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Al Gore speaks at Copenhagen Climate Conference
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Despite prior communications that he would not attend the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Al Gore did in fact attend and speak at the conference last Tuesday. His floor time centered around two main issues: the U.S. Senate having enough votes to pass a climate and energy bill next April and the urgency of a binding agreement, too critical to allow for another’s year wait for additional negotiations in December 2010 at Cop16. Al Gore urged the U.N. to move up that date to July instead of December.
A number of videos of Al Gore’s speech are already available on Youtube.
Here is a personal selection:
Al Gore Campaigns to save glaciers
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