The government has the power to take more action against global warming. According to a Bloomberg Poll, 74% of American believe the government needs to take more action against global warming. The United States is the only power nation in the world NOT to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international effort to reduce emissions that change the climate. It doesn't matter what political party you favor, climate change is something that effects every one of us. So when it comes time to vote, take the time to learn about candidate's positions and voting records on environmental issues. Not only with the Presidential election, but also in your home state. The stand against global warming needs to start at the state level.

To learn more about where candidates stand on certain issues, visit www.ontheissues.com.

AL GORE MEETS BARRACK OBAMA, DECEMBER 9th 2008

The man who has won the White House will meet today with the man who fell 537 votes of winning the White House, yet a man who shares a Nobel Prize for his work on climate control. One is hot, hot hot at the moment, the other intent on averting global warming.

President-elect Barack Obama's meeting in Chicago today with former Vice President Al Gore comes in a week of expected announcements of the next elements of Obama's leadership team. He has announced the economic team, and the national security team. Now comes the green team.

Watch for Energy and Interior secretaries this week, and perhaps a new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Dont watch for Gore in the lineup, though.

Gore, who is on his way this week to Poland to meet with delegates from 190 countries debating a new global climate-change treaty, has said that he can probably be more effective as an advocate for the environment as a private citizen. He will meet today with Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to discuss energy and climate change and how to make policies on those fronts tools for improving the economy.

The massive public works program that Obama will propose -- seeking 2.5 million new jobs over the next couple of years -- will include projects that make Americans more energy efficient in the process of employing people: Installing meters that provide an accurate and current reading on energy consumption and savings, installing new insulation and roofs. The three plan to issue a statement after their meeting.

Think of it as a few former senators sitting around brainstorming. Think anyone might talk about the Sunshine State in the process, the place where Gore fell just a few hundred votes shy of becoming the 43rd president and where Obama racked up a 2.5 percentage point lead in the amassing of the electoral mandate that made him the 44th?

Not likely.

The talk at the transition team's table today is more likely to turn toward glacial melting than electoral landslides. And this is a remarkable discussion, near the end of an administration that rode that disputed Florida election in 2000 to victory and took the better part of eight years to acknowledge that man might have something to do with global warming. It' may be a Red, White and Blue Christmas at the Bush White House this season, but Obama will soon be painting the place green.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, by AL GORE

No politician has done more to try and help the environment than Al Gore. After losing the presidential election to then-Texas Gov. George Bush in 2000, Gore returned to the nation's political main stage with "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary film detailing global warming's effects on the planet, in 2006. The widely acclaimed film went on to win an Academy Award for best documentary in 2007. In the movie, Gore explains how the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have grown exponentially in the last few decades and how that has lead to changes in the Earth's climate, such as shrinking polar ice caps and an increase in the number of hurricanes and other violent storms. To counteract the effects of global warming, Gore has pushed for polices that would reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, such as greater energy conservation and the development of alternative energy sources like wind and solar energy. Gore has also advocated for governments to tax the emission of carbon dioxide. Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for increasing awareness of the climate change issue and for advocating for policies that could potentially offset the effects of global warming. Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for increasing awareness of the climate change issue and for advocating for policies that could potentially offset the effects of global warming. Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for increasing awareness of the climate change issue and for advocating for policies that could potentially offset the effects of global warming.

THE FACTS

The United States is the only power nation in the world NOT to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an international effort to reduce emissions that change the climate.