Al Gore, Global Warming and 2008

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1. Melissa Magaliff said,

   April 17, 2007 @ 9:10 am

   Dear Mr. Gore,
   I saw your movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and i was very moved by it. I am a very strong believer of Global warming and that we should do something about it. I am in the 7th Grade and I am doing a report on global warming and I wish for you to please respond to this in hope that one day I could finally meet you and learn about Global Warming. I hope that I will be able to learn about global warming. Thank you for your time.

   Melissa Magaliff

2. Nick Taylor said,

   April 17, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

   If you really believe that there is such thing as global warming, I have one great question to ask which has not even been suggest by anyone who is intelligent and concerned about global warming.

   Why do people continue to reproduce? My wife and I decided not to have children. We are doing OUR part in participating in the effort. I had a vasectomy done back in 1990.

   Why don’t more people do? No, not after having 1-5 or more children and when a person is completely financially strapped. Just think about it for a minute. You know that I am right. There are millions of children already born and have a sad life.

   I don’t particually care for children, don’t have the patience for them, especially in this day and age. My wife and I own older cars that are very well taken care of by myself. I am a mechanic.

   The people that complain about how we should clean up this planet, say how we should do away with existing necessities, don’t practive what they preach.

   They don’t take their vehicle WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSE TO and have it serviced, complain about how much fuel is per gallon, bitch and moan about the guy down the street with his or her big trucks and cars. These are kind of people that don’t check their tire pressure. Complain and bitch how much things cost, especially when they didn’t follow a schedule like they were suppose to.

   These are the people that should walk or ride a bicycle. They should also stop reproducing. You are doing just as much damage to the environment if not more than someone like me; who owns older auto and would like to keep them, and spend the time and money to take care of them.

   If only people could imagine how higher levels of carbon dioxide would drop if they followed the rules instead bitching and breaking them (which is much easier).

   Nick Taylor

3. vercamer robert C. said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 11:03 am

   Dear Mr. Gore,

   the “Stern”(a weekly magazine in Germany) carried a translation of your speech on a “green” world. I agree 100 % with the mode of the presentation.
   As the saying goes “The proof is in the pudding” or “seeing is believing” may I suggest ,that you and your camera team visits the several towns in Germany which are attaining almost total coverage of the village energy need via :solar energy, waste fermentation and ,,, methane production … electricity, home insulation and various warmth saving suggestions.The population is varying about 4000 people. There ought to be oodles of little towns in the U.S., who could fit the pattern of a similar development .
   I am quit sure, that the German government would more then eager to help you plan and execute such an endeavour.

   Sincerely yours,

   Robert C. Vercamer

4. Xavier Serrano said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 4:54 pm

   Mr Al Gore,

   I am a regular 34 years old advertiser in COlombia with non relationship of anykind with Colombian POlitics….Reason because I would love to invite you to Colombia and see for your self what the president Uribe means and do.

   I grew up between Farc´s bombs, kidnaps and Paramilitar shoots…Now, we only have Farc´s bombs. Now I feel my country is worth to work on it and my future son or daughter will grow up with fewer terrible events as I did.

   Please come to Bogota, speak with common/working people and see for your self that som politicians work towards against Uribe becuase is profitable for future campaigns.

   My time and knowledge to help you as you may need to do so…

   I am sure president Uribe has made some mistakes, but finally we have a president working for the working people.

   Regards,

   Xavier

   p.d. I lived in your country several years (graduate schooll) and as far as I know your leadership will be very helpful. My best wishes.

5. Jennifer Montgomery said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

   Al,
   You should run for Pesident again. There is something we all can do to help but we need a good leader to make a good exsample for everyone to follow.
   I belive you can make a big change for the better if you became president.
   I am a 20 year old from Anchorage Alaska. I would like to be more apart of a greater cause for the better then contributing to the effects of global warming.
   Please contact me back, I would like more information on how I could help.
   I would vote for you if you ran for president, and I know a lot more people that would too.

6. Grant Dickinson said,

   April 20, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

   I am a very small Ford sharehold by virtue of having worked for them for six years. Today I got my proxy. It says the board of directors recommends a vote FOR them but against every proposal. Proposal (4) relates to adoption of goals to reduce greenhouse gases and (7) to publishing a report on Global Warming/Cooling. In response, I sent this: “I was a production supervisor at Claycomo for 6 years. I left because superintendents and area managers did not care about quality: i.e. It was not right to fix a rattle on a $30K F150 with a piece of double sided tape… Now, the company has lost #1 car and #2 sales! The officers and directors should apologize to the nation in abject shame. Henry Ford must not be resting peacefully today! Now, you urge us to vote against every proposal that might make the company a little more responsible. Greed! Greed! Try to start doing what is right for the nation and the world. You will find it is right for the company, as well.”

   This could be sent to most of the military industrial establishment. Do you have the guts to stand up to these people and make a change? If so, how can I help? I am now working in a lower-paying service industry job, one of those Bush “created’ to replace the millions of high paying manufacturing and technical jobs that have moved to foreign shores during his administration. Keep this in mind when you answer my question, please. Keep up the great work. You are a voice crying in the global warming wilderness, but your voice is being heard by more and more of us.

7. Mr. Pedro Aja said,

   April 22, 2007 @ 1:32 pm

   Dear Mr. Gore:

   I am a citizen of Colombia and was very surprised to know about your doubts about Mr. Alvaro Uribe, our president in terms of his possible connections with paramilitary groups. The origin of those commentaries are well known in Colombia, (marxist opposition) but it seems that you do not have updated information. Last Friday May 20, Mr. Uribe faced the sharp questioning of controversial journalists in a press conference that he gave at the presidential house. The badly intentioned presentation of senator Gustavo Petro was totally dismantled before journalists and our national audience. Do not believe me. Contact the security department of your American Embassy in Bogotá and learn from reliable sources of your own country the real status of Mr. Uribe’s ethical profile. Your lack of courtesy was an offense to our president and Colombia. The least that we expect from a world leader like you is to confront the lies as our president did in front of our most critical journalists. Senator. Petro, a marxist, does not represent the best interests of our country as his arguments are not supported by proven judicial facts, but debatable and biased circumstancial evidence, and sometimes lies. This Sunday April 22, El Tiempo published what the journalists found out “in situ” about the alledged massacres in one of Mr. Uribe’s home states which gave origin to the headlines of some American newspapers. For us Petro is a big liar. Talk to your embassy or Mr. Bill Clinton or Bill Gates that know Mr. Uribe.

8. Martha Le said,

   April 23, 2007 @ 8:29 am

   Hello,

   In an effort to put together a presentation for Working Solutions International, I’d like to request a copy of Mr. Gore’sresume.

   Many thanks in advance,
   Martha Le

9. Hernando Martínez said,

   April 23, 2007 @ 9:46 am

   Mr. Gore
   I thank your ethical lesson to the President of the Republic of Colombia in a Conference in Florida, last week. The media was not clear; however, Uribe’s words showed that you dislike people with not right behavior. Congratulations!
   Best regards
   Hernando Martínez

10. Hernando Martínez said,

    April 23, 2007 @ 9:48 am

    Mr. Gore
    I thank your ethical lesson to the President of the Republic of Colombia in a Conference in Florida, last week. The media was not clear; however, Uribe’s words showed that you dislike people with not right behavior. Congratulations!
    Best regards
    Hernando Martínez

11. Clemen Wilcox said,

    April 24, 2007 @ 10:34 am

    Mr. Gore,
    I admire you for your fight against pollution and polluters. I am with you in that one. I try to save water, recycle, etc. With respect, I am deeply disappointed on you and your last intervention against the president of my home land. Now you are going to create a movement not against Mr. Uribe, who will be out of office soon, but against Colombia and its economy. Please go back in history and see what the US did to my country at the end of the last decade. Now you have hundreds of Colombian-immigrants here, that had to abandon their country for lack of opportunities. Why don’t you fight against the fumigations in the Amazon or in farmers land in Colombia? That would be an environmental fight, which I believe is your first concern. At least that is what I understand. I don’t support any kinds of terrorism. I believe nobody should use violence against others. I don’t support paramilitaries or guerrilleros. I believe both of them are destroying my people. I believe in human rights.
    I just invite you to study Colombia’s history and its problems, before you attack a whole race. Don’t believe everything people tell you, go and talk to people in Colombia, find out what they believe and what happens their, before putting that bad the image of a country that has suffer so much.
    Sincerely,

    Clemen

12. chris hirst said,

    April 24, 2007 @ 10:25 pm

    We may prevent the polar caps from melting by spraying the polar caps with a non toxic chemical that will raise the melting point of the polar ice and therefore prevent a flood.

    Something like blue ice which stays frozen at higher temperatures.

13. Sean Harnett said,

    April 25, 2007 @ 10:31 am

    I will be writing Mr Gore, but I would also like to pass my comments along to you folks. I am a liberal and not afraid to admit it. I voted for Gore in 2000, and I have always supported him. But recently I’ve been VERY disappopinted.

    1. The utility bill: I understand carbon offsets. However, they do not offset the fact that his energy usage is simply obscene and provides a big fat target for his detractors. Just plain STUPID!!

    2. He refused to be interviewed for Frontline “Hot Politics of Global Warming”. WHY NOT? If anyone should have been interviewed for that excellent program it is Al Gore. I can only conclude that he is afraid of having to explain why he failed to make any significant progress toward global warming while he was VP. No doubt the utility bill question would ahve come up too — as it should.

    Al, you have lost my vote. The only way you’d get me to vote for you is to run against another Bush.

14. Scott Meller said,

    April 25, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

    Mr. Gore

    First off I would like applaud your efforts to bring climate control awareness to the forfront. When you have some down time I would ask that you have a look at this website www.mpbccc.com the site is for a documentary made by a friend of mine the documentary is titled, Mountain Pine Beetle :Climate Change Catastrophe. The documentary brings awareness to the fact that the Mountain Pine Beetle is killing many of British Columbia’s forests and therefore drastically effecting the climate and air quality. The documentary will be shown in Norway in June and the hopefully at a festival in Toronto in the fall of 2007. I am not asking for anything by providing you this website and information I just thought I would forward you this due to there being a common concern.

