Al Gore
CLIMATE CHANGE
2007 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Steadfast Environmental Crusaders
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to
Former US Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change for their efforts 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 was lauded
for "His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures,
films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,"
the Nobel citation said. "He is probably the single individual who has
done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that
need to be adopted." The Nobel Committee stated that the IPCC was
awarded the prize also because their two decades of scientific reports
that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the
connection between human activities and global warming." Created in
1988, the IPCC guides governments by providing scientific reports on the
global warming crisis that is expected to induce large-scale migration
due to climate change occurring now and increasing within the next
thirty years., The IPCC organizes and maintains communications with over
2,500 researchers from around the world and has issued reports and
public statements on the human activities (such as industrial use of
electricity made from burning coal and gas, transportation-related auto
exhaust, and agricultural cattle-related methane) that have caused
climate changes evident in heat waves, floods, melting polar ice, and
super-storm hurricanes. Gore said he would donate his share of the $1.5
million that accompanies the prize to the non-profit Alliance for
Climate Protection. Accepting his prize, Gore said, "...the earth has a
fever. And the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a
passing affliction that will heal by itself. We asked for a second
opinion. And a third. And a fourth. And the consistent conclusion,
restated with increasing alarm, is that something basic is wrong. We are
what is wrong, and we must make it right."
Al Gore's Nobel Prize Lecture, Dec. 10, 2007
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