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Capitalism, Now With More Gore Al Gore joins big-name venture-capital firm, will focus on green investment		13 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:26 AM on 13 Nov 2007 Former vice president Al Gore has joined a notable venture-capital firm that's aiming to step up investment in green businesses. In his role as a partner at California-based firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Gore will investigate the potential growth of alternative-energy start-up companies and counsel the firm on related greenish investments. No ...
Topics: Al Gore, business, news (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton I Clinton and Gore, fox and hedgehog	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton gave the keynote address at the conference. That means I got to see Gore and Clinton within a few hours of one another, and wow, what an interesting contrast. Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories, hedgehogs and foxes. The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows a lot about one thing. Bill Clinton is perhaps the foxiest fox of our time, and Gore perhaps the hedgehoggiest hedgehog. Gore takes one thing -- climate change -- and meth ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, Al Gore (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore VI Gore: What we can learn from the ozone hole	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Kelly Fergusson, mayor of Menlo Park, Calif. ("investment capital of the world!"), asks: we've overcome huge environmental challenges like DDT and the ozone hole before. What can we learn from those successes? First, Gore causes me to do a double take by saying that his mother used to read to he and his sister from Silent Spring. Jeebus! I guess that explains a lot. However, he knows more about the ozone fight. And boy does he know about it -- here he laun ...
Topics: ozone, climate, Al Gore (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore V Gore: Population one of the causes of climate change, but not one of the policy solutions	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sue Greenwald, mayor of Davis, Calif., asked a question that becomes inevitable when more than one environmentalist is in the room: does "population control" have any role in the climate movement? People laughed nervously. Gore immediately said, courteously but firmly, that if you go to developing countries using the term "population control," they're going to see that as ... well, his term was "aggressive." I probably would have used s ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, population (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore IV Gore: no more coal plants without sequestration	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Mayor Mark Stodola of Little Rock, Ark., asked Gore squarely about coal. He said that his city's electrical rates had been rising, but that a new coal plant opening soon was going to lower the bills. Naturally, my ears perked up. Gore said coal is where "the rubber meets the road." We have enough coal here and in China to "incinerate the planet." And right now, electricity is being "recarbonized." "We just can't do that." ...
Topics: coal, Al Gore, energy, carbon sequestration (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)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore II Gore: carbon credits and offsets a good thing if used responsibly	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Joy Miller of Hallandale Beach asked Gore about carbon credits and offsets -- "buying our way out of the problem." You won't be surprised to hear that Gore's answer was wonky and careful and came in parts. He said credits are a 'good thing' if the standards and information are in place to validate their quality. "The economy can be an ally," and we know cap-and-trade systems work. However, if used irresponsibly, as a substitute for direct re ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, carbon offsets (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Gore I Gore addresses mayors via satellite	David Roberts	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Sorry I wasn't able to do my signature live-blogging today -- there was no wi-fi at the Edgewater, or rather, they had wi-fi you had to pay for, and I'm cheap. Plus we left mid-day to go see Clinton's address, and there wasn't wi-fi at Benaroya Hall either. When oh when will Seattle get municipal broadband wi-fi? At this afternoon's luncheon, Al Gore spoke to the mayors conference via satellite. (He claimed he couldn't be here in person because his wife Tipper had ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate (all these topics)

Lock box? Should Gore get arrested protesting coal?	David Roberts	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
It's a little sketchily sourced, but according to Mark Hertsgaard Al Gore is "considering" joining the Rainforest Action Network in some direct action protest against coal plants -- which could well result in his arrest. Hertsgaard thinks it would be a good thing: If Gore did end up getting arrested during a protest against a coal-fired power plant, it would make front-page news throughout the world and put a spotlight on what some climate scientists a ...
Topics: Al Gore, coal, energy, grassroots activism, politics (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)

