Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr.is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Chosen as Clinton's running mate in their successful 1992 campaign, he was reelected in 1996. At the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2000. After leaving office, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.
The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies - drinking water supplies and agricultural water supplies. We have these record storms, drought, floods, fires, three deaths (ph) in the American West, climate refugees beginning now, expected to rise to the hundreds of millions unless we take action.
I think that part of the message from the election last night was get on with that agenda, focus on the challenges that are confronting the people of the United States of America, ... And I hope and expect that the Congress will hear that message.
Today, 32 years after we lost him, America still needs the soaring dream of Martin Luther King Jr.,
to consolidate its power and escape any accountability for its use.
We can have balanced budgets every single year, and still set aside (funds) to pay down the debt and eliminate the debt by the year 2012. You'll find that all the pieces fit together, and it's highly specific.
Human societies rely heavily on hydro-carbon power and this produce a lot of carbon dioxide that increases the global warming.
I don't think NAEP scores give a broad enough view of what is happening in the schools,
He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,
has been a friend, and it's my fervent hope that he will also be our nominee in the year 2004.
I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.
We are thrilled our prayers have been answered and that Molly and her companions are safe.
Who is it they would not have nominated?
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