00:14I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
00:21The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Albert Arnold L. Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
00:44Former Vice President L. Gore was born Albert Arnold Gore Jr. on March 31, 1948 in Washington, D.C., where his father Albert Gore Sr. was serving as a Democrat in the U.S. House from Tennessee.
00:59Gore's mother, Pauline Lafon Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School.
01:07Gore's childhood was divided between a hotel room at the nation's capital during the school year and his family's farm in Carthage, Tennessee, in the summer.
01:19Gore attended Harvard, where he roomed with future actor Tommy Lee Jones.
01:23He earned a degree with high honors in government in June 1969.
01:29Gore opposed the Vietnam War but said that his sense of civic duty compelled him to enlist in the U.S. Army in August 1969.
01:40After basic training, Gore was assigned as a military journalist.
01:45He quit school in March 1976 to run for the U.S. House from Tennessee.
01:51He was elected four times.
01:53He also became the first person to appear on CSPAN.
02:00In 1984, Gore successfully ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, which had been vacated by Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker.
02:10Gore pushed the High Performance Computer and Communication Act of 1991, which greatly expanded the Internet.
02:18In 1988, Gore made a bid for the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
02:24He won five Southern states on Super Tuesday, but eventually lost to Michael Dukakis.
02:31Gore remained in the Senate until presidential candidate Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate in 1992.
02:39They were elected into office that year and re-elected in 1996.
02:45During his tenure, he worked to cut back on government bureaucracy, but his image suffered when he was investigated by the Justice Department for his fundraising activities.
02:59In his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore won the Democratic presidential nomination.
03:05Gore won the popular vote, but conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush after five weeks of complex legal argument over the voting procedure in the presidential election.
03:17On December 10, 2007, Gore accepted a Nobel Prize for work on global warming.
03:24In accepting the prize, he urged the world's biggest carbon emitters, China and the U.S., to make the boldest moves or stand accountable before history for their failure to act.
03:37Gore shared the prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.
03:47He donated his share of the 1.6 million award that goes with the prize to a new non-profit organization, now known as the Climate Reality Project, devoted to taking action on the climate change problem.
04:02Since departing politics, Gore has become a successful businessman, author and public speaker.
04:08In 2004, he co-founded Generation Investment Management with David Blood.
04:13Gore has backed numerous ventures and invested in such companies as Amazon.com and eBay through this firm.
04:21Gore has been linked to fellow environmentalist and Democratic Party supporter Mary Elizabeth Kiedel.
04:28He divides his time between homes in Nashville, Tennessee and San Francisco, California.
04:34Gore has four adult children with his first wife, Tipper.
04:39The couple separated in 2010 after 40 years of marriage.
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