n March, 2007, former Vice President Al Gore testified in front of Congress and urged them to make some very challenging changes in national policy. These include:
- Freeze carbon production at the current level and create programs to reduce carbon production by 90 percent by 2050
- Shift taxation from employment and production to a taxation upon pollution
- Create an international treaty that would effectively comply with the Kyoto treaty without carrying the same perceived political baggage
- Halt the construction of all new coal-based power facilities unless they comply with restrictions on carbon production
- Increase emission standards across the board for both the automobile industry and power facilities
- Ban incandescent light bulbs
