The Climate Warrior is Coming

THE CLIMATE WARRIOR IS COMING

By Anton Antonio

December 17, 2015

“Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45^th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.  Chosen as Clinton’s running mate in the successful 1992 campaign, he was re-elected in 1996.  At the end of Clinton’s second term, Gore was the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 2000.  In what was one of the closest presidential races in history, Gore won the national popular vote, but lost the electoral vote, and thus the Presidency, to George W. Bush.  After leaving office, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.  Gore was an elected official for 24 years.  He was a Congressman from Tennessee (1977-85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state’s Senators.  He served as Vice President during the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001.  In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush.  A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 in favor of Bush.  Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the now-defunct Current TV network, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple, Inc., and a senior advicer to Google.  Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading its climate change solutions group.  He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.  He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.  Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005).  Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006.  In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time’s 2007 Person of the Year.” (Wikipedia)

Al Gore has been touring the world for over a decade now evangelizing on the evil of climate change and proposing measures to mitigate its effects.  In March 2016, he will be in the Philippines to train volunteer climate warriors.  Choosing the Philippines was easy since the country is one of the most vulnerable to climate change impacts.  This is a piece of good news as the Philippines needs all the information and education on the subjects of greenhouse effect,  global warming and climate change.  We should all be glad Al Gore will be coming… the climate warrior is coming.

Thoughts to promote positive action…

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REFERENCE:

Wikipedia, (2015). “Al Gore”. Retrieved on December 17, 2015 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore