The Washingtonpost.com website brings us this story early this morning and it starts off like this... Former vice president Al Gore and a United National panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to control it... The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as "the single individual who has done most" to convince world governments and leaders that climate change is real, is caused by human activity, and poses a grave threat...
Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize>>> Politico.com has this take on the story...Vice President Al Gore was named joint winner of Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his environmental activism, likely increasing pressure from his supporters to enter the race for the White House...Gore Nobel boosts talk of White House runWho didn't know this one was coming!!!?
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On the threat of terrorism, Mr. Gore writes that instead of making it better, the president "has made it worse. We are less safe because of his policy. He has created more anger and righteous indignation against us than any leader of our country in all the years of our existence as a nation."... Gore also criticized the administration's failure to prevent the attacks of September 11, 2001, writing that the Clinton administration responded much more proactively to terrorist threats than did the current administration when it received warnings during the summer of 2001 ... [Response from the Republican National Committee] "Either Al Gore is trying to reinvent himself as being tough on terror or he has forgotten he was vice president of an administration whose approach to terrorism was far from effective," a spokeswoman, Summer Johnson, said...
