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February 2, 2007
Gore, Watt-Cloutier Are Nobel Prize Candidates for Climate Work
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier were nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to raise awareness about the threat of climate change.``They are both key figures who put climate change on the agenda in global politics,'' said Heidi Soerensen, a Norwegian member of parliament, who made the nominations with fellow MP Boerge Brende. ``The threat to the climate is so important that if it isn't solved, it could lead to huge conflicts as people fight over access to water and land.''
Scientists from institutions including the Norwegian Polar Institute say carbon-dioxide emissions from cars, power plants and other human sources are causing temperatures and sea levels to rise, leading to storms, droughts, heat waves and other climate disruptions. This year is forecast to be the warmest on record globally, with temperatures in 2007 likely to be 0.54 degrees Celsius above the seasonal average, the U.K.'s Met Office said last month.
Gore, 58, last year published the book and documentary film ``An Inconvenient Truth'' as part of a campaign against global warming. Watt-Cloutier, 53, a spokeswoman for the Inuit people in the Arctic, has called for countries such as the U.S. to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases thought to cause global warming.
``Gore's `An Inconvenient Truth' helped open the eyes of many people, particularly in the U.S., to the threat of climate change,'' Soerensen said in an interview today. ``Watt-Cloutier has also been successful in putting a human face to climate change, by showing how it affects the Inuit people.''
Congrats Mr. Gore. You work tirelessly to educate the world about global warming and you more than deserve this award! Good luck!
Found via Bloomberg.com.
Posted by Dianne at February 2, 2007 10:08 AM
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