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Al Gore Is The Most Important Leader In The Push To Slow Climate Change
He was the first who really brought attention to the problem. "An Unfortunate Truth", especialy, was a great stride to bring awareness.
 Homestar  06 Nov 2009 13:48
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Most important? More accurately he's the most well known, at least in the US. Scandanavian and French politicians have done much more to address the problem.

The Norweigians have created an entire network of hydrogen refueling stations for cars, buses and trucks, and the hydrogen is split from water using hydroelectric power, i.e. It's clean. Other northern European countries are looking at ways to follow them.

As for the French, they are almost completely independent of oil, despite having no oil reserves of their own. Their politicians smartly pushed for nuclear power more than 20 years ago and it has paid off.

Those who actually get something done are better examples than those who just talk, but at least Gore is making people think, which is something they weren't doing.

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 K9  07 Nov 2009 10:47
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 making people think? i'd say he has done the opposite. he managed to turn a scientific and political issue into a moral issue (moral as in "you have a moral obligation to agree with eveything i say"), thereby muddling the issue into the pseudo religion it has become.
by  the_atom
 26 Dec 2009 23:46
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CO2 was a sign/symptom of the real problem. He is an idiot. I Watched his video the other day.
 
 respire  07 Nov 2009 18:11
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Al Gore is a Hypocrite and self publicist, he never done anything for the environment, or out else far as I can tell.
 
 keepmindok  07 Nov 2009 06:27
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Al Gore is a hack who has no idea what he is talking about. He has muddled the issue beyond any rational thought.
 
 the_atom  06 Nov 2009 23:52
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 "A tree is a tree. How many do you need to see?"
- Ronald Raygun

"Who cares about the environment, jeezus is coming soon!"
- James Watt, Raygun's "secretary of the interior" (the environment)

Your side is populated with idiots who "think" damaging the environment is a good thing that will bring about the "apocalypse". You're not exactly in a position to judge.
by  K9
 07 Nov 2009 10:41
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