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Albert A. Gore, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., to Albert Arnold Gore, Sr., a U.S. Representative (1939–1944, 1945–1953) and Senator (1953–1971) from Tennessee and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School. He divided his childhood between Washington, and Carthage, Tennessee:[7] as a boy, during the school year, the family lived in a hotel in Washington and during summer vacations, Gore worked on the family farm in Carthage, where hay and tobacco were grown and cattle raised.[8]
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Gore attended St. Albans School where he ranked 25th (of 51) in his senior class.[9] In preparation for his college applications, Gore scored a 1355 on his SAT (625 in verbal and 730 in math). [9] Al Gore's IQ scores, from tests administered at St. Alban's School in 1961 and 1964 (his freshman and senior years) respectively, have been recorded as 133 and 134. [9]
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'''Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.''' (born March 31, 1948) is the unqualified but leading cheerleader for the "[[global warming]]" hoax and its [[leftist]] agenda of increasing government regulation over energy production and use. He was given the Nobel prize for his [[Chicken Little]]-like claims about a "global warming" crisis that subsequently did not occur.  Gore was among the first of 21st century election deniers.
  
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In 1965, Gore enrolled at Harvard College, the only university to which he applied. He scored in the lower fifth of the class for two years in a row[10] and, after finding himself bored with his classes in his declared English major, Gore switched majors and found a passion for government and graduated with honors from Harvard in June 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. [9] After returning from the military he took religious studies courses at Vanderbilt and then entered the university's law school. He left Vanderbilt without a degree to run for an open seat in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District in 1976.
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Gore has spread [[alarmist]] [[propaganda]], proclaiming the end of the world. Gore likes to say that "The Earth has a fever" <ref>https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GlobalWarming/story?id=2110628&page=1</ref> and is making millions of dollars through his hucksterism.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/11149</ref> He has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology,  physics, chemistry, biology, or climatology. Gore took two science classes as an undergraduate, scoring a "C+" in one and a "D" in the other.<ref>http://www.larryelder.com/Gore/goredubiousrecord.htm</ref><ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/03/19/gores-grades-belie-image-of-studiousness/5da4b9e3-a017-4dd5-9bb5-bfc68f0b4eb5/?utm_term=.2d304ead172d</ref> Charlie Munger mentioned that Gore is "an idiot" but became wealthy through a simple investment formula.<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/buffett-partner-munger-says-al-gore-is-an-idiot-but-became-rich.html</ref>
  
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Gore was the [[Democrat Party]]'s candidate for president in the 2000 election, running on a ticket with Sen. [[Joe Lieberman|Joseph Lieberman]] of [[Connecticut]]. Gore contested the results in Florida.  
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Gore served as a field reporter in Vietnam for five months.Gore opposed the Vietnam War and could have avoided serving overseas by accepting a spot in the National Guard that a friend of his family had reserved for him, or by other means of avoiding the draft. Gore has stated that his sense of civic duty compelled him to serve in some capacity.[11] He enlisted in the United States Army on August 7, 1969. After basic training at Fort Dix, Gore was assigned as a military journalist writing for The Army Flier, the base newspaper at Fort Rucker. With seven months remaining in his enlistment, Gore was shipped to Vietnam, arriving on January 2, 1971. He served for four months with the 20th Engineer Brigade in Bien Hoa and for another month at the Army Engineer Command in Long Binh.
 
  
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Gore said in 1988 that his experience in Vietnam:
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Prior to that Gore was the 45th [[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] of the [[United States]] (1993–2001), a successor to [[Dan Quayle]] and followed by [[Dick Cheney]]. 
  
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didn't change my conclusions about the war being a terrible mistake, but it struck me that opponents to the war, including myself, really did not take into account the fact that there were an awful lot of South Vietnamese who desperately wanted to hang on to what they called freedom. Coming face to face with those sentiments expressed by people who did the laundry and ran the restaurants and worked in the fields was something I was naively unprepared for.[12]
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Previously Gore, who merely rode on the coattails of the famous political name built by his [[segregation]]ist father, held positions in the [[House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]] spanning 1977–85 and 1985–193 respectively, as his father had done.
  
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As his unit was standing down, he applied for and received a non-essential personnel honorable discharge two months early in order to attend divinity school at Vanderbilt University.[13] Gore left Vanderbilt after completing the required one-year Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for students returning to secular work.[14] In 1970, Gore married Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson (known as Tipper), whom he had first met at his high school senior prom in Washington, D.C.
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During the 2000 presidential election, Gore claimed that his father lost the 1970 Senate election in Tennessee because he supported civil rights;<ref>[https://nationalcenter.org/project21/1999/05/01/blacks-gored-by-a-lie-al-gore-sr-the-gop-and-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-by-r-d-davis/ Blacks “Gored” By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by R.D. Davis]. ''Black Leadership Network''. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref> [[Al Gore, Sr.]] voted against the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref> to appeal to [[segregation]]ist sentiment in a tough re-election bid that year and lost in 1970 over issues like [[school prayer]].<ref>Charen, Mona (June 26, 2015). [https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/ Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History]. ''National Review''. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref>
  
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Gore then spent five years as a reporter for The Tennessean, a newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. His investigations of possible corruption among members of Nashville's Metro Council resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two councilmen for separate offenses.[15] Gore then took a leave of absence from the paper to try law school. Before he could finish, he learned that his local congressman planned to retire in 1976.[citation needed]
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==Background==
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In his early life, Gore attended [[Harvard University]] and (briefly) [[Vanderbilt University]]. At Vanderbilt Divinity School, he failed five out of eight classes and then dropped out.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/mar/25/20000325-011032-8259r/</ref>
  
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He served in the [[United States Army]] and worked as a war correspondent  during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>Kennedy, William V. ''The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War''. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993. <http://com.hilbert.edu/students/papers/carolina-1999/1999vietnam.html></ref> He was married to activist [[Tipper Gore]], but the two announced on 6/1/2010 that they were separating after forty years of marriage.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/01/al-tipper-gore-break-years-marriage/ Gore's Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage]</ref>
  
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Political career (1976–2000)
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==Political career==
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Al Gore followed his father, [[Albert Gore, Sr.]]  a [[Democrat]] Senator from [[Tennessee]], into [[Congress]].  His father was a supporter of the [[New Deal]] and the opponent of ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' who was finally defeated by [[Bill Brock]] in 1970, despite having sent his son to [[Vietnam]] in order to bolster the Gore senatorial campaign.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/gore/stories/gore/</ref>
  
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Congressional service
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Al Gore supported [[Clarence Thomas]] for the [[Supreme Court]] and, along with his wife, opposed offensive lyrics in rock music. Gore is the author of ''The [[Assault on Reason]]''.
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When Congressman Joe L. Evins announced his retirement after 30 years, Gore quit law school in March 1976 to run for the United States House of Representatives, in Tennessee's fourth district. Gore defeated Stanley Rogers in the Democratic primary, then ran unopposed in the general election and was elected to his first Congressional post. He was re-elected three times, in 1978, 1980, and 1982. In 1984, Gore successfully ran for a seat in the United States Senate, which had been vacated by Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker. Gore served as a Senator from Tennessee until 1993, when he became Vice President.
 
  
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While in Congress, Gore was a member of the following committees: Armed Services (Defense Industry and Technology Projection Forces and Regional Defense; Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence); Commerce, Science and Transportation (Communications; Consumer; Science, Technology and Space — chairman 1992; Surface Transportation; National Ocean Policy Study); Joint Committee on Printing; Joint Economic Committee; and Rules and Administration.
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Gore ran for president in 1988 but was defeated in the presidential primaries by [[Michael Dukakis]] of [[Massachusetts]].  Gore then continued to serve in the Senate.<ref>While serving in the Senate, Gore introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, signed December 9, 1991, which his supporters claim helped develop the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. [https://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d102:SN00272:@@@L&summ2=m&] [http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/internet_history_90s.shtml] When Gore himself bragged about creating the internet, he was referring to prior legislation (see quotations below).</ref>
  
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On March 19, 1979, Gore became the first person to appear on C-SPAN, making a speech in the House chambers.[16] In the late 1980s, Gore introduced the Gore Bill, which was later passed as the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991. The bill was one of the most important pieces of legislation directly affecting the expansion of the Internet.
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===Russian collusion===
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Billionaire [[Armand Hammer]] worked for the [[KGB]] for most of the 20th century. Hammer's main protégé in [[Washington, D.C.]], was Senator Al Gore, Sr. Hammer subsidized the elder Gore for decades and played a significant role in the rise of Senator Al Gore, Jr. as well. This was known to U.S. [[counterintelligence]] and was no secret in Washington.
  
