Scholar Calls For Obama To Send Al Gore To North Korea

Selig Harrison, Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, says President Barack Obama is not taking the necessary steps to appease the North Korean crisis. Harrison explains that not sending Al Gore to North Korea is a mistake because the former Vice President could try to negotiate the liberation of the two Current TV journalists currently detained in North Korea. Al Gore could also reduce the tensions between the North Korea and the international community. (0:28)
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Al Gore Supports Carbon Tax

Former Vice President Al Gore states that he thinks cap-and-trade is the essential first step to use the economy to solve the global warming crisis. (00:30)
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Al Gore Looks To The Future

Former Vice President Al Gore, testifying before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, states that future generations will look at this moment in history and either ask, "Why did you let this happen?" or, "How did you find the moral courage... to rise to solve a moral crisis?" (01:07)
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Climate Crisis: Al Gore says that the time for action is now.

“We need a transformation in public policy thinking to embrace the reality of what science is telling us, accept its implications, and then act in accordance with the full scope and urgency of the problem,” said senator John F. Kerry at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. The committee met to hear testimony from Al Gore concerning what America should be doing to address the climate crisis.

Kerry said, “Some may argue that we cannot afford to address this issue in the midst of an economic crisis. They have it fundamentally wrong. This is a moment of enormous opportunity for new technology, new jobs, and the greening of our economy. We can’t afford not to act.” Senator Kerry stressed the importance of America taking a stance on caring for the environment with a new administration that will finally be supportive of these efforts.

Former Vice-President Al Gore said that “We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth- is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.” Gore expressed concern that people seem to think that the planet and our way of life has to be a choice, when in fact, “solutions to the climate crisis are the very same solutions that will address our economic and national security crisis as well.”

by Suzia van Swol, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
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Former Vice-President Al Gore speaks at Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Former Vice-President Al Gore speaks at a Climate Change hearing and says that "we must take bold action now" in order to find solutions for our climate crisis which will lead to solutions for our economic and national security problems as well. We are buying foreign oil and using burning it in ways that destroy our planet. Gore says that "the first step is already before us. I urge this congress to quickly pass the entirety of President Obama's Recovery Package." (1:25)

by Suzia van Swol and Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
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Senator John F. Kerry speaks at Climate Change Hearing

Sen. John Kerry speaks at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Climate change and says that, "We need a transformation in public policy thinking to embrace the reality of what science is telling us." We need to come to terms with the implications of the climate problems that we face because the consequences will be catastrophic if we don't.(0:47)

by Suzia van Swol and Candyce Torres, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service
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