Al Gore, UN Panel Share Nobel for Peace

by 10/12/07 No Comments

Yahoo News reports that former U.S. Vice President and creator of the Academy Award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth has received the Nobel Prize along with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Gore’s advisors were quick to announce that this honor does not make it more likely he will run for President in 2008, saying that he now has an international platform to battle climate change and this may not leave time for campaigning.

Gore referred to his co-winner as the “world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis.” Gore will donate his share of the prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which was the beneficiary of this year’s Live Earth concert that Gore developed.

Nobel Prize winners each receive a gold medal, a diploma and a $1.5 million cash prize.

Trey Granger

Trey Granger

Trey Granger is a staff member at Earth911.com.


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