px solid rgb(127, 191, 0); margin-bottom: 10px;">What The Science Says:
Al Gore's film was "broadly accurate" according to an expert witness called when an attempt was made through the courts to prevent the film being shown in schools.</div><div id="science" style="border: 1px solid rgb(202, 39, 9);">Climate Myth: Al Gore got it wrong
“Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, was […] criticised by a high court judge who highlighted what he said were "nine scientific errors" in the film.Mr Justice Barton yesterday said that while the film was "broadly accurate" in its presentation of climate change, he identified nine significant errors in the film, some of which, he said, had arisen in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration" to support the former US vice-president's views on climate change.”  (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/11/climatechange?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront" target="self">The Guardian</a>) </div> Al Gore, certainly the most vilified proponent of climate change anywhere in the world, earned most of this enmity through the success of a film he presented called An Inconvenient Truth (AIT). The film was a staid presentation of climate science to date, a round-up of research, science and projections, with many cinematic sequences employed to harness the power of the medium.The majority of the film, covering issues like Himalayan Glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica losing ice, the severity of hurricanes and other weather phenomena, was accurate and represented the science as it stood. Since the release of the film, considerably more evidence has been found in support of the science and projections in the film.One claim was in error, as was one attribution of a graph. The error was in the claim that climate change had caused the shrinking of Mount Kilimanjaro, although the evidence that the shrinkage was most likely caused by deforestation did not appear until after the film was made. The error of attribution was in reference to a graph of temperature and attributes it mistakenly to a Dr. Thompson, when it was actually a combination of Mann’s hockey stick and CRU surface temperature data.<h3>The Legal Case</h3>The film is also subject to attack on the grounds that Al Gore was prosecuted in the UK and a judge found many errors in the film. This is untrue.The case, heard in the civil court, was brought by a school governor against the Secretary of State for Education, in an attempt to prevent the film being distributed to schools. Mr. Justice Burton, in his judgement, ordered that teaching notes accompanying the film should be modified to clarify the speculative (and occasionally hyperbolic) presentation of some issues.Mr. Justice Burton found no errors at all in the science. <a href="http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2007/2288.html&query=title+%28+dimmock+%29&method=boolean">In his written judgement</a>, the word error appears in quotes each time it is used – nine points formed the entirety of his judgement - indicating that he did not support the assertion the points were erroneous. About the film in general, he said this:17. I turn to AIT, the film. The following is clear:i) It is substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science is used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political programme.22. I have no doubt that Dr Stott, the Defendant's expert, is right when he says that:
"Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate."The judge did identify statements that had political implications he felt needed qualification in the guidance notes for teachers, and ordered that both qualifications on the science and the political implications should be included in the notes. Al Gore was not involved in the case, was not prosecuted, and because the trial was not a criminal case, there was no jury, and no guilty verdict was handed down.Note: the vilification of Al Gore is best understood in the context of personalisation. When opponents attack something abstract - like science - the public may not associate with the argument. By giving a name and a face and a set of behavioural characteristics - being a rich politician, for example - it is easy to create a fictional enemy through inference and association. Al Gore is a successful politician who presented a film, his training and experience suitable to the task. To invoke Gore is a way to obfuscate about climate science, for which Gore has neither responsibility, claim nor blame.Basic rebuttal written by <a href="http://gpwayne.wordpress.com/" target="blank">GPWayne</a><div><a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=187">http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=187</a></div>...OCT 2007<ol><li style="list-style: none;">The Film</li><li value="17."><a id="para17" name="para17">I turn to AIT, the film. The following is clear:</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> <blockquote>i) It is substantially founded upon scientific research and fact, albeit that the science is used, in the hands of a talented politician and communicator, to make a political statement and to support a political programme. ii) As Mr Chamberlain persuasively sets out at paragraph 11 of his skeleton:<blockquote><blockquote>"The Film advances four main scientific hypotheses, each of which is very well supported by research published in respected, peer-reviewed journals and accords with the latest conclusions of the IPCC:</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>(1) global average temperatures have been rising significantly over the past half century and are likely to continue to rise ("climate change");</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>(2) climate change is mainly attributable to man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide ("greenhouse gases");</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>(3) climate change will, if unchecked, have significant adverse effects on the world and its populations; and</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote>(4) there are measures which individuals and governments can take which will help to reduce climate change or mitigate its effects."</blockquote></blockquote>These propositions, Mr Chamberlain submits (and I accept), are supported by a vast quantity of research published in peer-reviewed journals worldwide and by the great majority of the world's climate scientists. Ms Bramman explains, at paragraph 14 of her witness statement, that:<blockquote><blockquote>"The position is that the central scientific theme of Al Gore's Film is now accepted by the overwhelming majority of the world's scientific community. That consensus is reflected in the recent report of the IPCC. The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options and adaptation and mitigation. Hundreds of experts from all over the world contribute to the preparation of IPCC reports, including the Working Group I report on Climate Change 2007: The physical Science basis of climate change, published on 2 February 2007 and the most recent Mitigation of Climate Change, the Summary for Policy-makers published by Working Group III on 4 May 2007. A copy of both documents are annexed to the Witness Statement of Dr Peter Stott. The weight of scientific evidence set out by the IPCC confirms that most of the global average warming over the last 50 years is now regarded as "very likely" to be attributable to man-made greenhouse gas emissions."</blockquote></blockquote>For the purposes of this hearing Mr Downes was prepared to accept that the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report represented the present scientific consensus......</blockquote></li></ol><div>
</div><div><ol><li style="list-style: none;">The 'Errors'1. 'Error' 11: Sea level rise of up to 20 feet (7 metres) will be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland in the near future.</li><li value="24."><a id="para24" name="para24">In scene 21 (the film is carved up for teaching purposes into 32 scenes), in one of the most graphic parts of the film Mr Gore says as follows:</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> <blockquote>"If Greenland broke up and melted, or if half of Greenland and half of West Antarctica broke up and melted, this is what would happen to the sea level in Florida. This is what would happen in the San Francisco Bay. A lot of people live in these areas. The Netherlands, the Low Countries: absolutely devastation. The area around Beijing is home to tens of millions of people. Even worse, in the area around Shanghai, there are 40 million people. Worse still, Calcutta, and to the east Bangladesh, the area covered includes 50 million people. Think of the impact of a couple of hundred thousand refugees when they are displaced by an environmental event and then imagine the impact of a 100 million or more. Here is Manhattan. This is the World Trade Center memorial site. After the horrible events of 9/11 we said never again. This is what would happen to Manhattan. They can measure this precisely, just as scientists could predict precisely how much water would breach the levee in New Orleans."</blockquote></li><li value="25."><a id="para25" name="para25">This is distinctly alarmist, and part of Mr Gore's 'wake-up call'. It is common ground that if indeed Greenland melted, it would release this amount of water, but only after, and over, millennia, so that the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of 7 metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 2. 'Error' 12: Low lying inhabited Pacific atolls are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming.</li><li value="26."><a id="para26" name="para26">In scene 20, Mr Gore states "that's why the citizens of these Pacific nations have all had to evacuate to New Zealand". There is no evidence of any such evacuation having yet happened.</a></li><li value="26."><a id="para26" name="para26" /><div><a id="para26" name="para26"></a><a id="para26" name="para26">[In March 2007, we blogged about the </a><a href="http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/03/02/south_pacific/" style="line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in 0s;">dire situation of the South Pacific islands Kiribati and Tuvalu</a>. The sea is rising due to global warming, and two uninhabited islands nearby have already sunk. Now <a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/09.25/13-kiribati.html" style="line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in 0s;">Kiribati is preparing for extinction</a>:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 3em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 47px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; background-image: url(" http="http" www.edf.org="www.edf.org" sites="sites" all="all" themes="themes" edf="edf" images="images" quote.png="quote.png" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The leader of the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati laid out an extraordinary plan Monday (Sept. 22) that would scatter his people through the nations of the world as rising sea levels submerge the islands they have called home for centuries.</blockquote>Rising sea levels are submerging the land. Land not yet submerged is being rendered uninhabitable by salty ground water.This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.- See more at: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/10/14/kiribati_evacuating/#sthash.ZcJLaJS1.dpuf ]<div>---</div><div>nyt may2007</div><div>
