"Frankly, the science is screaming at us,"

–United States Senator John Kerry (D-Mass) citing a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and the Heinz Center that found that even if the world aims for the highest goals currently on the table -- including President Obama's call for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050 -- carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would still far exceed safe levels.

And that's not all that's screaming.  It's presumable that members of Capitol Hill walked away from The Goracle's updated version of his Inconvenient Truth slide show -  now featuring bigger, badder, and scarier data - after he presented it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday.  "I urge this Congress to quickly pass the entirety of President Obama's recovery package," Al Gore said. "The plan's unprecedented and critical investments in four key areas -- energy efficiency, renewables, a unified national energy grid, and the move to clean cars -- represent an important down payment and are long overdue."

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