Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change brings together the world's top climate scientists. The Nobel committee said it wanted to help the world focus on the threat it faced from climate change.
Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change brings together the world's top climate scientists.
The Nobel committee said it wanted to help the world focus on the threat it faced from climate change.
In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Yes but most people like a face to focus on; 3,000 faceless scientists don't make a popular news story :-)The combination gives a face, and a famous name, plus solid institutional backing. Also it will annoy Bush and co. - despite their supposed change of mind on he issue. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
