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By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Al Gore and a band of environmental volunteers are taking the congressional fight over climate change legislation to the home districts of undecided lawmakers.
The mission to spur congressional action marks a new phase for The Climate Project, Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday.
"We have to seize this moment, because it may not ever come around again," Gore said. "This is the time when the world is making up its mind."
The nonprofit group founded by Gore has trained about 3,000 people to deliver their own versions of the climate change slideshow that made him the star of the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and the leading U.S. voice on global warming.
At a conference this weekend in Nashville, Gore is urging the volunteers to sell voters on a "cap and trade" system, setting a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions, to counter the influence of industry lobbyists on members of Congress.
"We give their constituents the information in accessible form that the world scientific community has been hollering from the rooftops about it," he said. ( This statement is a lie, check out this website.)
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