OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
World leaders, President Bush among them, congratulated the winners, while skeptics of man's contribution to warming criticized the choice of Gore.
For his part, Gore in a statement said he was " deeply honored ... 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."
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7041267.stm
Also from BBC here is a great quiz on the Nobel Prize
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7036111.stm
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There is a lot of money involved...
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