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Al Gore

The rebirth of a would-be president as activist, filmmaker, Nobel laureate

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  • July 2008

    • Gore Pounds Pols on Energy Plan

      newser  |  MSNBC  |  Jul 20, 08 4:13 PM CDT

      Gore Pounds Pols on Energy Plan

      Al Gore made his first appearance on Meet the Press since he sought the presidency 8 years ago, Politico reports, this time pushing his agenda as the nation's self-appointed energy czar. "My own best role is to try to bring about a sea change in public opinion" on environmental issues, he said, following a Thursday speech in which he called for a switch to 100% renewable energy sources by 2018. "Incremental baby steps are no longer responsible proposals." More »

    • Gore Wows Bloggers at Austin Show

      newser  |  Austin American-Statesman  |  Jul 19, 08 6:54 PM CDT

      Gore Wows Bloggers at Austin Show

      Al Gore surprised a crowd of liberal bloggers today by showing up at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas. He wowed the 3,000 progressives by emerging after Nancy Pelosi and giving a speech on the importance of grassroots organization for green issues. When asked about sharing a spot on the Obama ticket, he once again demurred, the Austin-American Statesman reports. More »

    • Gore Challenge: 100% Clean Electricity by 2018

      newser  |  Time  |  Jul 17, 08 10:20 AM CDT

      Gore Challenge: 100% Clean Electricity by 2018

      Al Gore is challenging the US to produce all its electricity through wind, sun, and other clean sources by 2018. Speaking to the AP ahead of a major address today, the Nobel laureate compared the goal to JFK’s 1961 pledge to make it to the moon—and said that both Barack Obama and John McCain are “way ahead” of most politicians on the climate change issue. More »

  • June 2008

    • Gore: 'We Need Change'

      newser  |  Detroit Free Press  |  Jun 17, 08 5:48 AM CDT

      Gore: 'We Need Change'

      Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama for president at a Detroit rally last night, saying the 2008 election “matters more than ever before,” the Detroit Free Press reports. “After 8 years of lost jobs, we need change,” the former Democratic nominee said. “After 8 years of the worst, most serious foreign policy mistakes, we need change.” More »

    • Carville Touts a Convenient VP

      newser  |  CNN  |  Jun 12, 08 6:22 AM CDT

      Carville Touts a Convenient VP

      Democratic strategist James Carville thinks Barack Obama should consider someone with a little experience for the vice presidency: like, say, former VP Al Gore. Carville told CNN that choosing the Nobel Peace Prize-winner would drive home the message that America is serious about a new energy policy. A third term would make Gore the longest-serving veep in history, but he's said he'll only run for top spot. More »

  • May 2008

    • Global Warming, the Opera

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 30, 08 4:45 AM CDT

      Global Warming, the Opera

      It started out as a slide show, became an Oscar-winning documentary and best-selling book, and now Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is about to become a full-length opera, reports the AP. Milan's La Scala opera house has commissioned Italian composer  Giorgio Battistelli to set Gore's stark warning on global warming to music, for the 2011 season. More »

    • Gore Pipes Up, Doesn't Endorse

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  May 6, 08 5:19 PM CDT

      Gore Pipes Up, Doesn't Endorse

      Al Gore dropped his silence on the Democratic race today, saying he may yet endorse a candidate and predicting that the race would end soon after primaries ended on June 3. “There will be a nominee before the convention,” he asserted. Gore laughed off a scenario that had him emerging as a compromise candidate in a split decision between Clinton and Obama, the Boston Globe reports. More »

    • Gore Venture Fund Raises $1.2B for Green Tech Investment

      newser  |  San Jose Mercury News  |  May 2, 08 4:47 PM CDT

      Gore Venture Fund Raises $1.2B for Green Tech Investment

      A Silicon Valley venture-capital firm announced yesterday it's raised $1.2 billion to invest in green technology—with an assist from new partner Al Gore. One Kleiner Perkins fund will invest in established companies, while the other will back clean-tech startups, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “He is spending time with us," an exec says of the Nobel-winning ex-VP, "helping us think about global opportunities.” More »

  • March 2008

    • Gore Launches $300M Climate Campaign

      newser  |  CBS  |  Mar 31, 08 6:22 AM CDT

      Gore Launches $300M Climate Campaign

      Al Gore is putting his money where his Inconvenient Truth is and pairing celebrity odd couples to push his global warming message in a $300-million ad campaign that launches Wednesday, reports CBS. "Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, two people who don't agree on very much at all," Gore says, will be among unlikely pairings who come together over climate change. More »

    • Al Gore, Dems' Back-Up Plan

      newser  |  Time  |  Mar 28, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Al Gore, Dems' Back-Up Plan

      If the Democratic nomination isn’t wrapped up before August's convention, the party might have a third choice: the one they crowned in 2000. If Barack Obama is too bloodied and Hillary Clinton too divisive, Joe Klein writes in Time , a superdelegate coup could yield an Al Gore-Obama ticket on the spot. Of course, the party would have to be “monumentally desperate.” More »

