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As a respite from watching Republican Party debates and campaigning, I am spending three days at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit. In stark contrast to those @GOP science-denial soundbites, this Super Tuesday morning, Al Gore spent an hour on stage being interviewed by Steve Clemons from The Atlantic.  There are a […]

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When contemplating the path of climate legislation over the past several years, we must address a continual question and challenge for those (which should be all of us) concerned that our political system is proving unable to come up with a policy and regulatory framework that provides any real hope for putting us (the United […]

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The New York Times Andy Revkin evidently was feeling a bit jealous of the attention that George Will and John Tierney were receiving for their deceptive disinformation when it comes to Global Warming issues. Other than that its a bit hard to explain his convoluted and, well, deceptive article in today’s New York Times on […]

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Today, Al Gore and a coalition of leading environmental organizations are launching This is REALITY.org. Simply put, despite all the glowing ads that you’ve seen and bipartisan romancing of clean coal, “clean coal” remains not much more than powerpoint slides and technological dreams that might (MIGHT) work in 20 years or so, at a very […]

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Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%! Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal. And, determine to do this within a decade. People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong.  This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but possible. They […]

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Well, Al Gore is taking on another venture.  As Fortune phrased it,  The recovering politician, environmental activist, and Nobel laureate is adding another title to his résumé: venture capitalist.

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A week ago, the Washington Post Outlook section featured, under the banner “FACT CHECK”, a malicious attack on Al Gore starting off with flagrantly false information. The outrage floursished … As per Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington […]

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Perhaps you missed this … but … sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson started his OPED in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. True, but not truthful or honest. No […]

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Follow-ups are sometimes merited. My last diary, Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, began: Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED “You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason.” Ferguson is absolutely right […]

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Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. Ferguson is absolutely right … and, amazingly arrogant in his disdain for common understanding of “truth” … Like […]

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