Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize

Now if someone can just explain what this has to do with world peace;
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

“I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” Gore said. “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.”

UPDATE: I got it. A phony award to a phony guy for a phony cause! Thats the ticket. Now Gore is in the same company as Yassir Arafat. What an honor.

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