Former Vice President Al Gore appeared alongside Hillary Clinton in Miami to fire up young millenial voters – though some of them were firing up their Instagram accounts while he lectured about the dire risks global warming.

'Please take it from me: every single vote counts,' Gore told the crowd at Miami Dade College.

Gore told the student-heavy crowd about the disputed 2000 election, in case some of them under 25 years old hadn't heard about it.

'Take it from me it was a very close election,' Gore said, prompting cheers of 'You won!' from the crowd.

'I don’t want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say, "Actually you did win, it just wasn’t close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted" or whatever,' the former vice president said.

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Former Vice President Al Gore, who narrowly lost the presidency in 2000, campaigns with Hillary Clinton in Miami Tuesday

He also spoke about climate change, pointing to a three-inch sea level rise since Hurricane Andrew in parts of the state.

'Sometimes a fish from the ocean swims on the streets of Miami-Dade and Delray, Ft. Lauderdale,' Gore said.

He then spoke of tropical diseases like becoming 'endemic,' with new Zika cases reported in the state already rattled by an early appearance.

'Mosquitos mature faster and then the virus in the misquito incubates much faster and they bite more often,' Gore explained.

Gore, who lectured in New York after he left the White House, continued his discourse on mosqito biology. 'The temperature goes up, their metabolism goes up and they spread the diseases,' he said.

CHAT ROOM: A student, top left, checks her phone while Al Gore warns of the threat of climate change

HI MOM: Another woman, pictured in head scarf, takes a break to check in with her mobile device, while another woman either reads from her phone or takes a picture

IT'S PROBABLY DAILYMAIL.COM: One of the few men placed behind Gore and Clinton for the event also took a minute to check his phone

Gore spoke about climate change and the 2000 election while Hillary Clinton looked on. A woman in a blue shirt checked her phone

Some students seated behind him could be seen checking their phones while he spoke about the stinging mosquito threat.

During Clinton's remarks, she immediately had to contend with a protester who called her husband a 'rapist.'

Gore's appearance was meant to fire up young voters in south Florida and around the country. Clinton wants to harness Gore's credibility on climate change, calling him 'one of the world’s foremost leaders on climate change.'

Before she could get going, a man held up a flier with a picture of Bill Clinton's face and the word 'RAPE.' Clinton faced down a similar protester who wore a 'RAPE' t-shirt in Ohio Monday night.

Not long afterward, a second protester interrupted her remarks.

'Lets focus on what’s really important in this election,' Clinton said, as the crowd cheered and tried to shout down the man.

Eventually uniformed officers removed him from the facility at Miami Dad College.

The explosive charge was a reference to Jaunita Broaddrick, who accuses Bill Clinton of raping her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1978.

Clinton leads Donald Trump by about 3 per cent in the RealClearPolitics average in Florida

'Lets focus on what’s really important in this election,' Clinton said after she got heckled in Florida

Donald Trump brought Braoddrick and three other Clinton accusers to the second presidential debate on Sunday. Clinton denies the charge, and there was never any legal proceeding. Broaddrick denied it happened in the Paula Jones lawsuit but later recanted.

Gore's presence was meant in part to signal the risks posed by third-party candidates.

He schooled young voters about the disputed 2000 election where he lost the White House to George W. Bush after an intervention by the Supreme Court.

'Take it from me it was a very close election,' he told the student crowd, which included young people checking their phones.

‘You won!’ the crowd began to chant.

A protester carrying a 'RAPE' flier yelled out that Bill Clinton was a 'rapist' during his wife's speech with Vice President Al Gore standing alongside her

A second man got escorted out of the event after yelling

Police remove a second protester during the Clinton-Gore event

'Climate change is real, it’s urgent and America can take the lead in the world in addressing it'

CLINTON-GORE: Clinton also blasted Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is being challenged by Democratic Representative Patrick Murphy. 'When Donald Trump goes low, Marco Rubio is right there with him,' she said

Gore delivered remarks about climate change, in a coastal state considered at long-term risk for damaging effects of a warming climate.

But the strategic decision to stage the high-profile event in South Florida also unmistakably evokes the contentious Florida recount that cost Democrats Florida and the White House when Gore was on the ballot in 2000.

'Gore is also a reminder of the stakes, of how close the 2000 election was,' Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi told the Tampa Bay Times. 'Don't pull a Ralph Nader.'

In 2000, third party candidate Nader won more than 97,000 votes in Florida, while Gore lost by just 537 votes before the Supreme Court stopped a recount.

Clinton was interrupted by a protester who said her husband was a 'rapist'

This year, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein have been drawing votes from Clinton.

The address is centered on climate change, according to the Clinton campaign, an issue that Gore worked on for decades and came to define his post-White House career before he became a successful venture capitalist.

EYE ON FLORIDA: Gore's appearance is an unmistakable reminder of the Florida recount that cost Democrats the White House

It is also an issue ranked higher among younger voters – a group among whome Hillary Clinton needs to run up a big advantage.

'We really hope that young people will represent the biggest voting group in this election,' Clinton said while campaigning in Detroit Monday.

Having a Clinton and a Gore on the same campaign stage also brings back one of the tensions of the 2000 race: the Gore camp's decision to keep Bill Clinton at arm's length due to his scandals, and the former president's view that he could have done more.

Gore's speech is being billed as a talk on climate change as the Clinton campaign woos younger voters

Gore has become a successful investor since his narrow defeat, but has mostly shunned campaigning and the political world. He also has spoken out on the threat posed by climate change

Gore spoke days after Hurricane Matthew plowed through the eastern coast of Florida. He warned of fish in the streets during repeated Miami floods and increased bites from mosquitos due to climate change

'Clinton will discuss the very real impacts of climate change on American communities, from sea level rise in Miami to historic drought in the West, and highlight locally-driven clean energy and climate solutions,' according to advance guidance by the campaign.

She will contrast her view with Donald Trump's 'approach that perpetuates the dangerous claim that climate change is a hoax, would increase pollution, and tear up the Paris Climate Agreement.'

Clinton and Gore 'will lay out what's at stake in this election by highlighting the urgent threat of climate change – a defining challenge of the 21st century that threatens our health, our economy, our security, and our children's futures,' according to Clinton's campaign.