    Good luck with everything in the future,
    Scott Meller

15. charlotte kidd said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 6:43 am

    Hi there, my name is Charlotte Kidd and i am a student at college in England. i’m currently doing a project on designing an environmentally friendly home and were curious to know how you were trying to help green issues in America? As i have chosen to look at America as a case study for this project.

    Thank you very much for your time kind regaurds Charlotte Kidd

16. John Adams said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 12:38 pm

    Hi Al–My name is John Adams and I am a visiting professor at Hamilton College teaching a course entitled “Rhetoric and the Environment.” If you have any spare time today when you’re on campus, please feel free to drop by my classroon in the Science Center 3040–the students would love ot hear what you have to say about rhetoric and the environment!! The class meets from 2.30-3.45–it is a small class.

    I am 99.999% certain you won’t be able to come to my class–your day is probably too tightly organized–but hey–it never hurts to ask.

    Anyway, thanks for all you’re doing on behalf of the planet.

    Regards,
    John

17. elizabeth perkins said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 2:46 pm

    dear al gore you are my hero you are amazing and your movie definatley blew my mind and i really dont want to be the frog sitting in the hot water and im trying to think of ways to help like im trying to organize this thing to raise money for the cause but it is so hard and some people are not very aware i tried putting up signs but apparently im not allowed to put up signs without a permit please write back

18. Peter Molnar said,

    April 26, 2007 @ 10:32 pm

    Dear Mr. Al Gore,

    My name is Peter Molnar and I live in Lyons Township, Illinois. At my High school, Lyons Township High School kids do not recognize or respect the earth. They take it for granted, and they do not care for the environment. It seems like I am the only one that cares so deeply for the environment at my school. Everyday I try to educate other students into facts and real life consequences and effects of global warming, but not to many listen because they are all very narrow minded and do not care for the future. All I hear is global warming will not effect me… What a lie because it does effect everyone but no one person in my school can see through their black and white vision. In my lunchroom there are multiple recycling bins dedicated to collect recycables but bottles, cans, and paper are all thrown into the trash like some basketball game. I always ask them why can’t you do even the littlest things to save our planet, and like always I get the response relax it is just a bottle. I always say to this, what would happen if each person in the world threw away a bottle each day. That is around 6 billion bottles a day, and that is 2,190,000,000,000 bottles a year. Now what if everyone threw away 2 bottles a day, 12 billion bottles everyday, and 4,380,000,000,000 bottles each year. That is just bottles alone what about paper, food, plastic, oil, …. My school has recycling bins but most times maintance workers just throws out the recycables. I sincerely hope that you can visit my school and please educate the stubborn minded kids in my grade to change their views just as you have done with your book and movie. I try everyday to help make the world a better place and try to spread your cause.

    From,
    Peter Molnar a 16 year old helping the world live just a bit longer.

19. Paola Fernanda Neves said,

    April 27, 2007 @ 10:29 am

    I would like to invite Mr. Al Gore to speak on the global heating in our event of agriculture to be carried through in 24 of August of 2007.
    I wait brief return with the contact of responsible for the agenda of Mr. Al Gore.
    Thanks,
    PAOLA FERNANDA NEVES
    Biennial Executive Secretariat of Agriculture 2007
    Email: secretaria@bienaldaagricultura.com.br
    Tel.: +55-65-3617 4465 Fax: +55-65-3617 4402

20. Kevin Gill said,

    April 27, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

    To the highly Honorable Vice President Al Gore,

    Vice President Gore, you were sorely missed last night on the stage in South Carolina. Your elequence, knowledge of all aspects of global politics, wisdom, intelligence and frank manner of speaking would have shown the country and the world what a “Real” President of the United States looks like. Perhaps Senator Obama will be a “settling for” candidate, but your several Move On organized speeches and passion throughout this sad bush administration, have kept me sane and calm when I’ve thought I’d seen the destruction of this awesome and great country of ours. At times, because of the neglect that allowed 9/11 to happen, or the rape and invasion and murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, or the Katrina debacle or the endless counts of corruption, cronieism and criminal acts not to mention the retreat of long held peacful treaties and relationships with allies throughout the world, I’ve feel as though I’m watching the end of the world as we have known it. Please consider bringing all that you have to offer back to our much neglected government. We have a very long road of healing and repair to achieve, and you are the perfect man at the perfect time to lead us. I know there are vicious right wing mine fields out there just waiting to pounce on you, I mean look how they treated you as you were elequently trying to illuminate congress on the state of how serious climate change has become, and you were only trying to offer real solutions and had an optimistic “window of opportunity” that we could all work together on, and they still attacked you and your character. I say the only way to get our country back is to stand up to this ignorance, these last 6 1/2 years of bush have been unbearable, especially on the heels of the way they came to power, and we can’t allow them any more cover. They’ve used the flag, our Bill of Rights and the Constitution, not to mention claiming God as their own, to what seems to be a way of driving this country and our freedoms into the ground and we need to stand up and rout these demons out of power. Please, my good sir, PLEASE consider how much your country needs you, we need you. Please enter the race and save our country.

    Your biggest fan,

    Kevin Gill
    Los Angeles, CA

21. Jeff Hicks said,

    April 28, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

    I am trying to communicate with Al Gore in reference to my recycling efforts. I feel that it is very unique. I deal with the recycling of empty inkjet cartridges. My company is non-profit- we try to educate Americans that their empty ink cartridges are worth a lot of money when empty. When people mail their empties ina postage paid envelope to our recycling factory their agency gets $2.00 for every one that is good and my company donates our .75 commission to their cause also. We just need help in educating Americans!!!
    Thank you. Jeff Hicks

22. Mikaela Osborne said,

    April 30, 2007 @ 12:09 am

    Dear Mr. Gore
    I am in 8th grade and thave just recently seen your movie “an incovenient truth”
    im was moved deeply by it and wish that i could some how talk to you so could you please reply to my comment?

    Thank you

23. Rayne said,

    May 2, 2007 @ 1:22 pm

    TO Al Gore:

    I have seen your movie many times and you have one fact that I know to be unture.
    Yes the west nile wasnt truely in North America until a few years ago.
    BUT the truth is it was here over 20 years ago.
    I have tried many times to correct news and health officials on this fact but thy dont seem to care and tell me i’m wrong.
    But if I was wrong my grand mother would still be alive today, she was bit by a mosquito.

24. Shane Pickle said,

    May 3, 2007 @ 3:17 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I in my humble opinion, think that you are completely wrong about global warming. It is now 1314 Pacific Standard Time on May 3rd, 2007 in Central Oregon and snowing. Global warming is a crock. Please do the world a favor and get a clue. Perhaps expanding your understanding beyond a hypothetical model into the real world would help.

    Sincerely,

    Shane Pickle

25. Dag Skaug said,

    May 7, 2007 @ 3:17 am

    Apple trees

    I WOULD BUY A TREE – IF IT WAS POSSIBLE ON ITUNES

    I am a Norwegian citizen and therefore an inhabitant on the planet earth. Last night I saw the disturbing documentary “An Inconvenient truth” with Al Gore. The message of the film has already been clear to many of us, but nevertheless it’s frightening when presented in such an educational manner.

    I see myself as a fairly conscientious consumer but I still fear that we are coming up short. I am married with two children, and nothing would be more painful than knowing that we had a chance to alter our future but did nothing.

    Throughout the years I have seen a number of haphazard attempts to act, but none of them has had quite the impact on the public as they should. Maybe the case that they where presented by a bunch of longhaired, pot-smoking hippies had something to do with it, what do I know?

    But anyway the reason for me trying to communicate this to the world (or even better, Steve Jobs at Apple), is quite brilliant if you don’t mind me saying so. I believe that if Steve Jobs runs across this idea somewhere on the web, he would really grab on to it.
    So therefore it is important that this idea is forwarded to as many as possible. Let the internet do what it’s supposed to do; Get good information across!

    THE CONCEPT – “Apple-trees”

    The concept is this: On Apple’s outstanding internet store, ITunes you set up the possibility to buy an “Apple-tree”. This will be a non-profit project where the income goes to funding the project itself, aside from a small handling charge. (I know that this sounds bad for a commercial enterprise, but I predict that this will really establish Apple as an environmentally conscious company.)

    An “Apple-tree” is an audio- and/or a video-file where (hopefully!) Al Gore will thank you for buying an “Apple-tree”. He will then explain to you that by buying an “Apple-tree” you are actually buying endangered rainforests in the tropical belt around the world, which by itself is not enough to save the world but is an important contribution. Then he will give you a new tip with every purchase of an “Apple-tree”, of what you can do yourself to give the earth the upper hand in the battle against oblivion. There are several enterprises today that are planting or protecting the rainforest, so Apple would mainly be the front-end marketing arm.

    I predict that with your Apple’s impact on society, and how the conscientious consumers want to participate; this would be a way of getting control over the situation. In the near future people would meet at work, in school, in the neighbourhood and at home to compare the number of trees they have “planted”.

    This is good brand-building. Apple will make even more money while you are saving the planet.

    Now, doesn’t that sound cool?

    Dag Skauig
    dagskaug@gmail.com

26. Josh Wetherington said,

    May 8, 2007 @ 12:56 pm

    May 8, 2007

    Honorable Al Gore
    2100 West End Avenue
    Suite 620
    Nashville, TN 37203

    Joshua George Wetherington
    2211 NW 22nd Way #100
    Boynton Beach, FL. 33436

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT SIR.

    I am writing this letter to you as a very concerned citizen and patriot of this country, as well as the brother of an honorable serviceman. My brother is a 39-year-old father of three who is serving in the Coast Guard Reserve. He is a former Army soldier who served in combat in Panama and the Gulf War. He was stationed in Germany in the late 1980’s and helped to tear down the Berlin Wall; I don’t remember ever being prouder of him, or this county, than the day we received pieces of the wall in the mail.

    Last month he received orders and was shipped over to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most devastating part to me was the fact that he was in the middle of a six-month service in New Orleans, clearing canals and rebuilding ports from the devastation of Katrina, when he received orders for the Middle East. He was taken out of New Orleans early in order to fight in this endless war. There is something seriously wrong with this country if our armed forces are so overdrawn to the point that we are using the Coast Guard Reserve to fight a war with no end in sight. It is clearly even more erroneous and immoral for the United States to pull our servicemen out of a tour of duty rebuilding our own country in order to go destroy another.

