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Sat 02 Feb 2009Level of climate change 'without precedent' - Gore
Former US vice president Al Gore exhorted scientists to "get involved" in warning the public about the dangers posed by climate change. "This is a task for all of us. This is no time to sit back, this is a historic struggle," he told an audience in Chicago.
Mr Gore was speaking last night during a special address to an invited audience at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. The current level of climatic change is "without precedent", he stated. The capacity to do something was there, all that was required was the political will to make it happen.
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