U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) sits with former Vice President Al Gore after a private meeting at Obama's transition office in Chicago on December 9, 2008. Vice President-elect Joe Biden also attended the meeting where an Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey/POOL) | License Photo

President-elect Barack Obama (C) sits with Vice President-elect Joe Biden (L) and former Vice President Al Gore after a private meeting at Obama's transition office in Chicago on December 9, 2008. An Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey/POOL) | License Photo

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (L) sits with former Vice President Al Gore after a private meeting at Obama's transition office in Chicago on December 9, 2008. Vice President-elect Joe Biden also attended the meeting where an Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey/POOL) | License Photo

President-elect Barack Obama (C) sits with Vice President-elect Joe Biden (L) and former Vice President Al Gore after a private meeting at Obama's transition office in Chicago on December 9, 2008. An Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey/POOL) | License Photo

Former Vice President Al Gore sits after a private meeting with President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden at Obama's transition office in Chicago on December 9, 2008. An Obama spokesman said the three men discussed energy and climate change and how policies in those areas could help the economy. (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey/POOL) | License Photo

POZNAN, Poland, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says the world needs to drop its obsession with celebrities and concentrate on saving future generations from global warming.

Gore, trying to rally delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference that concluded Friday in Poznan, Poland, used soaring rhetoric to urge participants to renew their moral commitments to fight to end global warming, The Daily Telegraph reported.


"The political systems of the developed world have become sclerotic," he said. "We have to overcome the paralysis that has prevented us from acting and focus clearly and unblinkingly on this crisis rather than spending so much time on O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith."

The conference ended in harsh criticism of the European Union for failing to move forward on emission standards. Gore, however, said help was on the way from U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his "new green deal," which he predicted would be copied all around the world, the Telegraph reported.

"Once he (Obama) is president, the (United States) will engage vigorously in theses negotiations and help to lead the world toward a new era on global co-operation on climate change," Gore said.