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Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth: Gore’s movie about global warming

A movie about Al Gore giving a PowerPoint presentation about global warming doesn’t sound all that exciting [in Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”]. Getting the country to face up to global warming is his life’s mission, and it could be his ticket to the presidency. Voters yearning for a principled leader who truly believes in something may find what they’re looking for in the former vice president. Gore said that he’s in the middle of a campaign, but it’s not a campaign for a candidate. “Been there, done that,“ he said.

Nobody believes him. By not playing the overt political game, Gore may be putting in place the first issue-driven campaign of the 21st century, one that is premised on a big moral challenge that is becoming more real with soaring gas prices and uncertain oil supplies.

Whether he is or isn’t running almost doesn’t matter. Gore has the luxury of waiting until late in the political season to announce. He has universal name recognition and a proven ability to raise money.

Source: 2008 speculation: Eleanor Clift, Newsweek, “Gore Redux” Apr 28, 2006

Al Gore: Global warming captured Gore’s interest as student

This could be the ultimate remake for Gore, whose struggles with his persona during the 2000 campaign made him an object of ridicule. He seems more approachable now, and he’s a first-rate teacher as he explains in “An Inconvenient Truth” about the inescapable march of global warming, along with its consequences, that first captured his imagination as a college student. The film is not apocalyptic; you don’t leave the theater feeling all is lost. Gore says he deliberately left out recent scientific predictions that the world has just 10 years to reverse global warming or a tipping point will be reached beyond which it cannot be stopped. Reflections about the 2000 presidential race (“It was a hard blow, but you make the best of it”), a childhood split between farm life and a hotel room in Washington and his beloved sister’s death from lung cancer interspersed with the slide show give the movie a biopic feel that makes viewers wonder what might have been if history had taken a different turn.
Source: 2008 speculation: Eleanor Clift, Newsweek, “Gore Redux” Apr 28, 2006

Joe Pinion: Capitalism is the solution for developing renewables

The reality is that capitalism isn't the problem. It is the solution. When the best wind turbines and solar panels are made in America, that means more jobs in America paying the living wages American workers deserve. Our goal should be positioning our country to compete in this emerging global landscape, not destroying the business environment required for success.
Source: Newsweek magazine on 2022 New York Gubernatorial race Apr 25, 2022

Kelly Craft: Climate change: "I respect both sides of the science"

The U.S. ambassador to Canada has faced a second wave of ridicule over a 2017 interview in which she said "both sides of science" formed her beliefs about climate change.

In an interview with Canadian broadcaster CBC, Kelly Craft said: "I think that both sides have their own results, from their studies, and I appreciate and I respect both sides of the science."

Referring to President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement last year while every other country committed to it, [Craft said of Trump's policy], "I think that the approach may seem different, but we all have the same goal. And that is to better our environment and maintain the environment," she said.

When asked if she believed in climate change, Craft said, "I believe there are scientists on both sides that are accurate."

Craft was mocked online for her suggestion that climate change deniers have some credence despite the overwhelming scientific evidence indicating the opposite.

Source: Newsweek magazine on 2023 Kentucky Gubernatorial race May 7, 2020

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