AL GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

[LaWood]

(not sure if this should go under "Science" heading. Move it if necessary)

Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work

OSLO, Oct. 12 — Former Vice President Al Gore, who came out of his loss of the 2000 presidential election to devote himself to his passion as an environmental crusader, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize today along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised both “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.”

A vociferous opponent of the Bush administration on a range of issues, including the Iraq war, Mr. Gore is the second Democratic Party politician from the United States to win the peace prize this decade. Former President Jimmy Carter won in 2002.

Mr. Carter, himself a critic of President Bush, was 78 at the time. Mr. Gore is just 59 and remains a presence in American politics and a thorn in Mr. Bush’s side. Mr. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to Mr. Bush after a bitter electoral dispute that had to be resolved by the Supreme Court, has regularly said that he will not run for president again, but the prestigious award ignited a new spark of interest in his plans both among Democrats and Republicans.

“We face a true planetary emergency,” Mr. Gore said in a statement from San Francisco, where he was on a visit Friday. “The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”

Upon hearing the news, Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, did not go overboard in his praise. “Of course we’re happy for Vice President Gore and the I.P.C.C. for receiving this recognition,” he said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world ... ref=slogin

(wouldn't you really love to hear what the criminals in Bushco actually said
about Gore's award? Any spectulations)

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Don't know and don't particularly care what the W administration said about this behind closed doors (somebody will probably leak it soon), but Gore is correct that we face a planetary emergency. Too face we aren't preparing for it any more than we acted to prevent it.

[Dardedar]