I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. Al Gore More Quotes by Al Gore More Quotes From Al Gore The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years. Al Gore recordsenergyyears Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this. Al Gore gaycheerstruggle The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day. Al Gore atmosphereoilscience ...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science...Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the Earth is flat instead of round. Al Gore moonsciencepeople The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming. Al Gore drinkingwaterpeople Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade. Al Gore assumingchancepeople Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes. Al Gore our-worldcausesenergy There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. Al Gore eyeairway The wind and the sun are free. Al Gore energysunwind I never like the question about letter grades, but I think Trump is failing. I think that every day there's another set of tweets and another set of controversies, and nothing seems to be getting done that's any good. And there seems to be kind of a policy paralysis in Washington. Even the appointments he's supposed to make as a new president, so I focus most of all on climate, and so my opinion of his time as president is certainly influenced by my opinion of the job he's done on climate. He's tried to move the country in the wrong direction. Al Gore countrymovingthinking You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." Al Gore togetherwantneeds We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings. Al Gore riskdecisionhome You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive. Al Gore wastebalanceenergy It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue. Al Gore issuesmoralsurvival It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told. Al Gore electricityrealizingexciting My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever. Al Gore casesauthoritylaw The will to act is a renewable resource. Al Gore renewable-resourcesresourcesenergy Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so. Al Gore teachingspiritualart There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist. Al Gore united-statesclimateyears Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development. Al Gore developmentspaceneeds
