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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the biggest private user of electricity in the world and has huge potential to cut back on greenhouse gases in-house and among its 60,000 suppliers, company officials said ahead of a global warming information stop Wednesday by former vice president Al Gore.
Tom Brokaw is giving Al Gore some company in the effort to raise awareness of global warming. The former NBC anchorman is host of "Global Warming: What You Need to Know," which doubles as an explainer and call to action for average Americans. It premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.

Former Vice President Al Gore will take his campaign against global warming to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. next week, speaking at Wal-Mart headquarters to executives seeking to make the world's largest retailer more environmentally friendly, a company spokesman said Friday.

The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
Former Vice President Al Gore got the same question at a hometown book signing Friday that he gets all over the world when pitching his documentary and book on global warming: Will he run for president in 2008?
The Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" will receive a rare recognition from the Humanitas Prize, which honors screenwriting that helps "liberate, enrich and unify society."
Al Gore, the Democrats' nominee for the White House in 2000, says he has all but ruled out running for president in 2008, saying the best use of his time is to educate people about global warming.

Al Gore is talking as if he has ruled out another run for the presidency.

Michael Moore has been the American on a mission at the Cannes Film Festival the last few years. This time it's Al Gore, with the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?
The United States is emerging from a "bubble of unreality" about the problem of global warming, former Vice President Al Gore said Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Al Gore is running to California, New York, Utah, Washington, France and points in between to promote "An Inconvenient Truth," a film chronicling his elaborate slide shows to educate people about global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore debuted his global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," Wednesday night to a Washington audience that included members of Congress and Queen Noor of Jordan.

Al Gore led a discussion of the documentary which focuses on his efforts to educate people about global warming following a private screening of the film on Saturday.
Al Gore has a major campaign under way — to change policies on global warming.

Bill Clinton invoked Scripture and Al Gore warned of the looming calamity of climate change as the former president and vice president appeared onstage to honor an outgoing Democratic Party official.
Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District: Although considered a Republican stronghold, the suburban Philadelphia district voted narrowly for Bill Clinton and Al Gore in recent presidential elections.
Former Vice President Al Gore said Monday he's not planning to run for president in 2008 but hasn't ruled out a future in politics.
A cable television network co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore is facing at least two lawsuits challenging its use of the name Current TV.

Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

The American people, and media, are notoriously able to maintain their attention on one thing -or at most a few things- at a time. So what a leader chooses to call the public's attention to is a major indicator of the nature of that leader.
There is an important dichotomy of the human race: those who believe in passive acceptance of the status quo and those who believe we need to take a more active role in determining our future.
The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral crusade when it's really an engineering problem. The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless.
From the article: If you think this is a joke, see for yourself by venturing over to his website (but beware: this site runs an annoying theme song that is setup so you can’t turn it off).
"Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has criticized former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for comments he made in a magazine interview in which he attacked the massive oil-sands industry in northern Alberta.
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has criticized former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for comments he made in a magazine interview in which he attacked the massive oil-sands industry in northern Alberta.
Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it. Perhaps some system could purge the atmosphere of surplus greenhouse gases?
From the article: The former vice president's film shows dramatic film of big chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but the "calving" of icebergs is a normal, natural process involved in the growth of glaciers into the sea.
From the article: Dr. Gore made the bold assertion that global warming “is the only crisis we've ever faced that has the capacity to completely end human civilization.” Stewart correctly pointed out: “Nuclear's got a shot. The bomb's got a shot.”
From the article: Gore would appear to have suffered convenient selective amnesia when telling the story of his guru and erstwhile college professor. You see, when Dr.
Here is a sampling of the views of some of the scientific critics of Gore: Professor Bob Carter, of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, on Gore’s film:
I haven't seen the An Inconvenient Truth yet but I seem to recall that in the trailer Al Gore said we had 10 years to turn things around before we permanently wreck the ecosphere. Despite Gore's optimism, I think we're doomed. Think about it.
From Article: The most "inconvenient truth" about global warming is not -- as Al Gore tells us in his new movie -- that global warming will devastate our planet unless there is a major counter-offensive.
Yes, the conclusions drawn in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth are terrifying, but perhaps we are misappropriating our energy.
This past weekend I had the pleasure of catching Al Gore's new documentary - "An Inconvenient Truth". Actually, the 'truth' is, it certainly was NOT a pleasure. It was unnerving and very concerning.
Al Gore to receive special recognition for his documentary "An Inconvenient truth."
From the article: Anthropogenic global warming is still the favorite myth of the hip Liberal crowd these days, despite holes in AGW theory through which one could drive an SUV.
I discovered this while looking for the companion book to "An Inconvenient Truth". It gives a nice slide display and then displays an interactive educational page. For the interactive page to work your browser must allow java scripts.
BOB EDWARDS: You say you don’t plan on running for President but you’re not saying never.
A non-partisan non-profit group take a look at Al Gore's movie and finds it quite uncredible. Al Gore looses credibility many times in the movie and the science he uses is laughable.
Is there a statistically significant increase in global temperature? Is global warming due to the increase of greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane from our mode of transportation and industry?