[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 739 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 739

 Honoring Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental Panel on 
         Climate Change, Winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 15, 2007

 Mr. Cooper submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental Panel on 
         Climate Change, Winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Whereas Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., has been a student of the global climate change 
        phenomenon for more than 40 years, dating back to undergraduate studies 
        with Professor Roger Revelle;
Whereas, in 1982, as a U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, Gore held the first 
        Congressional hearings on global warming;
Whereas Gore continued to lead the fight for responsible environmental policies 
        as a U.S. Senator, writing the best-selling book Earth in the Balance;
Whereas, in 1992, Gore was elected forty-fifth vice president of the United 
        States, a position he used to bring new awareness to environmental 
        protection, focusing on the reduction of fossil fuel consumption and 
        greenhouse gas emissions;
Whereas, throughout the 1990s, Gore continued his environmental leadership as 
        vice president, developing a youth education program and negotiating the 
        Kyoto Protocol;
Whereas, in recent years, Gore has renewed and strengthened his call for urgent 
        action on global warming, launching an investment fund and touring the 
        world to present his slide show;
Whereas Gore participated in the film An Inconvenient Truth, which set box-
        office records, won numerous awards and accolades, including the 2006 
        Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, produced a best-selling 
        companion book and generated new levels of public awareness about global 
        warming;
Whereas, in 2007, Gore has continued to pioneer initiatives to fight global 
        warming, including the Virgin Earth Challenge and a series of Live Earth 
        concerts around the world;
Whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by 
        the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations 
        Environmental Program in 1988 with a mission of understanding and 
        assessing human-induced climate change;
Whereas the IPCC is made up of thousands of scientists and officials from around 
        the world, working in concert to gain new insights into global climate 
        change, and is chaired by Rajendra Kumar Pachauri of India;
Whereas the IPCC develops the scientific consensus necessary for humankind to 
        address the challenges set forth by this crisis; and
Whereas, on October 12, 2007, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2007 
        Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental 
        Panel on Climate Change ``for their efforts to build up and disseminate 
        greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the 
        foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such 
        change,'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the United States House of Representatives hereby 
honors Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change, 2007, recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, for their 
longstanding leadership in confronting global climate change; the 
United States House of Representatives affirms that human-induced 
climate change is an urgent problem that must be confronted by all 
people of the world; and the United States House of Representatives 
accepts as its own challenge and calls upon citizens of the United 
States to find ways to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that 
contribute to changing of Earth's climate, the peace, security and 
prosperity of this Nation and world demanding it.
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