It's hard not to respect him.

Al Gore is Back

With the release of his stunning new documentary, An inconvenient Truth, Al Gore bounds back into center stage and has never looked so good.

It is hard not to respect Gore. He has bags of experience. He has been ahead of the curve on a lot of big issues that other politicians have missed or fumbled. He was right about the internet and right about climate change - and still is. He was a Democratic moderate before Bill Clinton. He was right about the first Gulf war - he was in favour - when many in his party were wrong. More strikingly still, he was right about the second Gulf war too - this time he was against - when the bulk of his party got it wrong again. And then there was the 2000 election. It should have been him. And it would have been if he had got one more supreme court justice on his side. And if he had succeeded, the history of the last six years would have been very different