Gore: Award Puts Focus on Global Warming (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News) For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency." Gore shared the prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of ... [News Source]

Peace Prize highlights key role of climate change: UNEP (Chinapost.com.tw) NAIROBI -- The Nobel Peace Prize award to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former U.S. vice president Al Gore on Friday showed that combating global warming was key to peace and security, a U.N. environment chief said. [News Source]

UW-Madison Contributes To Climate Change Research (WISC Channel3000.com via Yahoo! News) Al Gore's crusade against global warming won him the Nobel Peace Prize, which he shares with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on climate change. [News Source]

Gore, U.N. panel win Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday, and the former vice president used the attention to warn that global warming is "the greatest challenge we've ever faced."   [!]

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Experts: Climate change threatens peace (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) What does global warming have to do with global peace? The globe may find out sooner than we think, experts say. "Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on Earth as we know it to be," retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, former U.S. Army chief of staff, told a congressional panel last month. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee agrees. In ... [News Source]

Global warming recast as security issue (Financial Times) Awarding the peace prize to the UN climate change panel shows how global warming has been recast from an environmental issue to one of international security. [News Source]

Gore: Award puts focus on global warming (The Charlotte Observer) For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency." Gore shared the prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists. ... [News Source]

Thousands of scientists researching climate change share Nobel with Al Gore (Deseret Morning News) Plenty of people share the glory of the Nobel Peace Prize thousands of scientists have been studying and documenting climate change under a U.N. body set up in 1988 as concerns grew about global warming. [News Source]

Nobel winner hopes for ’sense of urgency’ on global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) The Nobel Peace Prize should add a "sense of urgency" to the fight against global warming, the head of the world's top scientific body on climate change, which shared the award, said on Friday. [News Source]

India responding well to climate change challenge: Pachauri (EARTHtimes.org) New Delhi, Oct 12 - India is responding well to the challenge of global warming, said Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is the joint winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. [News Source]

India responding well to climate change challenge: Pachauri (IANS via Yahoo! India News)

New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) India is responding well to the challenge of global warming, said Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is the joint winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.