PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 12, 2007
Gore Urges Action After Nobel Prize Win
Former VP Says Now Is Time To "Elevate Global Consciousness" On Climate Change
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Play CBS Video Video Will Gore Run For President? CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer tells Katie Couric that, despite the Nobel Prize, Al Gore will not likely run for president.
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Video Gore: World Must Respond Now "CBS News RAW": Former Vice President Al Gore spoke about his Nobel Peace Prize win, and urgency required by the world community to effectively combat global climate change.
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Video Gore's Political Comeback Jim VandeHei, executive editor of politico.com, speaks with Harry Smith about Al Gore's Nobel Prize and the possibility of an '08 presidential run.
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Former Vice President Al Gore said he was "deeply honored" to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Here he is speaking before a businees group last March in Switzerland. (AP (file))
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In an appearance after the announcement that he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Former Vice President Al Gore said now is the time to "elevate global consciousness" about the challenges of global warming. (CBS)
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Al Gore, seen here giving a global warming speech last month in Melbourne, Australia, now has a Nobel to add to his Oscar, in accolades for his second career: sounding the warning on the environment. (GETTY IMAGES/Kristian Dowling)
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Photos Nobel Prize in Pictures Images from the awards for the world's best in science, economics, literature and peacemaking
Peace Prize committee chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes said a possible Gore presidential run was not his concern.
"I want this prize to have everyone ... every human being, asking what they should do," Mjoes said. "What he (Gore) decides to do from here is his personal decision."
However, when asked about the 2008 U.S. elections, he said: "I am very much in support for all who support changes."
The last American to win the prize or share it was former President Carter in 2002.
At the time, then committee chairman Gunnar Berge called the prize "a kick in the leg" to the Bush administration for its threats of war against Iraq. In response, some members of the secretive committee criticized Berge for expressing personal views in the panel's name.
Mjoes, elected to succeed Berge a few months later, referred to that dispute on Friday, saying the committee "has never given a kick in the leg to anyone."
The White House said the prize was not seen as increasing pressure on the administration or showing that President Bush's approach missed the mark.
"Of course we're happy for Vice President Gore and the IPCC for receiving this recognition," Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto told CBS News.
Fratto said Mr. Bush has no plans to call Gore.
The Nobel committee cited the Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."
Gore, who was an advocate of stemming climate change and global warning well before his eight years as vice president, called the award meaningful because of his co-winner, calling the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the "world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis."
Members of the panel, a network of 2,000 scientists, were surprised that it was chosen to share the honor with Gore, a spokeswoman said.
"We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante said.
Climate change has moved high on the international agenda this year. The U.N. climate panel has been releasing reports, talks on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate are set to resume and on Europe's northern fringe, where the awards committee works, there is growing concern about the melting Arctic.
Eighty-four percent in the U.S. believe world temperatures are rising, according to a poll last month by The Associated Press and Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment. Yet while about seven in 10 said they want strong public and private action to help the environment, fewer than one in 10 said they had seen such steps in the past year.
Jan Egeland, a Norwegian peace mediator and former U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, also called climate change more than an environmental issue.
"It is a question of war and peace," said Egeland, now director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. "We're already seeing the first climate wars, in the Sahel belt of Africa." He said nomads and herders are in conflict with farmers because the changing climate has brought drought and a shortage of fertile lands.
Gore's climate change effort has had its share of criticism.
"Awarding it to Al Gore cannot be seen as anything other than a political statement. Awarding it to the IPCC is well-founded," said Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist.
He criticized Gore's film as having "some very obvious mistakes, like the argument that we're going to see six meters of sea-level rise," he said.
"They (Nobel committee) have a unique platform in getting people's attention on this issue, and I regret they have used it to make a political statement."
Also, a British judge said in a ruling published Wednesday that some assertions in his documentary were not supported by scientific evidence. The case involved a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students.
The ruling detailed High Court Judge Michael Burton's decision this month to allow screenings of the film in English secondary schools. The judge said that written guidance to teachers, designed to ensure Gore's views are not presented uncritically, must accompany the screenings.
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Posted by GrammaWhamma at 10:06 PM : Oct 14, 2007,,,
Maybe, but with the endless drama in Iraq and elsewhere and WWIII brewing in the background, boring is good and a refreshing change don''t you think? The World needs a break and could actually use boring right now!
I love Global Warming.This year there''''s been an increase
in the sightings of babes in bikinis.I met 3 or 4 at the Live Earth concert not long ago.
Also can''''t wait till all the ice is gone at the pole-I''''ll be first there fishing.
Remember when the US gov gave away land and money to people just to settle parts of good old USA??
The canucks will be doing that soon.Tired of competing with hordes of illegals in overcrowded cities for a fistful of dollars?
By the way I''''m neither republican nor democrat.Like most people I''''m independent.
I could not have believed with blind faith, it had to be proven for me to believe... Plus as a nurse I got to see and hear many things..
All I can say to you is, if I am wrong then when I go into eternity I have nothing to loose, but if you are wrong????
Posted by californiar at 01:14 PM : Oct 13, 2007
Prove it!!!!!!!!!!!
and you are so very right. The trouble is that people cant seem to think for themselves.. all they have to do is look on the net at scientists against global warming, or the truth about global warming etc.. to see the other side, then and only then can they make a valuated opinion on the subject, but if they want to continue to give money to these lies and help make these people rich all for nothing then I suppose it is over to them..
