Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...

Chapter 12
Fall of The Nobel Peace Prize
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
in creating the Internet. (Al Gore)
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr:
• for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about
man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures
that are needed to counteract such change.
In the Award Ceremony Speech, Professor Ole Danbolt Mjos, Chairman of
the Norwegian Nobel Committee, expresses:
• The ice is melting more rapidly in the Arctic, the desert is spreading
more quickly in Africa, the glaciers are shrinking in the Himalayas.
• Some say that the world’s scientists do not all agree in their analyses of
human-induced global warming. Things which all the world’s scientists
are fully agreed on are few and far between. That is in the nature of
research.
• But there is little doubt about the main trends: more and more scientists
have reached ever closer agreement concerning the increasingly
dramatic consequences that will follow from global warming.
• There was for a long time great doubt about whether global warming was
man-made. Thanks to the IPCC there is very little such doubt today.
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