    Your efforts to save our environment are truly noble. I have been a surfer living on the East coast of Florida for over a decade. As I write this letter there is an extremely abnormal late season cold front that resembles a slightly weaker oversized hurricane sitting off of our coast. It is sending 15-20’ swells at our coast the likes of which I have never seen in my lifetime. My uncles have been surfing for over 40 years and have never seen waves like this hitting the Florida coastline in May either; the average wave height this time of year is 1-2’ with maybe a 3-4’ standout swell. I believe that this is further evidence and a result of Global Warming.

    President Eisenhower tried to warn us about the actions of the Industrial Military Complex. I am afraid that his wise presage has fallen on deaf ears, a collective unconscious easily distracted and manipulated by fear.

    Please sir, I urge you from the bottom of my heart to run for president. I truly believe that you are the last hope politically for our country, our planet, our generation, and future generations to come.

    PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT SIR.

    With utmost sincerity,

    Joshua George Wetherington

27. Cristian Boarolo said,

    May 11, 2007 @ 8:41 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,
    I’m an Italian guy and ever since I’ve been really concerned about issues of our time. I would give you immediately my vote if I was an American citizen. This Mr. Bush looks too much forward lacking in watching where his own next step is gonna pass through. There’s a serious risk to fail if you lack on watching this. But, as everywhere and in every country, there’s always something to struggle with…
    I’ve been really moved by “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary.
    I’m 34 years old from Northern Italy. As you said in your movie where you were pride to get in contact with intellectual ferment, I hope to have the same opportunity in meeting you.
    I’d be pleasured in knowing about your Italian tour dates to be part of the hearing conference.
    I’d like to introduce you about a project of mine regarding on saving of electric power energy.
    My real problem is that I don’t have any powerful contacts or friends to get into an important trial as one of you conferences. At the less to seem reliable, you know?
    This project is as easy to be working as clear’s day. Simple ways always comes as to be the best ones.
    It talks about saving of all electric power concerning lighting ( common ratio worth of roughly 20% or more of the entire electric request) by a real and very easy new way. And it would reduce instantly the harmful emission on our earth already enough sick for that percentage at least.
    I think it’d takes maybe a year maximum to be realized and functionally operative world wide scale.
    It’s crazy to say that, after I’ve seen a documentary about Schonau town in Germany ( the citizens produce their own energy for their needing), I’ve tried to get in touch to them by a web link found in the internet. No replies yet. I though that I could have trusted them because of their pure spirit.
    Now, I’m asking if there will be the chance to talk about this project with you.
    I don’t have other kind of knowledgements to how to find somebody to talk with about this.
    I’ll wait wishing to see how it’s gonna be.
    Looking forward

    Cristian Boarolo

    e-mail contact : sohnrwk@yahoo.it

    Thanks for your time.

    I would like to be part of this issue.

    Looking forward

28. Charles Crispen said,

    May 15, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

    After reading Alexander Cockburn’s article about global warming in The Nation, I have to wonder if maybe the issue is not accumulation of CO2 due to man’s production of CO2, but perhaps is really due to the devastation man has done to the forests of the world. It seems to me that theoretically the re-establishment of significant forest lands as demonstrated most significantly by the burning of the Amazon jungles as well as the harvesting of trees for wood products throughout the world may be the real cause of the problem. Without this aspect of the Earth’s ecology it may be that the CO2 increases may not necessarily be due the the increased production of CO2 by man (which is undeniable) but rather be due to the losses from the other side of the equation….forests to utilize the CO2 created and convert it to O2.

    Cockburns’ article certainly brings into question the CO2 production side of the equation, which leaves the CO2 REDUCTION side which also cannot be denied.

29. Liisa Lampinen said,

    May 16, 2007 @ 2:13 pm

    Superthanks for Mr.Al Gore from very interesting document which was seen on television here in Finland at this evening, 16 May 2007! It was very clear to understand for “normal” people, and it was so fine, that I really almost cried!

    Please send this information and superthanks for Mr.Al Gore!

    SUPER!

30. James said,

    May 17, 2007 @ 8:03 am

    hi, my name is James. I was wondering if you know anything about Darfur, and if you have any pictures before the gencide or any other pictures that would give me a before and after effect for a High school project.

31. JOSEPH BOGGS said,

    May 18, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

    Mr. Gore,
    Ordinarily I have voted Republican or Independent. After seeing your
    documentary (An Inconvenient Truth) I was so impressed with you that
    I sat back and said openly “this is the man I’d want to be my President!”.

    I have since spoken with 12 other friends and 9 saw the documentary. Nine would want to have you as President. You have integrity, honesty,
    actual direction.

    From many of us to you, Please run. And don’t had Mrs Clinton as your
    running mate. (many of us have grave concerns about her)

    Sincerely,
    Joseph Boggs
    A active voter, and a Veteran

32. Egon Ruf said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 4:17 am

    Mr. Gore,
    We are in a desperate situation with the future of man hanging in a precarious balance by the ongoing environmental disaster.
    Please consider continuing your efforts to educate and lead on these issues as president of the United States.
    While you could not escape politics, your credentials as a visionary who clearly identified this global threat, places you far above anyone else who might occupy that office.
    Sincerely,
    Egon Ruf

33. Larry Carver said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 10:10 am

    Are you the same Al Gore that invented the internet?
    Good job if we can believe you at all, doubt it!

34. susana frankel said,

    May 19, 2007 @ 11:16 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore:
    I want to congratulate you on the terrific work you are doing for us all on earth and that will have such a huge impact on the future generations.
    I read today the article on Time Magazine (may 28, 07) The Last Temptation of Al Gore and I strongly hope that you decide to run for the Presidency of this country. This is what the US needs, human beings with a strong sense of purpose, high ideals and fighting for causes that are not necessarily money making opportunities.
    You would have my vote and my family’s vote as well.
    I also would like to have an unimportant question answered:
    where did you get the beautiful frog on your Nashville home office wall?
    I thank you so much for the attention you give to my message.
    Keep on the excellent work!

35. Wanda said,

    May 20, 2007 @ 9:41 pm

    Mr. Gore, I just rented the movie An Inconvient Truth. I was just in awe on the vast information that you gave. I knew about global warming, but you put it in a different perspective. As far as running for president, please consider. I am a repulican, but very unhappy with the present administration. Its time to stop the killing in IRAQ and give our people here at home some rest and money back in their pockets.

36. Bill Johnston said,

    May 21, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

    Mr. Gore,

    Do not run!!!! Right now, many Republicans and most Democrats and everyone else (well, almost) are listening to your message. The minute you declare for President, you will lose half of your audience. You will make Global Warming a partisan issue. Bad idea. Plus, being a candidate is not a good fit for your personality. Being a focused spokesman on an issue you really believe in, is.

37. Wendy P said,

    May 22, 2007 @ 4:09 pm

    I speak about this topic without enough time to fully get into it, because I have little time for the most part these days. I am 26, and I registered to vote in 2000. I spent every chance I could during that election to be inspired by Gore, and was let down by or systems inattention.
    When the “ should have been” President of the United States came out with a movie, I did not care much about what the topic pertained to, but I was excited that after years of wondering where he had been, he was interested in being viewed in the public eye.
    Inspired once again by his dedication to a good cause, the ability to over come, and being an intellectual speaker; we could only hope he would run for president again! Our Presidents job is to present a face as our leader. We have many leaders that make up a Union that is now so corrupt; it pains me to watch the medias programmed response. Gore speaks modestly, but with honesty when he shows that knowledge. A strong president has at least some impact on their cabinet, people, and several causes. In the end, we know that in the least he has to be able to show confidence and inspiration around the world.
    Our Country grows weak with corruption, lack of ideas, and promotion of original thought! Curriculums are walls that if well maintained can form stability, but if poorly maintained can deplete intelligence, create anarchy (which weakens systems as it strengthens self motives) and disregards progression.
    It is unfortunate, but a truth, that catastrophic events bring whole nations together. This world is going through a crisis! In Gores favor, he deals with scientists all over the world (some that hate American government as well as our people). He brings them together for a good cause, and gives them encouragement that there are some people from our side of the planet that care. We should not only be inspired by his fresh ideas, but let him give knowledge to people around the world that we have become as suppressed by our government as they have about the opinions they have formulated about the general public. Let him prove that leadership is still earned, and let us prove that there are still people motivated that by chance, an imperfect yet inspiring person can lead us. As Americans we are born into individuality, but you have to be an individual by separating yourself from the general consciences, and that takes work. It is not the leaders of this country that lead us as a people, but the people of this country inspired by their own judgment and choice that creates democracy. I would almost feel let down by our government if Gore did not run for president. How could one man want to do so many things, and be so unmotivated to become a super power leader? What does this tell you?
    Sadly, if he does not run, what is he trying to say?

    General Politics & My Opinions: conservative/ liberalists are looking at the picture at black and white perspective. I would consider myself a Democrat, but I do not agree with everything that the Democratic Party has to say. I just believe we need more of a democracy right now, the democrats seem to be the more ethical choice, and they have the less corrupt system.
    Right now, where the ground seems to be folding underneath our feet, we need to secure that ground. That means working from the ground up. It is obvious which groups do more for the people of this country. Being a politician is not a selfless act.
    You have to be capable of hard to reach financial status, fit in with the less “ life experienced/book smart” version of society, have an idealistic background which does not permit enough street smarts to relate with the majority, and be able to mingle in with the surrounding two percent that ruin this country.
    This point of view is harsh, but reality. I have thought of better ways to promote my ideas through weakened, yet intellectual tongue, but I would feel as if my point would be reaching the wrong people. Watered down language is politicians best defense in making idiots of a speaker, or small of the situation. It is their greatest achievement of suppression! While you are trying to relate, and expand your choice of words, you forget the concept of original thought is most important! I do not lack respect for anyone who chooses to speak with an extensive vocabulary, as long as they realize it is not as important as what the words symbolize! When you do that, you do not leave enough time and effort in your brain for original thought, “The very point of evolution”. This explains why we are falling behind. It is obvious that the systems we have are not working in the broad-spectrum point of view! Politicians should not view their ideas as a string selling point to win a high political status, but believe in the very system men have laid down their lives for! Working men/woman, farmers, business men/woman, and politicians alike to form all walks and create a communal society. The society in this nation creates the organization, which creates understanding and unites us together. Why do I speak of uniting us? We are going through a crisis, a recession, war, economy disaster, and we are the United States! We are a country created by many cultures, but recently are faced with a different type of culture. We are faced with a corrupt government, and media. We are forced to accept immigrants who do not respect our flag. This is not a time for error! The greedy are trying to profit off our negligence, the envious trying to weaken our defenses, the people we trust are trying to suppress our freedom, drugs are being used to solve issues we once worked through, and the true people in power are doing al they can to stop a rebellion THEY caused. The truth of the matter is, I speak about uniting us because great powers are destroyed from within rather then from without. Divided great nations fall!
    Without sounding to cliché, these thoughts have been on my mind a lot lately. I am not sure how many people are actually paying attention. I have many ideas, but I am not a politician or represented by a politician, and expect that people would disregard these words. Many subjects that I have in mind have not seen an empty piece of paper, or reached anyone’s ear yet. Gore has reached people, represented the cause, and proved that he in the least see through the corruption

38. Christie Hernandez said,

    May 22, 2007 @ 8:42 pm

    Mr Gore,
    I feel incredibly inspired by your work about global warming. I’ve always beleived in living a responsible life by protecting the environment, but in recent I dont JUST beleive it, I LIVE IT.
    Thank you for being such an inspiring figure to young people and everybody around the world. I really wish you could come and visit Puerto Rico.

    God Bless You

39. Zorigt Munhkjav said,

    May 23, 2007 @ 10:36 am

    Dear Mr Gore

    I really liked your contribution for our mother earth and love to support you and all the people who is going to do so.

    Yes, if we not going to take care of it who else would do? As you said on your movie, the clock is ticking.

    I am a Mongolian. My porfession is a geology drilling engineer, but now I have a construction company. As I am geologest and understanding the way of earth and nature, we MUST PROTECT the mother earth to give a longer life to it. Our age will not see this.

    I am planning to do similer thing in Mongolia as you do around the world which is giving lecture about global warming. I am planning this around september. To do so I have to prepare very hard for that and I will be greatfull if you could support regarding the global warming issues.

    For the future I would like to invite you to Mongolia and help the mongolians to understand how important it is to protect mother earth, just simply giving them your great lecture. I will do everything I can do to support you in Mongolia. Please visit Mongolia and see it your self how we are harming and producing the greenhouse gases, spiecialy in winter. Almost most of every single houses producing CO2 here in Mongolia.

    Please contact me, together all of us can help to support our world.
    Looking forward to hear from you. Please write me on email:zlsec@yahoo.com
    All the best

    Zorigt
    From stepps of Chingiss Khans Mongolia.

40. Martin Sturmer said,

    May 23, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    thank you for your new book about which I have heard today in German media. I think it is very important. (in Germany too) It reminded me of a speech by J.F.Kennedy before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1961:

    “Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed–and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment– the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants”–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.”

    President John F. Kennedy
    Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
    New York City, April 27, 1961:
    http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm

41. Natalia said,

    May 24, 2007 @ 6:21 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I am currently in the 9th grade and in leadership we are doing a project. We have to pick a person who we feel is a good leader and I picked you. I really think that your movie The inconvenient Truth was really touching in such a way. I really do agree with global warming etc. I really think that you need to run for president cause you make a good leader. As you may already know, 70% of Americans hate Bush and im sure that if you ran it would be the oppisite. So please run because you would make a really good leader.

    Thanks for your time. I look forward to your possible timely reply.

    Sincerely,

    Natalia

42. CJ said,

    May 24, 2007 @ 9:54 pm

    Are all you people on crack or what? I suppose we created the last globle warming…a bunch of cro-magnon and neanderthals?
    Oh I forgot it was the mastadon farts that started it all. In case you haven’t noticed the last ice age isn’t over! The poles still have large amounts of ice! So there’s less in the north but guess what the south is growing! Oh yeah another fallacy…Gore created the internet? What kind of barnyard deficant is that? Unless I miss my guess Gore is younger than I am and I was a member of the military in the late sixties and seventies and guess what? I never heard of Gore, yet I was using of all things mil.com to connect to other military sites. Sorry there wasn’t any civilian sites at that time but it was still the internet. I believe if you really look at the stats you will find that AOL, curse their evil, selfish, egotistical hearts, developed the first rudimentary form of the internet.
    Mr. Gore, I think you should take some more drugs and drink some more annie greensprings and go back to your28,000 square foot house and step in your own carbon footprint because there is no such thing! You are a sadistic, bi-polar fraud and take your crazy buddy Clinton with you

43. james walkowiak said,

    May 26, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

    Dear President Gore,

    With the current atmosphere hovering over the G8 proposals (and this administrations refusal to adhere to any of them) I implore you to rethink your stance on running for the office that, by right, is already yours. Even with your insight and influence, all Dem. candidates are too entwined in Corporate/political service, and though I’m sure with the best intentions, will still fall short of acheiving any real set goals regarding our position on this planet. They are too dependant on the “big money” from the same industries that are contributing to the loss of our great world, and in who’s influence the current “regime” makes all of their decisions. Running Dem’s don’t dare infuriate these powerfull industry leaders, but you sir, already have, and are still head and head with the rest of the running candidates, though you yourself are not running.

    In world news, I don’t hear enough from anyone regarding their positions on any thing other than Iraq. Though a quagmire, the problem with Iraq falls a little short of the problem of extinction of our way of life and species. It also falls short of our domestic situations, (healthcare, immigration, social security, national deficit.) Current candidates are reverting to the politics of fear and Iraq too often for a sound-byte as too why their presidency would be better than any-one other’s. I don’t feel there is enough credit given to the average American to make an intelligent decision. Given the proper, researched information, even a child will make an intelligent decision.

    To try and brind this to a close, you Mr. Gore, seem to be the only individual willing to allow American’s to make an intelligent decision.
    You, sir, seam to be the only person willing to take steps necessary to institute proposals brought forth at G8. You, sir, are the only person that is willing to discuss not only foreign policy with foreign nations, but domestic policy here at home. Lord knows we’ve had too many years with a certain group of individauls inwilling to have a discussion with anyone other than themselves.

    At close, you may be our last chance at a new America. The re-birth of true democracy. We are at a crucial turning point in which our nations is ready for a drastic change. This opportunity may never come again. Though I am confident that a Democrat will take office, if that candidate doesn’t follow through on their promises, or fails to appease th nation as a whole with their presidency, we will fall back in the hole we are in now. Corporate & media sponsored democracy is no democracy at all. I look forward to reading your new book “Assualt on Reason”, and will continue to push for a Gore Presidency in 2008.

    P.s. I’ve been an active Apple Computer user for over 8 years.

    Kind Regards,
    James Walkowiak

44. Nikki said,

    May 27, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

    Thank you SO much Al Gore for making an “Inconvenient Truth”!! It is alarming the changes that have been happening on this planet within the last century, with regards to global warming, air pollution and water pollution.

    It cannot be understated, that changes in how we fuel our automobiles, homes and industries needs to happen and now. In the movie you speak of two canaries in the coal mine, I say there are three. The third being the dramatic increase of respiratory illness such as asthma that is being seen.

    Thanks again for making this documentary and taking it world wide. I wish the fight over the electric car in the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car” had been taken world wide when that was going on.

45. Bobby said,

    May 28, 2007 @ 5:57 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I am beginning to wonder if CO2 is the reason for the warming or if it is just a coincidence during the process. I respect the hard science and the research but I have questions regarding the core of the earth. If it was heated to a temperature that was not conducive to an atmosphere we are used to we could find ourselves in trouble. I know the volcanoes are directly connected to the inner earth, and the cracks underneath the sea where underwater volcanic activity occurs would be heated as well. Everything in nature runs in cycles. I wonder if earth is approaching a cycle in which the atmosphere becomes affected in a detrimental way. I also wonder if the nuclear tests that have been reported over the years that take place underground are having an effect on warming the earth. If the waste or the tests are warming the earth the re-radiation alone may be warming our atmosphere. Analogy if the earth was a person and exposed to the radiation would the person heat up I think so.
    The next thing I am wondering is if the sun is heating up to temperatures in excess of what it has in the past because of the report regarding Mars. I have an analogy regarding the sun as well and it is this my gas grill has a tank of fuel and it of course runs out from time to time and when it does the temperature fluctuates at an extreme rate from 700 to 150 degrees to 0 degrees before running out of fuel and I am wondering if the sun would do so on a much less extreme scale as Millions of years pass. If we are being exposed to a power flow instead of ebb from the suns power it could also explain much of the global warming on a massive scale with horrible things happening all over the planet at a coincidental timetable of the occurrence of the excess heat being emulated from the sun.
    This of course is pure conjecture. I unfortunately am not an educated scientist with degrees from all of the finest and fanciest institutions in the world. I do however have common sense and listen to all sides without discounting possible explanations locking anybody out if they don’t have input that conforms to what I believe so I hope this might help to get some sort of rhetorical conversation started that may expose a new side to the possibilities of research on Global Warming.
    One other thing Calerpa Taxifolia is running rampant in the oceans last I heard on a special on PBS and I haven’t heard anything on it in a long time and the information given on it is that it clones itself and kills all wildlife in the vicinity. Wondering about its effect on the warming also or if it is the plant referred to in your Special Features on DVD just curious.

    Thanks,
    Bobby

46. Paul said,

    May 29, 2007 @ 9:53 am

    there is a renewable energy you didn’t consider that sits there unused. what do you think about putting all those incarcerated people on bikes or something to start generating energy? change their sentence from so many years to so many watts generated. . . possible?

