Al Gore Has Big Plans

NY Times ^ | May 20, 2007 | JAMES TRAUB

[neverdem]

One afternoon in February, Al Gore was waiting to board a commercial flight from Nashville to Miami, where he was to deliver the slide show that forms the basis of “An Inconvenient Truth,” his Academy Award-winning documentary on global warming. Gore was telling me about Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian chemist who won a Nobel Prize in 1977 for his insights into the thermodynamics of open systems, an intriguing subject that has very little to do with global warming. Every minute or so he flashed a microgrin at a passer-by without interrupting his oratorical flow...

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Live Earth is only the beginning. On his laptop, Gore showed me a diagram with a fleur-de-lis at the center and lines radiating out to indicate every facet of the vast campaign. “An Inconvenient Truth” is a mighty instrument all by itself: the book version has sold 850,000 copies worldwide, with a young adult version fresh off the presses, and a children’s version in the works. Twelve thousand people came to house parties last December to celebrate the release of the DVD. The movie will be showing in schools, both here and abroad. (It has already earned as much in foreign as in domestic sales.) Gore has paid to have the slide show translated into 28 languages. He will also be training volunteers to deliver the slide show in India and China, as he already has, and will continue to do, here. He will be holding “solutions summits” with corporate, political and scientific leaders; he was getting to work on a new “Solutions” book as soon as he knocked off “The Assault on Reason.” A children’s TV show was in the works, and a reality show as well. It’s going to be all global warming, all the time.

[metesky]

Could be. I thought it was 97-0.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The thing that stikes me about Al Gore is what a crashing bore he must be.

Can you imagine being stuck a meeting led by Al Bore on finding "solutions" to whatever bogeymen are inhabiting his obviously limited intellect?

It is a tribute to the power of the media that such a third rate huckster and fourth rate intellect can hold the attention of millions of similar mental defectives.

[Neville72]

Another rhetorical reach-around from the media to prop up a twice-failed grad student(Vandy Divinity/Vandy Law)as a some kind of a brilliant intellectual. Utter poppycock.

Gore is a moron.

Let the jackass run. He’d lose his “home” state again.

This time to Fred Thompson.

[don-o]

I coulda been a contender. I could have been somebody instead of a bum which is what I am.

[chainsaw]

Why do I not believe that Al Gore’s primary motivation is to “save the planet”?

Because he is selling carbon credits, that his company manufactures out of thin air.

[hgro]

The only thing big about Al Gore is his rear end.

[ridge]

Ha, the only prize he deserves is the one for opportunist and kook. I love that picture of his office. The guy sits in his big, ergonomical chair, made from god knows how much synthetic material. Then he has 4 or 5 flat panel monitors running. Nothing wasteful there.

[marvlus]

I told Gore that he was far more deeply versed in the work of Csikszentmihalyi than I was. He laughed so hard that he turned purple.

Ha Ha, man that is so funny! /sarc

[OKSooner]

Let me guess... It’s the cover from an obscure Devo album?

[50mm]

"The Assault on Reason"

That's exactly what he's doing. What a moron!