Hartford Courant: Former Vice President Al Gore could never quite turn his passion for global climate change into an effective campaign issue – at least not while he was running. He might have succeeded this year, though, with some help from the Bush administration. What Gore failed to do while in office or on the campaign trail himself, he managed to do by carting his slide show around the world in an effort immortalized in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." A lot of people …