Reuters: Nobel Peace Prize could go to climate campaigner (Gore?)

[Faygo Kid]

If Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, I am going to celebrate big time(in a green fashion, of course).

He deserves it. And I think he will be selected for it, and we will all be better off because of it.

OSLO (Reuters) - The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say. . .

"There are reasonably good chances that the peace prize will be awarded to someone working to stop the dramatic climate problems the world is facing," said Boerge Brende, a former Norwegian environment minister. . .

Brende and another Norwegian parliamentarian nominated Gore for his Oscar-winning movie about climate change "An Inconvenient Truth" and Watt-Cloutier, who has highlighted the plight of indigenous cultures facing a quickening Arctic thaw.

Arctic sea ice has shrunk to record lows this year. The head of the Nobel committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, has praised Gore's movie and lives in the Norwegian Arctic city of Tromsoe. . .
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-09-18T142958Z_01_L18744150_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CLIMATE-NOBEL-COL.XML&archived=False

[Gabi Hayes]

1. that's great, if it advances action WRT the climate crisis (too late already?), but I

stopped paying attention to the NPP a long time ago:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/

[Faygo Kid]

2. I think it still matters, and there are many recipients worth paying attention to.

You picked out the worst. There are others whose receipt of the prize helped to advance their worthwhile and important message. I see that happening here.