</div><div>Dire climate change predictions may seem like science fiction in many parts of the world. But in the tiny, sea-swept Pacific nation of Tuvalu, the crisis has already arrived.Tuvalu consists of nine low-lying atolls totaling just 26 square kilometers, or 10 square miles, and in the past few years the "king tides" that peak in February have been rising higher than ever. Waves have washed over the island's main roads; coconut trees stand partly submerged; and small patches of cropland have been rendered unusable because of encroaching saltwater.The government and many experts already assume the worst: Sometime in the next 50 years, if rising sea-level predictions prove accurate, the entire 11,800-strong population will have to be evacuated.The ocean could swallow Tuvalu whole, making it the first country to be wiped off the map by global warming.But in one respect, the Tuvaluans may actually be the lucky ones - at least compared with some of their Pacific island neighbors. The New Zealand government already takes in a quota of Tuvaluans every year, many of whom have found jobs in the strawberry fields and packing plants around Auckland. And it has assured Tuvalu that it will absorb the entire population if the worst comes to pass.That is a lifeline that many similarly threatened island nations - including Kiribati, Vanuatu, the Marshall Islands, the Cook Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands - do not yet have.While their stories may not be as compelling as Tuvalu's, such nations include atolls that may also vanish. And they depend on vulnerable, low-lying coastal areas for living space, cropland and tourism. For them, even conservative estimates of rising waters look set to make life on once-idyllic islands increasingly nasty, crowded and very, very wet."Entire Pacific islands disappearing from inundation is indeed dramatic," said Asterio Takesy, director of the Pacific Regional Environment Program, an intergovernmental organization based in Apia, Samoa. "But a complete loss of livelihoods from decreased fisheries, damaged coral reefs, tourism affected by dengue epidemics, and agriculture destroyed because of changing rain patterns - surely these are just as worthy of our attention."The region already faces a witches' brew of problems that environmentalists say are being worsened by climate change: coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion onto taro cropland and tourist sites, shortages of potable water, anemic economies propped up by foreign aid, disease, dependence on sugar-packed, processed food imports.And there are health problems like obesity and diabetes exacerbated by such food imports. A recent World Health Organization survey found that the South Pacific was the world's most overweight region."We're not dealing with climate change on its own, because we have an expanding population and so greater stress on resources anyway," said Ashvini Fernando, regional climate change coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund South Pacific Program, based in Fiji. "Climate change makes those stresses so much greater."Some experts warn that, ultimately, these issues will combine to power a wave of emigrants fleeing the Pacific islands. Indeed, there are already signs of flight: according to a study by the Australian government, applications for New Zealand residency from eligible Pacific island nations shot up sharply in 2005 and 2006, compared with 2003.Some countries' economies already depend on remittances from islanders who have gone abroad to find jobs, and climate change could swell those numbers. Meanwhile, villages have already been evacuated from low-lying areas in Vanuatu and the Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea.Ben Namakin, an environmentalist and native of Kiribati, says that, in his homeland, saltwater intrusion is already ruining taro patches and spoiling well water, houses are being flooded, coastlines are receding, and a causeway whose beauty he had appreciated since he was a child collapsed last October.And, as in many such Pacific island nations, there is little higher, habitable land for people to move to."I really don't know where they will go," Namakin said in an e-mail interview. "They may move further inland, but the more they do that, they will end up on somebody else's land or reach the ocean on the other side, as the islands are too narrow."The result could be a resource grab that pushes governments to the breaking point, and a clamor to relocate to developed countries on the Pacific Rim or elsewhere."There's going to be an increased demand for migration, as people look for economic opportunities," said Benjamin Preston, an Australian government scientist in marine and atmospheric research. "And as the impact of climate change becomes more severe, that's going to add urgency into the equation."]</div></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 3. 'Error' 18: Shutting down of the "Ocean Conveyor".</li><li value="27."><a id="para27" name="para27">In scene 17 he says, "One of the ones they are most worried about where they have spent a lot of time studying the problem is the North Atlantic, where the Gulf Stream comes up and meets the cold wind coming off the Arctic over Greenland and evaporates the heat out of the Gulf Stream and the stream is carried over to western Europe by the prevailing winds and the earth's rotation ... they call it the Ocean Conveyor … At the end of the last ice age … that pump shut off and the heat transfer stopped and Europe went back into an ice age for another 900 or 1000 years. Of course that's not going to happen again, because glaciers of North America are not there. Is there any big chunk of ice anywhere near there? Oh yeah [pointing at Greenland]". According to the IPCC, it is very unlikely that the Ocean Conveyor (known technically as the Meridional Overturning Circulation or thermohaline circulation) will shut down in the future, though it is considered likely that thermohaline circulation may slow down. [ucs 2004  </a>How might thermohaline circulation be turned off?</li><li value="27.">
Thermohaline circulation is driven by the sinking of cold, salty water at high latitudes. Fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic Ocean from rainfall or the melting of ice and permafrost can make the ocean water less salty, and therefore less dense. If it becomes "light" enough, it will not sink any more, possibly slowing or shutting down global thermohaline circulation. Indeed, during some of the abrupt events in Earth's past climate, scientists find evidence of large catastrophic flows of fresh water into the North Atlantic from the melting of glaciers and ice caps, and due to flooding from glacier-dammed lakes. Without the large-scale sinking of salty water in the North Atlantic the influx of warm water to replace it from the tropics would not occur, effectively switching off the thermohaline circulation.Past changes in thermohaline circulation have occurred during periods of relatively rapid climate change, such as transitions in and out of glaciations. Similarly, the rapid warming we are currently experiencing could trigger an abrupt thermohaline shutdown and subsequent regional cooling. While a shutdown of thermohaline circulation is unlikely to occur in the next century, scientists have recently found that freshwater inputs have already caused measurable "freshening" of North Atlantic surface waters over the past 40 years. Human activities may be driving the climate system toward a threshold and thus increasing the chance of abrupt climate changes occurring.]</li><li style="list-style: none;"> 4. 'Error' 3: Direct coincidence between rise in CO2 in the atmosphere and in temperature, by reference to two graphs.</li><li value="28."><a id="para28" name="para28">In scenes 8 and 9, Mr Gore shows two graphs relating to a period of 650,000 years, one showing rise in CO2 and one showing rise in temperature, and asserts (by ridiculing the opposite view) that they show an exact fit. Although there is general scientific agreement that there is a connection, the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts.</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 5. 'Error' 14: The snows of Kilimanjaro.</li><li value="29."><a id="para29" name="para29">Mr Gore asserts in scene 7 that the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is expressly attributable to global warming. It is noteworthy that this is a point that specifically impressed Mr Milliband (see the press release quoted at paragraph 6 above). However, it is common ground that, the scientific consensus is that it cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.</a></li><li value="29."><a id="para29" name="para29" /><a id="para29" name="para29"></a><a id="para29" name="para29">[ </a><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-will-melt-snows-of-kilimanjaro-within-20-years-1813631.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-will-melt-snows-of-kilimanjaro-within-20-years-1813631.html</a> </li><li value="29."><a id="para29" name="para29" /><a id="para29" name="para29">
