When Gore was Vice President

NYTimes.com

In June 1997, environmental groups voiced anger because, in their view, Vice President Gore had failed to push hard enough for tougher air pollution standards and for negotiating deep cuts in worldwide emissions of greenhouse gases. They distributed a statement to editorial writers that derided remarks by the Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore about global warming as “hot air.”

“The failure of the White House to provide any leadership on the clean air standards and on climate change raises real questions about what real environmental progress Vice President Gore can point to in claiming the mantle of the environmental candidate in the year 2000,” Mr. Clapp told The New York Times.

SolveClimate.com

...He told the story once of the final days of the UN meeting in Kyoto, from which the Protocol would emerge. Gore was still a no-show, and they needed him there to succeed. So they created a media event in the capital around a gigantic replica of an airline ticket for the Vice President -- departing DC, arriving Kyoto -- to make sure he got on a plane, which he did.