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To: SiouxPal who wrote (69252)	5/31/2006 2:43:23 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361353

Climate right for Gore run in 2008 ___________________________________________________________ By Peter Wilson Europe correspondent The Australian 31 may 06 AL Gore wowed Britain's top literary festival yesterday, a week after his film on climate change won a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival. The former US vice-president's triumphant appearances in Europe are being closely watched in the US, where Democratic Party strategists are wondering whether voters in the 2008 presidential election might share the new enthusiasm for the man who narrowly lost to George W. Bush in 2000. "I used to be the next president of the United States," Gore said in his standard self-deprecating introduction, but he is clearly revelling in having regained the status of "potential next president". At 58, Gore is rapidly gaining momentum as a possible challenger to frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, and that momentum can only be helped by suggestions that his film An Inconvenient Truth could win this year's Oscar for best documentary. Gore's main role in Cannes was to introduce the film, but at the book festival in the small Welsh village of Hay on Wye yesterday he spoke for 90 minutes without showing the film and more than 2000 people paid pound stg. 35 ($85) to hear him. Gore insists his motivation in returning to the spotlight after six years of keeping a relatively low profile is to raise awareness of climate change, rather than to revive his political career. But when it was put to him in a discussion before his address that his refusal to rule out a 2008 comeback was gaining attention for his environmental campaign, he conceded he had long learned the value of "constructive ambiguity". Graydon Carter, influential editor of the glossy magazine Vanity Fair, travelled to Hay for the annual book festival, where he called Gore's film "the most important documentary that will come out this year or any year". Carter, a fierce Bush critic, said Gore had two credentials any successful Democrat candidate needed: a record of opposing the Iraq war and a commitment to fight climate change. Gore could hardly be more committed to the issue of climate change. "What we face is an emergency," Gore said yesterday. "This is not hyperbole. It's an accurate description of a reality that has been completed by an utter transformation of the basic relationship between the human species and our planet." He complained that most economists and business leaders had ignored the importance of climate change, but invoked comments by Mike Hawker, the head of IAG, Australia's largest domestic insurance company, as proof that some businesses were getting the point. "The CEO of the largest insurance company in Australia, IAG, just made a statement last month saying we have to 'consider the economic impact of global warming' because there has been a linear increase in 'environmental catastrophe'." Hawker had said: "The greatest risk facing insurers in the next four years and beyond is climate change." When a woman in the audience called out that Gore should run for president, he said that was not his plan. "I honestly believe the role I can most usefully play is to try to change the minds of the American people ... about what this crisis is all about, and why it must be priority number one."