Al Gore

Al Gore

Born in 1948, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. served as the United States' 45th Vice President under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 2001. In his early political career, Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee before leaving the post for the 1992... [more]

Born in 1948, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. served as the United States' 45th Vice President under Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 2001. In his early political career, Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee before leaving the post for the 1992 Election.

Gore has adopted an environmental focus in recent years, including his role in the 2006 global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

 
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Gore to address U.S. Senate panel on climate Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is expected to tell a Senate panel on Wednesday that the United States needs to provide leadership on the world stage in tackling climate change, a Senate aide said. With Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry focusing a hearing on climate change, Gore is scheduled to tell the panel about the significance of global warming, and new science emerging in the field across the world. Gore is also expected to stress steps the United States and the international community can take leading up to the negotiations on climate change ... Read Full Story
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Former Vice President Al Gore is endorsing a House bill that would curb the gases blamed for global warming. Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on global warming, is scheduled to testify before a House panel Friday morning. In testimony prepared for delivery at the hearing, Gore says the legislation will simultaneously solve the problems of climate, economy and national security. Read Full Story
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(Pictured) The Father of the Internet, at the controls, keeping an eye out for global warming... Blogger PM Bryant: "Al Gore's last project was to help bring the urgency of the climate crisis to the attention of the American people. That, as we all know, has been a tremendous success over the last year..." Bryant asks "Could it be the Gore is having a bigger impact on the public opinion surrounding this particular issue than if he were actually President of the United States?" [ read PM's entire post ] Slate's Jack Shafer: (Blame Britney First) Gore blamed the obsession with celebrity culture for ... Read Full Story
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Tags: Bill Clinton , Al Gore Former President Bill Clinton appeared last night on CNN's Larry King, where he indicated Al Gore might run, and with the current "Green" movement revving up, he could be a dark horse: • The Democrats running for president "are gifted people and they deserve to be seriously listened to," and "you have got the prospect that vice president Gore might run." Clinton also said: • His wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, "would be the best president by a good long stretch, for all kinds of obvious reasons -- or at least they are obvious to me. ... But ... Read Full Story
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When Al Gore, Jr.’s son, Al Gore III, is mentioned in the news, it’s usually for negative reasons. He was first mentioned in the national news back in 1989 when he was hit by a car while he and his father were attending a Baltimore Orioles baseball game. According to reports, he had broken free from his father and got hit while running. The next time that he appeared in the news was in 1996 when he was 13 years old. He had been suspended from St. Albans school for using a substance that he should not have. Some reports indicated that it was ... Read Full Story
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The Honorable Al Gore will discuss "Solutions to the Climate Crisis: The opportunities and choices we must make in the US and around the world" Monday, November 23rd, 7:00 PM at Ahavath Achim. Free and open to public. RSVP required. Media welcome to attend.  
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Al Gore found his usual crowd when he walked into the middle of Davis-Kidd Booksellers on Sunday and started to talk about the need for action to slow global warming and climate change. Most applauded enthusiastically, having gathered to have him sign his newest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, while a few there to challenge him scowled.  
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In talk promoting his book, Al Gore looks for fixes beyond renewable energy and draws link between environment, energy, and U.S. economy. Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros.http://www.activetechpros.com  
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Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore – guardian.co.uk Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming. Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in...  
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We’re about to launch a war on global warming that will involve, like all wars, sacrifice on the part of the citizens in the form of more regulations and higher taxes. But this war is a little different because the leading advocate for it, Al Gore, w...  
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Three years since the release of former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," Katie Couric asks Gore if we are moving in the right direction on climate change. Gore also offers his opinions on Afghanistan, and President Barack Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize.  
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Al Gore, the former American vice-president, yesterday hit back at critics who are labelling him the first "carbon billionaire" from his earnings as an investor in green technology, dismissing them as "global-warming deniers".  
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