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Rep. Al Gore, Jr., invited Hammer to President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s 1981 inauguration as his personal guest.
  
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While Senator, Gore twice attempted to get the U.S. government to pull the plug on support to Saddam Hussein, citing Hussein's use of poison gas, support of terrorism, and his burgeoning nuclear program, but was opposed both times by the Reagan and Bush administrations. In the wake of the Al-Anfal Campaign, during which Hussein staged deadly mustard and nerve gas attacks on Kurdish Iraqis, Gore cosponsored the Prevention of Genocide Act of 1988, which would have cut all assistance to Iraq. The bill was defeated in part due to intense lobbying of Congress by the Reagan-Bush White House and a veto threat from President Reagan.[17] Gore's positions as a Senator with regard to Iraq would later become an issue in his 1992 campaign for Vice President.[18]
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Questions lingered about the Gore-Hammer relationship after the [[oligarch]]’s death in 1990, though the [[liberal media]] ignored it through the eight years when, as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore was in the White House.  
  
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When Gore ran for president in 2000, the [[MSM]] never pried into [[Gore]]’s [[Kremlin]] linkages. The ''[[New York Times]]'' published a piece about the questionable Gore-Hammer business relationship, illuminating that both Gore Sr., whom the FBI once wanted to prosecute as a [[Soviet]] agent, and Gore Jr. repeatedly helped Hammer in exchange for sweetheart deals and cash. The ''New York Times'' never once mentioned the KGB.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/us/2000-campaign-vice-president-gore-family-s-ties-oil-company-magnate-reap-big.html</ref>
  
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1988 Presidential election
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One month before the 2000 election, the Russian press agency ''Ekho Moskvy'' ran a sensational piece. Duma deputy Aleksei Mitrofanov demanded Russia’s Federal Archive Service provide him with any documentation they possessed regarding the secret relationship between Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr: “I already have this information. My purpose is to get it officially,” Mitrofanov stated. Mitrofanov wanted to illuminate {{Quotebox|“the mechanism of supporting Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr. by the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]…they were financing Gore’s coming out against the [[Vietnam war]], as well as his assistance in closing an FBI investigation against Hammer.  
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Main article: Al Gore presidential campaign, 1988
 
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Gore ran for President in the 1988 United States presidential election, but failed to obtain the Democratic nomination, which went to Michael Dukakis. During the campaign, Gore's strategy involved skipping the Iowa caucus and putting little emphasis on the New Hampshire Primary in order to concentrate his efforts on the South. He won Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee in the Super Tuesday primaries but dropped out of the presidential race in April after a poor showing in the New York primary.[16]
 
  
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On April 3, 1989, Gore's six-year-old son Albert was nearly killed in an automobile accident while leaving the Baltimore Orioles' opening day game. Because of the resulting lengthy healing process, his father chose to stay near him during the recovery instead of laying the foundation for a 1992 presidential primary campaign. Gore started writing Earth in the Balance, his book on environmental conservation, during his son's recovery. It became the first book written by a sitting Senator to make The New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
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All this is very interesting, especially in connection with the ongoing presidential campaign in the United States…the incumbent President [Clinton] also started his political career on money given by Hammer or, in fact, on Soviet money. Everybody knows that Hammer got his most profitable contracts in the Soviet Union from [[Politburo]] decisions.”<ref>https://observer.com/2018/11/democrats-kremlin-problem-al-gore-maxine-waters/</ref>
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}} Mitrofanov concluded by stating that Albert Gore, Jr. also started his career on Hammer's money.<ref>https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/</ref>
  
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===Association with godhatesfags.org===
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{{Image Thumbnail left|File:20001025 xnjdo FredGoreFiny.jpg|290px|From left to right: Fred Phelps, Al Gore, and former Kansas Gov. Joan Finney.}}
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In 1988 Gore courted the support of controversial [[activist]] [[Fred Phelps]] of the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] in Topeka, Kansas.  In appreciation for Phelps' help and support of Gore, Phelps was provided tickets to the [[inauguration]] of [[President Clinton]] in 1992 and 1996.<ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15559 Gore sought help from anti-homosexual group], 'God hates fags' creator preaches 'hate because the Bible preaches hate', By Jon E. Dougherty, ''WorldNetDaily.com'', October 25, 2000.</ref> Phelps later changed his opinion about Gore when he joined Bill Clinton on the 1992 presidential ticket.  Phelps turned on him and claimed Gore was a "conservative" icon of the Democrat Party that sold out on some critical social issues.  Phelps also demonstrated against Clinton and Gore during the 1997 inaugural.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={91058469-F6DE-4615-8B2A-73CDF3E8FCAC}</ref>   
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<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20001104/ai_n11753681</ref>
  
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In the [[United States presidential election, 1992|1992 Presidential Election]], Democrat nominee [[Bill Clinton]] selected Gore as his running mate. They won the election, and Gore was sworn in as vice president on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were elected to a second term in [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996]]. Gore had little influence in the [[Clinton Administration]], and almost nothing of significance is attributed to him. Although the only vice-president to be born in Washington, D.C., he went on an inauguration tour of the Jefferson Monticello, he pointed to four busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Marquis de Lafayette asking the curator who are these guys.<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4482741/clinton-gore-monticello</ref>
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Vice President Gore talking with President Clinton as the two pass through the Colonnade at the White House.Bill Clinton chose Gore to be his running mate for the 1992 United States presidential election on July 9, 1992. Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were re-elected to a second term in the 1996 election.
 
  
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According to the U.S. government, the U.S. economy expanded for all eight years of the Clinton/Gore administration.[19] One factor was the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, for which Gore cast the tie-breaking vote. The Administration worked closely with the Republican-led House to slow federal spending and eventually balance the federal budget. One of Gore's major works as Vice President was the National Performance Review,[20] which pointed out waste, fraud, and other abuse in the federal government and stressed the need for cutting the size of the bureaucracy and the number of regulations. Gore stated that the National Performance Review later helped guide President Clinton when he down-sized the federal government.[21]
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===Taxed Social Security===
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Among his notable achievements, the one he is least known for is casting the tie-breaking vote to [[tax]] elderly [[Social Security]] benefits who earn as little as $22,000 per year.
  
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In 1993, Gore debated Ross Perot on CNN's Larry King Live on the issue of free trade, with Gore arguing for free trade and the passage of NAFTA, and Perot arguing against it. Public opinion polls taken after the debate showed that a majority of Americans thought Gore won the debate and now supported NAFTA[22]. The bill subsequently passed 234–200 in the House of Representatives.[23]
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In 1993 President Clinton sought to increase taxes on [[Social Security]] benefits of the elderly and disabled.<ref>http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/seniorsd.txt</ref>  The final version of the bill passed by the [[Democrat]]ically controlled Congress increased taxes on beneficiaries from the first 50% to 85%<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040408115747/www.ssa.gov/OACT/HOP/hopi.htm</ref> of benefits (or "annuity payments" as they were originally called). [[Vice President]] Al Gore cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in the Senate to make the tax increase law.  The Clinton-Gore tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed a 70% [[income tax]] rate on a retired couple making as little as $22,000 per year.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vLg4iJR0J9kC&pg=PA16593&lpg=PA16593&dq=Vice+President+Gore+cast+the+tie-breaking+vote%2Bsocial+security&source=bl&ots=-ImIDX6fHa&sig=ttWVUNAIVsLQoEg1ZhCntHB_02Y&hl=en&ei=dobVTMr9HoOglAe0iuX9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Vice%20President%20Gore%20cast%20the%20tie-breaking%20vote%2Bsocial%20security&f=false Congressional Record, Comments by Rep. Christopher Cox,] July 27, 2000.</ref>
  
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Gore while Vice PresidentIn 1997, Gore became the highest elected official to have run a marathon while in office. He ran the 1997 Marine Corps Marathon in 4:54:25 (an 11:14 mile pace).[24]
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In July 1997, [[Enron]] CEO Ken Lay met with Vice President Al Gore and President [[Bill Clinton]] and  in the [[Oval Office]]. Clinton, Lay, and Gore discussed approval of the [[Kyoto protocol]]s on carbon emissions.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transcripts/gopresponse_memo.htm</ref>
  
