Al Gore-Bill Clinton Reunite on Global Issues

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NEW YORK (AP) — Global warming, poverty, health and education took center stage at the opening of Clinton Global Initiative conference Wednesday as former President Clinton and his vice president, Al Gore, briefly reunited on a common cause.

Although there has been a chill in their relationship, the two Democrats spoke warmly of each other. Clinton praised Gore for his environmental activism, and Gore plugged Clinton's new book.

Gore, who won an Academy Award for his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," had appeared at the United Nations across town on Monday, where he cited a lengthening list of global warming's impacts and urged world leaders to act now.

"This climate crisis is not going to be solved only by personal actions and business actions," Gore said Wednesday at the Clinton conference. "We need changes in laws, changes in policies, we need leadership and we need a new treaty."

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