 </a></li><li value="29."><a id="para29" name="para29"></a><a id="para29" name="para29" /><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138696 title" style="outline: none; margin-bottom: 6px;"><h1 class="title" style="outline: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><a id="para29" name="para29">Climate change will melt snows of Kilimanjaro 'within 20 years'</a></h1></div><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138721" style="outline: none; margin-bottom: 6px;"><a id="para29" name="para29"></a><a id="para29" name="para29" /><div class="starRating" style="outline: none;"><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138720" style="outline: none; margin-bottom: 6px;"><a id="para29" name="para29"> </a><h3 class="subtitle" style="outline: none; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px;"><a id="para29" name="para29" /><a id="para29" name="para29">Ice on Africa's highest peak is vanishing at fastest rate for 100 years</a></h3></div><div class="x620 articleByTimeLocation" style="outline: none; width: 620px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: visible !important;"><div class="column-1" style="outline: none; width: 620px;"><a id="para29" name="para29">  </a> <div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138719" style="outline: none; margin: 4px 0px 2px; display: inline-block;">  <div class="byline" style="outline: none; float: left; margin: 3px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; padding-right: 5px; border-right: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a id="para29" name="para29">  </a><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/search/simple.do?destinationSectionUniqueName=search&publicationName=ind&pageLength=5&startDay=1&startMonth=1&startYear=2010&useSectionFilter=true&useHideArticle=true&searchString=byline_text:(%22By%20Steve%20Connor%22)&displaySearchString=By%20Steve%20Connor" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">BY STEVE CONNOR </a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/search/simple.do?destinationSectionUniqueName=search&publicationName=ind&pageLength=5&startDay=1&startMonth=1&startYear=2010&useSectionFilter=true&useHideArticle=true&searchString=byline_text:(%22%20Science%20Editor%22)&displaySearchString=%20Science%20Editor" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">SCIENCE EDITOR</a></div></div>   <div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138718" style="outline: none; margin: 4px 0px 2px; display: inline-block;"> </div></div><div class="x620 articleByTimeLocation" style="outline: none; width: 620px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: visible !important; display: inline !important;"><div class="column-1" style="outline: none; width: 620px; display: inline !important;"><div class="widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138717" style="outline: none; margin: 4px 0px 2px; display: inline-block;">TUESDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2009</div> </div></div><a id="para29" name="para29">The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa – may soon be falling on bare ground following a study showing that its ice cap isdestined to disappear entirely within 20 years, due largely to climate change.</a></div></div></div></li><li value="29."><a id="para29" name="para29" /><div class="body " style="outline: none; line-height: 1.4;"><a id="para29" name="para29"></a><a id="para29" name="para29" /><a id="para29" name="para29">The vast ice fields of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are melting at a faster pace than at any time over the past 100 years and at this rate they will be gone completely within two decades or even earlier according to one of the world's leading glaciologists.</a>A team led by Professor Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University said that the latest assessment of Kilimanjaro's famous ice cap has confirmed that 85 per cent of the ice that covered the mountain in 1912 has been lost, and 26 per cent of the ice that was there in 2000 is now gone.A series of cores drilled through the ice fields at different points on Kilimanjaro has revealed that the melting observed over the past few decades is unprecedented in nearly 12,000 years. The research also shows that that the current thinning of the ice cap is faster than when a devastating 300-year drought occurred 4,200 years ago, a period when very little snow fell on the mountain."The dramatic loss of Kilimanjaro's ice cover has attracted global attention. The three remaining ice fields on the plateau and the slopes are both shrinking laterally and rapidly thinning," the scientists write in a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."We present additional evidence that the combination of processes driving the current shrinking and thinning of Kilimanjaro's ice fields is unique within an 11,700-year perspective. If current climatological conditions are sustained, the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro and on its flanks will likely disappear within several decades," they say.If conditions persist, and warmer temperatures continue to melt more ice than falls in the form of snow, then there is a "strong likelihood that the ice field will disappear within a decade or two", the authors conclude.In 2000, Professor Thompson and his colleagues measured a radioactive signal in the ice cap that was left over from the American atomic tests in 1951 and 1952. That signal was at a depth of 1.6 metres (5.25ft) below the surface of the ice. It has now disappeared because the top 2.5 metres of ice have melted away.Professor Thompson said that the scientists have also detected elongated bubbles in the surface of the ice field, which occur when the ice melts and refreezes. There is no evidence this melting and refreezing has occurred at any other period going back 11,700 years."This is the first time researchers have calculated the volume of ice lost from the mountain's ice fields. If you look at the percentage of volumes lost since 2000 versus the percentage of area lost as the ice fields shrink, the numbers are very close," he said.Data from the ice cores shows that the summits of both the northern and the southern ice fields have thinned by 1.9 metres and 5.1 metres respectively. The smaller Furtwängler Glacier, which was melting and was water-saturated when it was drilled by Professor Thompson in 2000, has thinned by 50 per cent in the past nine years.Kilimanjaro is just one of many low-latitude mountains around the world that are losing their glaciers. They include the ice fields on Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa, as well as glaciers as far apart as the Alps in Europe, the Andes in South America and the Himalayas in Asia."The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause," Professor Thompson said."The increase of Earth's surface temperatures, couple with even greater increases in the mid- to upper-tropical troposphere as documented in recent decades, would at least partially explain the observed widespread similarity in glacier behaviour," he said.Changes in the local vegetation around Kilimanjaro, which has lost much of it forests, may have affected the cloudiness and amount of snow that falls on the mountain. However, the scientists believe that warmer global temperatures have had a bigger impact on the rate at which its glaciers are melting.Large numbers of people rely on mountain glaciers for a regular supply of water or hydroelectric power throughout the year. In Peru, for instance, the Quelccaya Ice Cap has shrunk by nearly a quarter in the past 50 years and, if it disappears completely, many people will be badly affected by the lack of hydroelectric power, crop irrigation and drinking water."What we're doing is cashing in on a bank account that was built over thousands of years but isn't being replenished. Once it's gone, it will be difficult to re-form," Professor Thompson said in 2001 in his earlier glaciers study.]</div></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 6. 'Error' 16: Lake Chad etc</li><li value="30."><a id="para30" name="para30">The drying up of Lake Chad is used as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming. However, it is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.[</a>Feb. 28, 2012 — Lake Chad used to be one of the biggest lakes in the world, but its volume has been reduced to a tenth of what it was in the 1960s. The way this lake has dried up has become a symbol of climate change in action. It's true that the lake's water level has always changed, but this hasn't diminished the major changes to the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the lake's shoreline. Yet, as demonstrated by a French-Nigerian team including the IRD1, lake dwellers have made the best of these changes to their environment. Formerly fishermen or herdsmen, they have become farmers, often growing for export. The land that was part of the lake has made it possible for them to develop highly productive crops such as corn, rice and cowpea. In the valley of the Komadugu Yobe River in Niger, they have even commenced the intensive farming of peppers, which is highly lucrative although risky.][nasa 2007? Lake Chad, once the 6th largest lake in the world, has shrunk to 1/10 of its size 35 years ago, from 25,000 km2 in the 1960s to 500 km2 today. The lake’s depth is very shallow and responds dramatically to changes to water inflow and outflow. It was originally 7m deep in the 1960s and now averages only 1.5m deep. These changes in size are mainly due to a changing climate and the reduction of inflow by the major rivers that feed the lake. Lake Chad is part of the Conventional Basin which is part of the Lake Chad Basin in Northern Central Africa. The Conventional Basin consists of the four countries in direct contact with Lake Chad: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon; and covers a total land area of 427,500 km2 or roughly the size of Zimbabwe. More than 11 million people live in the Conventional Basin working to farm, raise livestock, mine, and fish. These people are among the most vulnerable to food scarcity in all of Africa. The diminishing volume of Lake Chad has serious effects on the political, social, and economic stability of the neighboring people. Efforts to replenish Lake Chad include damming a nearby river and channeling the water into the lake.  </li><li style="list-style: none;"> 7. 'Error' 8: Hurricane Katrina.</li><li value="31."><a id="para31" name="para31">In scene 12 Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans is ascribed to global warming. It is common ground that there is insufficient evidence to show that.</a></li><li value="31."><a id="para31" name="para31">[SANDY]</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 8. 'Error' 15: Death of polar bears.</li><li value="32."><a id="para32" name="para32">In scene 16, by reference to a dramatic graphic of a polar bear desperately swimming through the water looking for ice, Mr Gore says: "A new scientific study shows that for the first time they are finding polar bears that have actually drowned swimming long distances up to 60 miles to find the ice. They did not find that before." The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm. That is not to say that there may not in the future be drowning-related deaths of polar bears if the trend of regression of pack-ice and/or longer open water continues, but it plainly does not support Mr Gore's description.</a></li><li style="list-style: none;"> 9. 'Error' 13: Coral reefs.</li><li value="33."><a id="para33" name="para33">In scene 19, Mr Gore says: "Coral reefs all over the world because of global warming and other factors are bleaching and they end up like this. All the fish species that depend on the coral reef are also in jeopardy as a result. Overall specie loss is now occurring at a rate 1000 times greater than the natural background rate." The actual scientific view, as recorded in the IPCC report, is that, if the temperature were to rise by 1-3 degrees Centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and widespread coral mortality, unless corals could adopt or acclimatise, but that separating the impacts of climate change-related stresses from other stresses, such as over-fishing and polluting, is difficult.</a></li><li value="33.">[<h3 id="article-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CORAL REEFS UNDER RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION</h3><div id="abs-short" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to exceed 500 parts per million and global temperatures to rise by at least 2°C by 2050 to 2100, values that significantly exceed those of at least the past 420,000 years during which most extant marine <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/318/5857/1737.full#" id="abs-more" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">More</a></div><div id="article-info" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="hw-login-content-item" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; top: 0px; width: 196.2px; float: left; position: static; left: 27.25px;"><div class="cit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cit-metadata" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline-style: none; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
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 =short segment in frontline:The film went on to gross <a href="http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=inconvenienttruth.htm">nearly $50 million worldwide</a> and win two Academy Awards. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262661/ns/us_news-environment/t/gore-un-climate-panel-win-nobel-peace-prize/#.UIGSrvl240M">Gore would share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with a U.N. panel</a> in recognition of their work to draw attention to what the commission called “the greatest challenge we’ve ever faced.”“The climate crisis is not a political issue,” Gore said in a statement after the prize was announced. “It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”In little time, it seemed as though the film had succeeded in galvanizing the general public around the need to address the threat of global warming, re-energizing the environmental movement and making Gore the cause’s public face, its celebrity icon.And so when the backlash against climate change gained traction, it was in some ways manifested in a personal backlash against the former Democratic politician who had long irked the right, as illustrated in the above clip from tonight’s broadcast <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/">Climate of Doubt</a>. “Al Gore was the perfect proponent and leader of the global warming alarmists because he’s a very politically divisive and controversial,” Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment, told FRONTLINE correspondent John Hockenberry. “He was a wonderful target for our side.”Personalizing the attacks on Gore were part of an approach that was embraced and <a href="http://youtu.be/IelDNR6qy5E" target="blank">amplified by friendly media</a>, and part of a broad strategy to undermine public acceptance of a global scientific consensus.Tonight, FRONTLINE explores the inner workings of the movement that changed the political debate around climate change. How did it happen? And who’s behind it? We hope you’ll watch.hannity jet scam; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IelDNR6qy5E&feature=youtu.be
  --- PR comments at aspen:The tobacco giants financed a multimillion-dollar campaign to attack volumes of research involving tens of thousands of people that as early as the 1960s demonstrated conclusively that people die from cigarettes. As a result, tobacco interests succeeded for several decades in convincing many Americans and their politicians to oppose anti-smoking legislation. It’s not hyperbole to say that the delay in banning smoking where people congregate wound up costing tens of thousands more people their lives during those years.But the dishonest PR initiatives aren’t confined to tobacco and the health insurance industry.Just ask Al Gore, who says he’s “fed up” with the climate change BS that’s being sold by the petroleum, steel and utility interests and bought by too many Americans and their politicians. Gore dropped in on an Aspen Institute media forum earlier this month and he accused corporate kingpins of putting profit above society.The former vice president said that it wasn’t that long ago when the tobacco lobby “succeeded in delaying the implementation of the surgeon general’s report for 40 years - 40 years! It was evil, evil, evil.”Gore said that the tobacco model of manipulating the media “was transported whole cloth into the climate debate.”<a href="http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8545/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CZHzcszz">http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8545/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=CZHzcszz</a>-----CEI’s latest ad campaign attempts to reach the younger generation by using old video footage of a Wendy’s hamburger commercial in which elderly women lament that a burger lacks meat. “Where’s the beef?” they ask. In CEI’s version, three younger women order a burger and a man wearing an Al Gore mask heats the burger in a microwave labeled Al Gore’s Global Warming Machine. He then wraps the burger up with a picture of the earth and hands it to her, saying, “Careful now; this is very hot.” When the young woman opens the package, she says: “This isn’t very warm.” The ad ends with the same young woman asking, “Where’s the warming?” and splices of a song from the Long-Island hip-hop group 857 titled “Where’s the Beef?” (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXd4KLDxlM" title="Click here">Click here</a> to watch the video.)----UK ruling: 2007 vs now?<div class="bylineComments"><div>By Sally Peck</div>12:01AM BST 11 Oct 2007<div class="cl"><div class="firstPar">Al Gore's environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth contains nine key scientific errors, a High Court judge ruled yesterday.</div><div class="secondPar">The judge declined to ban the Academy Award-winning film from British schools, but ruled that it can only be shown with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination.</div><div class="thirdPar"><a href="http://www.aninconvenienttruth.co.uk/">In the documentary</a>, directed by Davis Guggenheim, the former US vice president and environmental activist calls on people to fight global warming because "humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb".</div><div class="thirdPar">
</div><div class="fourthPar">But Judge Michael Burton ruled yesterday that errors had arisen "in the context of alarmism and exaggeration" in order to support Mr Gore's thesis on global warming.</div><div class="fifthPar">His criticism followed an unsuccessful attempt by Stewart Dimmock, a Kent school governor, to block the Government's plan to screen the documentary in more than 3,500 secondary schools in England and Wales.</div><div id="tmg-related-links" class="related_links_inline"><div class="headerOne styleOne"><h2>Related Articles</h2></div><ul><li class="bullet"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4990047/Al-Gore-World-will-agree-new-climate-deal.html">Al Gore: Climate deal 'soon'</a>14 Mar 2009</li></ul></div><div class="body">The father of two claimed An Inconvenient Truth included "serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush".The film's distributor, Paramount, warns in its <a href="http://www.paramountpictures.co.uk/films/an_inconvenient_truth/index.asp">synopsis of the film</a>: "If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."But the judge ruled that the "apocalyptic vision" presented in the film was politically partisan and thus not an impartial scientific analysis of climate change.It is, he ruled, a "political film".The nine alleged errors in the film<ol class="storylist"><li>Mr Gore claims that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland "in the near future". The judge said: "This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore's "wake-up call". He agreed that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - "but only after, and over, millennia"."The Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus."

