Is Al Gore's new campaign to save the environment just a ruse to further his political career?

Excuse me Sir, Gore's not going to run for anything, or from anything! His current interests and concerns will not be politically of interest and must be considered at a much higher level of consciousness. Save the environment is the best way, the only way for Mammals and the likes of us to live here, anyway.Check out the truth about Earth the Blue Planet.Really, forget everything for just a moment; now take a breath and hold it. HOLD IT! Now, what must you have at once or you will die! You got it, that's great for now, but remember the air those west Virginia miners eventually died from, is right around the corner.

Is the smear campaign against him and his movie that is fully funded by the oil industry and picked up on by sociopathic neo-con pundits doing more harm or good for environmental issues?

As far as "carbon dioxide is life", try this experiment. Go into a small room with 5 friends and do your best to seal off all sources of air. Calculate how long it takes to start feeling tired, sick, sweaty, and/or itchy. Note that these effects appear when the level of CO2 that replaces the O2 in the room happens when the % changes just 0.1%. That's all it takes to make the room "uncomfortable". You can also try sucking on the tailpipe of any given Cadillac, CO (carbon MONOxide) will kill you long before the CO2, carbon dioxide isn't the only harmful thing emitted by burning fossil fuels.

Also just think if we turned our useless deserts into giant solar panel farms. Lots of new jobs there. So instead of shoveling our money into the Saudi royal treasury, why don't we shovel it on to local contractors?

This is also VERY good for American business. Imagine if suddenly everyone needed new cars that only we held the technological patents on, our industry would be revived overnight. Our agriculture would see a huge rush of cash-flow as well, when pig poo and corn stalks are combined for a fuel that burns BETTER than conventional gas and is totally renewable (so long as we don't genetically engineer pigs not to take a crap). Right now all these poor farmers that need subsidizing in the midwest are sitting on the equivelent of a never-ending oil reserve and aren't allowed to exploit it.

Gore has repeatedly stated that he won't run for office, and wishes to spend his life pushing his desire for environmental reform so that we can administer what resources we have better. Has anyone else noticed that ex-Democrats end up doing charity work and winning Nobel peace prizes while ex-Republicans end up on the boards of corporations they helped?

He's always cared about the environment. His agenda is protecting it. He wrote a book in '92 "Earth in the Balance." I did not read it I read Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring" which had an introduction by Al Gore and I could not get through it. The book was great but Gore's rambling intro could induce a coma.

He has a need to constantly show the world he is not a dumbass ... and in trying to do so, he comes off as a retard. The campaign to save the environment is not exactly new ... I think he started the campaign right after he invented the Internet. His new movie is a way for his name to stay in the public mind so he can remain politically relevant and still have a shot at future elections.

NO. The environment has always been Al Gore's number one issue, always. He is more sincere now than he has ever been, and he is not trying to further his political career. He's trying to do the things he always wanted, but was limited by politics.

No he's not a phony. He hasn't tossed his hat in the ring for running again -yet. He could at the last minute and possibly be our next president.

No, it's not new. He has been trying to push environmental reforms in the past. I don't think you're very informed. As for his agenda....he is an environemtalist...so what do you think it is?