Gore Urges Obama To Take Lead On Climate Change

Gore Urges Obama To Take Lead On Climate ChangeNovember 6, 2009

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[7 min 43 sec]Add to PlaylistDownloadTranscript text sizeAAANovember 6, 2009Three years ago, former Vice President Al Gore won an Academy Award for his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming. But he hasn't given up pushing his cause: Now Gore has released a new book, called Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.

At the end of the book, he writes a hypothetical, optimistic history of an upcoming event: "In December of 2009, all the nations of the world gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, to negotiate a global treaty that many, even then, thought was impossible. Later, it was strengthened. And in 2010, an idealistic new generation took the initiative and changed the political tone in nation after nation."

But there has been warning that next month's United Nations conference in Copenhagen won't achieve a meaningful agreement on climate change.

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