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During his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, former-Vice President, and yes I believe he was elected president in 2000, Al Gore spoke of the calamitous effects global warming will confront humanity with as he urged senators to adopt a binding carbon cap proposal designed to control greenhouse gasses, in addition to pledging U.S. support for the upcoming Copenhagen Summit next December that will construct an international climate change agreement.
Mr. Gore provided the committee with a commentary that was reinforced by his use of slides to focus the senators' attention for the need to take quick action to support President Obama's stimulus plan which is filled with billions of dollars in expenditures for alternative energy projects.
“The plan’s unprecedented and critical investments in four key areas -– energy efficiency, renewables, a unified national energy smart grid and the move to clean cars –- represent an important down payment and are long overdue,” The New York Times reported that Mr. Gore said. “These crucial investments will create millions of new jobs and hasten our economic recovery, while strengthening our national security and beginning to solve the climate crisis.”
The committee chairman, Senator John Kerry, in response to Mr. Gore's testimony said: Frankly, the science is screaming at us," Kerry sympathetically added "A global problem demands a global effort, and today we are working toward a solution with a role for developed and developing countries alike, which will be vital as we work to build consensus here at home in tough economic times," the Washington Post reported.
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