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 Pro-
fessor 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 en-
vironmental policies as a U.S. Senator, writing the best- 
selling 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 environ-
mental 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 pub-
lic awareness about global warming; 
Whereas, in 2007, Gore has continued to pioneer initiatives 
to fight global warming, including the Virgin Earth Chal-
lenge and a series of Live Earth concerts around the 
world; 
Whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
(IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Or-
ganization and the United Nations Environmental Pro-
gram in 1988 with a mission of understanding and as-
sessing 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 Com-
mittee awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Ar-
nold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-
mate Change ‘‘for their efforts to build up and dissemi-
nate 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 Rep-
resentatives 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, secu-
rity and prosperity of this Nation and world demanding 
it. 
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