Former Vice President Al Gore, a crusader for protecting the environment, left a New York City march for climate change in a Chevrolet Suburban SUV, according to Breitbart News.
Politicians like Gore, celebrities and tens of thousands of demonstrators marched the streets of Manhattan on Sunday calling for more climate protection ahead of a United Nations summit this week.
But the Nobel Peace Prize winner was seen leaving the scene in the SUV, suspected to be a Suburban LT model, Breitbart News reported. It is not clear if the SUV is an environmentally friendly flex fuel vehicle.
As of Tuesday it is not clear if Gore responded to the claims.
Gore has previously come under fire for using too much energy at his mansion in Nashville, Tennessee. The house allegedly used more energy in one month than used by the average U.S. household in a year, according to a 2013 report from The Florida Times-Union.
The report was based on a 2007 viral email that compared how green the mansion was compared to former President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. That was around the same time Gore won an Oscar for his documentary on the importance of climate change titled "An Inconvenient Truth," the newspaper reported.
Slogans like "save the earth, eliminate capitalism" were seen at the People's Climate March, said to be the largest march for climate change in history, Newsday reported. Thousands of corresponding marches were held in over 150 countries.
At the march, which began in the Upper West Side and moved to midtown, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to reduce the city's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
The march comes as President Barack Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders are to meet Tuesday to discuss forming an international agreement on reducing global carbon emissions.
