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Former Vice President Al Gore says he believes President Barack Obama will attend the December climate talks in Copenhagen to emphasize his administration's commitment to safeguarding the environment.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that cooperation between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is crucial to tackling the climate change crisis.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has met with Mexico's president to discuss the importance of breaking an impasse over a new global warming pact.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined steps to deal with world hunger in the closing address Friday at the annual global issues conference started by her husband.
A wealthy Hollywood producer and a major corporation were instrumental in bringing former President Bill Clinton and two American journalists home from North Korea, prompting words of thanks Wednesday from former Vice President Al Gore and the freed reporters during an emotional airport reunion.
The Obama administration said Sunday it is willing to hold direct talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons if it first resumes international negotiations.
The Obama administration said Tuesday that the families of two reporters imprisoned in North Korea had asked former President Bill Clinton to travel to Pyongyang to seek the women's release.
Hailing the House, President Barack Obama put pressure on senators Saturday to follow its lead and pass legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, helping usher the U.S. into a new age of energy efficiency.
Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new U.N. climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting specific limits on carbon.
Is it better or worse to bully someone if you're using the Internet?
Al Gore and a band of environmental volunteers are taking the congressional fight over climate change legislation to the home districts of undecided lawmakers.
Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world's polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming.
In a story April 25, The Associated Press reported that former Vice President Al Gore compared Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and convicted swindler Bernard Madoff during a Capitol Hill hearing on global warming legislation.
Al Gore paused during his descent from atop the Capitol steps on his way to spar with an old rival, Newt Gingrich. Grinning as he glided toward a former aide he had spotted, Gore joked, "Just like old times."
Former Vice President Al Gore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, but Democrats and Republicans sparred even more vigorously over the cost of dealing with global warming.
Nobel laureate's Al Gore's follow-up to his best-selling "An Inconvenient Truth," originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new title.
Investors are gambling on green energy, pouring $4.1 billion into fledgling clean technology companies last year, an accounting firm concludes. But 2009 could produce a "crippling retrenchment" without government help.
Don't put off action on global warming just because times are lean — that's the message Al Gore, world environmental leaders and U.S. executives sent Friday to President Barack Obama.
Former Vice President Al Gore presented lawmakers on Wednesday with a new inconvenient truth: Action on global warming cannot wait until the economy recovers.
A critic of global warming is responsible for the icy glare Al Gore is giving this Alaskan community.
Climate campaigner Al Gore has urged negotiators at a U.N. global warming conference to free themselves of outdated ways of looking at the planet.
President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday praised former Vice President Al Gore's ideas on the environment as one part of helping the nation's struggling economy recovery. Obama, Gore and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met privately at Obama's transition headquarters here for almost two hours.
Coal may be a four-letter word for former Vice President Al Gore and many environmentalists. But some researchers believe technology may yet salvage the concept of “clean coal” — or at least coal — as an alternative to foreign oil while the drive for longer-term alternative energy picks up steam.
The NAACP says it will honor environmental activists Al Gore and Wangari Muta Maathai at its 40th Image Awards.
"So, where were we?" That was the bit of humor former Vice President Al Gore delivered Friday in Florida, the state that dashed his White House dreams eight years ago after a confusing ballot, dimpled punch cards, hanging chads and a Supreme Court decision that stopped a 36-day recount. In the end, George W. Bush won the presidency by just 537 votes. "It's been a long eight years," Gore said as he took the stage to raucous applause from about 200 supporters.
Glenn Beck and PETA Teams Up to Bash Al GoreApparently Beck thinks PETA is as rad as the NRA. Who knew? I know it's easy to get jealous when someone's got an Oscar, a Nobel, and some pretty big job titles on their resume, but really, the Gore bashing has got to end.
Al Gore Set To Become First "Carbon Billionaire" Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Gore's Dual Role - Advocate and Investor - NYTimes.comMr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Gore's Dual Role in Spotlight - Advocate and InvestorFormer Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.
