Boy, it felt so good to write that headline, I’d like to write it again - say, next November?
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
Gore’s film ”An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.
”His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,” the citation said. ”He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”
It cited Gore’s awareness at an early stage ”of the climatic challenges the world is facing.
The committee cited the Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have ”created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.”
Members of the panel, a network of 2,000 scientists, were surprised that it was chosen to share the honor with Gore, a spokeswoman said.
”We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue,” spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante said.
OK Al,
Time’s up…..
Please jump in the race, and begin to fix what’s wrong with Amerika.
I can’t bear the thought of holding my nose and voting for Hillary.
Susie
I know exactly what you feel. I felt the same way when G Allen lost his senate seat in VA. The next day I had a smile on my face all day long, eventhough I never smile. What’s there to smile about?
In any case, the role of World Statesman may be more useful to Al than the Presidency. You see there will be a few Republican survivors and they will live only to destroy him and his work. These people are like cancer, it’s tough to get id of them.
Then again, Al could have a very unifying role and bring the country together at a time that the world needs us most.