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To: SiouxPal who wrote (68419)	5/21/2006 1:53:39 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362853

Now Gore takes on the world _____________________________________________________________ The Guardian May 22, 2006 Al Gore has had plenty of time to develop a self-deprecating sense of humour over the past six years, and it shows. "My name is Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States," the broad-shouldered 58-year-old tells audiences wherever he goes. It is a wry kind of wit, of a sort that might have helped the former vice-president in the 2000 election campaign, when he was widely lambasted as wooden and robotic. But the Gore of 2006 is a different person and, it appears, Americans have begun to take notice. The reason for Mr Gore's heightened profile is a documentary about his most passionately held concern - the "planetary emergency" of global warming - that he has been shopping to politicians and other opinion-formers over the past few weeks. The movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is screening as part of the Sydney Film Festival next month. It follows Mr Gore as he travels the US giving a slideshow presentation about climate change - a performance he has given more than 1000 times in the past 30 years, and more frequently since losing the election. This may sound less than electrifying, but there could be no better sign of the film's potential impact than the fact that its enemies have launched a counter-offensive: the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank funded by oil companies, has unveiled a series of TV advertisements aimed at restoring the reputation of greenhouse gases. As the early rumblings of the next presidential election campaign grow louder, it should come as no surprise that Mr Gore's activities have led to speculation that he might stand again. He denies it, saying that he has "found other ways to serve", but that has not stopped the rise of a vigorous draft campaign to try to persuade him to change his mind. The drafters' pulses were quickened by a recent Gore speech when he joked that he was "a recovering politician … but you always have to worry about a relapse", and an appearance on the comedy show Saturday Night Live in which he addressed the audience as if he had been president for a term and a half.