"The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization."

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Source: Climate change report: 'The worst is yet to come' - as it happened by Helen Davidson, Adam Vaughan, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2014.

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Al Gore

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Al Gore is an American politician and environmentalist known for his advocacy on climate change and his influential work, 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

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