Brits hire Al Gore as climate consultant: was that aimed at George?

It is interesting to note today's news out of the United Kingdom. Apparently a voluminous report was issued predicting the negative results of global warming on the planetary economy in future years. If one were to summarize the report, it would boil down to an assertion that it would be cheaper to reduce human CO2 outputs than to deal with the inevitable economic dislocations that would result from sticking to our current course of rapidly increasing CO2 outputs.  The report does not say that either course of action is inexpensive- it merely says that the costs of solving the problem are enormous, but small when compared to the costs of doing nothing. 

Not satisfied at merely picking a large hole in the Republican Party USA position on global warming, the British government went further. They hired Al Gore, our President's opponent in the 2000 election, as a consultant to advise them on ways to reduce future CO2 output.

Was this a slap at George Bush to express Tony Blair's resentment of the lack of cooperation he has experienced in trying to get the current administration onto the global warming bandwagon?