Al Gore, UN Climate Change Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize

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Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:36AM

Friday, October 12, 2007 : Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to raise awareness on global warning. We get reaction from Guardian columnist and leading environmental campaigner George Monbiot.

We begin our show with this morning's announcement of the 2007 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This is Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The UN’s climate panel groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods.

Since Al Gore’s failed bid for the presidency in 2000, he has emerged as a leading climate campaigner. He won an Academy Award for his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” George Monbiot joins us on the line from England.

George Monbiot. Widely read columnist for the Guardian of London and a leading British campaigner for the environment. His latest book is called “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.”

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