Al Gore

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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ), entrepreneur and environmentalist . From 1993 to 2001 he was the 45th Vice President of the United States under President Bill Clinton . In 2007 he received the Nobel Peace Prize .  

From 1977 to 1985 he represented the state of Tennessee as a member of the House of Representatives , then in the Senate . In 1988 he failed with his application for the presidential candidacy. After serving as Vice President, he ran again in the 2000 presidential election , but was defeated by Republican candidate George W. Bush . Although Gore won over 500,000 more votes nationwide than his rival candidate, Bush received more electoral votes through the states and thus won the election. The result in the state of Florida brought the decision, although it was extremely controversial.

Gore has published several papers on environmental protection and gives lectures on the subject worldwide. The 2007 Oscar- winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth emerged from his multimedia presentation on human-made global warming . In addition, he started the GLOBE program and initiated the Live Earth concert series . In 2007, Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness of the climate crisis and its global dangers together with the IPCC (represented by Rajendra Pachauri ) . He has been vegan since November 2013 .

Gore comes from a wealthy and politically active family. He is u. a. Founder and board member of the Alliance for Climate Protection , Generation Investment Management , Current TV , member of the board of directors of Apple and high-ranking advisor to Google as well as partner in the investment firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Generation Investment Management. His PR expenses for an energy transition were estimated at $ 300 million in 2009 alone.

Life

Wedding of Al and Tipper Gore on May 19, 1970

Gore was born in Washington DC. His parents are Albert Arnold Gore, Sr. (1907-1998) and Pauline LaFon Gore (1912-2004). Since his father was a Senator for the state of Tennessee, Al Gore spent his childhood in both Washington and Carthage , Tennessee. During his school days he lived in a hotel apartment in Washington, where he first attended the Sheridan School, then the elite St. Albans School. During the summer vacation he lived in Carthage, where he worked on his family's farm.

From 1965 to June 1969 he attended Harvard College , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in public administration. During this time he shared a room in Dunster House with the later successful actor Tommy Lee Jones and was friends with Erich Segal , among others . After military service, he studied theology and law (without a degree) at Vanderbilt University in Nashville .

In 1970 Al Gore married Mary Elizabeth Aicheson (known as Tipper ), whom he had met years earlier at St. Albans School. The wedding took place at Washington National Cathedral . The couple has four children Karenna (1973), Kristin (1977), Sarah (1979) and Albert III. (1982). Karenna's three grandchildren come from (Wyatt, * 1999; Anna, * 2001; Oscar Schiff, * 2006). In 2010 the couple announced their separation after 40 years of marriage.

Military service in Vietnam

Gore was a military journalist for Castle Courier with the 20th US Pioneer Brigade in Biên Hòa

Gore was not a supporter of the Vietnam War , and his father Albert Gore Sr. had appeared in the Senate in 1969 as an opponent of the war. As a university graduate as well as due to a low ticket number in the so-called "military service lottery", however, he had to reckon with being called up soon. He decided to do military service and was one of the few soldiers of his graduation from Harvard who went to Vietnam and not, for example. B. used their relationships to serve in the harmless United States National Guard . According to Gore himself, he did not want to compromise his father's career, who was facing difficult Senate elections. Gore feared that if he did not do military service that would be used by opponents against his father. Besides, he didn't want to ask someone else to go to Vietnam for him.

In 1969, Gore came to Harvard campus in uniform to bid farewell to his faculty and was booed by students in what he later described as a " Ralph Ellison Experience." Gore himself was proud to wear his country's uniform, even if he opposed the Vietnam War. In 1988 he described himself as naive and unprepared for the experience in Vietnam. He said he was not prepared to experience the will of Vietnamese people who worked in laundries, restaurants or in the fields to “what they called freedom”, and claims that the opponents of American engagement in Vietnam did not consider this to have.