47. Cyndy Chase said,

    June 2, 2007 @ 7:34 pm

    I am a huge fan of Al Gore but I hope he will not run for president. I just finished his book and saw him on CSpan. I was struck by the similarities between his role in 2007 and the role of Ben Franklin at the founding of our country. Franklin was never president but he was a huge force in the shaping of our country. We need a Ben Franklin now. Al is uniquely positioned to fill that role. We need Al as the Ben Franklin of the 21st century!

48. Benan Berhan said,

    June 5, 2007 @ 8:47 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    We are students of Enka High School in Istanbul, Turkey. We are writing to you this e-mail because we know that you are sensitive and interested in global problems as we are. We are hoping to get your support in our projects which are explained in more details in the following sentences.

    Our school has undertaken an international project that to solve some global problems. In November 2006 and May 2007, we have organized a conference called International Chain of Awareness (ICA). At the conference which was held in November 2006, the students from all over Turkey came together to discuss the crucial issues that prevail the world. Our goal was to find applicable solutions to those global issues. The conference was divided into seven different committees (Global Warming, Poverty and Hunger, Deforestation, Child Mortality, Education, Gender Inequality, Ecosystem Losses).

    In the first conference, we discussed the reasons and the effects of these problems and created realistic action plans. In between the time frame of the first conference and the second one we have accomplished our aims which were stated in our action plans. For example global warming committee chose a public school to create awareness. They planted the garden of the school which didn’t have any plants in it with the students of that school, so they participated and shared the excitement. Later that day committee members lectured them about the global warming. Water Deficits committee on the other hand organized a run and they named it “Run to the Future”. The purpose of the run was to show participants how water is involved in our lives and what happens when we can’t access to it. They divided the track into time phrases and awarded the winners with water. They also collected donations. With the money they raised they bought faucet caps which saves water for a school that they determined.

    The second conference took place in May 2007; the content of it was to share our experiences, accomplishments, failures and actions with other participants. We also conducted new and improved action plans for the next step of our conference which will be held in March 2008.

    We know that you will be in Turkey to talk about these issues, we would appreciate and honored if you could arrange sometime to meet with us.

    Sincerely,
    International Chain of Awareness
    Organization Committee
    Benan BERHAN

49. Bobby said,

    June 6, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    No sarcasm intended and I’m not being facetious however I truly wonder why Mars is heating up. Nobody is driving cars with high levels of CO2 being emitted and nobody is living on the planet with an increase in population expanding with an ever alarmingly increasing rate expelling carbon dioxide when they breathe. There aren’t even any huge factories with polluting smoke stacks on Mars so what do you think is causing its version of Global Warming in contrast to Planet Earths Global Warming. I also wonder why the earths natural process of convection heating is never mentioned when global warming is discussed it is a natural process with the way the earth operates just like it spins on an axis and I wonder why it is never mentioned. This is a natural heating process from within from the core to the mantle to the surface to the atmosphere as far as I can tell but I may have missed something. I am not a scientist just an average guy concerned with Global Warming. I just wonder why it is never mentioned since it does deal with the earths inherent core heat temperature which I would suspect fluctuates from time to time depending on whether or not a volcano erupts like the other day or other natural processes are occurring to change its average temperature. I also wonder how eliminating CO2 from the environment can have an effect from the earths natural convection process. I know it is better for our breathing and lack of pollution but I don’t know if it will actually help to cool the planet. I mean with all sincerity I have actually had cooling duct problems with an A/C Unit before and that is just to cool a house can you imagine trying to cool a complete planet. I know your only talking about a few degrees but still if the sun cranks up the natural power it radiates who’s gonna block its effect? With all sincerity I do wonder about Global Warming I just wonder why these issues aren’t mentioned or contended with because if they are ignored and are the root cause of Global Warming then what does that mean for everyone who is trying to prevent it by spinning wheels working on non-solution type of projects that are helpful for the environment overall but not having an effect on the problem. Just Curious. Please keep up the good work.

    Thanks,
    Bobby

50. Anya Wilson said,

    June 6, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

    Dear Al Gore,

    Hello, my name is Anya Wilson and I am from Oregon, currently living in Mexico City where I am teaching 5th grade at a bilingual school. I have recently had become dedicated to spreading the word about global warming. My class and I are now deeply interested in the issue and I am teaching them as much as I can, while researching more information on the side. My students are making visible changes in the way they use products, electricity and water at school and at home; in addition they are informing their peers and family members about the climate crisis and giving tips on how to change and take action. I am so excited by this issue and am enjoying teaching more than ever before because I feel this specific work is so important and effective.

    Now I have a question for you. I would like to only teach about global warming this next year, by giving presentations in elementary classrooms around Mexico starting in Fall. I was wondering if we could work together on this and if I could even have your support. I would like to talk with you more on this subject and will try other means of contacting you if this does not work. I look forward to spreading this message with you, but targeting students.

    Thank you for your inspiration!
    Anya

51. Chris LeGore said,

    June 7, 2007 @ 8:44 pm

    Dear anyone that can help,

    My name is Chris LeGore, no joke.

    As you may know a couple years ago we had a little problem with some wind, rain, and so forth down here in New Orleans. Since then the city as well as Tulane University has struggled to return to something similar if not possibly representative of the city and school we love so much. The reconstruction effort is not just the building of businesses and homes but also the reestablishment of Nolas traditions. One such tradition at Tulane Law School has been the Law School News Periodical DICTA, which has been unfortunately absent for the last two years.

    To reestablish DICTA, my fellow students and I have dedicated ourselves to making the new version of DICTA much more interactive for the entire academic, professional, and public community. It will be a very professional publication with a large staff, exciting commentary, and professional design staff. Without going into too much detail, DICTA will be a place where we will promote the same ideals expressed in Mr. Gore’s new book. We are involving students in serious discussion via print and intranet. These students will be very influential in the future and this is the place for them to find and establish their voices.

    That said, I am trying very hard to contact Mr. Gore to ask if he could contribute a very short introduction to the new first issue of DICTA which will go to print mid August. This introduction would give immediate credibility to DICTA and will promote the goals he has outlined in “The Assault on Reason.” His goals are the same as mine as the Editor In Chief of DICTA; those are, to get people discussing the important issues of our time, to realize that the problems effect us all, and to give a voice to those with the ideas needed to fix said problems.

    So please, I ask with all humility and sincerity, if you have any way to pass this email on the Mr. Gore, please do. Use my name as a funny aside if needed, tell him I’m from NOLA, anything that may get him to take a moment from his doubtless busy schedule. Additionally, if you have any way for me to get in touch with him, please let me know. As a man of great integrity I am sure this is something he’d at least like to be informed about.

    We are trying to do exactly what Mr. Gore outlines so precisely in his latest book. A word from him to get us started would be an incredible way to get the ball rolling. Thank you for your time. I can be contacted at the email below.

    Sincerely,
    Chris LeGore
    clegore@tulane.edu

52. Gabriel Cedres said,

    June 7, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore:

    I have a big project and maybe help the world.
    I try to contact to all world in many opportunity but not
    all people believe that it’s possible and too many doors
    are closed. I try to contact NASA in about 3 years ago but
    only emails request info, but this info is delicate to send
    withouth a registry, patent or wheateaver.. But How i
    patent a BIG and a High Magnitude Project ???.. It’s no
    easy. If you have interest, please try to contact me
    or send me your Manager or Representative to send
    a letter with my project without compromises.

    I am from Miami, Florida.

    Many Thanks!.

53. Carolin Kolaas said,

    June 8, 2007 @ 9:49 am

    George Bush vs. Al Gore
    Body: LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
    CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. DON’T YOU JUST LOVE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY!!

    HOUSE # 1:
    A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas.
    Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated
    by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the
    average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for
    electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural
    gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property
    consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.
    This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s
    in the South.

    HOUSE # 2:
    Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university,
    this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction
    can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and
    is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central
    closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water
    through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67
    degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The
    system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes
    25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling
    system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000
    gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets
    goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The
    collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers
    and shrubs native to the are! a blend the property into the surrounding
    rural landscape.

    HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of
    Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist
    (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

    HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford,
    Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private
    residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush

54. Jeremy Haase said,

    June 9, 2007 @ 8:47 pm

    I Just got done reading an article about Global warming called Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
    Richard S. Lindzen
    Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    At javascript:ol(’http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg15n2g.html’);
    I would like some feedback on this article, like can someone disprove it? I WAS a big believer of global warming now I don’t know.

55. Boris Mitov said,

    June 10, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

    Dear Mr. Al Gore:

    I would like to thank you for the movie “Inconvenient Truth”. It is waking up many people all over the globe. I have been strong supporter of yours and have admired your boldness in speaking the whole truth ! I would like to bring to your attention great SOLUTIONS to the global warming that I have been researching for quite some time.

    We can convert and run all our cars from pure water (H2O) ! Water Powered Cars or Hydrogen/Oxygen Powered Cars, using 100% water as fuel is real. By splitting water by electrolysis and creating hydrogen/oxygen gas, you can replace gasoline. There have been many people that have already done that - Stan Meyer’s Dune Buggy that ran on water, Denny Klein converted Ford and many others…

    Here are some resources available on the web:
    Stan Meyer’s Dune Buggy - http://www.waterfuelcell.org/
    Great resources on water powered cars - http://www.waterpoweredcar.com/
    Denny Klein water powered car:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ImGaraPrEo8

    Integrity Research Institute has researched many alternative energy solutions that are ready to implement right now and are awaiting funding. Please explore the information on IntegrityResearchInstitute.org
    and you can watch Tom Valone interview on clean energy solutions - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3098029432952001372&q=tom+valone+interview

    Please further research and add those solutions to your list for global warming solutions when you do your amazing awakening slide presentation. The more people are aware of that the faster the solutions will go in effect to save our precious planet Earth.

    Sincerely,
    Boris Mitov

56. Bobby said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    Global Warming never mentions Space Junk in our atmosphere and if anyone was to look up any research regarding Space Junk they would find that it is a serious concern. I am wondering what kind of effect it is having on heating up the atmosphere and contributing to the heating of our overall environment. This may be a large catalyst to the warming of our planet over the years since concern regarding Global Warming has flourished. I am curious why nobody even mentions it as a topic of discussion. Space Junk as far as I can tell is mostly metallic in nature and that would seem to be a great candidate for absorbing and retaining heat but I could be wrong. Just looking at it all from a logical standpoint but like I said I could be wrong. Just Curious. Thanks.

