Climate campaigners tipped for Nobel Peace Prize

[City Lights]

Source: Reuters via Yahoo

Climate campaigners tipped for Nobel Peace Prize
By John Acher

2 hours, 35 minutes ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.

If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.

The winner, who will take $1.5 million in prize money, will be announced in the Norwegian capital on October 12 from a field of 181 nominees.

Gore, who has raised awareness with his book and Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples, were nominated to share the prize by two Norwegian parliamentarians.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/ts_nm/nobel_peace_dc_1;_ylt=As8DX4j7ABLmCWXuvPdQR.sE1vAI

[RestoreGore]

1. Yes, Mr. Gore and Ms. Watt-Cloutier should share this award

For it will catapult urgency of this crisis into the consciousness of more people and hopefully spark more action on the part of the global community leading up to Bali in December where a treaty including ALL nations must be written. And this prize is not wrong to give to an environmentalist. A world in balance is a world at peace, and this is what the world should be striving for now.

Good luck to them both!

[acmavm]

2. And Gore keeps racking up the accolades while the Pretender

in Chief keeps showing what a malevolent rotten little bastard he is and what a bunch of criminals make up this administration of usurpers and traitors.

[Javaman]

4. That's why I call moron* the Anti-Gore. nt

[Karmageddon]

3. How sweet would it be if, on the stage, at the end of his acceptance speech, Gore said...

...Oh yeah, one other thing. Does anybody here think I'd be a good President?" and announced he is running.

I'm not counting on it happening, but I can dream anyway.


(on edit: yes, I realize the actual ceremony presenting the awards doesn't happen next week, just the announcement of winners. So change the "on the stage giving his acceptance speech" to "giving an interview after the announcement", or whatever works for you).

[comtec]

5. It's a nice day dream...

(re) ELECT GORE~!!!!... sigh
it'll never happen. He's going great works outside the US government, which has become a farce of it's self. He knows that and won't bother. We are doomed. I am voting DK if Gore doesn't run and it's likely he won't.

After that I'll hold my nose and I send in my absentee for Hilary, who will probably be the dem candidate.

BTW... out here in the hinterlands (Holland) there are people on the expat site clamoring for ron paul... all I know is he's the LEAST reich wing gop and a librarian (an immediate disqualifier for me)... what is it about him these people like? he'll only fuck up the government and turn the lights off, after he shuts it down.

[Mabus]

6. Crossing my fingers that the global climate change crusaders win!

The environment and what we are doing to it is of paramount importance. Thanks to people like Gore and Watt-Cloutier there is more awareness about the topic but it is not enough. If these two win the Nobel Peace Prize it would help further the conversation and, hopefully, get more people to take action.

K&R for Gore and Watt-Cloutier.

[rodeodance]

7. Climate activists tipped for peace prize

Source: reuters




Climate activists tipped for peace prize
Fri Oct 5, 2007 8:02am EDT


By John Acher

OSLO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.

If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.
............

Gore, who has raised awareness with his book and Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples, were nominated to share the prize by two Norwegian parliamentarians.

"I think they are likely winners this year," said Stein Toennesson, director of Oslo's International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and a long-time Nobel Peace Prize watcher.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0463286920071005

[BelgianMadCow]

8. good to hear

and here's to hoping
:toast:

[pscot]

9. I'll drink to that

:toast:

[Californian Dreamer]

10. It's now or never

If he doesn't announce when he gets his Nobel, I don't think he ever will.

One week to go, here's hoping! :bounce:

[stlsaxman]

11. K & R!! n/t

:kick:

[RiverStone]

12. Nobel Peace Prize to Gore may be in the wind

Source: Sydney Morning Herlad

FORMER US vice-president Al Gore is a frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced in Norway on Friday.

Key Nobel watcher Stein Toennesson, director of the International Peace Research Institute, predicts the climate change campaigner will win the coveted prize.

This year, with world attention fixed on global warming, Mr Toennesson said giving a joint prize to Mr Gore and Canadian Inuit environmental activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier might be an appealing choice for the prize committee.

"It would have to do with climate change and it would be a prize that included both a man and a woman," he said.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/nobel-peace-prize-to-gore-may-be-in-the-wind/2007/10/06/1191091420242.html

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Al's Nobel Peace Price would look damn good on the fire place mantel in the White House! :kick:

[BrotherBuzz]

13. And on Saturday Al tosses his hat in the ring

I can dream, can't I?

[Occulus]

14. "He's happy with what he's doing right now,

blah blah blah, we shouldn't decide for him, blah blah blah, he can do more doing what he's doing than he can as President, blah blah blah, the Nobel Peace Prize shouldn't be seen as a political trophy, blah blah blah..."

:evilgrin:

[ebayfool]

15. Spot-on channeling job!

It's gotten to the point that every time I open a Gore thread, I automatically glance through the poster's names to see if the resident "blah blah blah..." has gotten there 1st!

:rofl:


And to Mr. Gore & the hope he inspires! :toast:

[deadmessengers]

16. Won't happen.

Sorry, folks. If past history is any indication, the fact that they're talking about it just about guarantees that it won't happen. Look, I love brother Al as much as anyone here, and my respect for what he's accomplished is damn near boundless. But, the Nobel prizes aren't the Oscars. Buzz, historically, has a negative effect there. Look at how many times people said "I think this is the year they finally give it to Jimmy Carter." It wasn't until he turned into the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Academy that he finally won - because although everyone recognized that Jimmy Carter had compiled a body of work that more than merited a Nobel Prize, the committee didn't want to set a precedent where lobbying would be considered a factor.

So, back to Al Gore - do I think his work on climate change merits a Nobel? Yes. Do I think he'll get one? No - at least not yet. Maybe in 10 years or so.