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LAS VEGAS Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the United States should become what she called the worlds 21st-century clean energy superpower, during remarks resembling both a campaign speech and a call to action at the annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

Clinton cast the threat of global climate change as real, and the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges faced by the nation and the world.

The data is unforgiving, the former New York senator and first lady said to a standing room crowd of more than 800 people at a Las Vegas Strip resort. No matter what the deniers try to assert. Sea levels are rising. Ice caps are melting. Storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc.

The threat is real but so is the opportunity, she said.

Clinton, widely considered a leading Democratic candidate for president, used her speech to plug her book, Hard Choices, and the work of the Clinton Climate Initiative arm of a foundation founded in 2005 by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

She also segued into the topic of the day at the seventh annual green energy conference hosted by U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Clinton credited northern Nevadas selection for a $5 billion Tesla automobile battery plant to the emergence of Nevada as a leader in solar, wind and geothermal energy projects.

She also cited a quote by Robert Lang, director of Brookings Mountain West, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, comparing the promised investment in the Tesla plant near Reno to the importance of the 1930s Hoover Dam project on the Colorado River east of Las Vegas.

Nevada was competitive because it had already invested in green energy, solar, geothermal and wind, Clinton said.

Clintons speech to a standing-room crowd of more than 800 marked her return to the Las Vegas Strip hotel where a 36-year-old Phoenix woman was arrested in April after throwing a shoe but missing Clinton on stage. Security was tight, with federal agents and local police visible, and there was no similar disruption on Thursday.

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Hillary Clinton: U.S. should lead on clean energy