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Gore and more Chatting with Al Gore and Jim Hightower at Netroots Nation	Kate Sheppard	21 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Our partners at ReGeneration.org were able to snag a few quick interviews with notable Netroots Nation attendees Al Gore and former Texas Agriculture Commissioner, author, radio host, and activist Jim Hightower. Here's what Gore had to say about why climate and environment action should be a bipartisan effort: And here's Hightower on what should be done about rising energy costs:
Topics: Al Gore, climate, grassroots activism, politics, video (all these topics)

An irritating force meets an inadequate object Al Gore on Meet the Press	David Roberts	20 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Following his blockbuster speech on Thursday and his appearance at Netroots Nation yesterday, Al Gore was on Meet the Press today to talk about his new proposal. It was ... painful. First off, Tom Brokaw's questions were, almost without exception, awful. Just awful. They reflected the most brain dead, ill-informed D.C. conventional wisdom you can imagine. The first three or four were basically the same: Won't solving global warming with a plan like yours cost big and ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, mainstream media, politics (all these topics)

Gore at Netroots Nation? UPDATE: Gore at Netroots Nation!	David Roberts	19 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The hot rumor at the moment is that Al Gore is going to appear at Netroots Nation immediately following Nancy Pelosi's Q&A session (which is going on right now). We'll keep you posted. UPDATE: There he is! Let's blog along, shall we? He loves the netroots -- informed citizenry, etc. etc. North pole melting -- 75-80 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap will be melted and gone within five years. How can we absorb the meaning of an event of that ma ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Goracle on Meet the Press Questions for Gore's energy plan?	Sara Barz	18 Jul 2008	Gristmill
This Sunday, Al Gore will appear on NBC's 'Meet the Press' to talk about the energy action plan he unveiled in Washington this week. So, Grist readers, in tribute to the late Tim Russert, what kind of tough questions do you want host Tom Brokaw to lob Gore's way? Offer your suggestions here. Looking ahead, is it safe to say that Gore stands to get a very warm reception from interim 'Meet' host Brokaw? After all, the ex-NBC anchor hosted an Emmy Award-winning Disc ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, mainstream media, politics (all these topics)

Mr. Gore, how do you feel about 90 percent? Blogosphere responds reservedly to Gore's call for 100 percent renewable electricity	Sara Barz	17 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Al Gore stood up in Washington today to call on Americans to join a crusade for 100 percent renewable electricity use by 2018. The blogosphere's response? A golf clap and general round of nitpicking ... Some see the renewable energy goal as a touch impractical, and his beating of the carbon tax drum (1993 ... anyone? anyone?) irked plenty of conservatives -- no surprise -- and congressional Democrats on the grounds of poor timing as the American economy limps ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

The Gore-y Details Al Gore details plan for exclusively carbon-free electricity in U.S. by 2018		17 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:34 AM on 17 Jul 2008 In a speech in Washington, D.C., today, climate activist Al Gore called for the United States to move toward using electricity that comes exclusively from carbon-free sources within 10 years in order to stave off catastrophic climate change. "I ask you to join with me to call on every candidate, at every level, to accept this challenge," he said. "It's ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

Notable quotable Ragin' Cajun for Gore	David Roberts	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'I think if I was Senator Obama I would say the biggest economic problem we face is the biggest national security problem and the biggest environmental problem. And if I were him, I would ask Al Gore to serve as his vice president, his energy czar, in his administration to reduce our consumption and reliance on foreign energy sources. That would send a signal to the world, to American people, to Congress, to everybody, that America's getting serious about this horrendo ...
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, climate, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Gore at the right time America's climate guru issues statement of support for America's Climate Security Act	Kate Sheppard	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is pretty jazzed about this statement of support for the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act that Al Gore released today: I want to commend Senator Boxer for her leadership of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Thanks to her vision and dedication, we have the first global warming bill in history that is comprehensive, bipartisan and that enjoys support across the country -- from labor and agriculture to the business and the e ...
Topics: Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, climate, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Al Gore at TED	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Al Gore addresses the TED conference, March 2008: Pretty intense. You can see how he is consciously attempting to transcend politics -- he's shooting for something bigger now.
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, grassroots activism, politics (all these topics)

