Al Gore quoted in Grist Magazine:
Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Jonah Goldberg in NRO:
Gore told [Arianna] Huffington that this was his second trip to Cannes. “The first was when I was 15 years old and came here for the summer to study the existentialists -— Sartre, Camus. We were not allowed to speak anything but French!” This, gushed Huffington, “may explain his pitch-perfect French accent.” Perhaps. Though according to David Maraniss’s biography of Gore, the former vice president’s 15th summer was spent working on the family farm. . . . Then there’s the fact that young Al got C’s in French at his tony Washington high school, St. Alban’s. That’s some school if a kid who can intelligently discuss Sartre’s La Nausée and Camus’s Betwixt and Between in apparently pitch-perfect French still can’t earn a B in French class. Mon dieu!
Gore is such a chronic dissembler that I doubt even he knows what's real and what's imaginary in his life.
But as the first quote indicates, he feels that the truth is at best a flexible thing. All in the service of Higher Causes, you see.