Former Vice-President Al Gore congratulates members of the Mars Exploration Rover team in the Mission Control Center at NASA (news - web sites)'s JPL in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday Jan. 24, 2004. following the safe landing of the Opportunity rover. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes/Pool)

Al Gore kommt ans Swiss Economic Forum
Al Gore, ehemaliger Vizepräsident der USA, ist exklusiver Gast am diesjährigen Swiss Economic Forum. Als ersten Kandidaten in der modernen amerikanischen Geschichte gelang es Al Gore 1990, alle 95 Counties in Tennessee zu gewinnen. 1993 wurde Gore vom Volk zusammen mit Präsident Clinton als Vizepräsident ins Weisse Haus gewählt. Al Gore ist Keynote-Referent am diesjährigen Swiss Economic Forum und wird in seinem Referat auf die aktuelle Lage der Weltpolitik eingehen
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Al Gore to Expose Bush on Environment, Global-Warming
Thursday January 8, 3:37 pm ET New York Speech Sponsored by MoveOn.org & Environment2004 Thursday, Jan. 15 at Noon

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver a major address attacking the Bush Administration's policies on global warming and the environment at the historic Beacon Theatre in New York City on Thursday, January 15. The speech is being co-sponsored by MoveOn.org and Environment2004. Mr. Gore will issue an indictment of the Bush administration's inaction on global warming, linking the issue to U.S. national security. He will show that global warming is happening right now, and yet the President is choosing to help his coal- and oil-company supporters rather than advance modern technologies that can affordably solve this critical problem. The speech will also explore the administration's deliberate attempts to mislead the public as it attacks basic environmental laws and protection. This is a free event, but attendance is open only to members of MoveOn.org and Environment2004 who have RSVP'd, and to credentialed journalists. Journalists may alternatively listen to the speech by phoning in. Members of the media planning to attend the event or join the listen-in conference call MUST RSVP BY EMAIL to lsabori@fenton.com or cara@fenton.com. Gore's previous two speeches for MoveOn.org addressed the credibility of the administration and its attacks on civil liberties. WHAT: Major policy address by Al Gore WHEN: Thursday, January 15, 2004 at Noon (Introductions at 12:00; speech at 12:15pm) WHERE: Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway, btwn 74th and 75th Streets, New York City MoveOn.org is the nation's largest and fastest-growing online advocacy group with over 1.7 million members nationwide. Environment2004 Education Fund is an advocacy and public education organization dedicated to advancing sound environment and energy policies. More information is available at: www.environment2004.org.

GORE WARNS OF ENVIROMENTAL DISASTER from PuertRicoWow.com by Frank Griffith of the Associated Press 12.12.2003 RIO GRANDE - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Friday that to avert an environmental "catastrophe," the world must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Describing a scenario of the future unless action is taken, Gore said huge expanses of forest will vanish and polar ice caps will eventually disappear as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide rise. "Business as usual would cause an utter and total catastrophe," Gore said, speaking to some 200 people at a conference of the Alliance for the New Humanity, a consortium focusing on global issues. Gore made headlines earlier this week when he endorsed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination. But he didn't mention current political leaders Friday, instead focusing on flaws in humanity's current way of thinking. "The future of energy in the United States, for example, can be dominated by renewable energies," Gore said. "Wind and solar alone have a very promising future." Meanwhile, he said, the United States is releasing a grossly disproportionate share of the world's greenhouse gases. "We would not be able to look our grandchildren directly in the eye, and say we knew what was happening but we lacked the courage to do something about it," he said. "We knew we were creating for you a hell on earth, but it was just too hard for us to change the pattern of our lives, so sorry." However, Gore said there was hope, noting recent positive signs in preserving the ozone layer. The U.S. Senate rejected a plan in October to curb carbon dioxide emissions from industrial smokestacks. The administration of President George W. Bush said the bill would seriously harm the economy. The United States also has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty setting limits on greenhouse gases that Gore signed in 1997 but was never ratified by the Senate. The treaty has not been implemented because not enough countries have ratified it. Gore visited Puerto Rico for the conference along with 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and author Deepak Chopra. Also present at the hotel some 20 miles east of San Juan was Gov. Sila Calderon, who spoke on the importance of greater action against poverty. Gore, who lost (sic) a presidential bid in 2000, has long been an advocate of stricter environmental measures, which he proposed in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance."

09.12.2003 Gore, Dean Planned Endorsement in Secret 12:47 PM PST From ABC News CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Al Gore knows how to keep a secret. Calling from Tokyo, the former vice president reached Howard Dean in a van somewhere in Iowa on Friday. "Now that I've made the decision that I want to endorse you, I want to do it as soon as possible," Gore said during the 45-minute call. They instantly made two decisions: Break the news in New York's Harlem neighborhood, where both were scheduled to be Tuesday, and keep it a secret until the last possible minute. Gore apparently wanted to give Dean's rivals a call late Monday night, officials said, but those plans were scuttled when the endorsement leaked. Dean kept his side of the bargain, refusing to tell even his campaign manager. Joe Trippi said he got wind that something was up Sunday when Dean ordered his staff to charter planes for Iowa. When he asked Dean what was going on, the boss said, "I can't tell you." Dean told reporters that he didn't even tell his wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, until "the last minute." Trippi said he had a feeling Gore's endorsement was the big secret, but he didn't find out for sure until late Sunday night or Monday. He said the courtship began in September 2002, when Gore gave a speech denouncing President Bush's position on Iraq. He said the address stiffened Dean's opposition, and the former Vermont governor praised Gore in conversations some time after the address. The pair had several talks in the next 15 months, with Dean peppering Gore about foreign policy. In the last six months, they talked to each other every two weeks, mostly by phone. About a month ago, Gore and Dean met privately in Tennessee for about 90 minutes. In deference to Gore's penchant for secrecy, Trippi didn't mention the meeting when he met a top Gore adviser, Roy Neel, later in the day. In recent days, Dean sent Gore a draft of a foreign-policy speech he plans to deliver Monday in California. Gore took it with him on a trip to Tokyo. When Dean took the call from Gore, he expected another session in which the former vice president would offer advice and suggestions. Instead, he offered his support. "I've decided I want to endorse you," Gore told Dean, according to Trippi. The former vice president suggested they go to Iowa, site of his 2000 caucus victory over Bill Bradley. They didn't see each other until moments before Tuesday's announcement in Harlem. They hugged and shook hands, their alliance no longer a secret.