Gore did his military service from August 1969 to May 1971. It wasn't until January 1971, after his father lost in the Senate elections, that Gore was sent to Vietnam. Gore himself suggested that the Nixon government sent him late because his (possible) death would have resulted in greater sympathy and thus more votes for his father. He was employed in Biên Hòa as a reporter for the military newspaper The Castle Courier . Gore commented positively on his war experience, but later noted that his journalist position was not too involved in direct warfare and that his experience cannot therefore be compared with that of other soldiers.

politics

In 1976, Al Gore ran for the vacant seat of the fourth congressional electoral district of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives . He prevailed and was re-elected three times in the following years. In 1984 he ran for the election of the Senate seat that became vacant after the resignation of Republican Howard Baker . He then sat for the state of Tennessee until 1993 in the Senate; In 1992, the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, declared him his running mate , i.e. his future vice- president, in his presidential election campaign . After the successful election Al Gore was from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001 next to President Clinton the 45th Vice President of the United States.

Presidential candidacies

Bill Clinton and Al Gore 1993

1988 Gore applied for the first time for the US presidency. Despite a few primary wins in the south, he had to withdraw his candidacy after a heavy defeat in the New York primary elections. After eight years as Vice President, Gore ran in 2000 as a Democratic presidential candidate to succeed Bill Clinton. This time he won all the primary elections, was nominated unanimously and made Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut his running mate , the candidate for the vice presidency. Gore lost to the Republican candidate George W. Bush in the presidential election on November 7, 2000 . Gore was able to win 48.4% of the votes nationwide and thus had 543,895 votes more than his opponent, who only got 47.9%. The results of the individual states, however, brought Bush more electoral votes and thus the election victory. The decisive result in the state of Florida was extremely controversial.

This was preceded by an unprecedented electoral thriller, which mainly focused on the state of Florida , whose electoral votes turned out to be decisive for a victory. Due to confusing ballot papers and outdated counting machines, there were considerable difficulties in counting the votes. Another point of controversy was partly premature, partly changing statements by the reporting television stations. First Al Gore was declared the winner in Florida, although in parts of the state the votes had not yet been completed, but later Bush.

The Florida government, represented by the responsible Home Secretary Katherine Harris , finally declared Bush the winner, while Gore's supporters demanded a recount of the votes. Gore's attorneys sued the state's Supreme Court for annulment of the official result and a recount in certain particularly controversial constituencies. The Republican majority in the Florida Congress attempted to declare Bush the winner by law and thus forestall a decision by the court, which they accused of ruling in favor of Gore on the basis of party-political sympathy. After the court had indeed granted Gore's motion and started counting again, the Republicans appealed against this decision to the US Supreme Court . This ruled with seven to two votes that the counting mode ordered by the Supreme Court of Florida, which provided for a recount only in individual districts, violated the principle of equality of the US Constitution, and with five to four votes that no other counting modalities were allowed within the statutory counting period are more developable.

Through the decision of the Supreme Court, the 25 electoral votes in Florida fell to George W. Bush, who had won the election with 271 electoral votes against 266 votes in favor of Gore. At the subsequent joint meeting of both Houses of Congress, twenty Democratic members of the House of Representatives, v. a. Afro-American origin, objection - background was allegations that voters from population groups traditionally leaning towards the Democrats, such as Afro-Americans, had disappeared from the electoral roll for formal reasons ; however, they did not get the support they needed from a senator. Then Congress confirmed the election result and Bush was sworn in on January 20, 2001.

The decision did not end the controversy, however. Above all, the judge Sandra Day O'Connor , who cast the decisive vote against any recounting in the decision, is in connection with this Supreme Court judgment Bush vs. Gore criticized. According to media reports, she was already thinking of resigning at the time, but did not want to risk a Democratic president like Al Gore being able to choose and appoint her successor.

Some US media, including the daily newspapers Miami Herald and USA Today , requested inspection of the election papers of the controversial constituencies and examined the result taking into account various recount variants. The research showed that Bush would have emerged victorious in most scenarios, but Gore would have emerged victorious in the most generous variants. Another study by the University of Chicago analyzed 175,010 ballot papers from all electoral districts, including examining ballot papers that had been invalidated because they contained either zero or multiple votes. The aim was to check the reliability and accuracy of the procedures used in the choice. The research group came to the conclusion that if the same invalidation criteria had been applied in all constituencies - a variant that was not proposed by either side in 2000 - the election victory would have gone to Gore by a margin of 107 to 115 votes.

