Have to say that as VP Al gore was a bit of a joke,but i think that now he is at least trying to do good work.. 
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1) From the The Sunday Times, December 9, 2007:
"Who would have thought that saving the planet could be such a lucrative business? Al Gore, the former US vice-president turned environmental campaigner, has made more than £50m in just seven years from his books, speeches and shrewd investments in technology and green ventures. Gore, 59, a failed presidential candidate, has already reinvented himself from the nearly man of American politics into the first global green celebrity. This week he will pick up the Nobel peace prize in Oslo before flying to Bali to take centre stage at the United Nations climate change conference. Today Gore commands between £50,000 and £85,000 a speech, holds stock options in Google worth £15m and has made as much as £4m from advances on his book deals. He is also advising a US venture capital company on how to invest a $600m green technology fund. "
2) From "Stewardship of the Earth" luncheon Jan. 31 2008 during the New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta.
Gore, citing Luke 12:54-57 for scriptural support, argued that it is dishonest for anyone to claim that global warming is merely a theory rather than a scientific fact. "The evidence is there," he said. "The signal is on the mountain. The trumpet has blown. The scientists are screaming from the rooftops. The ice is melting.
(no it isn't) The land is parched
(no it isn't). The seas are rising
(marginally, and only markedly in places where the land is sinking). The storms are getting stronger
(no, they're not). Why do we not judge what is right? "I think there is a distinct possibility that one of the messages coming out of this gathering and this new covenant is creation care -- that we who are Baptists of like mind, in attempting in the best of our human abilities to glorify God, are not going to countenance the continued heaping on contempt on God's creation."
Gore said some Baptist spokesmen deny the reality of global warming
because they are locked in a coalition with rich and powerful people who take advantage of the poor for economic profit. "When did people of faith get so locked in to an ideological coalition that they got to go along with the wealthiest and most powerful who don't want to see change of the kind that's aimed at helping the people and protecting God's green earth?" Gore asked.
I strongly believe he is at the root of many of the problems we now face in the world.
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