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The first climate change candidate: Inside Al Gore's oddly prescient 1988 presidential run
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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
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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.

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