Al Gore nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Three cheers for Al Gore, whose incessant blabbering about climate change has gotten him nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. "Al Gore with his movie and his dedication and his active diplomacy among world leaders has really moved the issue forward," says Boerge Brende, one of two Norwegian lawmakers who snuck Gore's nomination in just before the deadline. (We nominated Al too, but as we're not a member of a national government, a past Nobel laureate, or a university professor, we were ignored. Plus we called him Dreamy Al on the nomination slip.) Brende called global warming "this century's most important and most threatening environmental issue"; he, along with political opponent Heidi Soerensen, also nominated Inuit climate-change activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. We'll have to wait until mid-October to find out the big winner, but we can agree with Brende on one thing: "A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference."
straight to the source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Associated Press, Doug Mellgren, 01 Feb 2007
straight to the source: Yahoo! News, Reuters, John Acher, 01 Feb 2007
straight to the source: Yahoo! News, Agence France-Presse, Wilfred Vuillaume, 01 Feb 2007
see also, in Grist: Sheila Watt-Cloutier on the human-rights angle of climate change
U.S. pushes for compromise in Copenhagen climate talks
Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can!
The Copenhagen Conference on food security
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SueRoegge Posted 4:12 am
02 Feb 2007
Grist readers/bloggers are not really at issue.
I shouldn't even post so it stays quiet for a while.But I can't resist....The movie was made about him by other people (Laurie David) who have cared, like him, for a very long time...the biographical parts make a point. And the point is not, Hey, Maybe this will get me elected....
Congratulations to Al Gore and many other people who have cared about the environment for a long time. Thank you for helping others like me wake up....
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ajithsrn Posted 11:26 am
02 Feb 2007
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Delay And Deny Posted 2:10 am
05 Feb 2007
Al Gore is dangerous and wrong. His movie sets not only understanding of science fact, but science method back by years.
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greenhoosier Posted 12:46 pm
07 Feb 2007
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