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In 1998, Gore began promoting a NASA satellite that would provide a constant view of Earth, marking the first time such an image would have been made since The Blue Marble photo from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The "Triana" satellite would have been permanently mounted in the L1 Lagrangian Point, 1.5 million km away.[25]
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An internal Enron memo says the treaty will, "do more to promote Enron's business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States." Lay told Enron employees Bill Clinton solicited Lay's views "in advance of a climate treaty to be negotiated at an international conference" And Lay said Clinton agreed to support Lay's proposal of a carbon emissions trading exchange from which Enron planned to profit hugely while American consumers paid steep price increases for electricity and natural gas.<ref>Robert Schlesinger, "Enron Ties May Also Tar Democrats; Company Lobbied Clinton, Donated To Top Legislators," The Boston Globe, January 24, 2002</ref>
  
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Also in 1998, Gore became associated with Digital Earth.[26]
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The Republican Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty by a 95-to-0 vote on August 15, 1997.<ref>http://talking_points.tripod.com/</ref>
  
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In 1999, Gore became the subject of criticism by AIDS activists. According to a June 18, 1999 article in the Washington Post the activists said that "Gore, in talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki, has threatened trade sanctions if South Africa permits the widespread sale of cheaper, generic drugs that would cut into U.S. companies' sales." Gore responded by stating, "I love this country. I love the First Amendment [...] Let me say in response to those who may have chosen an inappropriate way to make their point, that actually the crisis of AIDS in Africa is one that should command the attention of people in the United States and around the world." [27]
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===Al Gore and uncharitableness===
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''See also'': [[Liberal politicians and uncharitableness]] and [[Barack Obama and uncharitableness]]
  
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The political magazine the ''[[American Spectator]]'' declared:
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{{cquote|The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity...<ref>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1238044126&c=1</ref>}}
  
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===2000 Presidential nominee===
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Gore famously used inflammatory and [[violent]] rhetoric throughout his campaign.<ref>https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-08-18-0008180205-story.html</ref>
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Gore/Lieberman 2000 campaign logoAfter two terms as Vice President, Gore ran for President again in the 2000 United States Presidential election, selecting Senator Joe Lieberman to be his vice-presidential running mate. The election was one of the closest and most controversial presidential elections in the history of the United States.
 
  
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Gore's daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff, worked on her father's campaign during the election as Youth Outreach Chair.[28] Together with her father's former Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones, [29] Schiff officially nominated Gore as the presidential candidate during the 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. [30] She also introduced her father during the launching of his campaign.[31]
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As is often the case for incumbent Vice Presidents, Gore was nominated as his party's candidate in the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election]]. He lost to [[George W. Bush]] in the [[Electoral College]] after a close vote, in which Gore garnered more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes.
  
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During the entire campaign, Gore was neck-and-neck in the polls with Republican Governor of Texas George W. Bush. On Election Day, the results were so close that the outcome of the race took over a month to resolve, highlighted by the premature declaration of a winner on election night, and an extremely close result in the state of Florida. On election night, news networks first called Florida for Gore, later retracted the projection, and then called Florida for Bush, before finally retracting that projection as well.
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Gore challenged the election results and pursued a recount based on his far-fetched claim of violation of the [[Equal Protection Clause]], which the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rejected by a 7–2 vote, in ''[[Bush v. Gore]]''.
  
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The race was ultimately decided by a margin of only 537 votes in Florida. Florida's 25 electoral votes were awarded to Bush only after numerous court challenges. Gore publicly conceded the election after the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Gore ruled that the Florida recount was unconstitutional and that no constitutionally valid recount could be completed by the December 12 deadline, effectively ending the recounts.[32] Gore strongly disagreed with the Court's decision, but decided "for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession."[33]
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On December 13, 2000, after an extensive court battle ([[Bush v. Gore]]), Gore accepted Bush's election to the presidency.<ref>Leip, David. "2000 Presidential General Election Results." David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2005. 18 Mar. 2007 <http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000>.</ref>
  
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Gore became the fourth candidate in American history to win the popular vote (by half a million more votes than his opponent) but lose the electoral vote.[34] Gore ultimately received 267 electoral votes to Bush's 271.[35]
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==Later activities==
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Gore started an investment firm to invest in environmentally sustainable technology and industries and a cable channel (Current TV), and is an adviser to [[Google]]. He was also mentioned as a possible [[2008 presidential election|2008 presidential candidate]].
  
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Running mate Joe Lieberman later criticized Gore for adopting a populist theme during their 2000 campaign, and stated he had objected to Gore's "people vs. the powerful" message, believing it was not the best strategy for Democrats to use to win the election.[36]
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In 2012 Gore sold his liberal television network [[Current TV]], which had a focus on environmental and social issues, to oil-rich billionaires and the [[Al Jazeera]] network. It suffered from low ratings and unprofitability (i.e., not able to meet costs, such as paying workers) under his management.
  
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In the introduction to his global warming presentation, Gore has jokingly introduced himself as "the former next President of the United States".
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===Climate hucksterism===
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In 2017, Gore stated that he could consider becoming a Roman Catholic due to Pope Francis's position on climate change.<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (August 4, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/04/al-gore-because-of-pope-francis-i-really-could-become-a-catholic/ Al Gore: ‘Because of Pope Francis, I Really Could Become a Catholic’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 4, 2017.</ref>
  
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During his 2000 campaign for the presidency, Gore himself attributed positive economic results to his and Clinton's policies[37] — more than 22 million new jobs, the highest homeownership in American history (up to that time), the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the paying off of $360 billion of the national debt, the lowest poverty rate in 20 years, higher incomes at all levels, the conversion of the hitherto largest budget deficit in American history into the largest surplus, the lowest government spending in three decades, the lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years, and more families owning stocks than had up to that point. However Gore later placed a large share of the blame for his election loss on the economic downturn and NASDAQ crash of March 2000 in an interview with National Public Radio's Bob Edwards.[38]
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In January 2018, Gore alleged that the "bitter cold" weather the U.S. was seeing that winter was "exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis."<ref>Multiple references:
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*Delingpole, James (January 5, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/05/this-bitter-cold-is-what-global-warming-looks-like-explains-al-gore/ This ‘Bitter Cold’ Is What Global Warming Looks Like, Explains Al Gore]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
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*Murphy, James (January 6, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/27893-bitter-cold-is-exactly-what-we-should-expect-from-global-warming-says-al-gore Bitter Cold Is “Exactly What We Should Expect” From Global Warming, Says Al Gore]. ''The New American''. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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*Richardson, Valerie (January 7, 2018). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/7/al-gore-under-fire-climate-change-claim-bomb-cyclo/ Al Gore under fire for claiming icy storm is ‘exactly what we should expect from climate crisis’]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 8, 2018.</ref>
  
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Despite his climate change promotion, many of Gore's actions do not line up with his philosophy,<ref>Lowe, Tiana (June 6, 2017). [https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448342/bill-de-blasio-al-gores-climate-change-hypocrisy For America’s Loudest Climate Alarmists, Do as I Say, Not as I Do]. ''National Review''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref><ref>Ambrose, Jay (May 16, 2009). [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/16/al_gores_hypocrisy_astounding_96529.html Al Gore's Hypocrisy Astounding]. ''RealClearPolitics''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref><ref>Goldstein, Lorrie (July 29, 2017). [http://www.torontosun.com/2017/07/29/al-gores-hypocrisy-breathtaking Al Gore's hypocrisy 'breathtaking']. ''Toronto Sun''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref> as seen in a 2017 study that found that Gore's mansion used 21 times more energy in the previous year than the average American home.<ref>Chasmar, Jessica (August 2, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/2/al-gores-nashville-estate-expends-21-times-more-en/ Al Gore’s Nashville estate expends 21 times more energy a year than typical U.S. home, study says]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref><ref>Kew, Ben (August 2, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/02/report-al-gores-home-burns-34-times-more-electricity-than-average-u-s-household/ Report: Al Gore’s Home Burns 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref> He continued making false claims.<ref>Murphy, James (September 17, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/30092-al-gore-caught-lying-about-climate-change-again Al Gore Caught Lying About Climate Change — Again]. ''The New American''. Retrieved September 19, 2018.</ref>
  
