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Former Vice President Al Gore brought a stark message to the Senate on Wednesday: A new climate change treaty is critical to continuing human life on Earth. The Nobel Peace Prize winner urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to push for a U.S.-brokered treaty in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the United Nations will host a climate change conference. Only the United States can lead such an effort, he said. “This is the one challenge that could completely end human civilization, and it is rushing at us with such speed and force,” said Gore, who won an Oscar for the...

Washington, D.C. was cold as ice when Al Gore slid into the Senate Wednesday. But the former vice president turned up the heat, warning of “the one challenge that could completely end human civilization.” No, he didn’t mean a sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.” He meant global warming. On a day when “a layer of sleet and freezing rain blanketed the Washington area,” Gore told everyone it was going to get warmer. A lot warmer. But never fear. Gore is certain that all scientists know what they are doing and all agree –- though they don’t. As he put it,...

Al Gore is killing the planet. An investigation in 2007 by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research found his 10,000-square-foot, 20-room mansion in Nashville consumes more electricity in a month than the average household does in a year, and it burns nearly $1,100 a month in natural gas. Mr. Gore travels extensively, often in limos and private jets, to promote himself and the cockamamie global-warming theory, which Mother Nature has spent the last decade refuting by lowering the earth's average temperature by more than 1 F even as atmospheric levels of greenhouse-gas emissions have increased. On the carbon-footprint scale, Mr....

Polar bears could avoid extinction despite many starving to death in coming years, according to scientists and other observers who have discovered that some of the bears have found a new food source — goose and duck eggs. Meanwhile, snow geese are thriving near the western Hudson Bay, and researchers say there are in fact too many of them. Their eggs can be a good food source, researchers report in the online version of the journal Polar Biology. The geese nest on tundra that some bears have retreated to.

Abstract: President-elect Barack Obama said attacking global climate change is a "matter of urgency" that will create jobs as he got advice from Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the issue. Obama made clear he would adopt an aggressive approach to global warming when he takes over the White House on January 20. He and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met for nearly two hours with Gore at Obama's presidential transition office in Chicago. Obama hopes addressing climate change can create the kind of jobs that will help pull the U.S. economy out of a...

If there's one document on global warming policymakers might put in their briefcase, this would be it. On Monday, scientists and government officials gather in Valencia, Spain to put together the fourth and last U.N. report on the state of global warming and what it will mean to hundreds of millions of people whose lives are being dramatically altered. Unlike the past three tomes, this one will have little new data. Instead, it will distill the previous work into a compact guide of roughly 30 pages that summarizes complex science into language politicians and bureaucrats can understand. It will be...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a possible new threat to her presidential ambitions. Former Vice President Al Gore has again been entertaining offers to run for president. Gore has been discussing a run for a third party nomination with family and close aides. "Al Gore has been energized by the attention he's been receiving as America's leading environmentalist," a political source close to Gore said. "He believes this might present an opportunity to become president or at least try again." Sources close to Gore said Ralph Nader has sought to recruit the former vice president to run as the candidate...