</li><li>The film claims that low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls "are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming" but the judge ruled there was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

</li><li>The documentary speaks of global warming "shutting down the Ocean Conveyor" - the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe. Citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the judge said that it was "very unlikely" that the Ocean Conveyor, also known as the Meridional Overturning Circulation, would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.

</li><li>Mr Gore claims that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed "an exact fit". The judge said that, although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, "the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts".

</li><li>Mr Gore says the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was directly attributable to global warming, but the judge ruled that it scientists have not established that the recession of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is primarily attributable to human-induced climate change.

</li><li>The film contends that the drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming but the judge said there was insufficient evidence, and that "it is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability."

</li><li>Mr Gore blames Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans on global warming, but the judge ruled there was "insufficient evidence to show that".

</li><li>Mr Gore cites a scientific study that shows, for the first time, that polar bears were being found after drowning from "swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice" The judge said: "The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm."That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued - "but it plainly does not support Mr Gore's description".

</li><li>Mr Gore said that coral reefs all over the world were being bleached because of global warming and other factors. Again citing the IPCC, the judge agreed that, if temperatures were to rise by 1-3 degrees centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and mortality, unless the coral could adapt. However, he ruled that separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.</li></ol>A Government spokesman said he would not make any further comment on the case today.</div><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137/Al-Gores-nine-Inconvenient-Untruths.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137/Al-Gores-nine-Inconvenient-Untruths.html</a>
  
 penguin army----usa today op ed?<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm</a>Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. hannity response <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/02/20/carbon_hog_sean_hannitys_pathetic_attempt_to_smear_al_gore.php">http://www.newshounds.us/2007/02/20/carbon_hog_sean_hannitys_pathetic_attempt_to_smear_al_gore.php</a>=media matterscf 2013 gp, quite a lot of $Coverage by several media outlets of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research's (TCPR) <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367" title="http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">criticism</a> of former Vice President Al Gore's home energy bills omitted some or all of the steps that Gore has reportedly taken to reduce the effect of his home energy usage. These steps were reported by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, CNN financial correspondent Ali Velshi, and a February 27 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270382" title="http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS01/702270382" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">article</a> in The Tennessean of Nashville. On the February 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Olbermann said that TCPR's criticism "omits" that Gore's home includes "home offices for himself and his wife, as well as a guest house and special security measures," and that the Gores' use of "renewable sources" from the "Green Power Switch" program "actually costs more for the Gores." Olbermann further reported that, according to Green Power Switch, "some smaller homes consume energy in the same range of usage as does the one on the Gores' property." On the February 27 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/ltm.03.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/ltm.03.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">edition</a> of CNN's American Morning, Velshi also noted that Gore's purchase of "green power" increased Gore's utility costs.<a id="20070502" name="20070502" title="20070502" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">From The Tennessean:</a><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gore purchased 108 blocks of "green power" for each of the past three months, according to a summary of the bills.That's a total of $432 a month Gore paid extra for solar or other renewable energy sources.</blockquote>The weblog Think Progress also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/" title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gore-responds-to-drudge/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reported</a> that Gore's office said "Gore's family ... sign[ed] up for 100 percent green power through <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/" title="http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Green Power Switch</a>" and "purchas[ed] carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint."Additionally, a February 27 Associated Press <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2910445" title="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2910445" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">article</a>, questioned TCPR's assertion that the Gores used more than 220,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006. The AP reported that "according to bills [it] reviewed," "[t]he Gores used about 191,000 kilowatt hours in 2006," while TCPR "said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours." The AP reported that TCPR president <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=89" title="http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=89" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Jason "Drew" Johnson</a> "said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service. But company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never received a request from the policy center and never gave it any information."In contrast, a CNN report on Lou Dobbs Tonight that aired several hours after Velshi's report, as well as reports by Fox News, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, the Los Angeles Times, and National Public Radio, as well as a New York Post editorial and an editorial and a separate column in The Washington Times, omitted some or all of the actions reportedly taken by the Gores; none of them raised the question in the AP report about the accuracy of TCPR's figures, including several that aired or were published after the AP article:<ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">On the February 27 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17384492/" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17384492/" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">edition</a> of MSNBC's Tucker, host Tucker Carlson said he was judging Gore by "the rules [Gore] set out" and asked Competitive Enterprise Institute president Fred L. Smith Jr. if Gore was "living like a king, at the expense of our planet? Am I missing something?" Carlson noted the "quote, 'offsets' " as Gore's "defen[se]" of what Carlson called "quite a big carbon footprint," but agreed with Smith that such "offsets" are like "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">indulgences</a>" from "the Middle Ages."</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">On the February 27 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/ldt.01.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/ldt.01.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">edition</a> of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, guest host Kitty Pilgrim noted that TCPR "says that Gore's own home uses 20 times the national average for power." Radio host Joe Madison argued that "put[ting on] solar panels" is "a good flip-flop." Radio host Mark Simone claimed that Gore was only installing panels " 'cause he got caught."</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">On the February 27 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/gb.01.html" title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/gb.01.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">edition</a> of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck, host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">Glenn Beck</a> asserted that Gore "has a huge carbon footprint" and said that the "the Gores paid almost $30,000 in gas and electric in 2006." Beck did not report any of Gore's reported efforts.</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">On the February 27 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/seanhannity" title="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/seanhannity" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">Sean Hannity</a> asked actor <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" title="http://imdb.com/name/nm0000893/" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">Ed Begley Jr.</a>if Begley had the "the courage to say, when [Gore] travels around in private jets, when [Gore's] using this type of energy, 20 times the national average, that [Gore's] a hypocrite?" Hannity added that Gore's energy use "is pure, Class A hypocritical living." In response, co-host Alan Colmes noted the Gores' use of "green power."</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">The February 28 Washington Times "Inside Politics" <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070228-122723-8972r" title="http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070228-122723-8972r" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">column</a> reported part of a February 26 ABCNews.com<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&page=1" title="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&page=1" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">article</a> noting TCPR's criticism of "environmental hypocrisy." While the ABCNews.com article quoted Gore's spokeswoman saying that the Gores "purchas[ed] their power through the local Green Power Switch program," the Times quoted a Gore spokeswoman saying only that the Gores work out of their home and that all that "Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it."