Al Gore 1994

In the summer of 2003 Gore declined to run again in the 2004 presidential elections. In 2008, Gore was initially considered a possible renewed presidential candidate of the Democratic Party by internal party opponents of Hillary Clinton in the discussion about the candidates for the primaries . They hoped that Gore would embody “classic values ​​of the Democrats”. An internet campaign collected over 200,000 signatures to get him to run. She placed a full-page open letter to him in the New York Times on October 10, 2007 , which met with widespread interest in the American media.

Gore himself responded to the many inquiries regarding his possible candidacy for 2008 with the repeated reference that he did not plan to run, but did not want to categorically rule it out. On June 16, 2008, Gore put an end to all speculation when he promised Barack Obama his support in the presidential election during a joint appearance in Detroit .

Commitment to environmental protection

In the early 1990s, Al Gore published several books and writings on environmental policy. The bestseller Earth In The Balance (1992), in which he also drafts political and economic solution strategies, met with a particularly positive response . The work was the first book by an active Federal Senator on the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage (1956). The most important environmental issues of the time were pollution and a fairer global distribution of resources. In 1994 he initiated the GLOBE program to promote environmental education and research in science and society .

In 2006, Al Gore caused a sensation with the documentary An Inconvenient Truth , which aims to inform the world, but especially the American population, about greenhouse gases and the associated global warming. Based on his lecture series of the same name, Gore will be the "lead actor" in the film, which received good reviews from the premiere audience at the Sundance Film Festival and received a special award; it ran from May 24, 2006 in American cinemas. In Germany, the film ran on October 12, 2006 under the title An Inconvenient Truth . On February 25, 2007, the film won an Oscar for Best Documentary and one for Best Song (" I Need to Wake Up " by Melissa Etheridge ).

At the same time as the film was released, Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to train people around the world to pass on the multimedia presentation shown in the film. To this end, he trains so-called “climate leaders” several times a year.

In February 2007, Gore announced that he wanted to launch a global concert series with Live Earth . Following the example of Live Aid and Live 8, it took place on July 7, 2007 on seven continents for a total of 24 hours. This should draw attention to global warming and the new environmental movement Save Our Selves (SOS). More than $ 75 million in donations were raised in this way.

Gore has been chairman of the London- based investment firm Generation Investment Management since 2004 . a. specializes in buying company shares in the sustainability sector. According to the GIM homepage (www.generationim.com), this includes topics such as climate change, poverty, AIDS , human capital , water , lobbying and the like. a.

Al Gore is also Chairman of the Governing Council of the Alliance for Climate Protection , a community of interests that is part of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors' program and which aims to “reduce global warming and the transition to a sustainable and safe energy economy to an urgent national one To make priority ” .

In this capacity, Al Gore also testified on March 21, 2007 before congressional committees on the subject of "global warming".

For his work against global climate change, Gore has received some of the most internationally renowned awards. So he got u. a. on April 20, 2007 as one of seven laureates the Champions of the World Award of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

On June 6, 2007, Al Gore received the Prince of Asturias Prize in the “International Cooperation” category. The jury's reasoning stated: "Through his leadership, he has helped to raise awareness in governments and societies all over the world to stand up for this honorable cause."

In July 2008, Gore caused a sensation when he called on the USA to obtain all of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources within ten years: “Our dangerous reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all these problems - economic, environmental, national security . The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels. " In this context, Gore referred to the financial market crisis and rising energy costs and noted: " We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has got to change. ” He compared this challenge with President Kennedy's 1961, to bring a person to the moon by the end of the decade, which at that time was also widely regarded as a completely unrealistic undertaking.