57. Evelyn Sackett said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 2:50 pm

    Since the world is running out of oil, and we don’t yet have a substitute that can be made in anywhere near the quantities we need to keep the world running, it is clear that we need GAS RATIONING. 70% of the oil used in the world today is used to make gasoline to power cars, so it’s clear that if we had gas rationing, it would be much easier to help conserve the supply of oil that we still have until a new energy source can be developed. It would give Mr. Gore HUGE political visibility and clout if he would undertake to publicize this need
    How about it, Mr. Gore?

58. BTX said,

    June 11, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

    Just curious with this being the Digital Age what sort of effect do broadcasts or any transmissions into the atmosphere or beyond have on our climate or atmospheric conditions in relation to Global Warming?

    Thanks.

59. JB said,

    June 12, 2007 @ 7:41 pm

    I saw on the news today they are considering taxing drivers in N.Y. city and don’t understand why the only focus on CO2 are on personal cars. What about Buses, Diesels, Over sized Commercial Trucks, Tractors, Bulldozers, Caterpillars, Tow Trucks, Firetrucks, Ambulances, and these are all ground Vehicles unrelated to regular vehicles that are owned for personal use. But in the atmosphere or the Sky I should say there are many types of vehicles depending on what you look at Lear Jets, Jumbo Jets, Small Jets, and Big Jets now I’m not saying these put anything in the atmosphere but they have big engines and you’ve gotta wonder. I mean it’s not like there are so many in the sky they have to have air traffic controllers oh yeah they do. Makes you kind of stop and wonder why the average Joe is the guy who’s gonna finance the cooling of the planet the way things seem to be going.

    Thanks

60. Achoo said,

    June 14, 2007 @ 3:16 am

    Dear Mr. Gore or Adminstrators,

    Can you please confirm or state the truth regarding the comparison for houses done by Caroline Kolaas under the heading

    “George Bush vs. Al Gore
    Body: LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU
    CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. DON’T YOU JUST LOVE LIBERAL HYPOCRISY!!”

    Please let us know the TRUTH?

    Thanks.

    Achoo

61. Rick Bohleber said,

    June 14, 2007 @ 2:15 pm

    Dear Mr. Vice President,

    Knowing your time is precious, I will be as brief as possible. In 1990, you tried to assist me, as a fellow Tennesseean, when I had trouble while serving as an Army Officer in Ft. Riley, Kansas. Although your assistance backfired and I received retribution for having brought a congressional investigation into the issue, I have never forgotten your response that, “No Tennesseean will be treated that way. Not if I can help it.”
    I left the military and went on to become the Training and Development Manager for the State of Alaska as well as a private Business/Management Training Consultant, specializing in Leadership Development. I am also a motivational speaker, author, and inventor.
    I now stand at a crossroads in my life and feel a very strong conviction to direct my creativity, innovative mind, and interpersonal talents toward service. I am forty-eight years old and desire to have my efforts produce something more meaningful than earning someone else corporate profits.
    I want to return your favor, so many years ago, by making myself available to your organization in whatever capacity I would best serve. Among many other ideas, I have developed a non-electric household/office lighting system, which could possibly drastically reduce power needs throughout the world. More importantly, I have the ability to train people into personal paradigm shifts within the context of Global Stewardship.
    I currently reside in Waynesville, North Carolina and could meet with you in short notice.

    Thank you for your time and any consideration you offer.

    Rick Bohleber
    (828) 246-4389
    rbohleber@msn.com
    415-19-4121 (For any security reasons)

62. Luca Bianco said,

    June 18, 2007 @ 5:20 am

    To Mr. Al Gore:
    I do not think that you (personally) will read my mail but anyway I only want to tell you that your DVD was great especially because you have only shown data leaving the obvious conclusion to the people.
    We only hope that the blind powerful people will understand as well as ourselves (the normal workers).
    Thanks for your effort.
    Luca and Francesca

63. Howard Rubenbstein said,

    June 19, 2007 @ 10:41 am

    Mr. Gore:
    Your theme song should be” Nature’s Way” by Spirit. Please take a minute to listen to this song. It fits you message.
    Thank You for taking the time.

64. JB said,

    June 20, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

    The more exposition on Global Warming and I feel reminded of a past impending danger that man was facing that was according to many supposed to be the doom of all mankind Y2K. The date came and went and nobody skipped a beat. Many people were out to make a buck every and any way they could to protect and take preventative measures for the dire impending problem at hand Y2K and like I said it came and went without a hitch. The unbelievable paranoia stirred by that occasion seems unbelievable when I stop and remember it all. Many people believed it was a sham from the get go and others felt it was as if the end was near. All I know is we weren’t detrimentally affected in any unrecoverable ways by the situation Y2K. So when I stop and think of all of the aggregate forces involved in the circumstances affecting weather it makes you pause for reflection in the sense of whether or not CO2 is the only culpable source of being able to heat a planet. Planet earth goes through cycles and has built in preventative measures it takes to stop radical changes in environmental changes and thats why it has been here millions of years and why it will stay here for millions more. It can return to its normal stasis by measures in nature such as rain, cooler weather, etc. otherwise we would have one form of weather all day everyday. I just wonder why CO2 is the only culprit blamed for Global Warming. Thanks

65. christina said,

    June 22, 2007 @ 4:37 am

    a new consciousness is developing….thank you!

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8450558837192717138

66. NINA said,

    June 24, 2007 @ 9:08 pm

    PLEASE MR. GORE…
    RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008…THIS COUNTRY NEEDS YOU… IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE U.S. THEN PLEASE DO US A FAVOR AND RUN….

67. Angie said,

    July 3, 2007 @ 9:18 am

    Your global warming theory is just face-time for you. I see you are now doing a big concert, hurray. Really. Scientific methods are not proven with concerts, they are proven with facts. The more face-time you get, and the more concerts your do, the sooner this fad will be gone.

    Here in New Hampshire, we are experiencing weather more similar to October than July. In fact, throughout 2007, our weather has not gotten warmer at all. What do you do when confronted with this? Hide your head in the sand? You must.

    I see you haven’t responded to the scientists who want to bet just $10,000 that your theory is wrong. And they have a method of proving it. Your prediction methods are way off, get off your lectern and listen, just ask the scientists.

    JB’s comment up a few was correct, the earth goes through cycles. How arrogant of you to presume you know why the earth is going through a warming cycle, or that it actually is going through a warming cycle.

    Your methods are flawed, your conclusions are flawed, your approach is arrogant and self-centered. Wisen-up and act like a scientist, not a performer. Or, actually, don’t. And the rest will take care of itself.

68. Angie said,

    July 3, 2007 @ 9:29 am

    Here’s another tidbit for all you blind people who love to follow celebrities and the media without thinking:

    “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations in how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are.”

    – Al Gore, Grist magazine, May 9, 2006

69. Christopher D. "Chris" Kneisel said,

    July 5, 2007 @ 1:28 pm

    Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gore,

    Please rest assured that your son–and your entire family–are very much in our prayers. You have all done a great deal to put into effect John Kennedy’s words, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Despite his problems, your son, by the very fact that he has been working for a philanthropic magazine, is carrying on the proud tradition of public service established long ago in your family. For him to do so in the face of great personnal crisis takes enormous courage on his part. I’ve nothing but the highest respect for him, having battled ADD, a visual processing problem, and debilitatingly extreme depression and anxiety for all of my life (it has recently cost me a job, but I am searching for another and am confident that I will find a new one soon). I salute you all with the greatest of respect, admiration, and compassion. Again, God bless and keep you all.

    Sincerest regards,
    Christopher D. “Chris” Kneisel

    PS You SHOULD have been the president. You would’ve done an immeasurably better job than Mr. Bush, whom I refuse to acknowledge as president.

70. Josef Nemcik said,

    July 5, 2007 @ 10:44 pm

    Dear Al Gore,
    It came to my attention that is not only our earth that is heating up but all planets in our solar system! If that is the case, it seems reasonable that we need to look at the phenomenon of global worming from broader perspective. Just listen to the native cultures spokespersons there are more in stake that just melting poles of our planet. Mayan prophecies of 2012 comes to my mind. Then lot more of issues need to be considered. Native from over the world are dancing and celebrating. Will you join them?

    JN

71. Fran said,

    July 6, 2007 @ 2:07 pm

    PLEASE, please enter the race for President, Mr. Gore…
    Our families desperately need you - and your experience…
    Our country desperately needs you - and your experience…
    Our planet desperately needs you - and your experience.

    You won the election in 2000 with the most votes, and it was stolen away by the Bush people.
    You can and will win it again. Reclaim it!
    For you, I’m sure it’d be a WALK-IN…

    I think everyone has learned to appreciate quality after Bush!

    Save our planet… be our President.

72. jed rothstein said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 2:25 am

    i would apreciat an e-mail address to contact Mr. Gore derectly. I have a very simple, but probably controversial way to temporarily stop global warming in the imidiate.

    the fact that it is a very sensitive temporary method, i would like to express it to him directly.

    thank you

73. David said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 8:50 am

    Global warming is a universal concern for all life on this planet. We have made our bed and now we must lie in it. We can with a true commitment yet make amends for the chaos we have caused the earth. The earth is a living and breathing organism with a consciousness. There are equal and opposite reactions for each action we have taken. We can ameliorate this current condition with a joint effort from those who have special gifts with the natural elements. Healing disciplines such as reiki will assist the earth in the process.The earth cannot continue to be bombarded with pollutants to the degree that she has and be expected to heal. Just feel a sense of empathy for one minute and see how the polar bear feels trying to survive with the loss of its habitat. None of this will be easy and the responsibility needs to be shouldered by all. The alternative of a lifeless planet is far worse than the sacrifice we can otherwise bear now before we no longer have this option available.

