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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American environmental activist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He is an author, businessperson, and former journalist. In 2007, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Gore also starred in the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award in 2007 and wrote the book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009. Gore was involved in American politics for 24 years, serving first in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and later in the U. S. Senate (1985–93) (representing Tennessee) before becoming vice president. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 presidential election. He won the popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, but ultimately lost the electoral college to Republican candidate George W. Bush when the legal controversy over the Florida election recount was eventually settled in the U.S. Supreme Court by a 5–4 margin in favor of Bush. Gore is the recipient of a number of awards. He and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore received a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV in 2007, and a Webby Award in 2005. Time named Gore as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year. He is currently the founder and chair of Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior advisor to Google. He is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. In addition, Gore is on the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University as a visiting professor, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  mainehuntingtoday.com Tom Remington ue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:31 GM Al Gore. Pushes Global Warming To Promote Global Governance . July 14, 2009. This is what . Al Gore. recently said: But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global ...  ihatethemedia.com Editor Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:00:08 GM Al Gore. and Prince Charles, the world's two leading global warming hypocrites have squared off about how much time is left before we're all burned to a crisp by global warming.  gmagazine.com.au Carolyn Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:54:31 GM Kevin Rudd's climate change legislation might not be perfect but . Al Gore. says it should be passed because it moves in the right direction. On his visit to Australia this week, the former US vice president said American legislation ... From Google Blog Search: "Al Gore"  news.google.com Inhabitat Shortly after Al Gore debuted An Inconvenient Truth the general public started giving a damn about climate change at least superficially ... and more » news.google.com Seattle Post Intelligencer Staccato-voiced scholar and global warming skeptic Dr. Pat Michaels feasts off the hyperbole of Al Gore , and delights in debunking the ... Compare-and-contrast reading on climate change Atlantic Online all 55 news articles » news.google.com Salt Lake Tribune The prize was given to Al Gore and 2000 IPCC members." For his part, Tripp said the label is "technically correct," adding that the IPCC chairman and others ... From Google News Search: "Al Gore"  hermann-uwe.de 319px x 235px | 55.30kB [source page] misc Photo of Al Gore taken from Wikipedia License Public Domain  i.treehugger.com 242px x 468px | 20.30kB [source page] Apart from serving as Vice President running for President writing books setting up TV stations and founding an ethical investment company the man who never quite made it into the oval From Yahoo Image Search: "Al Gore" Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (born 31 March 1948) is an American politician and social activist. The son of Albert Gore and the husband of Tipper Gore, he was the 45th Vice President of the United States of America and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
