Former vice president calls for U.S. to reduce greenhouse emissionshttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23881040/MSNBC staff and news service reports
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nobel prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, $300 million advocacy campaign calling for the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The "We" campaign by Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection will combine advertising and online organizing with grassroots groups. It is aimed at educating the public about global warming and urging solutions from elected officials.
"This climate crisis is so interwoven with habits and patterns that are so entrenched, the elected officials in both parties are going to be timid about enacting the bold changes that are needed until there is a change in the public's sense of urgency in addressing this crisis," Gore told The Washington Post.
Gore said the campaign will be funded, in part, from all his profits from the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and its companion book, his salary from the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and his $750,000 share of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize cash award.
Gore reiterated his intention of staying out of the presidential race and asked DU'ers to cease and desist bringing up the topic every 12th post.
OK, I added that last line myself.