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Al Gore By: Alison Burns

  When we think of Albert Arnold Gore Jr, known by America as Al Gore, we think of him as “the man who was almost the president of the United States”. At least, that is what he introduced himself as in his hit documentary, //The Inconvenient Truth//. Indeed, this inspirational man created a great controversy in the year 2000’s elections when he won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes, however ultimately losing the electoral college to the generally unfavorable president George Bush. Mr. Gore, born on March 31, 1948, had previously been working in different government offices for more than 20 years, going from a representative of Tennessee to the US Senate to becoming the Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton from 1993-2001.While in the Senate, Gore pushed the High Performance Computer and Communication Act of 1991, which ended up making a huge advance in the Internet. Additionally, he has started a few non-profit organizations. Most importantly, after losing the election, Al Gore become the leading figure in the fight to make awareness of global warming; ultimately winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Striving For Awareness  The Greenhouse Effect is “the natural situation in which heat is retained by a layer of greenhouse gases.” Obviously, it is important to have a balance of the gases, carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and a few others in order for the atmosphere to retain heat. Global warming is also generally recognized to be a natural situation in which the earth goes through periods of heating. However, Gore has made the case along with other scientist that humans have increased this rate on an extreme scale, meaning that temperatures are drastically on the rise. "The planet has a fever."  In Al Gore’s documentary, he described how he had made a graph of the temperatures on earth over a period of 40-50 years. He makes it clear with the shear rise of the red line that the temperature has in fact been on the rise at an abnormally rapid rate. Humans let carbon dioxide into the air through cars, factories and day to day activity. Gore says that everyone must cut down on how much they release into the atmosphere. Although many other scientists have given a caveat to the people, Gore used his political status and power to make the planet's situation known; pushing awareness farther than any other politician claiming to be Eco-friendly. Striving for change is striving for a better world. "We Americans write our own history. An the chapters of which we are proudest of are the ones we had the courage to change."

The Internet and other Technology Many people claim that AL Gore said he invented the internet. However, they mere mistook what he said. Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. " Many people thought this meant that Gore actually took part in the technological aspects. is false, for what Gore meant was that he was the one who pushed the bill to allow the internet to happen. The internet was not as we know it now, but instead a simple program made for military purposes if all other connections between countries were destroyed. This, of course, was notion conjured at the time when most everyone was sure that their imminent fate was to be destroyed in the event of a nuclear war. Gore took part in this project because he was on the U.S. Senate and wanted to make a difference. Additionally, Gore is on the board of Apple, pushing innovation to the fullest. He had also worked with Google and is a visiting professor at many different colleges, learning and teaching the information that he has collected over the years.

Other interesting facts...
 * Birth place: Washington D.C.
 * Net Worth: 100 million dollars
 * Married but was divorced last year
 * Has been in various political offices since 1977
 * Married Mary Tipper
 * 63 years old
 * served in the military even though he was against fighting
 * Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007

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