Nobel Nods at Gore, IPCC on Climate Change
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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
With the award, Gore, former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the USA, and subsequent winner of an Emmy (Current TV) and an Oscar (An Inconvenient Truth), has earned the international spotlight that few former politicians have.
For a man who could not defeat George W. Bush in a television debate in 2000, it’s an interesting transformation. In the United States many Democrats are now calling on him to make a bid for President in 2008, but as this would position him as a rival to Hillary Clinton, the current leading Democrat contender, it may be a fight that he does not want to fight. Gore’s opportunities for influence and to take the lead on climate change may be far greater outside of office. We shall see.
Co-winner IPCC is also a significant choice. Now 20 years old, the IPCC involves hundreds of scientists from across the planet who have worked on assessing and measuring the impacts of global climate change. Their science is the baseline from which all global atmosphere treaties have been and will be based on.
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901. Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and an armaments manufacturer who left his fortune to reward more constructive pursuits.
Find out more at www.nobelprize.org
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