The Ozone layer was found in about the late 1800''s...
By the late 1800s, atmospheric scientists had isolated carbon monoxide and .... Monitoring ozone levels in the south polar region
# 1840 - Christian Friedrich Schvnbein identifies ozone as a component of the lower atmosphere and names it.
# 1881 - W.N. Hartley identifies ozone as the substance that absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun at wavelengths below 290 nanometers. He also shows that ozone resides primarily at high altitudes.
Evidently they found that the ozone hole got bigger and smaller even back then..
The noble prize was also given to Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland in 1995, a pioneering researcher in the field of Chemistry for his work, (I gather on ozone).. but it now appears that at this stage the ozone hole is once again closing..
Two men given noble prizes on almost the same subject, hmmm
What about this list:
Top Ten Other Achievements Claimed By Al Gore
10. Was first human to grow an opposable thumb
9. Only man in world to sleep with someone named "Tipper"
8. Current Vice President - Moesha fan club
7. He invented the dog
6. While riding bicycle one day, accidentally invented the orgasmm
5. Pulled U.S. out of early 90''s recession by personally buying 6,000 T-shirts
4. Starred in CBS situation comedy with Juan Valdez, "Juan for Al, Al for Juan"
3. Was inspiration for Ozzy Osboune song "Crazy Train"
2. Came up with popular catchphrase "Don''t go there, girlfriend"
1. Gave mankind fire
You spelled your name wrong it should be calipornliar
..."having wealth ain''t ''Occidental''
shares of oil and run down rentals
made a bundle growin''cancer sticks
and heatin'' up the atmosphere like hicks
and while I know the zinc is ''mine''
I protest ''gainst the workin'' kind
they pollute enroute to work
and my job is to tutor jerks...
IIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiii''m the conscience of America
and I''m so smart that when I speak
the liberals all say, "Duh..."
and when I say that climate talk is done,
that by consensus we have won
I''ll shut down New York
(I''m a big dork)
Its our fault we cannot blame the sun!
(who invented the sun anyway?)
hear it @
www.conservativemusiconline.com
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Posted by californiar at 12:53 PM : Oct 13, 2007
Let me see Democrats who invented something.
Al Gore, he invented the internet, he invented human caused global warming, he invented the hanging chad, he invented the accent he has when he screeches in black churches "he betrayed us he played on our fears".
Posted by george2221
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George, this is a free country. Republicans, Democrats and Independents can post on any blog they choose.
So your last statement says two things. 1. CBS is a biased news source as is Fox. 2. If you consider yourself a liberal, than you are the one that doesn''t have a life and is trying to control what others can do.
That is very narrow minded
They are SO WORTHLESS that they can''''t even stand to post to one another on their republican news blogs.
Posted by george2221
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George, your ignorance is showing. It is the "liberals" that really aren''t liberals anymore that try to run everyone else''s lives. They are the ones banning everything that "they" say is bad for you. They are the one''s banning free speech. It is a pretty sad day when words are banned. Think about it. There are words that are hateful and bigoted, but, just because you ban the word, you don''t ban the bigotry. Tolerance goes both ways. Everyone on this planet is different in one way or another. And all are entitled to live their lives as they see fit. If I don''t want to wear a seatbelt, that should be my right. If I want to consume trans fats, that too should be my right. If I want to say a word that is taboo, that should be my right. But remember, with rights comes consequences. If I don''t wear a seat belt and get in an accident, I might die. If I want to consume mass quantities of trans fats I may have a massive heart attack or be obese or both. And finally, if I utter a word that is hateful and cruel, I may get by a$$ kicked or worse. That is what living in a free country is about. Not live your life as I think you should live it, and that my friend is truly liberal. Think about it.
www.conservativemusiconlin.com
" Get your sun screen-grab your shades,
Cats on time roofs must evade,
The heat that in my estimation''s new,
and Al Gore''s blamin'' me and you.
Broken clock''s right twice a day,
Hot or cold we''re gonna pay.
''Cause if its hot then he''s a sage,
and if its cold its ''climate change,
There''s a ponzi scheme he cannot lose,
Darlin'' of the liberal press,
''Do as I say not as I do''
I''m a scientific Elliot Ness
Sure I fly in private planes,
But someone has to be the brains..."
Hear it @
www.conservativemusiconline.com
Morons instead of seein it like a true American sees it you see it like a true reactionary sees it. But we aren''t buying anymore Al Gore is an American and by winnin the Nobel Prize he makes all Americans look good.
But wait you are either with us or against us. Wonder which one you are?
Either open that door wide or slam it shut, I''m tired of hearing,"I''m not going to run; but then again, I might."
Only a liberal like yourself would try to deny free speech to anyone.
Only a liberal like yourself would make false claims and try to take credit for things they had never accomplished.
Only a liberal like yourself would expect everthing to be given to them by a re-distribution of wealth by a liberal government.
Only a liberal would say "Now Is Time To Elevate Global Consciousness" On Climate Change, while continuing to refuse to debate the subject, as your Eco-Fuhrer Al Gore has done.
Wake up and grow up, liberal.
Nobody owes you anything.
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