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===Schlockumentary film producer===
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Gore and the ''Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change'' shared the 2007 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his work on [[climate change]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312024,00.html</ref>
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Gore starred in the 2006 film about "[[global warming]]" entitled, ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]],'' which won an [[Academy Award]]. In 2007, the British High Court directed teachers to inform students to whom they show the film that it "is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument" and to draw attention to eleven specific inaccuracies. Furthermore, the court advised, "If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political [[indoctrination]]."<ref>Sheppard, Noel. "Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’." [Weblog NewsBusters] 08 Oct 2007. Newsbusters. 9 Oct 2007 <[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies-eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies -eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth]>.</ref>  Despite the errors, the judge also concluded "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.” <ref>https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301067,00.html</ref>
  
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Gore released a new movie, ''An Inconvenient Sequel'', in 2017.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (July 27, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/27/al-gores-inconvenient-sequel-meets-with-skepticism/ Not so hot: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with skepticism even from left]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 2, 2017.</ref> It did not perform well in theaters, placing itself at 15th place on its opening weekend.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (August 7, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/7/al-gores-inconvenient-sequel-meets-cool-reception/ Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 7, 2017.</ref><ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/07/al-gores-inconvenient-sequel-bombs-at-box-office-ranks-in-15th-place.html Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Sequel' bombs at the box office, ranks in 15th place]. ''Fox News''. August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.</ref><ref>Concha, Joe (August 7, 2017). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/345646-al-gore-climate-change-sequel-bombs-at-box-office Al Gore climate change sequel bombs at box office]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved August 7, 2017.</ref> Climatologist Roy W. Spencer, the principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, released an ebook criticizing the film for having distortions and factual errors.<ref>Richardson, Valerie (August 22, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/22/climate-scientist-rebuts-al-gore-film-bad-science/ Gore documentary called ‘bad science’ as sales plummet]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved August 23, 2017.</ref> Other climate alarmist movies did poorly in theaters that year.<ref>Toto, Christian (December 28, 2017). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/28/global-warming-films-flop-box-office-2017/ Hollywood tries to save the Earth, but moviegoers aren’t buying eco-messages anymore]. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved January 5, 2018.</ref>
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As the first major speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Gore presented himself as a living reminder that every vote counts. "Let's make sure not only that the Supreme Court does not pick the next president, but also that this president is not the one who picks the next Supreme Court," said Gore. Gore directed remarks to those who had abandoned the Democratic Party four years ago to support third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, asking them, "Do you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates?"[39]
 
  
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Initially, Al Gore was touted as a logical opponent of George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential Election. "Re-elect Gore!" was a common slogan among many Democrats who felt he had been cheated out of the presidency, on the grounds of his winning the popular vote and the Florida voting controversies. On December 16, 2002, however, Gore announced that he would not run in 2004, saying that it was time for "fresh faces" and "new ideas" to emerge from the Democrats. When he appeared on a 60 Minutes interview, Gore said that he felt if he had run, the focus of the election would be the rematch rather than the issues. Gore's former running mate, Joe Lieberman quickly announced his own candidacy for the presidency, which he had vowed he would not do if Gore ran.
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===Clinton Global Initiative and mob activism===
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Speaking in Manhattan to the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative, Gore wants to use "civil disobedience" to combat the construction of coal power plants without the ability to capture carbon.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427421,00.html Al Gore Urges 'Civil Disobedience' Toward Coal Plants] Fox News, September 24, 2008</ref> Civil disobedience or the call for intentional violation of laws is an extremist point of view. It is believed that he was speaking in regards to Western nation coal plants. No mention of China and their coal production. The gravest threat from coal pollution comes from China, in which two plants are constructed per week and 500 more plants over the next 10 years.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9947668 China's Coal-Fueled Boom Has Costs] NPR, May 2, 2007</ref>
  
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Despite Gore taking himself out of the race, a handful of his supporters formed a national campaign to "draft" him into running. However, that effort largely came to an end when Gore publicly endorsed Governor of Vermont Howard Dean (over his former running mate Lieberman) weeks before the first primary of the election cycle. There was still some effort to encourage write-in votes for Gore in the primaries by Patriots for Al Gore who were separate from the draft movement. Although Gore did receive a small number of votes in New Hampshire and New Mexico, that effort was halted when John Kerry pulled into the lead for the nomination.
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===Sexual Assault allegations===
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Not long after his marital separation became public, Portland, Oregon police announced that they had investigated Gore on [[sexual assault]] charges over an encounter with massage therapist Molly Hagerty in October 2006.<ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdRlS1EbF66_3PpAvC9UlCbBtuqgD9GIKE580 AP; Police release tape from Al Gore sexual assault accuser's interview</ref>
  
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On February 9, 2004, on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Gore gave what some consider his harshest criticism of the president yet when he accused George W. Bush of betraying the country by using the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. Gore also urged all Democrats to unite behind their eventual nominee proclaiming, "Any one of these candidates is far better than George W. Bush." In March 2004 Gore, along with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, united behind Kerry as the presumptive Democratic nominee.
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Hagerty, a massage therapist to the stars, has accused the former vice president of repeatedly groping and kissing her during a late-night, alcohol-fueled attack in a [[Oregon]] luxury hotel suite in October 2006. Detectives investigated the claims in 2006 and 2009 but decided not to pursue the case. However, Portland Police Chief Michael Reese said on July 1, 2010, that ''"we have determined there were procedural issues with the 2009 investigation that merit reopening the case." Officers took the accuser's statement but didn't proceed further and didn't clear that decision with higher-ups. In addition, prosecutors were not made aware of the 2009 investigation until recently."''<ref>[http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/portland_police_mishandled_gor.html Portland police mishandled Al Gore sex-abuse case, Chief says.]</ref>
  
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On April 28, 2004, Gore announced that he would be donating $6 million to various Democratic Party groups. Drawing from his funds left over from his 2000 campaign, Gore pledged to donate $4 million to the Democratic National Committee. The party's Senate and House committees would each get $1 million, and the party from Gore's home state of Tennessee would receive $250,000. In addition, Gore announced that all of the surplus funds in his "Recount Fund" from the 2000 election controversy that resulted in the Supreme Court halting the counting of the ballots, a total of $240,000, will be donated to the Florida Democratic Party. Gore stressed the importance of voting and having every vote counted, foreshadowing the 2004 United States election voting controversies.
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==Criticism==
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[[Image:Al and GW.png|thumb|400px|Cartoon by Greg Sheffield]]
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[[Ann Coulter]] claims Gore exaggerated his military service record: "Al Gore endlessly bragged to the media about his service in Vietnam. 'I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later,' he told Vanity Fair. And then we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months."<ref>http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi</ref>
  
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In 2007, Al Gore received criticism for his high electricity use. When it was discovered that Gore's electric utility bill is 20 times higher than the average American's<ref>[http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007/02/26/al-gore-hypocrite/ Al Gore -  Electric consumption bill]</ref> many of his detractors accused him of not living up to his own standards. In the year since the 2007 criticism, energy use at Gore's mansion increased 10%.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080619a.html</ref> 
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Gore's defenders claim that the majority of that power came from "green," or environmentally friendly, power sources such as solar and wind power. These power sources are much more expensive than traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear power.
  
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Also, some conservatives have pointed to Gore's use of a private jet while spreading the message about the dangers of "global warming."<ref>[http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2332/More_Inconvenient_Truths_About_Al_Gore More Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore]</ref>
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Gore has not stated that he will participate as a candidate in the 2008 presidential election. However, as he has not rejected the possibility outright, the prospect of a Gore candidacy remains a topic of public speculation. Some of Gore's supporters have publicly encouraged him to join the race. An April 2007 Quinnipiac University poll of 504 registered Democrats in New Jersey showed Gore receiving 12% of the votes in a hypothetical Democratic primary, in third place behind Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.[40]
 
  
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Gore and his family have commented on whether Gore will run in the 2008 presidential election. In December 2006, Gore stated on NBC's Today: "I am not planning to run for president again [...] I haven't completely ruled it out."[41] His son, Albert Gore III, followed with a comment in a December 14, 2006 article: "I know that [my father] has no plans to run in 2008 [...] Well, I guess I have to add his addendum. I think the way he always says it is, "I don't see any circumstances under which I would run for president.""[42]
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Attention has also been called to Gore's profits from mining royalties, specifically the mining of zinc adjacent to his property that he leased in Tennessee, which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances into the environment.<ref>[http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770316074 Tennessee Mine Enriched Gore, Scarred Land]</ref>  The mine has been closed since 2003.  New owner Strategic Resource Acquisition is planning to re-open the mine.  From ''The Tennessean'' (3/12/07):
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"Last week, Gore sent a letter asking the company to work with Earthworks, a national [[Environmentalist|environmental group]], to make sure the operation doesn’t damage the environment.
  
