Politico: "Where's Al Gore?...Gore's evolution over the past four years — from a central figure in the Democratic Party to a no-show at its biggest event — matches what has happened to the issue of climate change itself"

Where's Al Gore? - POLITICO.com

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In 2008, Al Gore strode onto the stage at Denver’s Invesco Field to a hero's welcome, throwing his support behind Barack Obama to take on the "global climate crisis."

When Obama takes the stage this week, Gore will be nowhere in sight.
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Gore's evolution over the past four years — from a central figure in the Democratic Party to a no-show at its biggest event — matches what has happened to the issue of climate change itself, which moved to the sidelines alongside its chief crusader, environmentalists and some Democrats say.
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“Al Gore has proven incapable of developing policies that have broad political appeal, and the party is looking to others,” said Paul Bledsoe, who was communications director for the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Bill Clinton and is now a senior adviser at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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“We are facing a planetary emergency, which, if not solved, would exceed anything we've ever experienced in the history of humankind,” Gore said [at the 2008 convention]. Obama, he promised, would offer “solutions for the climate crisis.”