IV 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 197 

Commending Vice President Al Gore on his well-deserved recognition for 

the Academy Award-winning documentary, ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth’’. 

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 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) congratulates Vice President Al Gore on the 

3 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film being 


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1 given to ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth’’ on February 25, 

2 2007; 

3 (2) commends director Davis Guggenheim and 

4 producers Lawrence Bender and Laurie David for 

5 having the foresight to turn Vice President Gore’s 

6 work on climate change into a documentary that has 

7 entertained and informed millions of people around 

8 the globe; 

9 (3) recognizes the role of Vice President Gore 

10 in making climate change one of the major issues of 

11 the 110th Congress; 

12 (4) expresses hope that the Congress and the 

13 President will have the wisdom and the political will 

14 to enact meaningful climate change legislation; and 

15 (5) directs the Clerk of the House of Represent16 atives to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution 

17 to Vice President Al Gore. 

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