</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">A February 28 Washington Times <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070227-084730-8584r.htm" title="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070227-084730-8584r.htm" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">editorial</a> not only asserted that "Gore apparently thinks he should be exempted personally from his own carbon morality," but added a falsehood about Gore, as well, stating that Gore was "busy inventing the Internet." As Media Matters for America <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/01/16/media-perpetuate-myth-that-gore-claimed-to-have/137743" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200701160013" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">noted</a>, the assertion that Gore claimed to "invent[] the Internet" has been thoroughly <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html" title="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore_internet/index.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">debunked</a>.</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">A February 28 Los Angeles Times <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jets28feb28,0,2448915.story?coll=la-home-headlines" title="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jets28feb28,0,2448915.story?coll=la-home-headlines" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">article</a> noted the Gores' energy costs and that Gore "invests in renewable energy." It did not explain that the investment raised the family's energy costs, nor did it note the other steps the Gores are reportedly taking.</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">On the February 28 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7648708" title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7648708" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">edition</a> of NPR's All Things Considered, host Melissa Block reported that Gore's office "said the Gore family does a lot to reduce its carbon imprint, such as making renovations that include solar panels and purchasing carbon offsets" but did not note the Gores' other reported efforts.</li></ul><ul style="list-style: square; clear: both; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 25px 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px !important;"><li style="border: none; float: none; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px !important; padding: 0px !important;">In a March 1 New York Post <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/postopinion/editorials/gore_the_guzzler_editorials.htm" title="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/postopinion/editorials/gore_the_guzzler_editorials.htm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7648708" style="outline: none; font-weight: bold;">editorial</a>, the Post asserted that Gore's "carbon footprint" is "[p]retty hefty" and that because of the Gores' energy use, "the carbon footprint -- the amount of greenhouse gas generated to keep Gore in kilowatts -- grow[s]." However, the Post later noted that "[a] spokeswoman for Gore ... insisted the former Second Family purchases enough energy from renewable sources to offset their sizable carbon footprint," to which the Post added: "No doubt."</li></ul>From 7 a.m. ET hour of the February 27 edition of CNN's American Morning:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SOLEDAD O'BRIEN (co-host): Al Gore is firing back this morning, on critics who say that he is not practicing what he was preaching in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The day after Gore took home an Oscar for that movie, critics are charging that Gore's mansion in Nashville devours over 20 times the national average in kilowatt-hours. The average electric bill is 1,200 bucks a month! A thousand dollars a month for the gas bill.Spokeswoman says that Al Gore told -- rather a spokeswoman for Al Gore told CNN that the Gores make up for all of that. "The Gores purchase," she said, "all their power through the local Green Power Switch program. It's 100 percent renewable power and they are in the midst of a renovation, which includes installing solar-powered panels on their home, which will enable them to use less power."[...]VELSHI: And we've been reporting this morning that Al Gore's big house is partially green. Gore produced bills that showed that he purchased 108 blocks of green power for each of the past 3 months. It's worth about 432 bucks a month extra that he paid for to use solar or other energy sources coming into his house.One group says that that's about the equivalent of recycling two and a half million aluminum cans, or more than a quarter million pounds of newspapers. So, it might be a trend that folks want to take advantage of, Soledad.</blockquote>From the February 27 edition of MSNBC's Tucker:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CARLSON: Al Gore has never lived in the White House, at least not yet, but he's got some pretty nice digs anyway. His family home in the Nashville area sprawls for 10,000 square feet, and according to the Nashville Tennessean, it costs the Gores about 1,200 bucks a month in electricity. That's quite a big carbon footprint, needless to say. Well, Gore defends his prodigious energy consumption with the fact that Mr. Gore pays for, quote, "offsets," which fund the production of renewable energy, like solar power. Here to discuss the meaning of this story is the president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred Smith. Fred, welcome.SMITH: Hi, Tucker. We're back to the Middle Ages in indulgences, aren't we?CARLSON: Yeah, I mean, here -- here's the thing. I don't typically go into how people live their private lives. I like to keep that -- kind of out of politics, but the nature of this global warming debate is almost by definition personal. The idea is -- and Gore said it out loud the other day. He said, "It's not political. It's moral." The way you behave in your off-hours, your private life at home, could determine the future of the Earth. So, the personal is political, according to the rules he set out, and so I think it's very relevant that this guy is living like a king, at the expense of our planet. Am I missing something?SMITH: No, you're not. And, in fact, if he stayed at home, he'd actually use even less energy. Flying around the world in jet travel is not exactly what you would call a green lifestyle. But remember, as you point out in your beginning, he is now expiating for his evil consumptive ways by buying indulgences.</blockquote>From the February 27 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PILGRIM: Let's -- let's move on to another personality in this whole issue: Hollywood and Al Gore. They just loved each other, and it was a very, very interesting night.But today, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research says that Gore's own home uses 20 times the national average for power. This is after collecting an Oscar for his global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.JOE MADISON (talk show radio host): Yeah, and I drove over here in an Escalade that you guys had pick me up.And, you know, somebody said, well, he's flip-flopping, because he's now going to put solar panels on. Well, this is a good flip-flop. I'm glad he's going to do that, but, come on, we can all be hypocrites, too.PETER BOYLES (radio host): Do you remember --SIMONE: He's doing it because he got caught.MADISON: Now, it wasn't my Escalade, by the way.BOYLES: But you remember -- you remember, during the big debates on civil rights and the debates on bussing, and then they found that most of these people who are voting on bussing, oh, yeah, let's -- they have their children in private schools. And hypocrisy, in politicians, well, there's something brand new.SIMONE: Here's the new term. This is what our listeners are calling it: Gulfstream liberals. They used to have limousine liberals. These guys that fly around in private jets and preach that you shouldn't waste gas are Gulfstream liberals.You know what's interesting, the president of the United States put in solar power, thermal heating in the White House a few years ago. His ranch in Texas -- completely green: solar power, thermal heating. That truck he drives around in is hydrogen, so -- and he never -- he never gets any credit for that.MADISON: Well, let's give Gore a little credit for -- because at least he said, "I'll change it. I will put solar power."SIMONE: He got caught!MADISON: And I think give him credit for -- well, fine, but you know, Bush got caught and he's still in Iraq.</blockquote>From the February 27 edition of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BECK [video clip]: Al Gore, what a fraud. I may have a bigger carbon footprint than Al Gore. I'm not sure. I want to see my carbon footprint. And if it's not big enough, I'm going to expand it.I'm going to go out and smoke coal cigarettes today, just to piss Al Gore off. But I'll show you his carbon footprint, and it will astound you, how a guy who's telling me to use a fluorescent light bulb has a huge carbon footprint.BECK: Now, turns out that Al Gore is a big hypocrite on this, according to, at least, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. His 20-room house, pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006. I don't know how many I really spent until this morning. I looked it up. That's more than 20 times the national average. Gore's average monthly electric bill was about $1,300. That means that the Gores paid almost $30,000 in gas and electric in 2006.Well, lucky for Al Gore, his Oscar goody bag included 100,000 free pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass. The press release says that this is enough to balance out the average year in the life of an Academy Award presenter. For example, 100,000 pounds is the total amount of carbon dioxide created by 20,000 miles of driving, 40,000 miles on a commercial airline, and 20 hours in a private jet, and a large house in Los Angeles.