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GORE WANTS REMARKS ON GLOBAL WARMING KEPT PRIVATE
kutv.com
July 9, 2005

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_190185400.html

SUNDANCE, UTAH - Organizers of a global-warming conference say former Vice
President Al Gore will give his keynote remarks privately so he can speak
³candidly² to a group including 45 mayors from big and small cities across
the country.

The rest of the conference, which starts in this sweltering city before
moving to actor Robert Redfordıs Sundance mountain resort, will be open to
the media and selected guests amid tightened security because of Thursdayıs
deadly bomb attack in London on subway cars and a double-decker bus.

A larger contingent of Utah troopers and city police, some in plain clothes,
have been assigned to guard the conference and reporters will have to obtain
security badges, said Michelle Wyman, executive director of the
U.N.-sponsored International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.

The conference opens Sunday afternoon in Salt Lake City and runs through
Tuesday at Redford's Wasatch Mountain resort east of Provo, Utah.
Participants will include scientists, energy officials and private sponsors.

None of it will be opened to the general public, Wyman said.

Another featured speaker will be former U.S. Energy Secretary and New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson, who will talk about ³State Leadership on Climate
Protection² over breakfast Monday at the Salt Lake City Library.

Richardson canceled his appearance Friday, but his staff called back
Saturday asking to reschedule the appearance, Wyman said.

Gore, the Democratsı 2000 presidential nominee and author of a book on
climate change, is scheduled to deliver a ³State of the Climate² address
over dinner Monday at Sundance.

Organizers have sought out media attention for the three-day conference but
say Gore wants to keep his speech to mayors off-limits.

Gore approach organizers two weeks ago asking to be included, but ³his
people have been very clear they do not wish to have the press,² said Wyman,
who said she was trying Saturday to get Gore to reconsider.

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson helped organize the conference and has
been promoting his cityıs efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The
city buys some wind power, converts sewer plant methane into energy, uses
low-energy LED lights in traffic signals and runs 79 vehicles on natural
gas.

³Iıve put on presentations all over the world about the kinds of things
weıre doing here and the results we've achieved,² he said.

³None of this is meant to be political. Of course we're disappointed our
national government isn't providing leadership,² the second-term Democrat
said.

Explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau will be part of a panel at Sundance Monday
afternoon on ³Why You Should Care² about global warming.

³This conference is about tangible steps being taken all across the country²
by local governments to reduce emissions, Redford said. ³They want to save
money, protect the environment and improve public health. Itıs that simple.²

Redford is no newcomer to climate change. In 1989, he sponsored a conference
at Sundance for top Soviet scientists he had met while attending a film
festival in their country. Redford credits Soviet scientists for being among
the first to recognize human-induced climate change decades ago.

³Iım just sad that all these years went by and we had to watch no action
being taken,² Redford said. ³Itıs a global issue now. There are people all
over the world who are accepting responsibility for this. But not our
country.²

ICLEI is paying the lodging bill at Sundance for participants. The
organization counts among its members 470 cities, towns and counties and
their associations around the world. A dozen other sponsors, from Pew
Charitable Trusts to the snack maker Clif Bar, will pick up other costs.

Among expected participants are the mayors of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Seattle
and Washington as well as those of such small cities as Eden Prairie, Minn.;
Euless, Texas; and Keene, N.H.

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