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Al Gore

Al Gore

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

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Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on ABC "This Week":
"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 a speech:
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster,  . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."
Half-True
By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 a campaign speech:
Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 21, 2016
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 11, 2013 a keynote address:
The ocean is now "much more acidic . . . than it has been for many millions of years."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2013
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on January 28, 2009 a Senate committee hearing:
If we got solar energy from "an area of the Southwestern desert 100 miles on a side, that would be enough, in and of itself, to provide 100 percent of all the electricity needs for the United States of America in a full year."
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By Alexander Lane • February 18, 2009
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Latest Fact-Checks About Al Gore

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stated on October 29, 2021 a Facebook post:
“The day Al Gore was born there were 130,000 glaciers on Earth. Today, only 130,000 remain.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • November 5, 2021
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stated on February 8, 2021 a Facebook post:
Photo shows the “USS Al Gore Global Warming Research Vessel” covered in ice.
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By Ciara O'Rourke • February 16, 2021
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stated on November 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says The Washington Times ran a front-page headline that said, “President Gore.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • November 9, 2020
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stated on March 11, 2019 a Facebook post:
"The day Al Gore was born, there were 130,000 glaciers on earth. Today, only 130,000 remain."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • April 2, 2019
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on August 10, 2011 an Iowa campaign stop.:
Rick Perry "was the (campaign) chairman for Al Gore at one time, not too many years ago."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 7, 2011
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