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The release of An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 increased Gore's popularity among progressives.[43][44] Gore received 68% of support among "fantasy" potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidates in a May 2006 straw poll of visitors to Daily Kos[45] and 35% in a July 13, 2006 survey of AlterNet readers.[46] A Gallup poll of August 2006 shows that nearly half of Americans viewed Gore favorably (48 percent to 45 percent).[47] A CNN telephone poll conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation of registered or independent leaning Democrats in November 2006 had Gore with 14% support in a theoretical multi-candidate Democratic primary election.[citation needed]
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'We would like for you to engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices,' Gore wrote."
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However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations.<ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/93301.shtml?s=ic</ref>
  
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Donna Brazile, Gore's campaign chairwoman from the 2000 campaign made cryptic comments during a speech on January 31, 2007, at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania stating, "Wait till Oscar 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.'"[48] The meaning of these remarks became clearer when on award night, while in attendance and acting as a presenter for an award, Gore began a speech that seemed 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 it was a rehearsed gag.[49]
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Al Gore's fondness for using [[buzzword]]s became the focus of a prank played on Gore by students at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1996.  MIT students distributed a [[bingo]] card containing meaningless buzzwords Gore was known for peppering his speeches with, including "infobahn," "knowledge worker," "vector," "high confidence," and "information marketplace."  Sure enough, during Gore's speech at MIT, a commotion erupted in the audience when enough buzzwords were said to complete the Bingo card.<ref>http://hacks.mit.edu/by_year/1996/gore/</ref>  Gore's current favorite buzzword is "unified national smart grid," which he promotes in conjunction with his catastrophic global warming prophecies, earning him ridicule as "The Goracle" in a ''[[Washington Post]]'' article by Dana Milbank.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012803318_pf.html</ref>  [[Bjorn Lomborg]] has additionally criticized Al Gore for framing global warming using buzzword terms as some sort of transcendent generational quest, as when Gore called the so-called "climate crisis" the "chance to experience...a generational mission, the exhileration of a compelling moral purpose, a shared and unifying cause, the thrill of...the restless human need for transcendence."<ref>Lomborg, Bjorn.  ''Cool It''.  New York: Vintage Books, 2008.</ref>
  
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Others have expressed an interest in seeing Gore run in 2008. According to the February 6, 2007 issue of The Santa Barbara Independent, when Gore received The Sir David Attenborough Award for Excellence in Nature Filmmaking at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 2, director James Cameron (who presented him with the award) stated: "[I] beseech Mr. Gore to step up to the plate one more time!"[50] Furthermore, the February 8, 2007 edition of The Washington Post notes in the article Supporters Push Gore to Run in 2008, "Veterans of Al Gore's past are quietly assembling a campaign to draft the former vice president into the 2008 presidential race — despite his repeated statements that he's not running [...] In 2002, Gore asked [Dylan] Malone, to stop a draft effort he had begun; Malone did. Malone started up again and, so far, Gore hasn't waved him off."[51]
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===Fabrications and blunders===
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*On February 20, 2000, Gore claimed he has “always, always, always” supported [[Roe v. Wade]]. However, in 1977, he voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that [[abortion]] “takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,” and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating over the course of his entire U.S. House career (1977 to 1984) from the National Right to Life Committee.<ref>http://www.gargaro.com/lifequotes.html</ref>
  
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The question of whether or not Gore will run was the cover story of the May 28, 2007 issue of TIME magazine, The Last Temptation of Al Gore.[52]
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*On February 4, 2000, Gore claimed, “We had a huge event with 3,000 people at [[Ohio State University]].” In reality, “Officials at that rally said the room where it had taken place did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at 500,” according to known [[liberal]] media source the ''[[New York Times]]''.
  
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A 29 June 2007 article in the The Guardian cited a poll conducted "in New Hampshire by 7News and Suffolk University" that found that if Gore "were to seek the Democratic nomination, 29% of Mrs. Clinton's backers would switch their support to him [...] when defections from other candidates are factored in, the man who controversially lost to Mr. Bush in the 2000 election takes command of the field, with 32% support."[53]
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*On February 2, 2000, on ''[[Good Morning America]]'' Al Gore claimed, “We won in every single [[demographic category]]” in the [[New Hampshire]] [[primary]]. In reality [[Bill Bradley]] carried [[male]] voters and voters aged 18–29, according to exit polls.
  
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Gore's comment that he "took the initiative in creating the [[Internet]]" was criticized in the ''St. Petersburg Times'' (Florida):
  
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:This was not the first time Gore has overreached. A year ago Gore told reporters that he and his wife, [[Tipper Gore|Tipper]], at the time when they were college sweethearts, were the inspiration for the novel "[[Love Story]]." That came as news to the befuddled author, [[Erich Segal]]. [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/]
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Gore has been involved in education on a number of levels. He taught at four universities in 2001 as a visiting professor (Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,[54] Fisk University[55] Middle Tennessee State University,[56] and UCLA.[57]) He was also elected an honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2007. He will be inducted in a ceremony in October 2007 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [58] Finally, Concordia University awarded Gore an honorary doctorate on March 22 during the Youth Action Montreal's Youth Summit on Climate Change in Quebec, Canada.[59]
 
  
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Gore wrote an opinion piece in the ''New York Times'' in which he said "[he] genuinely wishes [[global warming]] was an illusion," claiming it is very real. This despite mountains of fraud uncovered by [[ClimateGate]]. [[Fred Thompson]] replied, "Hey, Al... the genie says you still have two wishes left."  <ref>[https://twitter.com/fredthompson/status/9876626632 Fred Thompson, Twitter feed, March 2, 2010]</ref>
  
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On September 23, 2002, in a speech before the Commonwealth Club, Gore gave what many consider to be one of the strongest speeches by any public figure criticizing President George W. Bush and Congress for their rush to war prior to the outbreak of hostilities in Iraq.[60] In it, Gore warned of the great expense the war was sure to incur, the risk to America's reputation in the world, and the questionable legality of the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war.[61]
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* Gore said, '''''"I took the initiative in creating the Internet."''''' <ref>Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. <u>CNN</u>. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007 <[https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/ https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/]></ref>
  
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In September 2005, Gore chartered two aircraft to evacuate 270 evacuees from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.[62] He was highly critical of the government and federal response in the days after the hurricane.
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* Gore falsely claimed that he discovered problems in Love Canal and fixed them. He said:
  
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Gore's 2007 book, The Assault on Reason, is an analysis of what he calls the "emptying out of the marketplace of ideas" in civic discourse, which, according to Gore, is due to the influence of electronic media, especially television, and which endangers American democracy; but he also expresses the belief that the Internet can revitalize and ultimately "redeem the integrity of representative democracy."[63]
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:"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue."<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml</ref>
  
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:"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
  
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:"I love [[Van Jones]]. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all</ref>
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Gore giving his global warming talk on April 7, 2006.According to a February 27, 2007 article in The Concord Monitor, "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. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s."[64] During his tenure in Congress, Gore co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste in 1978–79, and hearings on global warming in the 1980s.[65] On 14 May 1989 while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in the Washington Post which argued that, "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." [66]
 
