Al Gore wins Nobel peace prize

[GTI]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3>What about his other prize for inventing the internet

Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize


</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><!-- S BO --><!-- S IIMA --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=203 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth was an unlikely box office hit


</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF -->Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning.
The UN's IPCC, comprising 3,000 leading climate scientists, is the world's top authority on global warming.
The Nobel committee said it wanted to help the world focus on the threat it faced from climate change. <!-- E SF -->
Announcing the winners, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, said they had been chosen "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".
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It would have made more sense to wait and see if Gore et al actually had an effect, but at least this might serve as a wake-up call to the naysayers


Geoff, Bensberg, Germany



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Mr Gore, 59, made a failed bid for the US presidency in 2000. Since then he has emerged as a leading climate campaigner - winning an Oscar for his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, an unlikely box-office hit.
The IPCC is an expert body of atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, economists and other specialists. The two winners will share the $1.5m prize. The Nobel committee closely guards the names of nominees, but this year speculation was high that the recipient would be linked to climate change campaigns.<!-- E BO -->


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[Ganty]

For a second I thought that was in the comedy club

[marcode]

Mr Gore, 59, made a failed bid for the US presidency in 2000

no he didnt.. he fucking won.

think how different the world would be if bush hadnt rigged the election.

[Sushi]

no he didnt.. he fucking won.

think how different the world would be if bush hadnt rigged the election.

My sentiments exactly.

But the nobel prize?? Hmmm really not sure about that one. Particularly in the wake of a High Court judge condemming his Inconvenient Truth video as a pile of shite.

[maverick_15]

]Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...The UN's IPCC, comprising 3,000 leading climate scientists, is the world's top authority on global warming.

Gutted, he's sharing it with 3,000 other people.

[GTI]

Gutted, he's sharing it with 3,000 other people.

He gets half, the other half is divided up amongst the rest

Spoiler:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2007


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[maverick_15]

He gets half, the other half is divided up amongst the rest

Um yeah, I did actually know. Seems my attempt at humour was fairly piss poor...

[GTI]

Um yeah, I did actually know. Seems my attempt at humour was fairly piss poor...

Shit, I can see myself turning into a right condescending old cunt, rather like Patricia Hewitt.
I do apologise

[BBK]

turning

wrong tense

[maverick_15]

Shit, I can see myself turning into a right condescending old cunt, rather like Patricia Hewitt.
I do apologise

Apology accepted. For my part I'll try and be funnier