Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 14th 2007ZacharyAl Gore & Climate Change & News
Congratulations to Vice President Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless work on the issue of global climate change. This has been a banner year for Gore, as the Nobel Peace Prize joins an Oscar and an Emmy among the awards Gore has won. As news of his selection as the Nobel Peace Prize winner was released, speculation began anew that Gore may be considering a run for president in 2008, but according to Newsday,
Several Gore advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to share his thinking, said the award will not make it any more likely that he will seek the presidency. If anything, it makes the presidential race less appealing to Gore, they said, because now he has an international platform and may not want to do anything to diminish it.
Predictably, some of the nuttier among the wingnuts have taken issue with Gore’s win, with Patrick from BadgerBlogger saying, “[the] Nobel Foundation has become nothing but a politically correct joke.” Nick Schweitzer’s response was less eloquent and isn’t worth repeating here but you can read it for yourself over at his blog.
I know folks on the right have argued Gore doesn’t deserve to win the NPP for his work on climate change, but I’d argue Al Gore’s been at the forefront of efforts to increase public awareness of the facts of global climate change, and as a result of his efforts, untold numbers of people all across the world have made a conscious effort to reduce their personal negative impact on the environment. Al Gore deserves this award, and I congratulate him for his ceaseless efforts on the issue of global climate change.
