OSLO (Reuters) – Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for work on global warming, and the award committee urged action “before climate change moves beyond man’s control.”Gore and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won “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,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. [Gore shares Nobel win with U.N. climate panel. Reuters. October 12 2007]
If Al Gore is planning to run for the Presidency, he has a big capital in his bag.
Now, if Nordhaus wins the Prize in Economics…