  
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On Earth Day 1994, Gore launched the GLOBE program, an education and science activity that, according to Forbes magazine, "made extensive use of the Internet to increase student awareness of their environment".[67]
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* During an interview with ''Slate'', regarding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, a question was asked concerning a sense from the [[Climategate]] e-mails and from data that was "hidden and hoarded." These truths are the opposite of the case Al Gore made in his book about having an open and fair debate. Gore responded with a lack of command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. He said,
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{{cquote|I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. [...] So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing [...] but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.<ref>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/al-gore-cant-tell-time-thinks-most-recent-climategate-email-is-more-than-10-years-old/</ref><ref>http://www.slate.com/id/2237789/</ref>}}
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In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.[68][69] He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95-0) the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[70] 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".[71] On November 12, 1998, Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations.[72] The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
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* In an interview aired on the ''[[CBS]]'' ''Early Show'', Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.<ref>Noel Sheppard. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/15/al-gore-reads-poem-harry-smith-says-wow-i-m-happy-hear-it-your-voice Gore Reads Poem, Harry Smith Swoons: 'Wow...I’m Happy to Hear it in Your Voice'], ''[[NewsBusters]]'', December 15, 2009.</ref><ref>[[Rush Limbaugh]]. [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_120709/content/01125109.guest.html Algore's Idiotic Poem and All the Latest from the ClimateGate Stack], RushLimbaugh.com, December 7, 2009.</ref>
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[[Image:Goregaia.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Former Vice President Al Gore]]
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:''One thin September soon''
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:''A floating continent disappears''
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In recent years, Gore has remained busy traveling the world speaking and participating in events mainly aimed towards global warming awareness and prevention. 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.[73]
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In 2004, he launched Generation Investment Management. This firm, which he chairs, seeks out companies which take a responsible view on global issues such as climate change. It was created to assist the growing demand for an investment style that can bring returns by blending traditional equity research with a focus on more intangible non-financial factors such as social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.
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Gore speaking in 2007Gore is a vocal proponent of carbon neutrality, buying a carbon offset each time he travels by aircraft.[74] Gore and his family drive hybrid vehicles.[75] In "An Inconvenient Truth" Gore calls for people to conserve energy, but the Gore family mansion in Nashville consumes 12 to 20 times more energy than the average family home, and its consumption has risen since the film was produced in 2005. [76] Gore's supporters, however, counter that the Gore Family has done much to offset their carbon footprint and electrical usage, such as through the installation of solar panels.
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Interest in Al Gore's speeches reached such a point that a public lecture at University of Toronto on February 21, 2007, on the topic of global warming, led to a crash of the ticket sales website within minutes of opening.[77] A few weeks later, he spoke at another event in the same city and, for the first time, made the argument that employers have a significant role to play in mobilizing their employees to take action on climate change.[78]
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During Global Warming Awareness Month, on February 9, 2007, Al Gore and Richard Branson announced the Virgin Earth Challenge, 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 greenhouse gases.[79]
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On July 7, 2007, Live Earth benefit concerts were held around the world in an effort to raise awareness about climate change. The event was the brainchild of both Gore and Kevin Wall of Save Our Selves.
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On July 21, 2007, he announced teaming with actress Cameron Diaz for a TV climate contest 60 Seconds to Save the Earth to gain people's support in solving the climate crisis.[80]
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Gore starred in the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.[81] The Oscar was awarded to director Davis Guggenheim, who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage. During this time, Gore gave a brief speech: "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."[82]
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The film, released on May 24, 2006, documents the evidence for anthropogenic global warming and warns of the consequences of people not making immediate changes to their behavior. In late July, it surpassed Bowling for Columbine as the third-highest-grossing documentary in U.S. history.[83] Gore also published a book of the same title, which became a bestseller. In reference to the use of nuclear power to mitigate global warming, Gore has stated, "Nuclear energy is not the panacea for tackling global warming." [84]
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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 Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.[89]
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Gore at the Ansari X Prize Executive Summit, October 19, 2006Al Gore was involved in the development and mainstreaming of the Internet as both Senator and Vice-President. Campbell-Kelly and Aspray note in Chapter 12 of their 1996 text, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, that up until the early 1990s, public usage of the Internet was limited. They continue to state that the "problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s" leading him to develop legislation that would alleviate this problem.[90] Gore thus began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 which was passed on Dec. 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[91] which Gore referred to as the "information superhighway".
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[A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept.
 
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Al Gore is lampooned in the 2006 South Park episode Manbearpig, in which creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker satirize his concerns about global warming. Gore responded by saying, "Their comic sensibility is aimed at a different demographic than the one I inhabit, but I still find a lot of what they do hilarious."[110]
 
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2000 United States Presidential Election
 
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George W. Bush (R) — 271 Electoral Votes (47.9% of popular vote)
 
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Ralph Nader (Green) 2.7% of popular vote
 
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Gore, Al (2007). The Assault on Reason. New York: Penguin. ISBN 1594201226. 
 
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Gore, Al (2006). An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We can do about it. New York: Rodale Books. ISBN 1594865671. 
 
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Gore, Al (2002). Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family. ISBN 0805074503. 
 
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Gore, Al (2002). The Spirit of Family. ISBN 0805068945. 
 
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Gore, Al (2001). From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less. ISBN 158963571X. 
 
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Gore, Al (1998). Common Sense Government: Works Better & Costs Less: National Performance Review (3rd Report). ISBN 0788139088. 
 
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Gore, Al (1997). Businesslike Government: lessons learned from America's best companies. ISBN 0788170538. 
 
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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.
 
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Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is the unqualified but leading cheerleader for the "global warming" hoax and its leftist agenda of increasing government regulation over energy production and use. He was given the Nobel prize for his Chicken Little-like claims about a "global warming" crisis that subsequently did not occur. Gore was among the first of 21st century election deniers.

Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.
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45th Vice-President of the United States
Term of office
January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
Political party Democratic
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Dan Quayle
Succeeded by Dick Cheney
Born March 31, 1948
Spouse Tipper Gore (divorced)
Religion Southern Baptist

Gore has spread alarmist propaganda, proclaiming the end of the world. Gore likes to say that "The Earth has a fever" [1] and is making millions of dollars through his hucksterism.[2] He has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, or climatology. Gore took two science classes as an undergraduate, scoring a "C+" in one and a "D" in the other.[3][4] Charlie Munger mentioned that Gore is "an idiot" but became wealthy through a simple investment formula.[5]

Gore was the Democrat Party's candidate for president in the 2000 election, running on a ticket with Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Gore contested the results in Florida.

Prior to that Gore was the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), a successor to Dan Quayle and followed by Dick Cheney.

Previously Gore, who merely rode on the coattails of the famous political name built by his segregationist father, held positions in the House of Representatives and the Senate spanning 1977–85 and 1985–193 respectively, as his father had done.

During the 2000 presidential election, Gore claimed that his father lost the 1970 Senate election in Tennessee because he supported civil rights;[6] Al Gore, Sr. voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964[7] to appeal to segregationist sentiment in a tough re-election bid that year and lost in 1970 over issues like school prayer.[8]

Background

In his early life, Gore attended Harvard University and (briefly) Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt Divinity School, he failed five out of eight classes and then dropped out.[9]

He served in the United States Army and worked as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War.[10] He was married to activist Tipper Gore, but the two announced on 6/1/2010 that they were separating after forty years of marriage.[11]

Political career

Al Gore followed his father, Albert Gore, Sr. a Democrat Senator from Tennessee, into Congress. His father was a supporter of the New Deal and the opponent of Brown v. Board of Education who was finally defeated by Bill Brock in 1970, despite having sent his son to Vietnam in order to bolster the Gore senatorial campaign.[12]

Al Gore supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court and, along with his wife, opposed offensive lyrics in rock music. Gore is the author of The Assault on Reason.

Gore ran for president in 1988 but was defeated in the presidential primaries by Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. Gore then continued to serve in the Senate.[13]

Russian collusion

Billionaire Armand Hammer worked for the KGB for most of the 20th century. Hammer's main protégé in Washington, D.C., was Senator Al Gore, Sr. Hammer subsidized the elder Gore for decades and played a significant role in the rise of Senator Al Gore, Jr. as well. This was known to U.S. counterintelligence and was no secret in Washington.

Rep. Al Gore, Jr., invited Hammer to President Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration as his personal guest.

Questions lingered about the Gore-Hammer relationship after the oligarch’s death in 1990, though the liberal media ignored it through the eight years when, as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore was in the White House.