In an interview with Tom Brokaw at Meet The Press a few days later, Gore underscored the seriousness of his request:

“ Our current course is completely unsustainable. We are being told by scientists around the world, particularly the international group that is charged with studying this and reporting to world leaders, that we may have less than 10 years in order to make dramatic changes, read we lose the chance to, to avoid catastrophic results from the climate crisis. We're building up CO 2 so rapidly that we're seeing the consequences scientists have long predicted. And the only way to take responsible action is to get at the heart of the problem, which is the burning of fossil fuels. "

“ Our current course is not sustainable at all. Scientists around the world - especially the international group tasked with researching the issue and reporting to Heads of State - tell us that we may have less than ten years to make dramatic changes. to prevent the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis. We are producing CO 2 so quickly that we can already see the effects that scientists have predicted. And the only way to take responsibility is to get to the root of the problem, which is the burning of fossil fuels. "

He pointed out that the prices for systems for the production of renewable energy are falling, while the prices for electricity from fossil sources will continue to rise rapidly due to the high global demand. From this he draws the conclusion that the switch to renewable energies can succeed; Furthermore, the security aspect should not be underestimated:

“ At the same time we're seeing our national security experts saying we're highly vulnerable with 70 percent of our oil coming from foreign countries, the largest reserves being in the most unstable region of the world, the Persian Gulf; and our economy is being really hurt badly by rising gasoline prices, rising coal prices. So we need to make a big strategic shift to a new energy infrastructure that relies on renewables. "

“ At the same time, our national security experts say that we are very vulnerable as 70 percent of our oil comes from abroad, with the largest deposits in the world's most unstable region, the Persian Gulf. In addition, our economy is being badly damaged by rising fuel and coal prices. We must therefore decisively change our strategy towards a new energy infrastructure based on renewable energies. "

- Al Gore

In the fall of 2017, Al Gore's second film Still An Inconvenient Truth - Our Time Is Running Out ( An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power ) hit theaters. According to his own statements, Gore does not want to open people's eyes in this, as climate change would have done, but rather to find supporters who strengthen his cause.

Nobel Peace Prize

Gore and Rajendra Pachauri

On October 12, 2007, Ole Danbolt Mjøs , chairman of the Norwegian Parliament's Nobel Committee, announced that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded equally to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their own purposes respective efforts ...

"... to build and disseminate more knowledge about human-made climate change and to lay the foundations for measures that are necessary to counterbalance these changes. (...) Al Gore has long been one of the world's leading environmental politicians. At an early stage, he became aware of the challenges that climate change is facing the world. His strong convictions, which were reflected in political activities, lectures, films and books, have strengthened the fight against climate change. He is probably the person who, as an individual, has done the most to create a greater, global understanding of the measures that must now be decided. "

In a first statement, Al Gore announced that it felt "highly honored" . He intends to donate his share of the prize money (five million kroner, approximately € 530,000) to the Alliance for Climate Protection , an independent non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness of the dangers of the climate crisis among the American and international public to strengthen.

Participation in the climate summit in Paris

Al Gore and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris in 2015

Al Gore played an important role in mediation talks during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015. He planned relevant talks with key figures in advance. A point of contention in Paris was the question of whether India could build coal-fired power plants to the extent planned so far , since it has only been mathematically responsible for 3% of greenhouse gases, and what alternatives there are for the country's development. Even in the time after that, he tried to get the governments involved to ratify the climate agreement. It was later denied by the Indian side that Al Gore had played the role in the talks that he portrayed in his 2017 film " Still an Inconvenient Truth - Our time is running out ".

Potential Conflicts of Interest

Gore is the founder and board member of Alliance for Climate Protection , Generation Investment Management , Current TV, and a member of the board of directors of Apple and a senior advisor to Google .

Gore wanted to position the television and Internet station Current TV between CNN and MTV . Occasionally, in his role for Apple, he takes part in product presentations in front of large audiences, for example on the iChat video chat program . In the Apple stock option scandal, he was hired to head the company's internal committee of inquiry, which brought him into the crossfire of criticism because of possible conflicts of interest.

Gore is also a partner in the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) mutual fund and heads the firm's climate change division. Gore has held visiting professorships at the University of California, Los Angeles , the private Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University .

In connection with his involvement with KPCB, possible conflicts of interest were discussed at a hearing of the Congress in April 2009. Republican MP Marsha Blackburn asked to what extent Gore would benefit personally from his involvement in stricter climate legislation. The controversy received no further public attention until November 2009, when it became known that KPCB had indirectly won a government contract worth $ 560 million. Gore's investment fund GIM owned 10% of the shares in the Chicago Climate Exchange , the American futures exchange for emissions trading , which in turn owned half of the European Climate Exchange .

public perception

The main male character in Erich Segal's box office hit Love Story (1970), Oliver Barrett, a mediocre student and the son of wealthy parents, is inspired by Gore as a role model. In the film, Barrett, who is mainly active in university sports, marries Jenny Cavelleri, a highly talented fellow student from poor backgrounds, against his parents' wishes. Political opponents assumed that Gore had claimed that his wife Tipper had also been a role model for Jenny Cavelleri, which Segal, who knew both of them when he was a student, clearly denied.

