Gore stays mum on Trump meeting, says ‘it’s not the last’

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Source: Washington Post

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is interviewed at the premiere of the film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” at the Eccles Theater during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) (Associated Press)

PARK CITY, Utah — Former Vice President Al Gore said that while he wouldn’t divulge specifics about his December conversation with Donald Trump, it wasn’t “the last conversation.”

Speaking to a packed auditorium in Park City following the premiere of the climate change documentary “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” which kicked off the 33rd Sundance Film Festival Thursday, Gore said that he’s seen a lot of people who started out as climate deniers change over time.

“Whether he will or not remains to be seen,” Gore said of Trump, whose inauguration as president was Friday. Trump has decried climate change as a hoax. Gore also noted that “two days after that meeting he appointed someone to the EPA who I don’t think should be heading the EPA.”

“But this story has many chapters to unfold here,” Gore said

“An Inconvenient Sequel,” which comes 10 years after “An Inconvenient Truth,” follows Gore through a year in his life as he tries…

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