Al Gore
Al Gore, former vice president-turned-climate change alarmist, expressed misgivings over likely Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday, telling a “Today” audience the billionaire wasn’t taking the environmental “crisis” with due seriousness.
“He has said some things on the climate crisis that I think should concern everyone,” Gore told host Anne Thompson. “I’m not Pollyanna-ish, but I do think that there is still some basis for hope.”
Gore, who left political office after failing to win the presidency against George W. Bush in 2000, went on to become one of climate change’s loudest and most prominent voices. His film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is still used by those in the environmental industry to press the need for government regulation to address global warming – though it was widely panned by many in the scientific and conservative community for its factual exaggerations and outright false claims.
Trump, meanwhile, has characterized the climate-change movement as filled with hucksters. In a November 2012 tweet, way before he ran for the White House, Trump wrote, NBC News found: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
And in January 2014, Trump also tweeted: “Snowing in Texas and Louisiana, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!”
Gore. on Monday’s “Today” show, said Trump’s campaign was definitely “unusual,” and that he was one of many who often regards the billionaire’s comments as over the top.
He said: “I’m one of the millions who sometimes just does a double take, ‘whoa, what was that?’”
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