media juggernaut and "environmentalist-in-chief" Al Gore, who's been making the rounds lately

when people make changes in their own lives, they are much more likely to become part of a critical mass of public opinion and to support the bigger policy changes that are going to be needed to really solve the problem."

we will see within the next few years a very dramatic political change

Al Gore began a fleeting visit to Australia yesterday, declaring the Iraq war a grab for oil and warning nuclear power was not the solution to climate change.

asked by his "good friend" former prime minister Bob Hawke whether he agreed with former US Federal Reserve Bank chairman Alan Greenspan's controversial claims the Iraq war was largely about oil.

Mr Gore eventually said: "And the answer is a qualified yes."

Mr Gore spurred on the global warming debate with his hit film An Inconvenient Truth and is Down Under to train a group of volunteers to deliver the film's messages to audiences.

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