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Former Vice President Al Gore is chairman of Current TV, an Emmy award winning, independently owned cable and satellite television nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He also serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing.

Al Gore is chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit he founded to educate citizens in the U.S. and around the world about solutions to the climate crisis. He is a member of the board of directors of Apple, a senior adviser to Google, a partner with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

He is the author of the bestsellers Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. Al Gore is the co-winner, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” He and his wife have four children and three grandchildren.

Blog Entries by Al Gore

Reflections on Earth Day

3 Comments | Posted April 21, 2012 | 9:59 PM

In 1994, I was asked by Rachel Carson's publisher to write the introduction for the 30th anniversary edition of Silent Spring. It was, of course, a privilege and honor. Here is part of what I wrote:

Writing about Silent Spring is a humbling experience for an elected official,because Rachel Carson's...
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Sustainable Capitalism

91 Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 10:41 PM

Earlier this month, Generation Investment Management, a firm I co-founded along with David Blood, released a white paper on the importance of sustainable capitalism. The white paper defines Sustainable Capitalism as a framework that seeks to maximize long-term economic value creation by reforming markets to address the real needs of...

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Antarctic Glaciers and the Global Water Crisis

0 Comments | Posted February 4, 2012 | 8:08 AM

Today, our journey takes us to Neko Harbor, one of the prime locations in this region to view glaciers. These towering walls of ice are a majestic sight, and a humbling reminder of the fragility of the natural systems that human beings depend upon for life as we know it.

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Troubled Oceans at the Bottom of the World

0 Comments | Posted February 1, 2012 | 1:48 PM

Today we visit the Weddell Sea, which lies to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula. Like the rest of the Southern Ocean, the body of water that surrounds Antarctica, it is home to diverse ecosystems that are filled with unique and astonishing wildlife. And like oceans everywhere, the impacts of...

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From Antarctica to Bangladesh: The Story of Rising Seas

0 Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 3:41 PM

After crossing the legendary Drake Passage, we came in sight of the Antarctic continent. It is a majestic, otherworldly place. The Antarctic Peninsula, which juts northward toward South America, is lined with ice-covered mountains and surrounded by abundant wildlife in the sea. But even on this continent that looks and...

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Living on Thin Ice

0 Comments | Posted January 25, 2012 | 11:37 AM

Last September, millions of you joined us for 24 Hours of Reality, when we connected the dots between the extreme weather events happening all over the world and the reality of the climate crisis. Together, we saw that we don't need to travel far to see the impacts of climate...

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The Keystone Myth

0 Comments | Posted January 24, 2012 | 10:37 AM

President Obama made the right call last week when he decided to reject the tar sands pipeline. The State Department, in its Congressional Report, debunked the myth that this disastrous project would benefit the US:

Regarding economic, energy security, and trade factors, the economic analysis in the final...

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Thousands Surround White House

0 Comments | Posted November 9, 2011 | 4:36 PM

Thousands of protestors surrounded the White House last weekend demanding Barack Obama block the tars sands pipeline because of its implications for worsening the climate crisis:


Thousands of protesters gathered in Lafayette Square across from the White House on Sunday to oppose a plan for...

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History Is Made in Australia

0 Comments | Posted November 8, 2011 | 7:37 AM

This is a historic moment. Australia's Parliament has put the nation's first carbon price into law. With this vote, the world has turned a pivotal corner in the collective effort to solve the climate crisis. This success is the result of the tireless work of an unprecedented coalition that came...

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Koch-Funded Study Confirms Climate Data

0 Comments | Posted October 26, 2011 | 9:10 AM

Climate skeptics were hoping this study would debunk data proving the existence of the climate crisis -- instead it reaffirmed the science:

Back in 2010, Richard Muller, a Berkeley physicist and self-proclaimed climate skeptic, decided to launch the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project to review the temperature...
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Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street

0 Comments | Posted October 13, 2011 | 12:17 PM

For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration. I thought the New York Times hit the nail on the head in an editorial Sunday:


"The message -- and the solutions --...

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On the Passing of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai

0 Comments | Posted September 26, 2011 | 1:41 PM

It is with great sadness that I learned today of Wangari Maathai's passing. Wangari overcame incredible obstacles to devote her life to service -- service to her children, to her constituents, to the women, and indeed all the people of Kenya -- and to the world as a whole.

Wangari...

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Wall Street Journal Gets It Wrong on Climate, Again

0 Comments | Posted September 8, 2011 | 6:05 PM

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal opinion page echoed Fox News with claims that global warming is caused by cosmic rays and not the 90 million tons of pollution that we are emitting every day. What they failed to mention is that the authors of the study they cite made...

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Obama's EPA: Confronting Disappointment

0 Comments | Posted September 7, 2011 | 8:29 PM

On Friday afternoon, as brave and committed activists continued their non-violent civil disobedience outside the White House in protest of the tar sands pipeline that would lead to a massive increase in global warming pollution, President Obama ordered the EPA to abandon its pursuit of new curbs on emissions that...

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The Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet

0 Comments | Posted August 31, 2011 | 6:50 PM

The leaders of the top environmental groups in the country, the Republican Governor of Nebraska, and millions of people around the country -- including hundreds of people who have bravely participated in civil disobedience at the White House -- all agree on one thing: President Obama should block a planned...

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What Do the Debt Ceiling and Climate Crisis Have in Common?

0 Comments | Posted July 26, 2011 | 8:41 AM

One of the problems that the Congress is encountering as it tries to raise the debt ceiling is that a significant number of Republican and Tea Party Members of Congress apparently hold the view that there actually would not be consequences for global markets or the US economy if we...

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Responsible Journalism

0 Comments | Posted July 20, 2011 | 1:48 PM

The phone hacking scandal engulfing News Corp. is another reminder of the failure of the media to serve the public. I wrote in Rolling Stone recently:

"Unlike access to the 'public square' of early America, access to television requires large amounts of money. Thomas Paine could walk out...
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Meet The Climate Reality Project

0 Comments | Posted July 12, 2011 | 8:55 AM

The climate crisis is a reality, and we are seeing its impacts in extreme weather all around the world. Using the same deceitful playbook as big tobacco used years before to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, oil and coal companies and their allies are now deceiving the...

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25 Years Since Chernobyl

0 Comments | Posted April 26, 2011 | 3:46 PM

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Our thoughts and prayers on this day are also with the people of Japan, as they continue their struggle to bring the damaged Fukushima reactors under control.

I was recently reminded of a speech I gave at the Chernobyl Museum in...

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An Answer for Bill O'Reilly

0 Comments | Posted February 1, 2011 | 5:55 PM

Last week on his show Bill O'Reilly asked, "Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?" and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.

As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say...

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