Brood and Gore Obama says he'd consider Gore for climate post in his administration		03 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:27 AM on 03 Apr 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania yesterday that he would consider asking former vice president and current climate superstar Al Gore to assume a cabinet-level position in his administration to help tackle climate change. "I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring ...
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Value Advertised Gore-y climate ads are coming soon to a TV near you		01 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:11 PM on 01 Apr 2008 While it is not true that Al Gore is running for president (honestly, how do these rumors get started?), it is true that his Alliance for Climate Protection has officially launched a new "we" campaign. The ad campaign aims to spend $300 million over three years to create a sense of both urgency and solvability around the climate crisis. The first ad hits TVs on Wednesday, likening the ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, messaging, news, politics, TV (all these topics)

Urgency and solvability: The "we" campaign Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection unveils ambitious $300 million ad campaign	David Roberts	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If you read Juliet Eilperin's great rundown in the Washington Post, you know that today marks the launch of a massive PR effort from Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. Gore has concluded that U.S. politicians will continue to be timid on climate change until the public demands otherwise. "The simple algorithm is this: It's important to change the light bulbs, but it's much more important to change the laws," he said. "The options available to ...
Topics: Al Gore, business, celebrity, climate, environmental movement, messaging, politics, TV (all these topics)

Gore's moral obligation Why Al Gore isn't running for president	Guest author	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Mark Hertsgaard, a fellow of The Nation Institute and author of five books that have been translated into 16 languages. His next book is called Living Through the Storm: Surviving Our Future Under Global Warming. ----- Photo: Severin Nowacki As Hillary, Obama, and Edwards continue to slug it out in the early primary states, one name is conspicuously absent among the Democratic candidates to become the next president ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, elections, energy, grassroots activism, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

My Al Gore story Gore's impromptu humor at a recent small climate summit	Joseph Romm	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I'm not normally given to shameless name-dropping, but what else are blogs really for (other than making bets with readers)? Over the last three days I attended a small climate solutions summit hosted by the former vice president and current Nobel laureate. It was off-the-record, so I can't report on presentations directly, but they have made me a lot smarter about the latest technologies and strategies for clean energy, which will inform my blogging this year on ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, climate, politics (all these topics)

A Perfect Tennesseean Tennessee Senate passes resolution honoring Al Gore		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 11 Jan 2008 The Tennessee state Senate has passed a resolution honoring Al Gore for his efforts to curb climate change. And the crowd goes wild! "Let's be honest about it. What is a resolution but a piece of paper with flowery words on it," says House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower, adding that the resolution "has no real meaning other than whatever meaning it has to him when he hangs ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, news, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Person of the Year Bush beats Gore, again!	Joseph Romm	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Until last week, this long-beloved annual tradition seemed to be a lock for one person -- Nobel laureate, itinerant educator, and media superstar Al Gore. Sadly, he only makes first runner-up this year. Like Time magazine, our Person of the Year is awarded to the person or group who "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year" in the climate arena. By single-handedly stopping any international action on climate a ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, George Bush, politics (all these topics)

A little Al for the rest of us Blogging from Al Gore's speech in Bali	Youth Movement	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Post by Richard Graves, U.S. youth delegate and editor of It's Getting Hot in Here As I wrote this post, I was listening to Al Gore give his speech at the U.N. Climate Negotiations. It had been a long trip here, and despite the schedule and the heat I was still excited. As we sat in the audience, we spoke with Kevin Knobloch from UCS and watched Kelley trying to talk with U.S. representative Paula Dobriansky ... but we were all here to listen to Al Gore. I ...
Topics: Bali 07, Al Gore, climate, politics, international politics (all these topics)

