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Rolling Stone on the climate crisis A package of good stories	David Roberts	19 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Rolling Stone has a package of stories on Al Gore's climate crusade in the current issue. First up is a long interview with the man himself , including this nice tidbit: What figure in the administration, other than the president himself, do you hold most responsible for standing in the way of meaningful change on global warming? Oh, Cheney, of course. Both Bush and Cheney come out of the carbon-extraction industry. But Cheney has been the more forcefu ...
Topics: Al Gore, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

TNR gives good Gore	David Roberts	18 Jun 2007	Gristmill
After reading so many awful stories about Al Gore, it's nice to finally come upon a good one. The reliably excellent Ryan Lizza gets it right in The New Republic. It's also worth reading the transcript of his interview with Gore, which contains much tasty goodness, including this compact, dead-on description of modern presidential campaigns:I don't want to be critical of the candidates, that's not my intention. But I don't think the modern campaign process facilitates ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics (all these topics)

Live Earth: This just in ... Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts	Chris Schults	14 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts: OK, so they're not rock stars. But scientists with the British Antarctic Survey will guarantee Al Gore's promise that the Live Earth concerts on July 7 will be performed on all 7 continents. They'll be performing during the dead of winter at the Rothera Research Station. In fact, it'll be the first time anyone outside the station has heard the indie rock-folk band, Nunatak, play at all. (Nunatak, by the way, is a G ...
Topics: Al Gore, green living, music (all these topics)

Gore wins!	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Spain's Prince of Asturias award for international cooperation, that is. Can the Nobel be far behind?
Topics: Al Gore, environmental movement (all these topics)

My god	David Roberts	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
How many times will this exact ... same ... story get written?
Topics: Al Gore, elections, politics (all these topics)

Al Gore and politics	David Roberts	31 May 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore: When the inevitable question came -- his intentions about 2008 -- he said politics 'rewards a tolerance for artifice, repetition, triviality that I don't have in as great supply as I might have had when I was younger.' ... 'I think there are a lot of things about politics as it has evolved that I'm not really that good at,' he said. 'Some people find out earlier in their lives that they're not good at what they've chosen to do.' He interjected a self ...
Topics: Al Gore, politics (all these topics)

Al Gore on Olbermann Another good one	David Roberts	29 May 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore was on Keith Olbermann's show today. He took a while to get rolling, but it heats up toward the end of the first segment. Here's part one: Here's part two: (thanks LL!)
Topics: Al Gore (all these topics)

Al Gore on Charlie Rose An hour-long discussion	David Roberts	28 May 2007	Gristmill
Here's Al Gore appearing on Charlie Rose. It's about an hour long:
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics)

Al Gore on David Letterman More Gore	David Roberts	25 May 2007	Gristmill
Here's Al Gore on David Letterman, Thursday night. Bizarrely substantive! Part one: Part two:
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, TV (all these topics)

Al Gore on The Daily Show Funny	David Roberts	25 May 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore was on The Daily Show on Thursday. I thought he did quite well -- and the crowd was nuts for him. Here's part one: And here's part two:
Topics: Al Gore, funnies, green living, TV (all these topics)

Will it play in Bolivia? A South American take on Gore's film	Katharine Wroth	25 May 2007	Gristmill
Jessica Weisberg is an American journalist currently based in South America. The following is her take on the peculiar cultural dominance of An Inconvenient Truth. ----- I liked Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Really, I did. But when I count off my reasons -- the special effects, the wet-your-pants astonishment, the drama -- I find myself applauding the film's popular appeal more than its take-home message. ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Bolivia, climate, green living, movies (all these topics)

'A politics of reason faces a strong headwind' I've been Gored in my own neighborhood	Maywa Montenegro	25 May 2007	Gristmill
'A politics of reason faces a strong headwind.' These were Al Gore's words last night, at New York's 92nd Street Y, where I had the unique pleasure of seeing him interviewed by Charlie Rose. The main topic of discussion was Gore's new book, The Assault On Reason, which not surprisingly is #1 on Amazon's bestseller list ('It's not about K-Fed,' Gore was quick to chime in). Apart from offering a scathing critique of the Bush administration, the book lambastes the shal ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Gore watch The media continues to prove his new book right	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned the other day, there's a certain irony to the fact that Al Gore is out touring behind a book about the decline of reasoned public dialogue, since his emergence on the public scene inevitably elicits paroxysms of the shallowest, bitchiest, most vacuous commentary of which our punditariat is capable -- and that's saying something. Today brings examples so telling they hurt. I mean literally hurt. You've been warned. Start with this dazzlingly obtuse co ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

Gore on the phone A conference call about his new book	David Roberts	23 May 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday I was on a conference call with Al Gore, who was chatting with some blogger types about his new book, The Assault on Reason. It was convivial, if not particularly revelatory. Taylor Marsh wrote all about it, and if you want to listen to an hour-long phone call, you can get it here. It didn't occur to me that anybody would be recording, so I asked kind of abstruse questions: a) was there ever a time when reason governed democratic dialogue? and b) isn't clin ...
Topics: Al Gore, politics (all these topics)