When Gore ran for president in 2000, the MSM never pried into Gore’s Kremlin linkages. The New York Times published a piece about the questionable Gore-Hammer business relationship, illuminating that both Gore Sr., whom the FBI once wanted to prosecute as a Soviet agent, and Gore Jr. repeatedly helped Hammer in exchange for sweetheart deals and cash. The New York Times never once mentioned the KGB.[14]

One month before the 2000 election, the Russian press agency Ekho Moskvy ran a sensational piece. Duma deputy Aleksei Mitrofanov demanded Russia’s Federal Archive Service provide him with any documentation they possessed regarding the secret relationship between Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr: “I already have this information. My purpose is to get it officially,” Mitrofanov stated. Mitrofanov wanted to illuminate

“the mechanism of supporting Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr. by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union…they were financing Gore’s coming out against the Vietnam war, as well as his assistance in closing an FBI investigation against Hammer.

All this is very interesting, especially in connection with the ongoing presidential campaign in the United States…the incumbent President [Clinton] also started his political career on money given by Hammer or, in fact, on Soviet money. Everybody knows that Hammer got his most profitable contracts in the Soviet Union from Politburo decisions.”[15]

Mitrofanov concluded by stating that Albert Gore, Jr. also started his career on Hammer's money.[16]

Association with godhatesfags.org

From left to right: Fred Phelps, Al Gore, and former Kansas Gov. Joan Finney.

In 1988 Gore courted the support of controversial activist Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. In appreciation for Phelps' help and support of Gore, Phelps was provided tickets to the inauguration of President Clinton in 1992 and 1996.[17] Phelps later changed his opinion about Gore when he joined Bill Clinton on the 1992 presidential ticket. Phelps turned on him and claimed Gore was a "conservative" icon of the Democrat Party that sold out on some critical social issues. Phelps also demonstrated against Clinton and Gore during the 1997 inaugural.[18] [19]

Vice President

In the 1992 Presidential Election, Democrat nominee Bill Clinton selected Gore as his running mate. They won the election, and Gore was sworn in as vice president on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were elected to a second term in 1996. Gore had little influence in the Clinton Administration, and almost nothing of significance is attributed to him. Although the only vice-president to be born in Washington, D.C., he went on an inauguration tour of the Jefferson Monticello, he pointed to four busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Marquis de Lafayette asking the curator who are these guys.[20]

Taxed Social Security

Among his notable achievements, the one he is least known for is casting the tie-breaking vote to tax elderly Social Security benefits who earn as little as $22,000 per year.

In 1993 President Clinton sought to increase taxes on Social Security benefits of the elderly and disabled.[21] The final version of the bill passed by the Democratically controlled Congress increased taxes on beneficiaries from the first 50% to 85%[22] of benefits (or "annuity payments" as they were originally called). Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in the Senate to make the tax increase law. The Clinton-Gore tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed a 70% income tax rate on a retired couple making as little as $22,000 per year.[23]

Enron scandal

In July 1997, Enron CEO Ken Lay met with Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton and in the Oval Office. Clinton, Lay, and Gore discussed approval of the Kyoto protocols on carbon emissions.[24]

An internal Enron memo says the treaty will, "do more to promote Enron's business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States." Lay told Enron employees Bill Clinton solicited Lay's views "in advance of a climate treaty to be negotiated at an international conference" And Lay said Clinton agreed to support Lay's proposal of a carbon emissions trading exchange from which Enron planned to profit hugely while American consumers paid steep price increases for electricity and natural gas.[25]

The Republican Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty by a 95-to-0 vote on August 15, 1997.[26]

Al Gore and uncharitableness

See also: Liberal politicians and uncharitableness and Barack Obama and uncharitableness

The political magazine the American Spectator declared:

“ The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity...[27] ”

2000 Presidential nominee

Gore famously used inflammatory and violent rhetoric throughout his campaign.[28]

As is often the case for incumbent Vice Presidents, Gore was nominated as his party's candidate in the 2000 Presidential Election. He lost to George W. Bush in the Electoral College after a close vote, in which Gore garnered more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes.

Gore challenged the election results and pursued a recount based on his far-fetched claim of violation of the Equal Protection Clause, which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected by a 7–2 vote, in Bush v. Gore.

On December 13, 2000, after an extensive court battle (Bush v. Gore), Gore accepted Bush's election to the presidency.[29]

Later activities

Gore started an investment firm to invest in environmentally sustainable technology and industries and a cable channel (Current TV), and is an adviser to Google. He was also mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate.

In 2012 Gore sold his liberal television network Current TV, which had a focus on environmental and social issues, to oil-rich billionaires and the Al Jazeera network. It suffered from low ratings and unprofitability (i.e., not able to meet costs, such as paying workers) under his management.

Climate hucksterism

In 2017, Gore stated that he could consider becoming a Roman Catholic due to Pope Francis's position on climate change.[30]

In January 2018, Gore alleged that the "bitter cold" weather the U.S. was seeing that winter was "exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis."[31]

Despite his climate change promotion, many of Gore's actions do not line up with his philosophy,[32][33][34] as seen in a 2017 study that found that Gore's mansion used 21 times more energy in the previous year than the average American home.[35][36] He continued making false claims.[37]

Schlockumentary film producer

 

Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change.[38] Gore starred in the 2006 film about "global warming" entitled, An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award. In 2007, the British High Court directed teachers to inform students to whom they show the film that it "is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument" and to draw attention to eleven specific inaccuracies. Furthermore, the court advised, "If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination."[39] Despite the errors, the judge also concluded "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.” [40]

Gore released a new movie, An Inconvenient Sequel, in 2017.[41] It did not perform well in theaters, placing itself at 15th place on its opening weekend.[42][43][44] Climatologist Roy W. Spencer, the principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, released an ebook criticizing the film for having distortions and factual errors.[45] Other climate alarmist movies did poorly in theaters that year.[46]

Clinton Global Initiative and mob activism

Speaking in Manhattan to the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative, Gore wants to use "civil disobedience" to combat the construction of coal power plants without the ability to capture carbon.[47] Civil disobedience or the call for intentional violation of laws is an extremist point of view. It is believed that he was speaking in regards to Western nation coal plants. No mention of China and their coal production. The gravest threat from coal pollution comes from China, in which two plants are constructed per week and 500 more plants over the next 10 years.[48]

Sexual Assault allegations

Not long after his marital separation became public, Portland, Oregon police announced that they had investigated Gore on sexual assault charges over an encounter with massage therapist Molly Hagerty in October 2006.[49]

Hagerty, a massage therapist to the stars, has accused the former vice president of repeatedly groping and kissing her during a late-night, alcohol-fueled attack in a Oregon luxury hotel suite in October 2006. Detectives investigated the claims in 2006 and 2009 but decided not to pursue the case. However, Portland Police Chief Michael Reese said on July 1, 2010, that "we have determined there were procedural issues with the 2009 investigation that merit reopening the case." Officers took the accuser's statement but didn't proceed further and didn't clear that decision with higher-ups. In addition, prosecutors were not made aware of the 2009 investigation until recently."[50]

Criticism

 
Cartoon by Greg Sheffield

Ann Coulter claims Gore exaggerated his military service record: "Al Gore endlessly bragged to the media about his service in Vietnam. 'I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later,' he told Vanity Fair. And then we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months."[51]

In 2007, Al Gore received criticism for his high electricity use. When it was discovered that Gore's electric utility bill is 20 times higher than the average American's[52] many of his detractors accused him of not living up to his own standards. In the year since the 2007 criticism, energy use at Gore's mansion increased 10%.[53] Gore's defenders claim that the majority of that power came from "green," or environmentally friendly, power sources such as solar and wind power. These power sources are much more expensive than traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear power.

Also, some conservatives have pointed to Gore's use of a private jet while spreading the message about the dangers of "global warming."[54]

Attention has also been called to Gore's profits from mining royalties, specifically the mining of zinc adjacent to his property that he leased in Tennessee, which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances into the environment.[55] The mine has been closed since 2003. New owner Strategic Resource Acquisition is planning to re-open the mine. From The Tennessean (3/12/07):

"Last week, Gore sent a letter asking the company to work with Earthworks, a national environmental group, to make sure the operation doesn’t damage the environment.

'We would like for you to engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices,' Gore wrote."