74. Dale Williams said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 3:27 pm

    Hello Mr. Gore, My name is Dale Williams CEO for Mama Louisa’s. Recently you may have caught the activity going on with the Spacestation, well my best friend and I built 6 out of the 8 deployable structures that deploy the Solar Array Panels for the Spacestation and even things for GPS satellites and Mars. I have been building things for space for 11 years now. But for the last three years my mom has got me into a new cookbook of hers with all kinds of recipes from our family and friends. This is a great cookbook and it is now on CD. I created the CD to save paper, I feel much like yourself on protecting the earth. I’m 48 and want to make my moms dream come true. Do you think you could help me in some way or another? Anything would be helpful. Take care and hope to hear for you very soon. Please go to e-bay and type in – mama recipes for some details on the cookbook.

75. Brad Jensen said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 5:24 pm

    Mr. and Mrs. Al Gore,

    There is much to thank-you for. Chiefly for being one of the best ambassadors for our planet, and taking on the issues of global warming. I have followed your endeavors through the years. You started out your campaign when ridicule and not praise was your pay for a noble cause. Now, I see that your life is most closely compared to a rock stars, with cheering crowds and international travel. Yet you continue to stay the course and plug away at this issue. Not letting things like Academy Awards and requests to be President sway your cause. Instead using these medias to further broadcast the need for reform. I believe you are one of the best Americans of all time. Not lightly said I might add. The planet is burning up. And if your efforts are able to stave off the inevitable, then you would be the grandest hero of all time. A reward you probably would pass on for a cooler planet. I have nothing but praise and admiration for you and your wife. Noble is your cause, sincere is your heart, steadfast is your resolve. With these attributes, and God’s grace, may your pursuits become reality for the rest of this earth.
    Thank-you, Brad Jensen
    PS And after you save the planet, it wouldn’t hurt to check into that Presidency thing. You won once.

76. Lina O'Day said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    I cant vote as I am not a US citizen (yet).
    I am from Holland and live here in the US, married an american.

    A message for you is, you can change the global warming problem. we see things on TV and we worry, but thats it.
    YOU SHOULD RUN FOR president and YOU CAN CHANGE THINGS.

    In Europe a lot is being done by government. if you dont run…………… I am afraid little will change in the environmental behaviour by the US…

    Please RUN FOR PRESIDENT !!!

77. NINA said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 10:49 pm

    ASKING AGAIN… PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT MR. GORE… YOU HAD MY VOTE ONCE ,AND, YOU WILL GET IT AGAIN… WE NEED YOU IN THIS COUNTRY… I’M SURE YOU WILL WALK INTO A MESS AT THE WHITEHOUSE AS MR. BUSH HAS MADE A BIG MESS.. PLEASE DO THE U.S.A. A FAVOR AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT….!!!!!!

78. NINA said,

    July 7, 2007 @ 10:50 pm

    ASKING AGAIN… PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT MR. GORE… YOU HAD MY VOTE ONCE ,AND, YOU WILL GET IT AGAIN… WE NEED YOU IN THIS COUNTRY… I’M SURE YOU WILL WALK INTO A MESS AT THE WHITEHOUSE AS MR. BUSH HAS MADE A BIG MESS.. PLEASE DO THE U.S.A. A FAVOR AND RUN FOR PRESIDENT….!!!!!!YES, I’VE ASKED IT ONCE AND I WILL KEEP ASKING…..

79. Sarah Brey said,

    July 8, 2007 @ 6:39 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I have been concerned about global warming since I was old enough to remember, and until you started reaching out to people I was starting to really loose hope. I am now a high school English and Art History teacher, and I currently am teaching summer school. I have decided that instead of teaching just literature though, I am focusing all of summer school on Global Warming. I am showing my classes your movie, and I am giving them excerpts from “The Assault on Reason”. I am doing this in conjunction with modern poetry by people such as Marge Piercy who are also concerned about the future of out world.

    So much of what I believe and what has always concerned me is being vocalized by you now, and because of that you are my hero. I feel I also have a great power by having my own class room and many young minds to impress, and I just wanted to let you know that I try my best to educate my studetns about global warming and the rights of a democracy like you, everyday. I can only hope some day I will be able to meet you.

    Please run for president again, the live earth concerts were so powerful I feel you already have the world’s respect and support to do what is right.

    Thank You for Everything,
    Sarah Brey, 26yrs
    NJ

80. Graciela R. Macias said,

    July 9, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

    Dear Honorable Al Gore:

    This letter is in regards to your honorary work in promoting global warming on behalf of all fellow Earth residents. I am a resident in the Pilsen community of Chicago, IL. We recently learned that a local developer stole (bought for cheap) our Cesar Chavez Community Garden and plans to tear down our 60+ trees to build a parking lot. These trees are our protection shield from congestion of the Dan Ryan Expressway. We the local residents have been caring for our garden using our own resources for the past two decades. We ask for your support and guidance with our problem. We join your efforts to protect our Earth and provide viable, affordable and healthy clean air for ALL people. Thank you for your attention.

    Graciela Macias, mother of two children and concern resident seeking help to protect our Cesar Chavez
    Community Garden

    (312) 243-0529 (home)
    (312 502-0294 (mob.)

81. john and candace manfredi said,

    July 9, 2007 @ 5:10 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,
    Environmental and energy conservation has been at the top of our most important issues list since the 70s. We were extremely discouraged by Republican dominance in the Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush years. We have become more hopeful again with the Nov 2006 elections and your global warming documentry. However, we do have two concerns and constructive criticism that we would like to express. The most important tenant of environment and energy conservation is wise use of resources, i.e. avoiding excess and self indulgence. We believe your personnel weight gain and obese appearance since 2001 does not reflect this tenant. Please consider dieting. Second we watched, or started to watch, your live earth concert on NBC. We were soon repulsed and embarrased by the vulgar, unintelligable entertainers you chose for the concert, we turned it off. We believe most of middle age America did the same and that you lost substantial support and credibility with this group. This is certainly an untended consequence and step backward for your cause. We are sure that your criticts were elated. For future events please choose entertainers and lyrics that reflect intelligence and decency. You must not turn off mainstream America by immoral, trash entertainers.
    Sincerely, John and Candace Manfredi

82. SV Nagappa said,

    July 11, 2007 @ 10:36 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore

    I commend your energy and enthusiam for changing the global warming situation and fianlly for me some one believes the scientists. In Australia as a scientists we constatly have to battle to any good scientific work. I have a request. Could you please campain for atleast some people working for part of their week from home? This is a critical thing that can cut down emissions in many ways at the same time reduce stress. Yes not all the people can work from home. But many millions of people in the world can. If proper checks and balances are maintained then productivity can go up due to reduced stress levles and more poople dont need to drive cars and cause congestion in the world. In developing economies where IT industries are fast growing such a system will nip the carbon emission increase atleast to some extent in the bud. How about it? Another campaign is to live locally and eat local produce whihc will prevent produce being carted miles together on roads reducing emissions. The whole notion of everyone wants everything all the time is a myth created by the big retail companies to compete with one another and does not serve the country’s or consumer interest in any meaningful way. America and Australia where one needs to travel long distances could also benefit from these campaigns. Please do it.

83. Katey Carson said,

    July 12, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

    Dear Mr Gore,

    I live in South Africa in a small town called Fish Hoek. Ihave always been concerned about the state of the world so as you can imagine I was extatic when I saw your movie, it showed me that people were actually doing something about Global warming.
    You inspired me to do something as well so I am starting my own campaign but for the youth using symbols and circumstances that they are interested in and can relate to educating my peers(and teachers)about the problems facing our planet.I am still putting it in motion but I am hoping to gather enough peoSaviple so we can start saving the world one step at a time.
    I would love some advice for my campaign or idears of how to improve it in a few weeks I will be launching a “Face Book” for the campaign please visit it (Katey Carson;The movement)

    Regards,

    Katey Carson

84. Theresa Starkes said,

    July 13, 2007 @ 11:23 am

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    Please visit my web page at http://theresastarkes.zaadz.com/. I am trying to do my part to make the world a better place and would appreciate your thoughtful feedback.

    Here is a summary if you do not have the time:

    About Me:

    I am a student at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. I created my own Individualized Degree called “Language and Creativity.”

    I have a burning passion to travel the globe and interview incredible people who are changing the world! I saved up for my first passport and am anxiously awaiting it in the mail. I am currently investigating affordable laptops and digital cameras to document my travels. I scour the public library for books on traveling on a budget safely for women, inspirational material, etc. I am looking for people to interview and photograph who are making a commitment for change against all odds. My goal is to put together a book of inspiration. Real stories about real people complete with photographs to make these incredible people more accessible. I want to include contact information so that others can reach them and help.

    Although I have talent in writing, I need to network with people who are willing to support my vision. I would like to find a publisher, a financial adviser to help me transition off the system, a sponsor/sponsors to send me on my way who might help me with the costs of travel expenses. I am also looking for a photographer who might teach me to take digital photographs or join me and take the photos! I am also looking for a laptop computer durable enough to take into harsh environments … does this exist? Maybe a documentary film maker would like to come along and film the project to be released with the book! We could donate proceeds from the project to the people we interview.

    I am a person with a chemical imbalance disability. This does not effect my ability to function effectively. I believe that everyone on this planet was put here to to share their unique gifts with the planet to make a difference.

    I would be considered “below the poverty level” in the US, but I am so fortunate and filled with gratitude for what I do have.

    I have never owned a car.
    I walk or use public transportation.
    I recycle.
    I wash my clothes in cold water.
    I commit to replacing my light bulbs with earth friendly alternatives.
    I reuse my shopping bags at the grocery store and buy locally as much as possible.
    I am great with a budget: My income is just over $700.00/month and I save money (I have no debt),
    I submit all my schoolwork to my professors online to save paper.
    I check out books at the library.
    I live in a subsidized apartment and donate what I don’t need to my deserving neighbors, etc.

    What really inspired me to do this was a video I saw : www.miniature-earth.com

    For the last ten years I have been weaning myself off the system and reaching for the impossible. I went to college and graduated with honors. I worked part time as a work study student. I honed my craft in writing which I continue to do.

    I live in Minneapolis with my black cat Rhiannon. I have an A.S. Degree in Screenwriting.

    I am no longer afraid, I am ready to bust loose from this illusion and get busy!

    Please write with any suggestions or comments.

