It's Icy in Washington, but the Nobel Prize-Winner and Former Vice President Has the Dangers of Global Warming on His Mind
With the Washington, D.C. encased in ice from a winter storm, climate change crusader Al Gore argued for President Obama's economic stimulus plan, saying it will help fight global warming.
Despite the deep freeze outside Capitol Hill, the former vice president urged lawmakers to move quickly to make investments in renewable energy and clean cars to address the "dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis."
The former vice president appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to promote Obama's economic recovery package. "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," Gore argued.
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