The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. 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....Congrats! This was well-deserved.
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world's future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control.
Meanwhile, there's some curiously-timed news kicking about that some judge cited nine errors with Al Gore's inconvenient truth.
The judge did not find that there were nine errors!
The judge identified nine issues raised by a plaintiff, who was trying to prevent the documentary from being shown in schools.
The plaintiff lost.
See Deltoid for an excellent factual rebuttal.
Is it a coincidence that a judge's findings are widely being misquoted at the same time it's been announced that Al Gore has won the prize?
Just wondering.
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Posted By Mark Francis to Section 15 at 10/12/2007 07:25:00 AM
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