Gore's backstory Interesting tales in a recent profile	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
The profile of Al Gore in NYT Magazine contains, amidst other good stuff, some interesting backstory about Gore's experiences with the Alliance for Climate Protection, as well as his experiences in the Clinton administration. Forthwith, a couple of longish excerpts. First, on the Alliance: In mid-2005, he began talking to members of 'the green group,' as the environmental lobby is collectively known, about marshaling a popularizing effort. ... Gore was the obvious ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, elections, politics (all these topics)

The assault on Gore's capacity to keep his cool His new book, about stupid media, is treated stupidly by the media	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore has a new book coming out called The Assault on Reason. It's about the sickness of our democratic dialogue, the systemic features of our culture and media that lead us to ignore evidence, focus on trivialities, and accept deception after deception. Gore's going to be out promoting the book, and there's a certain bitter irony to the fact that the media is likely to interact with him in a way that proves his thesis better than anything in the book itself. Exhi ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, elections, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Gore in Time A great profile	David Roberts	17 May 2007	Gristmill
Time magazine has a long, insightful, and sympathetic profile of Al Gore in the latest issue. The theme is "the last temptation of Gore," i.e., the temptation of running for president. But as the article makes clear, it's not that tempting, for all the reasons we've discussed here before. Anyway, read it -- it's extraordinarily good. Moving, even. They've also got an excerpt from Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason. I've got a copy on the way -- I'll rep ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, green living, politics (all these topics)

Ouch! Live Aid guy disses Gore's Live Earth concerts	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Here's what Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldoff had to say about Gore's Live Earth concerts: 'I hope they're a success,' De Volkskrant newspaper quoted Geldof as saying in an interview. 'But why is (Gore) actually organizing them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all (expletive) conscious of global warming,' he said. ... 'I would only organize (Live Earth) if I could go on stage and anno ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics)

Cap-and-trade and a carbon tax: two great tastes, but do they taste great together? And if not, why not?	David Roberts	15 May 2007	Gristmill
A journalist of some renown called me last week to ask a question: would it be possible to do both a cap-and-trade program and a carbon tax? Al Gore famously urged that approach, but this journo had heard from other (reliable) sources that it's not possible. My instinctive answer was yeah, sure, there's no reason you couldn't do it. (I mean, there are a gazillion political reasons it's impossible, but there's no technical or regulatory reason you couldn't do it.) ...
Topics: Al Gore, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Is the science of climate change settled? No, but we still know enough to start taking action	Andrew Dessler	09 May 2007	Gristmill
A few weeks ago, I was perusing Grist when I ran across an ad for A Convenient Fiction, a slideshow rebuttal of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The author was none other than Steve Hayward, who you might remember from the AEI-$10,000-payola scandal. I had actually seen this slideshow discussed in the New York Times, and was interested to see it. In my previous communications with Hayward, he was at great pains to describe himself as someone who believed the scienc ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

BREAKING: Gore still not running! We're staying on top of this story	David Roberts	09 May 2007	Gristmill
So a bunch of onetime Gore advisers and aides gathered for a meal last night: Among those longtime Gore loyalists who munched on a buffet of sandwiches and salmon at the [Gore friend and ally Peter] Knight home: Longtime powerhouse Dem fundraiser and Democratic National Committeeman Robert Zimmerman; Knight's wife, Gail Britton; Tom Hendrickson, the former North Carolina Democratic Party chair; Mary Pat Bonner, founder of the Bonner Group; Dr. Richard Boxer, ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, gossip, politics (all these topics)

Why do we respond to bozos? Churchill, not Chamberlain	Ken Ward	07 May 2007	Gristmill
Why are we letting pro-fossil fuel bozos hijack the only forum that environmentalists and climate-change activists have for wrestling with the daunting task of transforming America? I posted a few practical suggestions in response to David's question, 'Should we be rebutting the skeptics?' I'm going to restate one proposal -- to adopt a Craigslist-type policy allowing Grist readers to flag inappropriate posts. Gristmill is a forum for conversation and debate between ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, climate science, environmental movement, politics (all these topics)

Gore reaches fame of Biblical proportions Uh, literally	Kate Sheppard	03 May 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth replaces the Gideon Bible in fancy new hotel. Dirt-worshiping hippies rejoice.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, religion and spirituality, travel (all these topics)

Would Gore win? Polls point to yes	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
There's lots of interesting stuff in this new Quinnipiac poll, particularly this: Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani leads New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats in the 2008 presidential race in three critical states - Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to Quinnipiac University's Swing State Poll, three simultaneous surveys of voters in states that have been pivotal in presidential elections since 1964. But former Vice President Al Gore ...
Topics: politics, elections, Al Gore (all these topics)

Gore campaign staff gathering? A fish story in the Telegraph	David Roberts	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Update [2007-4-22 12:29:39 by David Roberts]: Gore's people deny it all. Figured. Friends of Al Gore have secretly started assembling a campaign team in preparation for the former American vice-president to make a fresh bid for the White House. So says Tim Shipman in the Telegraph. I suggest a high degree of skepticism. The story is built on leaks from two members of Gore's 2000 campaign team. They say they were approached by other former Gore staffers about whe ...
Topics: Al Gore, elections, gossip, politics (all these topics)

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