    Respectfully,
    Theresa Starkes

85. Leonor said,

    July 15, 2007 @ 10:46 am

    Dear Mr. Gore: Do you have facts regarding global warming precisely? I’ve done research and found this site on climate changes for the past 1,000 years.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years.

    I hope that you can give us factual evidence of global warming.

86. Leonor said,

    July 15, 2007 @ 10:50 am

    I hope that people can understand the truth. I think that we are given non-factual contents on global warming. I hope that the politicians don’t play on stupid people intelligence by wanting to create a green tax.

87. Jean Jacques RAPHAEL said,

    July 16, 2007 @ 12:01 pm

    Global Warming
    To Whom It may concern

    First of all, I must apologize for my mistakes. English is not my native language. I am writing you to ask if you could help me to find someone to resolve the global warming problem. I conceived a filter and a motor to make the analysis of carbon oxide into C and O2. To realize this decomposition, I am searching for a chemistry laboratory to help me to realize the synthesis of chlorophylle or to make the cloning of cells containing chloroplast for realize photosynthesis reaction as we encounter it in natural process. This project will have two (2) major impacts:
    1- Solve the global warming problem
    2- Use Oxygen as a complementary energy source(besides petrol or biocarburant)
    If the synthesis or the cloning of chlorophylle is difficult or impossible, other methods could be considered as : electrolysis for instance.
    If I find a partnership to finalize and obtain a patent for this project, I think my filter could be used in automobile, aeronautic and naval industries without mentioning that it can also be used to purify urban atmosphere and prevent other industries from polluting the environnement. We must resolve the global warming problem as we do for polluted water : by collecting and decomposing the carbon oxide.

    Best regards,

    Jean Jacques RAPHAEL
    raphy50@yahoo.fr

88. José Collell said,

    July 16, 2007 @ 2:03 pm

    Dear Mr. Gore,

    I recently saw your film and found it to be a profound piece of work. I have my bachelor’s in Natural Resources Management, so I was already family with Global Warming as well as your book “Earth in the Balance.”

    What was Particularly effective, are the receding ice sheets and the photos of the glaciers which you included in your presentation. This immediatly triggered memories of a trip that I took to the Laguna San Rafael in southern Chile. What is interesting about this glacier is that in 1980 scientists had marked the the rocky walls of the lagoon, to indicate where the ice had been for that year. This has been done every year since and the results are both asounding and shocking, to say the least. This was the first time that I had a first hand look at the Global Warming in the Flesh. When we reached the1980 mark the glacier was still more than a mile away. And as depicted in your film, I heard the crack and thunder of huge chunks of ice breaking off and crashing into the waters. The year was 2001 and I try to imagine what the ice must look like now.

    My parents and I toasted the trip with a Scotch on the rocks. In this case the ice was 40,000 year old glacier ice from a floating berg. It took 40,000 years for the ice to make it to the water and look how long it has taken us to undo this beautiful piece of nature.

    There are people who still say that Global Warming does not exist. When I get in my car and drive off to work, I ask myself, “How can it not?”

    Thank you for the wonderful work and the awareness that you have brought to this most-important issue.

    Respectfully,

    José Collell

89. Cara Campbell said,

    July 17, 2007 @ 2:51 pm

    Mr. Gore,
    I’ve always thought you of all people should have won presidency, for you are the only one who would take positive action FOR THE PEOPLE. Your main priority, is to keep us alive for centurys to come, while Bush is still over in Iraq causing pollution. I’ve always been interested in global warming, sitting in Science class, i was never the social person but when the topic came up over global warming, i was the one preaching in front of the class about how every single one of us should take action so others could do so as well. Recently i have done a family tree, you are my fourth cousin.
    Please write back, i REALLY would like to help,
    Im only 17 and can help for years to come, and can convince future generations to do the same, just tell me how, and i shall.

90. Amy Kadori said,

    July 17, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

    I am concerned that we are encouraged to use fluorescent light bulbs but in my community ( 225,000 people) there is no way to dispose of them. Put them in the trash I was told. Or hold on to them until November (5 months away) for a hazardous waste pickup day.

    I now plan to return these new light bulbs and go back to irridenscent ones until a solution is found.
    Amy Kadori
    Scottsdale, Arizona

91. Jim Cipa said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 5:40 am

    I have no doubt that global warming is occurring at an alarming pace; with that said, I condemn the efforts to address this problem. By attempting to reduce personal and industrial carbon footprints the entire fissile fuel industry and their end users are being threatened. They will not change their practices without a fight; they are making to much money. The fissile fuel industry has vast financial and political resources at their disposal and any grass roots efforts to get them to change will not succeed. Such a grass roots failure will slow any progress at reducing carbon emissions greatly. I would strongly suggest confronting one component of the fissile fuel industry at a time, namely the oil industry. Support for greatly reducing our oil consumption has substantial financial and political support while the oil industries waning political support makes it particularly vulnerable. REAL progress can be made by supporting Cellulosic/Gasification Biofuel production. Coal and natural gas usage will fall when the oil industry is out of the picture.

92. Eduardo Tramontini said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 11:03 am

    Dear Mr. Gore:

    First of all my sincere congratulations for your documentary film, and my profound respect for your courage to persist in ideals not totally shared by many people of the most diverse levels of power.

    My name is Eduardo Tramontini (37), my Buddhist name is Karma Trinley Zangpo – “Excellent Buddha Activities”), I am a Mechanical Engineer (U. de los Andes) and MBA (U. of Cambridge), and would like to invite you to visit my web blog (http://www.eduardotramontini.com) for further information about myself.

    I am writing to you from Bogotá, Colombia, Hotel Dann Norte, in order to let you know about my effective activities against Gestapo organization here, with the help of some very valuable:
    - Identification of Adolf Hitler, who was living in Bogota with his closest friends under the name of Jorge Pivek, and who passed away last Friday 13 July after having been found with a rocket in his car and confessed having been very active in the bomb construction for the Guerilla they have always supported and directed in clandestine form.
    - Identification of their apocalyptic plan for 08,31,2007: “We, the superior Arian race, have been defeated 60 years ago in this world. Therefore, we will destroy it, i.e. exterminate human existence, in order to be entitled to go after death to the Nazi Paradise where Jesus Christ is waiting for us”. 60 years ago they were responsible for 60,000,000 deaths, today 60 years later, they want to cause the death of 6,000,000,000 persons, 100 times more, with 100 atomic bombs and many other criminal measures, including the contamination of lakes with cianuro, like lake Baikal for instance.
    - However, the very elite of Nazism, having lived here in Bogota, Colombia, for decades after WWII, has prepared at lest three bunkers to take refuge during destruction, and later fly with kept planes to one of their conserved paradise places, like the Pacific island west to the sea of “Del Corral” with “Vila” as capital: Vanuatu. Authorities here in Colombia, very much influenced by their multimillion bribing, took over one of the three bunkers (Sindamanoy, Parcela A6, under the name of Jochen Herold). Widespreading news about such a betreyal would certainly cause some demotivation among the 100,000 Nazi radical Arian in the world.
    - Through spiritual means and in mental dialogue with the Nazi leading members, they permeating my mind, ironically, I have come to discover around 20 or so potential Atomic Bomb centers under their control: please check findings in Roemer Spize, Innsbruck, Austria and Canaima, Venezuela yesterday. Strangely enough the other bomb centers, like the ones in Cuba (Virgen del Carmen - near Santiago, Santa Clara, Moron, Sierra Maestra, and probably others) have apparently not been deactivated.
    - Local authorities, intelligence organizations like CIA and others from Europe seem to be well aware of my case. However, considering the threat I might be imposing to their destructive plans, and the some very few of the highest level of global authorities which might be behind and cooperating with that plan of the Gestapo, I feel my life is each time at higher risk. If possible, please research about U.S. attention over me, to avoid me being murdered, and be able to continue to cooperate.
    - It is important to know that the CIA has been unable to identify and deactivate encovered Gestapo agents, like Arnim von Rodeck, which is behind the head of the Gestapo wordlwide.

    May I ask you if you or someone of your team could possibly permeate my mind in order to get better information about my case, and perhaps - besides helping in my protection - also consider the information who is being revealed for further verification and action.

    Sincerely, and with great admiration,

    Eduardo Tramontini
    Bogota, Colombia

93. Dave Collins said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 2:48 pm

    Al,
    I have studied nuclear energy quite a lot and have concluded what many major environmentalists have been concluding for a number of years now. We are not likely to solve global warming without applying all the tools available, and nuclear power is a major tool that could play a very major role as it does in many of the countries that signed the Kyoto protocol. There risk that Bin Laden or some terrorist group will mount a small Manhattan project and making nuclear weapons from US spent fuel is small. Nuclear is the only credible path to replace coal. Coal energy puts more carbon into the atmosphere than any other source, slightly more than the US transportation industry, all the trains planes and automobiles combined. Coal is the major source of airborne mercury and soot toxins causing brain damage, asthma, lung disease and cancer in hundreds of thousands of mostly young and old Americans yearly. Coal is double dangerous, a large GHG contributor, and disturbingly dangerous to the people. Check out this report vetted by Harvard medical http://www.net.org/relatives/4211.pdf. Let the nuclear weapons proliferation experts of today weight the modern risk of nuclear energy proliferation, staying with your expertise, the GHG part of the equation, which is current and cutting edge. Right now about 100 new coal plants are planned for construction in the US. Right now only a handful of new nukes are being planned. Only nukes have zero GHG emissions and the size to supplant the single largest source of carbon, coal energy, from the GHG equation. After TMI many nuclear sites built only one plant where 3 or 4 had been originally planned. If we set a national goal to go back and try to finish all the nukes we had planned to build in the 1970s, this would be a giant step in the right direction for addressing GHG issue. It is time for Al Gore to drink the same environmental coolaid that James Lovelock, Patrick Moore, Hugh Montefiore, Stewart Brand, Norris McDonald, Scott Howson have been drinking and start preaching the GHG benefits of nuclear.

94. Dave Collins said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

    Here is that link, the summary of the abt report on health damage due to power plants. Didn’t work before because it had a period at the end:
    http://www.net.org/relatives/4211.pdf

95. Jessie Carr said,