This must be payback for all those nice things we said about Tony Blair....
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http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=135599David Cameron praised by Al GoreDavid Cameron has been praised by former US Vice President Al Gore for the pioneering lead he has given to the campaign to combat climate change.
Mr Gore said the Conservative Leader had played a key role in making Britain the "premier example" of a nation state actively engaged in the fight against global warming.
Addressing a meeting of Shadow Ministers at the new environmentally-friendly Conservative Campaign Headquarters in central London, the international campaigner declared: "The fact that both your political parties are competing vigorously to offer solutions is very important. I can assure you that people around the world really are watching and are appreciating the quality of this debate."
He also highlighted the contribution of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - who studied chemistry before entering politics. "With her training and background in chemistry she was ahead of the game, and when the scientists gave her the briefings she was able to ask molecule by molecule (what it meant). And she did," he added.
Mr Gore, who has been touted as a possible contender at the next US presidential election, said there was an appetite among the public for meaningful action against global warming.
"There's a deep and unsatisfied hunger on the part of voters in many countries to be challenged with a presentation of what the real problems are and what the real solutions - though they may be difficult - might actually be," he said.
Before the meeting with shadow ministers, Mr Gore spent more than an hour privately meeting senior party figures including Mr Cameron and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, as well as environmental advisors including Zac Goldsmith and John Gummer.
Mr Gore recently won an Oscar for his documentary on climate change: An Inconvenient Truth.
