Al Gore made his internet comments in 1999, which was WELL AFTER the 1988 election. He also didn't say he invented the internet, he said he took the initiative in creating the internet. It was just fun to mock him for it.
In 1989, while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in the Washington Post, in which he argued: “Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with the planet Earth. The world’s forests are being destroyed; an enormous hole is opening in the ozone layer. Living species are dying at an unprecedented rate”.
In 1990, Senator Gore presided over a three-day conference with legislators from over 42 countries which sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, “under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while still protecting the environment.”
Both those citations, obviously important for you to post as they are the first real public revelation of what would later become "Mr Global Warming", both took place AFTER 1988.
These particular incidences happened after ‘88, OK, but how do you explain his jumping to Dukakis after Gore lost? Plus, what was it about Gore that Perry viewed so favorably that he led his charge to become Commander in Chief? I think that Perry is playing us for fools. Bob