2007 - Al Gore and The IPCC
Al Gore, Jr. is an American environmental activist, author, businessperson, former politician and former journalist. He served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 presidential election. He won the popular vote by approximately 500,000, but ultimately lost the electoral vote to Republican candidate George W. Bush.
Gore is better known these days for the documentary in which he starred called An Inconvenient Truth which helped to turn international public opinion on the issue of climate change and which subsequently won an Academy Award in 2007.
He is currently the founder and chair of Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior advisor to Google. He is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity. The panel was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).