Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize today for educating folks about climate change and possibly how to fix it, or at least arrest it.
The Prize is normally awarded to peacemakers. Clearly the panel feels what he has done is exceptional, even though it falls outside the traditional Nobel peace prize framework[1]. "We face a true planetary emergency," Gore said. "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
The Nobel committee chairman, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, swears that the prize was not a jab at Presidents Bush and Cheney, who laughed off the Kyoto protocols, and have generally treated global warming like a hippy/fringie delusion.
The prize, of course, re-ignited the Gore-istas who still hold out hope he will run for the Presidency. Two Gore advisers told the Associated Press, on condition of anonymity, because that the award will not make it any more likely that he will seek the presidency in 2008. True. a) He doesn't want to run again; and b) the last time I checked, his numbers were low. Obviously those numbers will soar now, but I don't think that will change Al's mind...
[1] But then, Peace Prize winners Yassir Arafat, Mehachem Begin, and Anwar Sadat weren't exactly peace-freaks, were they?
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