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Al Gore has been slammed by critics for his over the top predictions when it comes to global warming. His film, 'An Inconvenient Truth' grabbed an Oscar from the fawning crowd in Hollywood and on Wednesday, he took his panic stricken message to Capitol Hill. He urged lawmakers to address a 'planetary emergency' by passing legislation to cut emissions that cause global warming.

Global Warming Panic Hits DC: Al Gore Declares 'Earth in Crisis'

"The consequences of inaction would be devastating to both the environment and the economy," Gore said in remarks to a joint hearing of the energy and science committees in the House of Representatives. He previously served on both panels, notes Bloomberg.

Gore called for a freeze on the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S., followed by mandatory reductions. He also backed revising the tax code to discourage such pollution; raising fuel-economy standards for cars; having the U.S. spearhead a new international climate change treaty; requiring companies to disclose their carbon emissions; and banning the construction of new coal-fired power plants that can't capture and contain carbon pollution.

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Climate change skeptics warned earlier that Gore would bring his hysteria to the beltway. The called his Oscar winning film a "sci-fi disaster" movie. "Al Gore put global warming on the map," said Marlo Lewis, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, at a Capitol Hill press conference on Friday. He called "An Inconvenient Truth" the "most politically influencing documentary."

But Lewis added: "Nearly every significant statement that Vice President Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one-sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative or wrong."

Lewis outlines these arguments in a 140-page congressional working paper released last week, ahead of Gore's trip to Washington, D.C., to provide congressional testimony on global warming today.

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He said the movie "purport[s] to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science. In reality, the film is a computer-enhanced lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing."

"The only facts and studies Gore considers are those convenient to his scare-them-green agenda," he said.