Al Gore, UN Climate Body to Receive 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

[Hissyspit]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Al Gore, UN climate body to receive 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
by Nina Larson
15 minutes ago

OSLO (AFP) - Former US vice president Al Gore and the UN's top climate panel will receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Monday for their work to help combat global warming.

Later in the day in Stockholm, the winners of the literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics prizes will receive their awards.

Gore, 59, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- a United Nations body of about 3,000 experts -- are being honoured for their work "to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Gore, who has reinvented himself as a climate warrior since failing in his bid to become US president in 2000, told reporters in Oslo on Sunday that global warming was "posing a great unprecedented threat to the future of our civilization."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071210/wl_afp/nobelpeaceclimatewarming_071210015901

[acmavm]

1. I can hear the gnashing of Chimpy's teeth from here in Omaha

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Nah, * doesn't believe in 'polls' like the Nobel Prize

That's how he categorized the 2 million plus people who protested his insane plan to attack Iraq -- as a poll. "I don't believe in polls -- I listen to my gut!"

I really loved it when Stephen Colbert skewered him in his face at the White House Stenographers Dinner.

[acmavm]

3. Nonsense. Chimpy sees himself as Nobel material. And its dawning on

him that the rest of the world sees his as just the opposite.

The Nobel is not a 'poll'.

[onehandle]

4. Go vote this up at the yahoo links. Knuckledraggers are voting it down. Here --->

Two similar stories. Different links.

From the original poster of this thread.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071210/wl_afp/nobelpeaceclimatewarming_071210015901

Newer story.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_re_eu/nobel_prizes


Vote. Vote. Vote.

[Doctor_J]

5. Big Media's pissed too

Howie Long took a gratuitous shot at Gore yesterday on the NFL pre-game. I don't know if Howie was on his own or had the dig written for him, but you know none of the NFL losers would ever take a shot at Smirk on TV.

[krkaufman]

6. FYI... CSPAN is rebroadcasting the Nobel Prize ceremony

FYI... CSPAN is rebroadcasting the Nobel Prize ceremony, at:

8:01pm EST, Monday
12:07am EST, Tuesday
5:38am EST, Tuesday


Check the schedule to verify airtime & changes:
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp

[krkaufman]

7. At least the dinosaurs had no warning and their destruction was beyond their control.

We're frickin' doing it to ourselves.