Al Gore is so wrong There is no comparison between Chinese and American GHG emissions	Eric de Place	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, as reported by the NY Times: ... he singled out the United States and China -- the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide -- for failing to meet their obligations in mitigating emissions. They should 'stop using each other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate,' he said. Much as I love him, Gore's sentiment here is far too generous to the good ol' U.S. of A. There is simply no fair comparison with China. We're not e ...
Topics: Al Gore, China, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics, United States (all these topics)

I'm the President! No, I'm the President! George Bush fetes Al Gore in Oval Office		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:52 PM on 27 Nov 2007 Yesterday, George W. Bush fulfilled the U.S. president's traditional obligation to fete the winners of the Nobel Prize in the Oval Office -- including, of course, Peace Prize Laureate (and, in the minds of some, rightful inhabitant of said Oval Office) Al Gore. Awkward! The two men had a private 40-minute conversation in which they "talked about global warming -- the whole ti ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, George Bush, news, politics (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore III Gore: It's not Kyoto but its successor that needs political support	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Tallahassee Mayor John Marks stood to introduce himself and Gore said dryly, "I spent a lot of time there." Marks: "I wasn't mayor then!" He asked Gore how to influence Congress to adopt Kyoto. Gore's answer was, I think, fairly savvy. In essence, he said that the Kyoto "brand" is tarnished, probably beyond rehabilitation, and efforts are better directed at getting a strong successor to Kyoto in 2009 -- whatever it's called. He dre ...
Topics: Al Gore, politics, climate, Kyoto Protocol (all these topics)

Can't we all just get along? Gore, partisanship, and climate change	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A Gore conservatives could love? Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. One of the stranger things I sometimes read about Al Gore is that because he is so partisan, because he turns off a certain bloc of the U.S. public, he is flawed as a leader on climate change. Surely the issue deserves a prophet that's not so sullied by politics! This seems confused. In terms of spreading awareness and generating pressure behind a response, Gore has done more than anybody in t ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, politics (all these topics)

Think you very much Smart commentary on Gore's Nobel	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Do I derange you?' Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. Gore's Nobel certainly brought out the mouthbreathers, but it also inspired some insightful commentary, some of it, mercifully, not about its effects on the presidential race. Most commentators did, however, find it difficult to avoid the Bush/Gore comparison. Here's a sample of some of the better stuff I've found around the tubes. Paul Krugman on Gore Derangement Syndrome: What is it about Mr. Gore that ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A prize for Mr. Gore and science NY Times editors get the Gore Nobel story right	Maywa Montenegro	14 Oct 2007	Gristmill
With everyone weighing in on this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it's been revealing to see what the media makes of it, and how oddly misdirected their questions have been: Will Al run for president? (Argh.) What has climate change got to do with peace? (Huh?) Is this merely a political jab to the current U.S. administration? (So what?)But the editors of the NYT pretty much nailed it:What the citation didn't mention but needs to be said is that it shouldn't have to be l ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, politics (all these topics)

Why Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize Gore's effort to focus attention on climate change supports the goal of preventing wars	Grist	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. It was originally published on Salon.com. What's world peace got to do with global warming? Perhaps everything. Or it will if things don't change fast -- if, in 10 or 20 or 40 years devastating floods and droughts displace millions of refugees and spur nations and tribes to desperate bloodletting. At which point, no one will have the slightest doubt why members of the renowned Scandinavian founda ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Climate change and world peace Three reasons Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize	Joseph Romm	11 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Conservative carping aside, Al Gore is a perfect candidate for three reasons: The award has always gone to people who have done more than just promote 'peace,' such as Albert Schweitzer, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mother Teresa. The award has recently (2004) gone to an environmental leader, the great Wangari Maathai, who 'founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots environmental nongovernmental organization, which has now planted over 30 m ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, international politics, politics (all these topics)

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