Gore and IPCC win peace prize
Nobel Peace Prize goes to the battle against
global warming.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Al Gore, the former American vice president, and to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to alert the world to the threat of global warming.
Gore, “is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted,” the Nobel citation said. The United Nations committee, a network of 2,000 scientists, has produced two decades of scientific reports that have “created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming,” the citation said.
In New Delhi, Rajendra Pachauri, an Indian scientist who leads the United Nations committee, said he was overwhelmed at the news of the award. “I expect this will bring the subject to the fore,” he said.
“I’m only a symbol of a much larger organization, the IPCC, and it’s really the scientific community that contributed to the work of the IPCC,” Pachauri said, according to Reuters. “They’re the real winners of this award,’” he said.
Pachauri has it right. Living in a nation where politics and superstition are damned near inseparable, I’m pleased to see prestige and political stature offered to work that suggests science should lead ideology.
Posted: Fri - October 12, 2007 at 07:20 AM