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On Oct 12, 10:09 am, "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:12:51 -0400, "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com>
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> >>>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20152132,00.html?xid=rss-toph...
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> >>> Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
> >>> FRIDAY OCTOBER 12, 2007 06:15 AM EDT
> >>> By Tim Nudd
>
> >>> Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate who
> >>> reinvented himself as an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize on
> >>> Friday for his efforts to fight global warming.
>
> >>> Gore shares the prize with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
> >>> Change.
>
> >>> "I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said in an
> >>> e-mailed statement. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate
> >>> crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge
> >>> to
> >>> all of humanity."
>
> >>> The Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway, announced the news at 11 a.m. local
> >>> time - 5 a.m. on the East Coast - and praised Gore as being "one of the
> >>> world's leading environmentalist politicians."
>
> >>> "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create
> >>> greater
> >>> worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said
> >>> Ole
> >>> Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee.
>
> >>> As a Nobel laureate, Gore receives a gold medal, a diploma and splits 10
> >>> million Swedish kronor - about $1.7 million - with the IPCC.
>
> >>> Gore, 59, served as Bill Clinton's vice president for eight years and
> >>> narrowly lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. Since
> >>> leaving elected office, Gore has relentlessly shined a spotlight on the
> >>> issue of global warming.
>
> >>> His 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, about the climate crisis, won the
> >>> Academy Award for best documentary. Gore is also an recent Emmy winner
> >>> through his Current TV network.
>
> >>> An Important Issue
>
> >>> The IPCC, which draws on the work of 2,000 scientists, said the panel
> >>> was
> >>> surprised that it had been chosen to share the award with Gore.
>
> >>> "We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is
> >>> a
> >>> recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola
> >>> Traverso
> >>> Saibante said, The Associated Press reported.
>
> >>> Some 181 individuals or organizations were known to have been nominated
> >>> for the Peace Prize this year. (Their identities are kept secret.) But
> >>> with global warming commanding much attention this year, Gore had been
> >>> tipped as a front-runner for the award.
>
> >>> There has also been speculation that winning the Nobel Prize could be a
> >>> springboard for Gore to enter the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Gore has
> >>> declined to comment on that notion.
>
> >>> Over the years, the Nobel committee has broadened the scope of the Peace
> >>> Prize from traditional conflict prevention and resolution to include
> >>> humanitarian and human-rights work. An environmental leader, Kenyan
> >>> ecologist Wangari Maathai, was also honored in 2002.
>
> >>> Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace
> >>> Prize in 1901 with Fr
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> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:12:51 -0400, "SyVyN11" <robhorine...@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
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> >>"edonline" <edonlineSPAMO...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >>news:hdmdnbxpC7tH8JLanZ2dnUVZ_qGknZ2d@giganews.com...
> >>>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20152132,00.html?xid=rss-toph...
>
> >>> Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
> >>> FRIDAY OCTOBER 12, 2007 06:15 AM EDT
> >>> By Tim Nudd
>
> >>> Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate who
> >>> reinvented himself as an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize on
> >>> Friday for his efforts to fight global warming.
>
> >>> Gore shares the prize with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
> >>> Change.
>
> >>> "I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said in an
> >>> e-mailed statement. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate
> >>> crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge
> >>> to
> >>> all of humanity."
>
> >>> The Nobel committee in Oslo, Norway, announced the news at 11 a.m. local
> >>> time - 5 a.m. on the East Coast - and praised Gore as being "one of the
> >>> world's leading environmentalist politicians."
>
> >>> "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create
> >>> greater
> >>> worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said
> >>> Ole
> >>> Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee.
>
> >>> As a Nobel laureate, Gore receives a gold medal, a diploma and splits 10
> >>> million Swedish kronor - about $1.7 million - with the IPCC.
>
> >>> Gore, 59, served as Bill Clinton's vice president for eight years and
> >>> narrowly lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. Since
> >>> leaving elected office, Gore has relentlessly shined a spotlight on the
> >>> issue of global warming.
>
> >>> His 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, about the climate crisis, won the
> >>> Academy Award for best documentary. Gore is also an recent Emmy winner
> >>> through his Current TV network.
>
> >>> An Important Issue
>
> >>> The IPCC, which draws on the work of 2,000 scientists, said the panel
> >>> was
> >>> surprised that it had been chosen to share the award with Gore.
>
> >>> "We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is
> >>> a
> >>> recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola
> >>> Traverso
> >>> Saibante said, The Associated Press reported.
>
> >>> Some 181 individuals or organizations were known to have been nominated
> >>> for the Peace Prize this year. (Their identities are kept secret.) But
> >>> with global warming commanding much attention this year, Gore had been
> >>> tipped as a front-runner for the award.
>
> >>> There has also been speculation that winning the Nobel Prize could be a
> >>> springboard for Gore to enter the 2008 U.S. presidential race. Gore has
> >>> declined to comment on that notion.
>
> >>> Over the years, the Nobel committee has broadened the scope of the Peace
> >>> Prize from traditional conflict prevention and resolution to include
> >>> humanitarian and human-rights work. An environmental leader, Kenyan
> >>> ecologist Wangari Maathai, was also honored in 2002.
>
> >>> Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace
> >>> Prize in 1901 with Fr
