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It's interesting to consider an alternative universe where Gore won that election and there was a win-win scenario: no invasion of Iraq and no extra publicity for global warming alarmists due to An Inconvenient Truth never being made.
It's also quite possible however that Gore would have jumped on the bandwagon even if he'd been elected in which case he might have done far more damage than Bush did by enacting some kind of cap and trade legislation.
Despite the many and varied catastrophic policy choices of the Bush administration it's still far from obvious that Gore would have been a better choice.
Gore has a long history of concern about global warming, and it's pretty clear that he would've at least tried to enact restrictions on carbon emissions if he'd been President. But let's not turn this thread into a debate over whether that would've been a good or bad policy, or over global warming or Al Gore more generally.
I would not be surprised if in that universe, it became the first full-length movie made by a president in office.