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[Perry] explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.”
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That’s a flatly untrue assertion by Rick Perry. During his Senate career in the 1980s, Al Gore was WELL KNOWN for his “enviromental activism” and for being a global warming alarmist, as well as boosting of technological and computer accomplishments. Gore claimed he invented the internet “during my service in the United States Senate”, rather than the year it had actually been invented (1969, when Gore was stil in college)
GORE’S TREE-HUGGING ACTIVISM IN THE 80s....
Gore has been involved with the environment for a number of decades. In 1976, after joining the United States House of Representatives, Gore held the “first congressional hearings on the climate change, and co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste and global warming.” He continued to speak on the topic throughout the 1980s and was known as one of the ‘Atari Democrats’, later called the “Democrats’ Greens, politicians who see issues like clean air, clean water and global warming as the key to future victories for their party.”
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.”
The Concord Monitor says that during the 1980s, Gore “was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases.
GORE BOOSTING OF BEING TECH-SAAVY IN THE 80s...
Gore had been involved with computers since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice President, where he was a “genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible [...] Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues.”[1] According to Campbell-Kelly and Aspray (Computer: A History of the Information Machine), up until the early 1990s public usage of the Internet was limited and the “problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s.”
24 Jun 1986:
Albert Gore introduce S 2594 Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986 [4]
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as “The Gore Bill”) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network.