Is Taking Down Hillary On The Former Vice President's Things To Do List??
Comeback kid Al Gore and the U.N.'s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.
Two Gore advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to share his thinking, said the award will not make it any more likely that he will seek the presidency in 2008.
Gore, whose film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award earlier this year, had been widely tipped to win Friday's prize, which expanded the Norwegian committee's expanded interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts that have traditionally been the award's foundations.
Rather than deciding to go for the White House with Barack Obama as his running mate, If anything, the Peace Prize makes the rough-and-tumble of a presidential race less appealing to Gore. Folks close to him say it's because now he has a huge, international platform to fight global warming and may not want to do anything to diminish it. "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."
Gore plans to donate his half of the $1.5 million prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan nonprofit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion worldwide about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
The last American to win the prize, or share it, was former President Carter, who won it 2002, who's been slamming the Bush administration in general and Vice President Dick Cheney in particular. The Nobel committee chairman, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, asserted that the prize was not aimed at the Bush administration, which rejected Kyoto and was widely criticized outside the U.S. for not taking global warming seriously enough.
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