    • Keith Richards, Supermodel

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 6, 08 11:37 AM CST

      Keith Richards, Supermodel

      Keith Richards is featured in a new Louis Vuitton ad, accessorized as usual with headscarf and guitar—but wearing no LV, writes Elizabeth Snead in the Los Angeles Times . The Rolling Stone isn’t identified in the pic, as, a rep notes, “Keith Richards needs absolutely no introduction." But the aging rocker hasn’t sold out: He’s donating his pay to Al Gore’s Climate Project. More »

    • Gore to Net a Convenient Profit in IPO

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Mar 6, 08 10:56 AM CST

      Gore to Net a Convenient Profit in IPO

      CurrentTV is going public, and that means big money for founder Al Gore. But something about the deal rubs Rob Grover of BusinessWeek the wrong way. Gore is drawing a big salary, even though the little-watched channel is losing money, and the share distribution is decidedly undemocratic—Gore and CEO Joel Hyatt will get enough Class B shares to out-vote everyone else. More »

  • February 2008

    • Gore to Investors: Ditch Guzzlers

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 15, 08 7:36 AM CST

      Gore to Investors: Ditch Guzzlers

      Nobel prize-winner Al Gore yesterday urged financial leaders at a United Nations conference in Manhattan to unload their investments in businesses reliant on carbon-intensive energy. Gore likened such investments to the subprime mortgage market, warning that "the assumption you can safely invest" in business models that assume carbon is free is "about to go splat," AP reports. More »

  • January 2008

    • Gore's Media Co. Is Going Public

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jan 28, 08 8:25 PM CST

      Gore's Media Co. Is Going Public

      Current Media will soon become even more public: The viewer-created cable TV network, co-founded by Al Gore in 2005, filed an IPO today. The young adult-oriented company registered to sell up to $100 million in class A common stock, but the price range and number of shares weren’t disclosed—and don’t necessarily correlate with the registration fee, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

  • December 2007

    • Gore Points Finger at US in Bali

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Dec 13, 07 9:03 AM CST

      Gore Points Finger at US in Bali

      Al Gore’s latest inconvenient truth: the US is stonewalling the UN climate conference. “My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here,” the Nobel laureate raged today in Bali. The US, along with Japan and several other nations, refuses to accept a specific emissions-cutting target. The EU in turn is threatening to boycott next month’s US-hosted talks. More »

    • Gore Blasts Climate Inaction in Nobel Speech

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Dec 10, 07 12:17 PM CST

      Gore Blasts Climate Inaction in Nobel Speech

      Al Gore collected his Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo and blasted the US and China for blaming each other rather than addressing climate change. "Both countries should stop using each other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate," he said. Gore also called his 2000 presidential defeat a blessing in disguise that allowed him to devote his life to raising awareness of global warming. More »

  • November 2007

    • Gore Finally Reaches Oval Office

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Nov 26, 07 5:42 PM CST

      Gore Finally Reaches Oval Office

      Al Gore met with President Bush in the Oval Office today, the first private meeting between the two since the 2000 election. The environmental activist called the meeting "very cordial" but then gave reporters the slip, the Chicago Tribune reports. "I'm not going to do an interview here,'' he said on the street outside the White House. More »

    • Bush Invites Gore, Nobel Winner

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 17, 07 6:11 PM CST

      Bush Invites Gore, Nobel Winner

      Bush recently invited US Nobel laureates to their annual White House photo op, but he personally called Peace Prize winner and bitter presidential loser Al Gore—and moved the event to November 26 to accommodate Gore's schedule. “It’s unusual, that’s for sure,” said one Gore advisor. “But the conversations were good, and the White House has been very gracious about it.” More »

  • October 2007

    • Gore Rules Out Presidential Run

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 17, 07 10:08 AM CDT

      Gore Rules Out Presidential Run

      Nobel or not, Al Gore still isn’t running for president. “I’m involved in a different kind of campaign," Gore told Norwegian TV in an interview broadcast today. "It’s a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis.” Many hoped the award would push Gore to run, but a poll yesterday showed Americans against it 54% to 47%, about the same as a poll last spring. More »

    • Gore Inspires ‘Deranged’ Righty Hatred

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 15, 07 6:06 PM CDT

      Gore Inspires &lsquo;Deranged&rsquo; Righty Hatred

      Conservatives are incensed over Al Gore’s Nobel prize, and the Times' Paul Krugman says he knows why: The former veep “keeps being right.” The reactions range from the Journal's refusal to mention his name while rattling off more worthwhile contenders to a National Review suggestion that climate-sensitive Osama should have shared the honor. More »

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Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks during a meeting of the business network Switzerland in Zurich, Switzerland, in this March 28, 2007 file photo. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s...   (Associated Press)
Former Vice President Al Gore smiles during a book signing event to promote his book "An Inconvenient Truth" at a Tokyo book store in this Jan. 14, 2007 file photo. Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental...   (Associated Press)
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