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Did Al Gore just make Donald Trump irrelevant? The most sobering take-away from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s new chapter in the former Vice President’s peripatetic life as a climate-change missionary, is how much the wheels are already in motion for a global paradigm shift in renewable, carbon-neutral energy production. Trump may deny it, but the rest of the world sure isn’t. Especially when the economics make sense.

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By Stephen Garrett

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