IV 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 15, 2007 

Mr. COOPER submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

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 bestselling book Earth in the Balance; 


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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 bestselling 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; 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the United States House of Rep2 resentatives hereby honors Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and 

3 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007, 

4 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, for their longstanding 

5 leadership in confronting global climate change; the 

6 United States House of Representatives affirms that 

7 human-induced climate change is an urgent problem that 

8 must be confronted by all people of the world; and the 

9 United States House of Representatives accepts as its own 

10 challenge and calls upon citizens of the United States to 

11 find ways to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that 

12 contribute to changing of Earth’s climate, the peace, secu13 rity and prosperity of this Nation and world demanding 

14 it. 

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