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Tue 10 Oct 2006Gore is enlisted to lobby US on climate change The British government has hired former US vice president Al Gore as a lobbyist to convince the American public that action must be taken urgently to combat the "disastrous" threat of global warming.The unusual appointment was announced yesterday following the publication in London of a major review by the government's chief economist warning of the dire consequences of failing to deal with climate change.