Furthermore, Al Gore had the idea of ​​a " Marshall Plan " for the earth in 1990 , which he published in 1992 in his book Earth in the Balance . The book was published in 1992 under the title "Paths to Balance - A Marshall Plan for the Earth" in German. In 2003 in Frankfurt am Main, Gore's ideas resulted in the Global Marshall Plan Initiative . Gore claimed to have been inspired to write this book by Rachel Carson . In 1994 he also wrote the foreword for a new edition of Carson's book "The Silent Spring".

As part of the election campaign in 1992 gave George HW Bush the running mate of his rival Bill Clinton with the abusive name "Ozone Man". Gore, however, took this as a “compliment” for his commitment to environmental protection.

A statement by Gore in 1999 caused irritation. He pointed out that during his tenure as Senator, on his initiative in 1991, the "High Performance Computing Act" was passed to promote the Internet , which is considered an important step in the spread of the Internet (see also History of the Internet # Wende from 1990 ). The statement was misinterpreted by some media during the 2000 presidential election campaign, as if he had described himself as the inventor of the Internet, which caused some ridicule against candidate Gore. In 2005, Al Gore received the Webby Award in the Lifetime Achievement Award category "for three decades of contributions to the Internet".

Al Gore is particularly often the target of climate-skeptical think tanks . Conservative US media also attack him frequently in climate-skeptical opinion articles. A study of 203 articles by conservative American columnists published between 2007 and 2010 came to light. a. concluded that they raised and caricatured Al Gore more than any other climate change-related topic; Al Gore was mentioned more often than the IPCC, for example . According to the study authors, this suggests that Al Gore is seen as easier to discredit than, for example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Gore effect is an ironic term that is widespread in the USA and named after Gore for untimely snowy weather or cold spells in connection with events and demonstrations on the consequences of global warming . Al Gore is mockingly alleged that his international lectures and activities coincided with corresponding weather events or even triggered them. The alleged Gore effect is used in a similar way to the allegation about the Internet invention. Gore effect listings are used to satirize the lifestyle and appearances of the multimillionaire Nobel Prize winner and ridicule his worldwide commitment to global warming .

Satirically, because of his perceived rhetoric and posture and the ironic reference to Gore's birth in March 1948, almost nine months after the Roswell incident in June 1947, he was attributed an extraterrestrial origin. However, he was able to improve his rhetoric and body language during lectures considerably through training with coaches and consultants.

In the animated series Futurama in 2000, when he was still acting Vice President, Al Gore lent his voice to "his" preserved head in individual episodes. He also has several appearances with the Simpsons .

There was controversy over Gore's extensive business activities. This applies to his commitment to the expansion of the Internet, the construction of remote sensing satellites, biotechnology and his role as an advocate and multi-million dollar investor in the field of climate protection. Gore is characterized by supporters as a technophile Atari Democrat who wants to maintain American technology leadership with high-tech solutions and to create correspondingly highly qualified jobs in the USA. Political opponents such as climate skeptics describe Gore as the first “carbon billionaire” who, in contrast to the chimney barons of the 19th century, did not benefit financially from the rise of the coal and steel industry , but from a reduction in the carbon-based economy through legal regulations, venture capital investments and government contracts have benefited significantly.

Works

  • Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit . Houghton Mifflin, Boston (MA) 1992, ISBN 0-395-57821-3 .
    • Paths to Balance: A Marshall Plan for Earth . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-10-027200-5 .
  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It . Rodale Books, Emmaus (PA) 2006, ISBN 1-59486-567-1 .
    • An uncomfortable truth: the impending climate catastrophe and what we can do about it . Riemann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-570-50078-0 .
  • The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making . The Penguin Press, New York (NY) 2007, ISBN 978-1-59420-122-6 .
  • Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis . Rodale Books, Emmaus (PA) 2009, ISBN 978-1-59486-734-7 .
  • The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change . Random House, New York (NY) 2013, ISBN 978-0-8129-9294-6 .

