Gore on Charlie Rose: Transcript

I spoke with the premier of China at some length just last week in Beijing, and I judged him to be extremely sincere in saying "We want an agreement. We will not be an obstacle to an agreement." And the Indians have now said that they will accept binding obligations.
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 What do you expect  to come out of the Senate? 

AL GORE:  Well, there`s a lot of optimism, partly because some Republicans -- not too many -- but some have now joined in an effort to get legislation. 
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Just today the Chamber of Commerce changed positions, not courtesy of the Yes Men with that stunt in Washington a few weeks ago, but they`re now saying, surprisingly to me, and I`m glad about it, that they want to get legislation and they`re working with the sponsors of the bill. 
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AL GORE:  We ought to have 80 percent to 90 percent reductions as quickly as we can. 
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AL GORE:  Never before have we faced a challenge that brings the potential for ending human civilization as we know it.  And the timeframe within which we have to act is shockingly short. 
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This is now the largest, fastest-growing movement in history.
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...even though it has gone through this exhaustive 20-year peer review process with the 3,000 best scientists in the world
unanimously endorsing it, every national academy of sciences in a developed country on this planet endorsing it, still, based on some radio talk show host or some odd orthogonal argument... 
... "Science" magazine did a review of every peer review article for the previous ten years, a large sample of more than 10 percent.  None of them disagreed with this consensus.  [53-minute video available here]

BBCW: The Thinking Man's Thinking Man? Please Don't Think for Me or America

Has anyone seen the latest cover of “Newsweek.” It features a deceptive looking Al Gore with a green apple over his head. While looks of deception is nothing new coming from Gore’s eyes, Newsweek may be pushing something on Gore than he probably can handle—intelligence. They call Al Gore “the thinking man’s thinking man.”