"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"
Even the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognizes the need to pay attention to the earth. Even they recognize the importance of protecting and preserving our globe, knowing that ecological and environmental changes ultimately has social, political, and economic impacts on developed and developing nations. If it takes someone like Al Gore receiving the Nobel Peace Prize to wake up our nation, then so be it. All the more reason for us to do our part.
Read the entire press release here.
"By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control."
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