According to The Times Online, an England based publication, Al Gore, while speaking at Oxford's Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sought to invoke the words of Winston Churchill to bolster the political fight against global warming.  In his remarks Gore said:

“Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II. We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

Gore continued:

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Meanwhile, back on this side of the pond, the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee held the first of what is expected to be many hearings on a national cap-and-trade system.  However, the Wall Street Journal reports that, “the political climate for the cap-and-trade system remains tough in the Senate,” despite the Democrat’s 60-seat majority. The Journal wrote, “The cap-and-trade system makes even some Democrats nervous, especially those from states that extract energy and minerals and rely on heavy industry.”

The challenges in the Senate have the makings of a triumphant return for Gore to his old stomping grounds, where once again he may call up on the words of Churchill, with his own global warming twist.

Perhaps Gore will say:

“Even though large tracts of Congress and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of their constituents and all the odious apparatus of those opposed to Cap and Trade, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, and we shall cap them at their businesses, we shall cap them at their schools, we shall cap them at their churches, we shall cap them at their homes - we shall never stop capping until in God's good time, the global warming prophets, with all their power and might, step forth to the rescue and liberation of the Earth from its pesky human inhabitants.”

Despite Gore’s push for climate action, recent polling shows that a majority of Americans don’t want to pay to fight climate change.  In fact, some small businesses have even take exception to Congresses move toward a national cap-and-trade system.