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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told.
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Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an “externality.” This absurd label means, in essence: we don’t to keep track of this stuff so let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.
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I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.
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The center of the earth is about a million degrees.
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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
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You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.
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A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: what in God's name were they doing? or they may look back and say: how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?
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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
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We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
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I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
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What we take for granted might not be here for our children.
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When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
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The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.
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The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
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My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
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I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
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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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Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.
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