Bill Clinton

Clinton Says GOP Climate Deniers Making The U.S. 'Look Like A Joke'

David Taintor | September 20, 2011, 2:59PM

Former President Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton has some tough words for Republican climate-change deniers: quit making the U.S. "look like a joke."

Kicking off his Clinton Global Initiative in New York, the former president said Americans should make it "politically unacceptable" for people to engage in climate change denial, according to Politico.

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Al Gore

Al Gore: Climate Change Is A 'Human' -- Not 'Political' -- Issue

David Taintor | September 16, 2011, 6:15AM

Former Vice President Al Gore

Climate change is a "human" -- not "political" -- issue, former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday at an event concluding his 24-hour Climate Reality Project intended to convert skeptics of global warming.

In order to have an intelligent conversation about climate change, Gore said, we need to "to start with an acceptance of what the reality is that we are actually facing." Gore compared the controversy and skepticism over global warming to tobacco companies that would manufacture public doubt about the harm of their product.

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Al Gore

Al Gore Slams Obama On Emissions Standards

Eric Kleefeld | September 7, 2011, 5:00PM

Former Vice President Al Gore, President Barack Obama

President Obama is now facing liberal criticism from a major name: Former Vice President Al Gore, the man who won the national popular vote in the disputed 2000 presidential election, and has since relaunched himself as a major environmental activist on the issue of global warming.

It is in some ways ironic to see Gore disparage a Democratic president from the left -- it was, after all, the left-wing spoiler campaign of Ralph Nader that cost him the electoral votes of Florida, thus handing the White House to George W. Bush.

Gore published a blog post on Wednesday, titled "Confronting Disappointment", criticizing the Obama administration for backing away from proposed smog regulations:

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