</blockquote>From the February 27 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OLBERMANN: So, is our third story tonight outrageous hypocrisy, a minor embarrassment, or a demonstration of a different kind of windpower? First, that allegedly nonpartisan think tank, which just happens to have gotten its story picked up by the notorious Drudge Report today, is called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Twenty-seven-year-old President Jason "Drew" Johnson, hailing from the same American Enterprise Institute that takes money from big oil, cheerleads the war in Iraq, and consistently -- and now to pretty consistent laughter -- downplays global warming.That said, even a partisan think tank can get the facts straight. So, the facts: last year, Gore's Tennessee property consumed almost 221,000 kilowatt-hours, 20 times the national average. It cost him more than $16,300. But Johnson's press release, calling on Gore to walk the walk when it comes to home energy use, omits several other key facts. The former vice president's home has 20 rooms, including home offices for himself and his wife, as well as a guest house and special security measures.Furthermore, the Gores buy energy produced from renewable sources, such as wind and solar. Tonight, Countdown confirmed with the local utility officials that their program, called the Green Power Switch, actually costs more for the Gores -- four dollars for every 150 kilowatt hours. Meaning, by our calculations, our math here, that the Gores actually chose to increase their electric bill by $5,893, more than 50 percent, in order to minimize carbon pollution.The utility is also telling us that some smaller homes consume energy in the same range of usage as does the one on the Gores' property.</blockquote>From the February 27 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">HANNITY: Seems the truth keeps getting more inconvenient for former Vice President Al Gore. A new report from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research shows that the Gore household consumes at least 20 times more energy than the national average.The report flies in the face of Gore's message about the need to reduce energy emissions, and it also questions whether the former vice president and his legion of Hollywood stars are legitimately leading by example.[...]HANNITY: If Al Gore is going to carry this message, doesn't he need to walk the walk? And do you have the courage to say, when he travels around in private jets, when he's using this type of energy 20 times the national average, that he's a hypocrite?[...]HANNITY: He needs those three or four homes, the eight bathrooms, the 20-room mansion. He needs the Gulfstream to live his life, because he's Al Gore. But the rest of us, we're going to get lectured by him about our SUV use? And you don't see that hypocrisy? That is pure, Class A hypocritical living. Why can't you just acknowledge that?BEGLEY: I don't want to -- I'd like to learn more about the multiple homes. I'd like to learn more about this. I'd like to hear his response to all this before I comment. But I can I tell you it's possible to live very simply. I live on very little, and I take public transportation. I ride my --HANNITY: I'm praising you. You're not a hypocrite, Ed. And I read you ride your bike to different Hollywood events, I read recently.BEGLEY: Right.HANNITY: You know, but Al Gore -- for example, the average American home consumes 10,656 kilowatt hours. In just the month of August alone, he used twice the national average, and that's only one of his homes. And I'm just --BEGLEY: I want to talk to --HANNITY: Go ahead.BEGLEY: I'd like to talk to him and see his response to this study before I comment on it. I will come back on and I'll give you a fair comment.COLMES: Actually, I'll give you his response, Ed and Rachelle [Begley] and Drew. It's Alan Colmes. Drew, I don't think you're telling the whole story. Gore, for example, bought 108 blocks of green power feeds for the past three months. That's the equivalent, by the way, according to the National Electric Service, of 2.48 million aluminum cans. Did you collect -- I wonder if you collected that over the last few months.JOHNSON: The question isn't whether I collected it --COLMES: What's that?JOHNSON: The question isn't, "Did I collect it?" I'm not going around telling people that they need to change the light bulbs in their house --COLMES: But you're not telling the whole story about what Al Gore is doing. You're not acknowledging --JOHNSON: No, the truth of the matter is --COLMES: -- that he's doing carbon trade-offs and he's doing a number of things that he --HANNITY: That's a joke.COLMES: No, it's not a joke. He's actually -- you're not telling the whole story.[...]COLMES: By the way, he's purchasing all his power through a Green Power Switch program. It's 100 percent renewable power. Why aren't you telling that part of the story? All you're doing is attacking Al Gore.JOHNSON: This power switch program -- he's been a member of this power switch program for three months.</blockquote>From the February 28 Washington Times "Inside Politics" <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070228-122723-8972r" title="http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070228-122723-8972r" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">column</a>:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gore's utility billsBack home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, former Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Mr. Gore's environmental hypocrisy, ABC News reports.Armed with Mr. Gore's utility bills for the past two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours last year, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours."If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live, and he's not following his own rules."Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for the Gores, did not dispute the center's figures, taken as they were from public records. But she pointed out that both Al and Tipper Gore work out of their home, and she argued that "the bottom line is that every family has a different carbon footprint. And what Vice President Gore has asked is for families to calculate that footprint and take steps to reduce and offset it."</blockquote>From The Washington Times' February 28 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070227-084730-8584r.htm" title="http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070227-084730-8584r.htm" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">editorial</a>, "Al Gore's glass house":<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How "inconvenient." Former Vice President Al Gore, preacher-in-chief of the carbon-footprint gospel, himself owns a mansion which burns through more electricity in a month than the average American family uses in a year. You didn't hear that Sunday night, of course. Mr. Gore's Oscar acceptance speech for "An Inconvenient Truth" instead claimed that climate change is a "moral issue." Mr. Gore apparently thinks he should be exempted personally from his own carbon morality.Gas and electricity for Mr. Gore's 20-room Nashville manse cost nearly $30,000 last year, the free-market Tennessee Center for Policy Research reported in a post-Oscar release. Heating and powering the pool house alone cost Mr. Gore $544 a month. The estate's total 2006 power consumption was almost 221,000 kilowatt-hours. The average American household uses less than 11,000. But then, average folks weren't busy inventing the Internet.</blockquote>From a February 28 Los Angeles Times <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jets28feb28,0,2448915.story?coll=la-home-headlines" title="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jets28feb28,0,2448915.story?coll=la-home-headlines" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">article</a>:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Noncommercial aircraft and other carbon-related indulgences have caused politicians considerable turbulence recently.A conservative group has condemned Al Gore for racking up an average monthly electricity bill of $1,200 at his Nashville mansion last year while championing the anti-global warming cause. A Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president invests in renewable energy to offset his electricity use.As part of an ethics push, the House and Senate are toughening restrictions on lawmakers who fly private jets, though exceptions for members and spouses who own planes are under consideration.</blockquote>From the February 28 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7648708" title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7648708" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">edition</a> of NPR's All Things Considered:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MELISSA BLOCK: On Sunday night, when the movie An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar, its star, Al Gore, took the stage with this message about global warming.GORE: People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue. It's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible exception of the will to act, and that's a renewable resource. Let's renew it.BLOCK: Not so fast, according to a press release from a group called the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which calls itself a libertarian think tank. The center called up the Nashville Electric Service and asked about the bills for the Gores' 10,000-square-foot home.JAMES "DREW" JOHNSON: The average American uses about 11,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, but Al Gore devoured 221,000 kilowatt-hours.BLOCK: That's Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.JOHNSON: It sort of raises the question, "Is he doing the sorts of thing that he's asking us to do?"BLOCK: In last couple of days, the center's research has gotten a lot of attention. And in response, Al Gore's office said the Gore family does a lot to reduce its carbon imprint, such as making renovations that include solar panels and purchasing carbon offsets. But how do carbon offsets work? We asked Mark Trexler. He's president of Trexler Climate and Energy Services. That's a climate-change consulting firm.</blockquote>From the March 1 New York Post <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/postopinion/editorials/gore_the_guzzler_editorials.htm" title="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/postopinion/editorials/gore_the_guzzler_editorials.htm" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">editorial</a>:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How big is Al Gore's carbon footprint?Pretty hefty.Gore grabbed an Oscar Sunday night for his global-warming horror flick, "An Inconvenient Truth" - and took the opportunity to lecture America about its duty to Go Green and stay there.Now a Tennessee think tank has revealed an inconvenient truth of its own -- about what Gore actually practices, as opposed to what he endlessly preaches.The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, using public records, calculated the Gores' energy use for the past two years at their new 20-room, 10,000-square-foot home in suburban Nashville.In all, the main house and the pool house used an average 18,414 kilowatt-hours (KWH) of power a month last year; that's 14 percent more the 16,200 monthly KWH they devoured in 2005.Thus does the carbon footprint -- the amount of greenhouse gas generated to keep Gore in kilowatts -- grow.