Honors

The springfish species Etheostoma gore , discovered in 2012, is named after Al Gore .

literature

  • Jules Witcover: The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power. Smithsonian Books, Washington, D. C. 2014, ISBN 978-1-5883-4471-7 , pp. 468-478 (= 45. Albert A. Gore Jr. of Tennessee of New York ).

Web links

Commons : Al Gore  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Al Gore  - Quotes
Wikisource: Al Gore  - Sources and full texts (English)
 Wikinews: Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore and the UN Climate Change Council  - News

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Juliet Eilperin: Al Gore goes vegan, with little fanfare . In: The Washington Post . November 25, 2013, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed March 29, 2016]).
  2. ↑ https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/al-gore-says-hell-likely-stay-vegan-for-life
  3. ^ A b c John M. Broder: Gore's Dual Role: Advocate and Investor. In: The New York Times . November 2, 2009
  4. ↑ Michael A. Genovese: Gore, Al, Jr. In: James W. Ely Jr., Bradley G. Bond (Eds.): Law and Politics (= The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 10 ). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2008, ISBN 978-08078-5884-4 , pp. 340f .; here: p. 340.
  5. ↑ Al and Tipper Gore split up. In: Spiegel Online . June 1, 2010
  6. ^ A b Albert A. Gore, Jr., 45th Vice President (1993-2001). senate.gov, accessed June 22, 2008 .
  7. ↑ a b Melinda Henneberger: For Gore, Army Years Mixed Vietnam and Family Politics. In: New York Times . July 11, 2000, accessed June 16, 2008 .
  8. ^ Albert Gore Jr .: Son of a senator. CNN , 2000, archived from the original on June 9, 2001 ; Retrieved June 22, 2008 .
  9. ↑ Al Gore on Homeland Security , from Houghton Mifflin; Further quote according to English Wikipedia: “There were an awful lot of South Vietnamese who desperately wanted to hang on to what they called freedom. Coming face to face with those sentiments expressed by people who did the laundry and ran the restaurants and worked in the fields was something I was naively unprepared for. "
  10. ^ "I don't pretend that my own military experience matches in any way what others here have been through": Gore Tells Fellow Veterans He Is Dedicated to Military, Kevin Sack, NY Times, 23 August 2000
  11. ^ A b 2000 Presidential General Election Results. fec.gov, accessed September 12, 2010 .
  12. ^ Jeb Bush Is Said to Be Willing to Sign Bill Ensuring Republican Victory in Florida. In: The New York Times . November 28, 2000.
  13. ↑ A member of the quorum abstained from voting in protest of the legal status of the Washington, DC, capital district.
  14. ↑ Greetings from “Disney World”: Final whistle in Florida. In: Friday . December 8, 2000, accessed September 12, 2010 .
  15. ↑ The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics: "Conflicts of Interest in Bush v. Gore: Did some justices vote illegally? “ ( Memento from May 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), by Richard K. Neumann Jr
  16. ↑ Media Recount: Bush Won The 2000 election. Archived from the original on January 28, 2011 ; Retrieved February 23, 2011 .
  17. ^ Florida Ballots Project. Norc.uchicago.edu, archived from the original on January 18, 2005 ; Retrieved May 28, 2010 .
  18. ↑ K. M. Wolter, D. Jergovic, W. Moore, J. Murphy, C. O'Muirheartaigh: Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida. In: American Statistician. 57 (1), 2003, pp. 1-14
  19. ↑ Draft Gore website ( Memento from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ MSNBC Today, July 5, 2007: Gore on Libby, son's arrest, and '08 election ( Memento of July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Al Gore supports Obama In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 17, 2010
  22. ^ Gore Really Does Get The Web. Forbes.com, September 21, 2006, accessed September 12, 2010 .
  23. ↑ Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors ( January 5, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ Al Gore receives UN environmental award . In: Sydney Morning Herald. April 20, 2007
  25. ↑ Reuters: Al Gore wins Spanish prize for climate change fight
  26. ^ Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America. Address of July 17, 2008 in the DAR Constitutional Hall, Washington DC ( online at: sfv.de )
