Gore meeting with LDS leaders today

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Al Gore is huddling later today with LDS Church leaders in Salt Lake City.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. vice president requested the dinnertime meeting to discuss climate change and its solutions, sources said.

Gore will have a brief courtesy visit with President Thomas S. Monson before meeting with other church leaders.

Background discussions like this are common both for Mormon leaders and for Gore. No public appearances or statements in connection with the meeting are scheduled.

Gore served as vice president to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001 and lost his bid to become president in 2000. He won an Academy Award for his documentary on the global climate crisis, "An Inconvenient Truth," in 2006. Along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Gore won the peace prize the following year.

The 13.2-million-member LDS Church has not issued any formal statements on global warming. But leaders included the iconic Salt Lake Temple in the worldwide "Earth Hour" lights-out event Saturday to bring attention to the issue.

"Prudent stewardship and wise use of resources are principles that church leaders have emphasized throughout the history of the church," spokesman Scott Trotter said in announcing the church's involvement. "The church encourages its members to join with their fellow citizens in supporting worthy programs that will make their communities better places to live and raise their families."