Highlights of his speech today:
Full Speech:
Al Gore:
We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
photo by: ‘SeraphimC
“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.”
Dude is cleaning up in the awards category! Now maybe he’ll run for President!!
The New York Times has the backstory
[Nobel Peace Prize | Al Gore Wikipedia | NYT with backstory audio]
Just for fun count the number of times they say ‘tipping point’.
This is the official website for the competition.
[via Jon]
AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth
LONDON — Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, comparing it to the 17th-century quest to revolutionize navigation by determining longitude.