The fight against climate change in the U.S. is getting billions of VC dollars for tech innovation, the attention of presidential candidates, and game-changing legislation. So what else could it possibly need? Better advertising, at least according to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

Gore is working with the non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection to launch a $300 million, three-year-long online and TV ad campaign that advocates carbon-reducing policies, according to the Washington Post. The group, which was founded by Gore, has just put its first ad online; check it out below. The “We” campaign is also slated to launch Wednesday on TV. One spot will supposedly feature the bizarre duo of Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton bonding over climate change policy — and that will convince…?

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What kind of Americans are starting to watch video shows on cell phone screens? According to data from Nielsen, middle-aged men with high incomes. That proves the price point is just too high right now — oh yeah, and rich old men always have all the fun.

Nielsen is launching a mobile stat service called Nielsen Wireless, and has compiled some preliminary data. In the first quarter of 2007:

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Who thinks John Edward’s hair flip-n-comb video is the equivalent of the Howard Dean yelp? It’s no macaca, and pretty dated, but still. Well, if anyone could predict, it’d be the folks hanging out at the Personal Democracy Forum, which opened in New York this morning (or maybe Craig, who’s been covering this closely for NewTeeVee).

The PDF conference looks at how technology is changing politics and had speakers like NYT writer/author Thomas Friedman, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and marketingsmith Seth Godin. The online video folks were all hanging out too, with representatives from YouTube, and Blip.TV, among others. Here’s the lazyblogger’s list of 3 bits for the ‘YouTube candidate’:

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Looks like a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing — or maybe some old hockey puck head injuries are haunting the NHL folks. Now the latest word from the NHL is that the problem with the blocking of some of its YouTube embeds yesterday was due to both an “internal miscommunication,” and an internal “technical glitch” which have since “been corrected.”

“Someone made a technical mistake, not deliberate, it wasn’t detected right away, once it was, it was fixed…so there was an element of both [miscommunication and technical glitch].” — NHL PR

So the NHL says it is a glitch on their end which has now been fixed. Fair enough. Hopefully that “someone” didn’t lose their job or land in the corporate penalty box.

Only other weirdness is that earlier this morning, NHL’s Mark Fischel was quoted saying that YouTube was the culprit, according to this site (the site has since been changed):

Hope things are well, and please try to get this out to the bloggers who have been talking about this. The problem was a glitch in the system on Youtube’s end and is fixed now. It isn’t the NHL’s policy to prevent embedding of videos.

So more miscommunication in the morning’s PR response. Final answer — NHL says we screwed up and it’s now fixed and we will still allow embedding. Game on!