Alwayswriteagain: Israel - The Other Inconvenient TruthI'm unsure who's smarter – former US Vice President, Al Gore or US Jewish lawyer, Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Where Are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?That god among men and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, told us in "An Inconvenient Truth", his Oscar-winning documentary, that we had to brace for increasing numbers of hurricanes as the result of global warming.
Al Gore Advised Google About 'Search Quality'Former Vice President Al Gore a few years ago advised Internet behemoth Google about "aspects of search quality." By themselves, the following paragraphs from this 6500-word piece don't mean much.
Confronting Al Gore with An Inconvenient QuestionWhy is it that journalists are not allowed to ask Gore about the problems with his film? What happened to speaking truth to power?
BBC Climate Correspondent Opens Eyes, Starts Walking Back Global Warming BaloneyThis spreadsheet shows that worldwide carbon dioxide emissions grew from 23.16 billion metric tons in 1998 to 29.20 billion in 2006 -- a 26% increase.
Conveniently Incomplete: Gore Claims British Court Vindicated School Showing of Movie That 'Violated Laws'Thanks to Drudge, the Internet will likely be abuzz with the news and video about Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer's challenge to former Vice President Al Gore over correcting the nine errors found by a British judge in Gore's Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth
Chip Reid Concern Trolls WH Briefing on Obama's Nobel Prize; Worries That Prize Is "Partisan" and "Liberal"excerpt: "" When news came that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I looked at my husband and said, "just watch, the wingnuts will lose it over this." And sure enough, I was right.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious of the Nobel awards and is most sought after in the world.
There were at least two weather stories featured on Drudge yesterday that again prove what the late Michael Crichton (creator of ER and author of best sellers of scientific speculation) said (with supporting charts and a bibliography) in "State of Fear": There has been NO warmin …
Spinning Our Wheels in a Billion Dollar Green MachineClose to a billion of our tax dollars have been loaned to companies that make cars which most of us reading this can't afford. I don't know a person who can afford a $90,000 car. Perhaps you do, but the point is very simple.
EURweb.com - MOS DEF, COMMON, HARPER IN NEW DOC SERIES: Current TV's 'Embedded' program begins next month with six episodes.This is great for Common, Mos Def and Hill Harper. I also recommend joining the Current TV website. It's kind of like You Tube but more sophisticated.
Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. LoanInteresting article about who gets and who does not get loans for car manufacturing.
Paul Kirk, Massachusetts' Interim U.S. Senator, Intimately Tied to Business, Lobbying and DemocratsThe U.S. Senate vacancy created by the death of liberal lion Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is prompting another trip through the revolving door of political influence for longtime Kennedy ally Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.
Google Earth Adds Climate Change Tours Narrated By Al GoreJust in case world leaders need to brush up on their knowledge of high and low emissions scenarios in advance of December's UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Google introduced a series of new Google Earth layers and tours yesterday focused on temperature change around the glob …
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Produced by WAGTV- Aired on British TVEverything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to news reports from the popular media outlets and even public classrooms which, in chicken little fashion, are screaming - the sky is falling. But is it really?
Climate lawsuits are coming, Gore & Browner warn. Politico blog by Josh Gerstein. 1:45 PM, September 22, 2009Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act.
Green groups open 'climate war room'The cap-and-trade movement, spooked by the pounding health care reform took over the August break, is scrambling to persuade nervous Democrats they won't suffer politically for taking another tough vote this year.
CNN/MSNBC reporter: Corporate executives forced pro-Bush, pro-war narrative - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comOk, this is like a year old opinion piece by Glenn Greenwald. (May,2008) Its from his blog on salon.com I think its relevant today as it was in 2008 and as it was 2003.
The Manchurian Candidate article by David Horowitz; very interestingThose who were surprised by the White House appointment of Van Jones – a self-styled "communist," and a proponent of the idea that the Katrina catastrophe was caused by "white supremacy," haven't been paying attention to developments on the left since the fall of Comm …
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