  27. ↑ sfv.de, July 26, 2008: Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America with German translation by the Solarenergie-Förderverein e. V .: New Energy for America - An Appeal to the Living Today July 26, 2008
  28. ↑ MSNBC.com, July 20, 2008: Meet the Press transcript for July 20, 2008
  29. ↑ We Can't Wish Away Climate Change . In: New York Times . February 27, 2010
  30. ↑ Still an Inconvenient Truth - Our time is running out. Filmstarts.de , September 7, 2017, accessed on September 6, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Juliane Meißner, Steven Geyer: Interview with Al Gore: "I thought Donald Trump had come to his senses" . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed on August 13, 2019]).
  32. ↑ Announcement of the Nobel Committee ( Memento of November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  33. ^ German translation of the reasons given by the Nobel Committee according to Tagesspiegel [1] , November 12, 2019
  34. ^ Statement by Gore on his website: "I am deeply honored" ( Memento from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Eng.)
  35. ^ John Vidal: Paris Climate Agreement 'May Signal End of Fossil Fuel Era' . In: The Guardian , December 13, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2017. 
  36. ↑ Al Gore is heading to Europe to send a message to the rest of the world November 12, 2015
  37. ↑ http://time.com/4138055/india-paris-talks-climate-change
  38. ↑ Reuters report: Al Gore urges world leaders to sign Paris climate deal , March 17, 2016 (English)
  39. ↑ Top Indian Official Refutes Claim That Al Gore Sealed India's Inclusion In Paris Deal , July 25, 2017 (English)
  40. ↑ a b Al Gore: Al's Bio. algore.com, accessed June 16, 2008 .
  41. ↑ Al Gore, "Valley Guy". In: Mercury News. San José, February 1, 2007
  42. ^ Zachary Coile: Gore joins Valley's Little Perkins to push green business. San Francisco Chronicle , November 13, 2007, accessed October 8, 2010 .
  43. ^ Zachary Coile: Partner bio at Kleiner Perkins. Little Perkins, archived from the original on July 21, 2007 ; Retrieved October 8, 2010 .
  44. ^ Former Vice President Al Gore to Teach at Columbia's School of Journalism. Columbia University , January 25, 2001, accessed October 8, 2010 .
  45. ↑ Al Gore To Teach At Fisk University - Brief Article. In: Jet . February 19, 2001, archived from the original on July 9, 2012 ; Retrieved August 20, 2008 .
  46. ↑ Cynthia Lee, Amy Ko: Training the Next Community Builders: Gore taps faculty expertise. In: UCLA Today . 2001, archived from the original on May 1, 2008 ; Retrieved October 8, 2010 .
  47. ↑ Nick Allen: Al Gore 'profiting' from climate change agenda. Telegraph, November 3, 2009, accessed September 12, 2010 .
  48. ↑ Al Gore: world's first carbon billionaire? Latimesblogs.latimes.com, November 3, 2009, accessed September 12, 2010 .
  49. ^ The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore's Carbon Crusade. Human Events, archived from the original on April 11, 2010 ; Retrieved September 12, 2010 .
  50. ↑ Melina Henneberger: Author of 'Love Story' Disputes a Gore Story. In: The New York Times . December 14, 1997
  51. ^ Foreword by Al Gore to "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
  52. ^ Al Gore and the Internet. Nettime.org, accessed September 12, 2010 . Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn took the following position in 2000 in favor of Al Gore: "Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant credit for his early recognition of the importance of what has become the Internet."
  53. ↑ Al Gore invented the Internet. Retrieved August 8, 2012 .
  54. ↑ Fact Check: Web of Lies , snopes.com, September 5, 2016
  55. ↑ Webby Awards not laughing at Gore's contribution to Net Former Vice President of the United States . In: USA Today , May 5, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2010. 
  56. ↑ Carr, David: Accepting a Webby? Brevity, Please . In: Arts , June 8, 2005. Retrieved June 30, 2010. 
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personal data
SURNAME Gore, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gore, Albert Arnold Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, 45th Vice President of the USA
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC