www.salon.com The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run Al Gore focused his 1988 presidential campaign and climate change — and the world shrugged him off
Newslettercommons.wikimedia.org The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run The United States quietly hit a political tipping point some time in the 2010s, although few noticed at the time. That was the decade in which a majority of Americans polled said that climate change was really happening.