Associated Press: Gore, who won a Nobel prize for his work on global warming, called the climate issue the most important ever before Congress. A Democratic bill limiting carbon dioxide and other pollution linked to a warming of the Earth will simultaneously solve the problems of the climate, economy and national security, he told a House panel. “We are, along with the rest of humanity, facing the dire and growing threat of the climate crisis,” said Gore, who argued that Congress must act to “restore …