Lubbock Left

This is some great news to wake up to on a Friday morning! The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The good people at draftgore.com hav a feature about the Nobel Prize as well.

Thank goodness that Nobel Committee lives in the real world, unlike our Lubbock area wingnuts who have gone so far as to attack Texas Tech’s own scientists who are hard at work on solutions to the climate change issue.

Also this morning, Al Gore sent the following to his email list:

I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

Congratulations, Al!