Ok, I'm answering my own question. It was in mid-November. He was talking to Conan O'Brian about geothermal energy. Here's the transcript:
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O'BRIEN: ...and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth ...
GORE: Yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
GORE: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ...
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Now, just for reference.
It's about 15 Million degrees Celsius at the core of the sun.
At the surface, it's about 5500 degrees Celsius.
At the center of the earth, it's about 4000 degrees Celsius, though some scientists think it could be as high as 9000C
The highest recorded temperature on earth was 58C (Libya, 1922)
Can SOMEbody fact-check this guy BEFORE he goes on TV?