Within a Sky Full of Earth

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Al Gore, former vice-president of the US, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a dramatic statement about the importance of tackling man-made climate change.
The Nobel Committee said that Gore and the IPCC had been awarded the prize, "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."
Al Gore, who served as vice president of the US under Bill Clinton, and was defeated by George W. Bush in the 2000 US presidential elections, has since become a global campaigner for action against climate change.
He has already won an Academy Award for his climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth and, in 2007, Gore also helped organise Live Earth concerts, which sought to raise awareness about climate change.
"He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," the Nobel committee said in announcing the prize.
[SOURCE: NEWSCIENTIST ENVIRONMENT]

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