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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007 |
Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the 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.
Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming.
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