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Former Vice President Al Gore cofounded and chairs both Generation Investment Management and Current TV. He is on the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and is a senior advisor to Google, Inc. He is also a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Gore wrote An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on global warming, and is the subject of the Academy Award-winning movie of the same title.

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Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."

By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on ABC "This Week":

"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.

By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 in a speech:

Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster, . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."

By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 in a campaign speech:

Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."

By Joshua Gillin • October 21, 2016
Al Gore
stated on June 11, 2013 in a keynote address:

The ocean is now "much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2013

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stated on October 29, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The day Al Gore was born there were 130,000 glaciers on Earth. Today, only 130,000 remain.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2021
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stated on February 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows the “USS Al Gore Global Warming Research Vessel” covered in ice.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 16, 2021
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stated on November 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says The Washington Times ran a front-page headline that said, “President Gore.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • November 9, 2020
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stated on March 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"The day Al Gore was born, there were 130,000 glaciers on earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 2, 2019
Ron Paul
stated on August 10, 2011 in an Iowa campaign stop.:

Rick Perry "was the (campaign) chairman for Al Gore at one time, not too many years ago."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 7, 2011

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