Former vice president and Nobel Peace laureate Al Gore told an audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Friday that we need to use the latest web tools to organize a social movement to help rescue the earth from climate change. Gore, who has been an advisor to Google, on the board of directors for Apple, and a cleantech venture partner with Kleiner Perkins, said in the same way that Barack Obama was elected with the help of the power of the Internet, fighting climate change will need the same type of collective movement driven by the web.

The enormous climate crisis needs to be understood and acknowledged as a group, so we can respond to it in a unified way Gore said, explaining the situation to the web entrepreneurs in the room as the message of the Inconvenient Truth needs to be “stored in the cloud.” There still is not an appropriate sense of urgency around this issue, said Gore.

Gore has already laid out his own extremely aggressive, energy plan for the U.S., which calls for 100 percent of U.S. electricity to come from renewables within 10 years. Gore reiterated that plan for the Web 2.0 audience, and said “we would be fools not to make a transition to renewables.”

Earlier this week Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection called for the next administration to swiftly invest in energy efficiency, clean power, a national smart grid. In the speech this afternoon, Gore also emphasized that point and said we need to connect the smart grid from the southwestern deserts and corridors of Texas — where solar and wind power will be generated — to cities.