[quote]"[url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9047642]The planet has a fever," Gore said. “If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science-fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem.’”
Even once-skeptical Republicans are coming over to Gore’s side — and it seems the debate has shifted from arguing whether there is a climate crisis to disagreement over how to fix it.
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Members of the committee, Democrats and Republicans alike, listened very carefully to Gore, as they seemed to take to heart his final message: that in a few years this whole debate will look very different.
“This is not a partisan issue, this is a moral issue,” Gore said. “And our children are going to be demanding this[/url].”[/quote]
Hey . . . but remember to take this with a grain of salt . . . it was published by the biased mainstream media (NPR). 
[quote]One evening last December, in front of nearly 2,000 people at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, Al Gore spoke in uncharacteristically personal and passionate terms . . . . Gore had plenty to say about thinning polar ice caps, shrinking glaciers, rising carbon dioxide concentrations, spiking temperatures, and hundreds of other data points he has woven into an overpowering slide show detailing the catastrophic changes affecting the earth’s climate. The audience was filled with Silicon Valley luminaries: Apple’s Steve Jobs; Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt; Internet godfather Vint Cerf; Yahoo!'s Jerry Yang; venture capitalists John Doerr, Bill Draper, and Vinod Khosla; former Clinton administration defense secretary William Perry; and a cross section of CEOs, startup artists, techies, tinkerers, philanthropists, and investors of every political and ethnic stripe.
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Working together, we can find the technologies and the political will to solve this problem." The crowd fell hard. “People were surprised,” says Wendy Schmidt, who helped organize the event and, with her husband, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, supported Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. “They think of a slide show about science, they think of Al Gore. But they come out later and say, ‘He’s funny, he’s passionate, he’s real.’”
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Along the way, Gore has become a neo-green entrepreneur, taking his messianic faith in the power of technology to stop global warming and applying it to an ecofriendly investment firm. The company, Generation Investment Management, which he cofounded nearly two years ago, puts money into businesses that are positioned to capitalize on the carbon-constrained economy Gore and his partners see coming in the near future. All the while, he has been busy polishing his reputation as the ultimate wired citizen: Not far from the Stanford campus, Gore sits on the board of directors at Apple and serves as a senior adviser to Google. Farther up Highway 101 are the San Francisco headquarters of Current TV, the youth-oriented cable network he cofounded with legal entrepreneur Joel Hyatt. [/quote]
Interesting article on Gore in Wired. Smart guy, smart investor.
Barak Obama and Al Gore would be a nice ticket in 2008.
There does seem to be a bit of a buzz about a possible run for 2008, but accounts say that Tipper is not interested in the least, and that she is Gore’s number one advisor. So, who knows . . .
. That’s what you’re up against TC, Al after all created the internet. 
(I thought you as a creationalist would appreciate him more for that)
