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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.
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