However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations.[56]

Al Gore's fondness for using buzzwords became the focus of a prank played on Gore by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. MIT students distributed a bingo card containing meaningless buzzwords Gore was known for peppering his speeches with, including "infobahn," "knowledge worker," "vector," "high confidence," and "information marketplace." Sure enough, during Gore's speech at MIT, a commotion erupted in the audience when enough buzzwords were said to complete the Bingo card.[57] Gore's current favorite buzzword is "unified national smart grid," which he promotes in conjunction with his catastrophic global warming prophecies, earning him ridicule as "The Goracle" in a Washington Post article by Dana Milbank.[58] Bjorn Lomborg has additionally criticized Al Gore for framing global warming using buzzword terms as some sort of transcendent generational quest, as when Gore called the so-called "climate crisis" the "chance to experience...a generational mission, the exhileration of a compelling moral purpose, a shared and unifying cause, the thrill of...the restless human need for transcendence."[59]

Fabrications and blunders

  • On February 20, 2000, Gore claimed he has “always, always, always” supported Roe v. Wade. However, in 1977, he voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that abortion “takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,” and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating over the course of his entire U.S. House career (1977 to 1984) from the National Right to Life Committee.[60]
  • On February 4, 2000, Gore claimed, “We had a huge event with 3,000 people at Ohio State University.” In reality, “Officials at that rally said the room where it had taken place did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at 500,” according to known liberal media source the New York Times.

Gore's comment that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" was criticized in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida):

This was not the first time Gore has overreached. A year ago Gore told reporters that he and his wife, Tipper, at the time when they were college sweethearts, were the inspiration for the novel "Love Story." That came as news to the befuddled author, Erich Segal. [3]

Gore wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he said "[he] genuinely wishes global warming was an illusion," claiming it is very real. This despite mountains of fraud uncovered by ClimateGate. Fred Thompson replied, "Hey, Al... the genie says you still have two wishes left." [61]

Quotes

  • Gore said, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." [62]
  • Gore falsely claimed that he discovered problems in Love Canal and fixed them. He said:
"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue."[63]
"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
"I love Van Jones. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”[64]
  • During an interview with Slate, regarding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, a question was asked concerning a sense from the Climategate e-mails and from data that was "hidden and hoarded." These truths are the opposite of the case Al Gore made in his book about having an open and fair debate. Gore responded with a lack of command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. He said,
“ I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. [...] So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing [...] but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.[65][66] ”
The most recent emails in Climategate were from November 12, 2009.
  • In an interview aired on the CBS Early Show, Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.[67][68]
 
Former Vice President Al Gore
“
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune's bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning's celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
 ”

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/GlobalWarming/story?id=2110628&page=1
  2. ↑ http://newsbusters.org/node/11149
  3. ↑ http://www.larryelder.com/Gore/goredubiousrecord.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/03/19/gores-grades-belie-image-of-studiousness/5da4b9e3-a017-4dd5-9bb5-bfc68f0b4eb5/?utm_term=.2d304ead172d
  5. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/buffett-partner-munger-says-al-gore-is-an-idiot-but-became-rich.html
  6. ↑ Blacks “Gored” By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by R.D. Davis. Black Leadership Network. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  7. ↑ HR. 7152. PASSAGE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  8. ↑ Charen, Mona (June 26, 2015). Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History. National Review. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  9. ↑ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/mar/25/20000325-011032-8259r/
  10. ↑ Kennedy, William V. The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993. <http://com.hilbert.edu/students/papers/carolina-1999/1999vietnam.html>
  11. ↑ Gore's Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage
  12. ↑ https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/gore/stories/gore/
  13. ↑ While serving in the Senate, Gore introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, signed December 9, 1991, which his supporters claim helped develop the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. [1] [2] When Gore himself bragged about creating the internet, he was referring to prior legislation (see quotations below).
  14. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/us/2000-campaign-vice-president-gore-family-s-ties-oil-company-magnate-reap-big.html
  15. ↑ https://observer.com/2018/11/democrats-kremlin-problem-al-gore-maxine-waters/
  16. ↑ https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/
  17. ↑ Gore sought help from anti-homosexual group, 'God hates fags' creator preaches 'hate because the Bible preaches hate', By Jon E. Dougherty, WorldNetDaily.com, October 25, 2000.
  18. ↑ http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={91058469-F6DE-4615-8B2A-73CDF3E8FCAC}
  19. ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20001104/ai_n11753681
  20. ↑ https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4482741/clinton-gore-monticello
  21. ↑ http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/seniorsd.txt
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040408115747/www.ssa.gov/OACT/HOP/hopi.htm
  23. ↑ Congressional Record, Comments by Rep. Christopher Cox, July 27, 2000.
  24. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transcripts/gopresponse_memo.htm
  25. ↑ Robert Schlesinger, "Enron Ties May Also Tar Democrats; Company Lobbied Clinton, Donated To Top Legislators," The Boston Globe, January 24, 2002
  26. ↑ http://talking_points.tripod.com/
  27. ↑ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1238044126&c=1
  28. ↑ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-08-18-0008180205-story.html
  29. ↑ Leip, David. "2000 Presidential General Election Results." David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2005. 18 Mar. 2007 <http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000>.
  30. ↑ Williams, Thomas D. (August 4, 2017). Al Gore: ‘Because of Pope Francis, I Really Could Become a Catholic’. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  31. ↑ Multiple references:
  32. ↑ Lowe, Tiana (June 6, 2017). For America’s Loudest Climate Alarmists, Do as I Say, Not as I Do. National Review. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  33. ↑ Ambrose, Jay (May 16, 2009). Al Gore's Hypocrisy Astounding. RealClearPolitics. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  34. ↑ Goldstein, Lorrie (July 29, 2017). Al Gore's hypocrisy 'breathtaking'. Toronto Sun. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  35. ↑ Chasmar, Jessica (August 2, 2017). Al Gore’s Nashville estate expends 21 times more energy a year than typical U.S. home, study says. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  36. ↑ Kew, Ben (August 2, 2017). Report: Al Gore’s Home Burns 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  37. ↑ Murphy, James (September 17, 2018). Al Gore Caught Lying About Climate Change — Again. The New American. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  38. ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312024,00.html
  39. ↑ Sheppard, Noel. "Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’." [Weblog NewsBusters] 08 Oct 2007. Newsbusters. 9 Oct 2007 <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies -eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth>.
  40. ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301067,00.html
  41. ↑ Richardson, Valerie (July 27, 2017). Not so hot: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with skepticism even from left. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  42. ↑ Richardson, Valerie (August 7, 2017). Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  43. ↑ Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Sequel' bombs at the box office, ranks in 15th place. Fox News. August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  44. ↑ Concha, Joe (August 7, 2017). Al Gore climate change sequel bombs at box office. The Hill. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  45. ↑ Richardson, Valerie (August 22, 2017). Gore documentary called ‘bad science’ as sales plummet. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  46. ↑ Toto, Christian (December 28, 2017). Hollywood tries to save the Earth, but moviegoers aren’t buying eco-messages anymore. The Washington Times. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  47. ↑ Al Gore Urges 'Civil Disobedience' Toward Coal Plants Fox News, September 24, 2008
  48. ↑ China's Coal-Fueled Boom Has Costs NPR, May 2, 2007
  49. ↑ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdRlS1EbF66_3PpAvC9UlCbBtuqgD9GIKE580 AP; Police release tape from Al Gore sexual assault accuser's interview
  50. ↑ Portland police mishandled Al Gore sex-abuse case, Chief says.
  51. ↑ http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
  52. ↑ Al Gore - Electric consumption bill
  53. ↑ https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080619a.html
  54. ↑ More Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore
  55. ↑ Tennessee Mine Enriched Gore, Scarred Land
  56. ↑ http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/93301.shtml?s=ic
  57. ↑ http://hacks.mit.edu/by_year/1996/gore/
  58. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012803318_pf.html
  59. ↑ Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool It. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
  60. ↑ http://www.gargaro.com/lifequotes.html
  61. ↑ Fred Thompson, Twitter feed, March 2, 2010
  62. ↑ Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. CNN. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007 <https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/>
  63. ↑ https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/02/politics/main72638.shtml
  64. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert?currentPage=all
  65. ↑ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/al-gore-cant-tell-time-thinks-most-recent-climategate-email-is-more-than-10-years-old/
  66. ↑ http://www.slate.com/id/2237789/
  67. ↑ Noel Sheppard. Gore Reads Poem, Harry Smith Swoons: 'Wow...I’m Happy to Hear it in Your Voice', NewsBusters, December 15, 2009.
  68. ↑ Rush Limbaugh. Algore's Idiotic Poem and All the Latest from the ClimateGate Stack, RushLimbaugh.com, December 7, 2009.


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