{"speakers":[{"speaker":{"id":2,"title":"","firstname":"Al","middleinitial":"","lastname":"Gore","description":"Climate-change prophet","whotheyare":"Once the US Vice President, then star of An Inconvenient Truth<\/em>, now Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore found a way to focus the world's attention on climate change. In doing so, he has invented a new medium -- the Keynote movie -- and reinvented himself.","whylisten":"

Unlike some in public office, Al Gore always intended to get something done, and since leaving Washington, DC -- following the tumultuous 2000 election -- he's still at it. In fact, his campaign for alerting the world to the dangers of climate change<\/strong> has only gained momentum. His Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth<\/em><\/a> is the third most successful documentary ever released at the box office. Gore's famed PowerPoint presentation has drawn in a reluctant public, with its meticulously researched content and lucid style. <\/p>

Meanwhile, Gore himself has found his footing as a communicator. The once "wooden" style has given way to a warmth and humor that reveal the depth of his experience<\/strong> as a soldier, congressman, senator, veep, TV executive, teacher and author. Arguably, Gore is better positioned today than he has ever been to affect the future of our environment and world. <\/p>

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007<\/a>, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)<\/a><\/strong>, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change<\/strong>."<\/p>","slug":"al_gore","published_at":"2007-02-13 10:43:00","updated_at":"2009-04-08 14:44:57"}}],"counts":{"this":1,"total":1}}