Former US Vice President Al Gore, laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, lauded what he called “the best, most hopeful step” in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.
“Years from now, this meeting by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his colleagues here today may be well be looked back upon as a real turning point. Commercial interests that have been, according to the best available evidence, deceiving the American people, communicating in a fraudulent way, about the reality of the climate crisis and the dangers it poses,” the Inconvenient Truth narrator was quoted as saying by observer.com.
The overwhelming majority of scientists believe that the planet as a whole is getting hotter and that CO2 from cars and coal-burning power plants are the primary cause. But the issue has become increasingly politicized, with energy industry groups and Republican lawmakers arguing either that average temperatures are not rising or that human activity is not at fault.
