Al Gore - Climate missing from U.S. elections

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore said on Monday the U.S. presidential election campaign had paid insufficient attention to the environment and climate change.

Gore's Nobel Peace Prize intensifies Global Warming debate

Al Gore shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize with the United Nations for his efforts to make global warming a pressing global issue.

Within hours of the announcement, pundits across the country were debating whether Gore deserved the award and whether global warming is really the threat the former vice president says it is.

Gore is the first American to win the coveted international honor since Jimmy Carter in 2002.

Gore says the bottom line is, "We face a true planetary emergency."

He says it is not a political issue, but rather a "moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

Critics, however, question whether global warming is a threat to the planet, or just part of a continuing cycle of climate change.

They also question whether, as Gore says, man is the cause of the rise in global temperatures.

Gore says he'll donate his share of the $1.5 million award that goes with the prize to a non-profit alliance devoted to spreading the message about the urgency of the climate crisis.

Gore Says Our Planet Is Burning Up

"The planet is burning up and the only way to save it from destruction is to act now - individuals must conserve energy and governments must change laws to reduce carbon emissions, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore told a Victoria audience today.

"The planet has a fever," Gore said. "We have a planetary emergency and we have to act."

The man once referred to as Gore the Bore, a failed U.S. presidential contender in 2000, is now a Hollywood star revered by his most enthusiastic fans as "The Goracle," after his 100-minute slide-show documentary An Inconvenient Truth about global warming released last year." |Read more|

Gore Wants Regular Summits On Global Warming

"The world's top leaders should meet every three months, starting next year, until a plan is drawn up to reduce emissions blamed for global warming, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said on Monday.

Gore, who has made climate change his signature issue since leaving the White House, told a U.N. meeting that presidents and prime ministers should go to Bali this year for talks on a follow-up pact to the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012.

Traditionally, environment ministers or lower-level negotiators attend the annual U.N. climate change talks, but Gore said leaders should go from now on and then have follow-up meetings." |Read more|

Al Gore opens FEX SIM Launch

"The launch of a clean technology market on Wednesday had some serious pulling power including the former United States vice-president Al Gore.

Mr Gore was at the launch in Sydney of the FEX Sustainability and Cleantech Investment Market (FEX-SIM), and spoke about global warming and the opportunities it presented for businesses and for companies aiming to become sustainable." |Read more|

New Jersey's Global Warming Response Act

The State of New Jersey is doing its part to fight global warming. Please view video: