Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize
Posted on | October 12, 2007
Just announced:
The Nobel Peace Prize committee on Friday turned its sights on the battle against climate change by giving the 2007 award to former US vice president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Gore has reinvented himself as a climate warrior since failing in his bid to become US president in 2000. The IPCC is a UN body of about 3,000 experts which cautiously stepped up pressure on governments by pointing to the human role in steadily mounting global temperatures.
The prize was awarded “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”, the Norwegian Nobel committee said.
Meanwhile, Bush and Cheney continue authoring war crimes. Much of America still seems untroubled by this dichotomy.
