AAP: Environment crusader Al Gore says Australia has the chance to put pressure on the United States to accept the Kyoto Protocol. The former vice president of the United States told an elite gathering that Americans would sit up and take notice if Australia embraced the Kyoto Protocol, which addresses climate change. "Australia has a chance to exert a lot of leverage right now," Mr Gore told the $1,000 a seat dinner in Melbourne’s Docklands. He said the fact that …