[...]Take your typical 800-square-foot, one-bedroom Manhattan pad: You could fit 12 1/2 of theminside the Gores' abode.A spokeswoman for Gore didn't dispute the figures, but insisted the former Second Family purchases enough energy from renewable sources to offset their sizable carbon footprint.No doubt.But that's just another way of saying that the rich truly are different.Gore, a Kyoto Protocol advocate, has enough socked away so he won't miss a meal should that treaty ever be adopted -- and wreck the U.S. economy.<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/03/01/reports-on-criticism-of-gore-omitted-steps-he-r/138162">http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/03/01/reports-on-criticism-of-gore-omitted-steps-he-r/138162</a>usatoday<div class="byLine" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">By Peter Schweizer</div><div class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Correction: In this column that appeared Aug. 10 on the Forum Page, writer Peter Schweizer inaccurately stated that former vice president Al Gore receives royalties from a zinc mine on his property in Tennessee despite his environmental advocacy. He no longer does, as the mine was closed in 2003.</div>Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."ON DEADLINE: <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/" target="" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Your thoughts?</a>Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.<div class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table width="100%" height="25" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="40" colspan="2">Posted 8/9/2006 9:57 PM ET</td></tr><tr><td width="27%" height="30" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetical, sans-serif;">Updated 12/7/2006 5:45 PM ET

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 see mainbak capt 818<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/al-gore-trump-2460923593.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/al-gore-trump-2460923593.html</a><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/gore-sequel-truth-to-power-2209223662.html">http://www.ecowatch.com/gore-sequel-truth-to-power-2209223662.html</a>When <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/al-gores-groundbreaking-film-10-years-later-1891133630.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">An Inconvenient Truth</a> was released more than 10 years ago, the most criticized scene of <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/al-gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Al Gore</a>'s <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a> documentary was the flooding of downtown New York City from sea level rise and storm surge.Well, as the former vice president explains in the first official clip of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, that prediction came true.vid]The new film, which premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, is a follow-up to the groundbreaking 2006 documentary. It follows Gore's efforts around the world to influence international climate policy and galvanize support for the climate change movement.The overall message is more hopeful compared to its predecessor, emphasizing how solutions for climate change are already at hand."It has much more emphasis on the solutions," as Gore explains in the clip below. "Compared to 10 years ago, the solutions are widely available now and are in many cases <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/solar-cheapest-electricity-2156232780.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">cheaper</a> than continuing to burn dirty fuel that causes the problem in the first place."vid]The response to the new film has been positive so far. According to <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-an-inconvenient-sequel-debuts-rapturous-response-966054?utm_source=twitter" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the screening was met by two standing ovations. "Now we are undergoing a time of challenge, but we are going to prevail," Gore told the crowd during a Q&A after the screening. "I'm not going to give all the evidence of why I'm so confident. Always remember that the will to act is a renewable resource.""We will win," Gore added. "No one person can stop this movement. We want this movie to recruit others."The original Oscar-winning film sparked a major environmental movement, prompting millions around the world to start asking questions about our warming planet. While a lot of progress has been made, from advances in climate science to the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">renewable energy</a> boom, there's still a lot of work to be done—especially since <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Donald Trump</a>, a notorious climate denier, is now the most powerful person in the world. Incidentally, Gore unveiled the clip on the same day of the presidential inauguration.Gore made headlines last month when he <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-ivanka-gore-climate-change-2131408925.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">met with Trump</a> and his daughter Ivanka to discuss climate change. When asked by an audience member what he got from the Trump talks, Gore responded, "We will know soon enough. It's not the last conversation. A lot of people started out as climate-change denialists. Whether he will change remains to be seen.""He was receptive to some of what I had to say, and I appreciated that," Gore also told The Hollywood Reporter in a later interview. "Candidate Trump made a number of statements and wrote a bunch of tweets that caused concern, but he also has other statements that at least give rise to the possibility that he and his team will take a fresh look at the reality of what we're facing here."An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, comes to theaters July 28. To coincide with the film's release, publishing company Rodale Books will also release a <a href="http://www2.rodaleinc.com/newsroom/rodale-books-publish-former-vice-president-al-gore-s-highly-anticipated-follow-1-new-york-times-bestseller-inconvenient" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">companion book</a> of the same name.
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“This is about facts, and science, and transparency,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who spoke at a press conference alongside New York Attorney General <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/06/exxon-climate-scandal-subpoena/">Eric Schneiderman</a>, former Vice President <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=Al+Gore">Al Gore</a> and seven other Attorneys General.“Fossil fuel companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/">climate change</a> should be, must be held accountable,” Healey continued, saying there is a “troubling disconnect between what Exxon knew, what industry folks knew and the company and industry chose to share with investors and the American public.”The coalition of Attorneys General from 16 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands was convened by Schneiderman, who in November <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/11/05/exxonknew-escalates-ny-attorney-general-subpoenas-oil-giant-over-climate-crimes" target="blank">announced</a> a state investigation into Exxon after reporting <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/09/big-oil-knew-big-oil-lied-and-planet-earth-got-fried" target="blank">revealed</a> that the oil giant had for decades known and suppressed evidence about the dangers that fossil fuels posed to the environment and then purposely disseminated false information in order to boost its profits.California has also <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/20/big-california-taking-exxonmobils-climate-cover" target="blank">launched</a> an investigation and on Tuesday Healey and U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Earl Walker confirmed their states have as well. Schneiderman said that additional states were pursuing similar action and that the purpose of the coalition is to work together in this “common interest.” pope sierra club 8/15 So, looking back, am I glad that George Mitchell beat Robert Byrd in 1990 by one vote that the Sierra Club (I was then leading) lost?Not really. Because the defeat of the Byrd amendment changed a lot of the American political landscape. Without it, Al Gore would, almost certainly, have won the election of 2000—and other pathways to a better future would have opened.= 6/15<div style="font-family: sans-serif;">
</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">interesting triangulation and bogeyman:</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">
</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">Lindsey Graham probably won’t be getting any money from the billionaire Koch brothers either. He’s <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/25/graham-climate-denier-problem/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">acknowledged that all the climate denial</a> going on in the GOP might not be healthy for them.“I think there will be a political problem for the Republican Party going into 2016 if we don’t define what we are for the environment,” he said late last year. “I don’t know what the environmental policy of the Republican Party is.”As for his own position, he said he accepts that humans are driving climate change but rejects cap-and-trade as a solution and claims that <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/05/07/al-gore-price-on-climate-denial/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Al Gore</a> has turned it into a “religion.”“I’m for finding oil and gas that we own,” <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/lindsey-graham-i-believe-climate-change-real-reject-cap-and-trade" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">he said on Fox News last month</a>. “I’m for clean coal, I’m for natural gas, but I would like a lower carbon economy over time. Clean up the air and create jobs in the process.”===</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div></div></div>