Gore's flaw: He doesn't sound enough like an uptight libertarian wonk Says uptight libertarian wonk	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I don't understand what Steven Landsburg is supposed to be saying here. By his own admission, the position Gore advances is in line with the Stern Review. But Stern showed his work, with a few hundred pages on discount rates and risk assessments, and Gore just made a movie that got seen by tens of millions of people, so Gore is some kind of buffoon and Stern should have gotten the Nobel? That doesn't make any sense. Why should the technical language of economics be the ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I can promise you that as president I will have him involved in our administration in a very senior capacity.' -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on Nobel Peace Laureate Al Gore
Topics: Al Gore, Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08, quotables (all these topics)

Pearce on Gore	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Socially progressive publishing house Beacon has a new blog, Beacon Broadside, where its authors post. One of the first posts is from Fred Pearce, author of, among other books, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. It's called "Al and Me,' and defends Gore against the charge that he exaggerated the dangers of climate change in his movie. Quite the contrary, says Pearce.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, websites (all these topics)

Stossel	David Roberts	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Does John Stossel have the brains God gave a chicken wing? Most people say no. Some say yes. One thing's for sure: the debate isn't over!
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, movies (all these topics)

Better late than never Stewart on Gore	David Roberts	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Here's Jon Stewart (who's got a spiffy new website) on Gore's Nobel win:
Topics: Al Gore, funnies, TV (all these topics)

Another skeptic zombie killed, probably not for the last time More on the nine 'errors' in Gore's movie	David Roberts	19 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As I said in my earlier post on the subject, there's less than meets the eye to the story of the British judge that found nine "errors" in An Inconvenient Truth. Turns out they weren't errors, just points the judge deemed different enough from the IPCC view to warrant explanatory materials -- and the judge was off about most of them anyway.That hasn't stopped the media from making a total hash of it. Read Tim Lambert's two posts on the Washington Post's war o ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, movies (all these topics)

BREAKING: Gore still not running!	David Roberts	18 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Sounds vaguely familiar.
Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The enGorsement Who will Gore endorse, and does it matter?	David Roberts	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some commentators are taking the unique approach of discussing Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize not in terms of whether he'll run for president, but in terms of the dangers of climate change who he'll endorse for president. Marc Ambinder says both Edwards and Obama are actively courting Gore; Chris Cillizza says it will be one of the two. Noam Scheiber thinks it will be Obama, and FWIW, Grist readers agree (see poll). Will the prize raise the political value of the endors ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (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)

Sticks and stones Right wing commentators react to Gore's Nobel	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The assault on reason Gore Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize was met with howls of outrage and resentment from the right, which never met anything other than war that it couldn't drum up some howls of outrage and resentment about. The smear of choice was to mention Gore's name in the same sentence as a bunch of bad people. Or to say that the Nobel committee hates Bush. Pretty much how they deal with all critics, in other words. Here's a s ...
Topics: Al Gore, politics (all these topics)

Respect Al Gore's commitment to public service in the face of cynicism	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'Hey Crichton, won the Pulitzer yet?' Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. I get accused of "hero worshiping" Gore, which I don't think is right, but I do have immense respect for the guy, so I thought I'd say why. Even now, I don't think people appreciate what a punch in the gut the 2000 election was for Gore. The previous eight years had been spent in the shadow of a pol who had the charm and magnetism Gore lacked, but Clinton did not share Gore's passio ...
Topics: Al Gore, politics (all these topics)

Paul Krugman ...	David Roberts	14 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... is a national treasure.
Topics: Al Gore, politics (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)

A new plan to fight the fight against fighting global warming Right-wingers will do whatever Gore says not to	Adam Browning	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I bet it would work:Better yet, maybe Gore will make a major speech telling people to not stick their tongues in wall sockets in an effort to save electricity. Afterward, expect lots of flickering lights in your neighborhood and fewer right-wing bloggers on the internets.
Topics: Al Gore, climate (all these topics)

Gore wins his second favorite award Nobel Prize is a nice follow up to Oceana Award	Andrew Sharpless	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
We are thrilled to learn that Al Gore just won the Nobel Prize. As David Roberts points out, he certainly deserved it and this is good news for all of us in the environmental community and in the world.Gore was also presented with Oceana's 2007 Partners Award this past Friday. The former vice president's work on highlighting the challenges climate change presents to our oceans is incredibly important.Gore was joined by Dr. Daniel Pauly, winner of the 2007 Ted ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, heroes, oceans (all these topics)

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