Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and a United Nations climate change panel have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to combat climate change.

The Norwegian Nobel committee announced the award today in Oslo, saying in a written statement that Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have worked tirelessly "to disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

"I am deeply honoured to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said in a 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."

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and a United Nations climate change panel have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to combat climate change.

The Norwegian Nobel committee announced the award Friday in Oslo, saying in a written statement that Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have worked tirelessly "to disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Gore, 59, said he will donate his half of the $1.5-million US prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization devoted to conveying the urgency of solving the climate crisis. He has been a well-known vocal environmentalist in recent years, spreading the word about climate change through his public lectures, his book and his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

The Nobel Committee also praised the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the high profile reports it has produced that are backed by thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries.

The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who established the award in his will. Find out more about him and this year's prize announcements at: http://nobelprize.org/

Research info gathered at: www.cbc.ca

Now here's a poem that won't harm the enviornment:


You Do The Translation

My favorite number is 72.

I once thought about being a composer

but would later settle for

being the world in invisible tape

that replaces the missing photo hinge,

with a magnifying glass beside it.

Then too, I could be ash

on the head of a pin

or a zero with another after it. Or what

about malachite, a sea-colored stone.

Sapphire. Turquoise. Or perhaps a gruesome

object employed in unspeakable rites.

This same imaginary beauty

could create the crash of cymbals

or ferns in forest light. It could try

to explain the broken window

and chair leg to a cranky landlady

while squinting at the moon.

Eventually, we'll all

end up somebody else, or maybe bird feet

on the roof, or a gas cap being unscrewed.

Meanwhile,
spin leap & holler,

life and death no problem. So, did

the telephone ring or are you

still listening, deaf ear?...

(Green is my favorite color too!)


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