Al Gore Win’s The Nobel Peace Prize
Posted: Friday, October 12th, 2007 by damnHippyTags: Activism, Charity, Climate Change, Conservation, Latest News
Awesome, Al Gore has taken home 1/2 of the Nobel Peace Prize for his "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".
The other half of the prize went to the
This is great news for bringing awareness to Climate Change as an issue as well as recognizing some major players working on the front lines of the attempt to change global awareness. Congrats to Al and the IPCC.
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UPDATE: Al's response to winning:
I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. 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. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
Thank you,
Al Gore
Thanks to Gore's Live Earth concerts, the mock band Spinal Tap is going to reunite… sweetness. 
