From The Associated Press, 10/13/07:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-newsbrief,0,1411218.story
Gore: Award Puts Focus on Global Warming
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) --
He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he
did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed
their behavior, and fast.
But after former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate
scientists were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their
warnings, Gore took only the briefest of bows on a live world stage.
He avoided the issue of a U.S. presidential run to "get back to
business" on "a planetary emergency."
"For my part, I will be doing everything I can to try to understand
how to best use the honor and the recognition from this award as a way
of speeding up the change in awareness and the change in urgency,"
Gore said at the offices of the Alliance For Climate Protection, a
nonprofit he founded last year to engage citizens in solving the
problem.
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