110 HRES 197 IH: Commending Vice President Al Gore on his U.S. House of Representatives 2007-02-27 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IV 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 197 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 27, 2007 Mr. Engel submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform RESOLUTION Commending Vice President Al Gore on his well-deserved recognition for the Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

Whereas Vice President Al Gore has worked tirelessly for over 30 years to increase awareness of the dangers of global warming; Whereas Vice President Gore’s climate change work was recently documented in the widely acclaimed film, An Inconvenient Truth; Whereas An Inconvenient Truth was recognized as the best documentary film at the 79th Annual Academy Awards; Whereas according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global temperatures are likely to increase by 2 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2100; Whereas this rise in temperature has resulted in and will continue to result in a rise in sea levels, higher incidence of drought, strengthened hurricanes, and an increase in the number of severe weather events; Whereas the rise in global temperatures has already had severe impacts in the Arctic, including the thawing of permafrost, the retreating of glaciers, and the thinning of ice sheets; Whereas the international scientific consensus is that global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels; Whereas there are many actions we can take now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without harming our economy, including investing in renewable sources of energy and dramatically increasing energy efficiency; Whereas the film An Inconvenient Truth allowed Vice President Gore to reach millions with his message about the dangers of climate change and our ability to avert the worst of these dangers; Whereas Al Gore was also recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming; and Whereas the Vice President’s labors have finally helped create the public will to seriously address the climate change crisis: Now, therefore, be it

That the House of Representatives— (1)congratulates Vice President Al Gore on the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film being given to An Inconvenient Truth on February 25, 2007; (2)commends director Davis Guggenheim and producers Lawrence Bender and Laurie David for having the foresight to turn Vice President Gore’s work on climate change into a documentary that has entertained and informed millions of people around the globe; (3)recognizes the role of Vice President Gore in making climate change one of the major issues of the 110th Congress; (4)expresses hope that the Congress and the President will have the wisdom and the political will to enact meaningful climate change legislation; and (5)directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to Vice President Al Gore.