From Wikipedia: Gore attended the elite St. Albans School where he ranked 25th (of 51) in his senior class. In preparation for his college applications, Gore scored a 1355 on his SAT (625 in verbal and 730 in math). Al Gore's IQ scores, from tests administered at St. Albans in 1961 and 1964 (his freshman and senior years) respectively, have been recorded as 133 and 134.[9]
In 1965, Gore enrolled at Harvard College, the only university to which he applied. His roommate (in Dunster House) was actor Tommy Lee Jones. He scored in the lower fifth of the class for two years in a row [9] and, after finding himself bored with his classes in his declared English major, Gore switched majors and worked hard in his government courses and graduated from Harvard in June 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. [9] After returning from the military he took religious studies courses at Vanderbilt University and then entered its Law School. He left Vanderbilt without a degree to run for Congress in 1976.
From Book Reviews: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth: The Environmental Ethic versus the Big Business Ethic
"Gore’s interest in global warming derives from a chance encounter he had with pre-eminent oceanographer, Roger Revelle, in an undergraduate class at Harvard in the 1960s. After directing the Scripps Oceanographic Institution in La Jolla, California from 1950 to 1964, Revelle went to Harvard University where he served as Professor of Population Policy and Director of the Center for Population Studies. It was from Revelle, one of the great American scientists of the 20th century, that Gore learned about the study of CO2 concentrations measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The graph on this page shows measurements from Mauna Loa which document the increase of atmospheric CO2 in a continuous pattern since 1957. Revelle had showed Gore this trend after only eight years of measurements. Gore uses this graph in his documentary as primary evidence of the increased “greenhouse” effect caused by increase in CO2.
I doubt that a class Roger Revelle was involved with was Elementary Basketweaving -- especially at Harvard.
It was an introductory survey science course for liberal arts majors, in fact. The "especially at Harvard" qualifier indicates that you have never really known anyone who graduated from Harvard.
I am about Al Gore's age, and guys I went to high school with would not even have bothered to apply to Harvard with SATs below 1400. (I knew one kid, a Columbian immigrant who didn't get into Columbia, friggin' worthless Columbia, with SATs above 1400.) Since it was the only college he applied to, one is tempted to believe that the fix was in.
Approximately one in sixty people of the population have an IQ of 133 or above. In my high school class of 440 people you'd expect about seven people to have higher IQ's. My high school was a selective Catholic high school. The lower cut off IQ was about 100, so in my graduating class of 440, there were probably around 14 people with higher IQs. None of them applied to Harvard.