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Al Gore Left Law, Won Nobel Peace Prize
Posted Oct 12, 2007 12:07 PM CST
By Martha Neil
Al Gore seems to have made the right career choice when he opted to leave Vanderbilt University Law School and pursue a life in politics in the 1970s.
The former presidential candidate has now won the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work, along with a United Nations climate change panel, reports the London Times.
Gore said today that he is deeply honored to receive the award, and called for more attention to be be paid to what he described as "a true planetary emergency," the newspaper reports. "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."
The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal Law Blog have more details.
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Comments
J.D.
Oct 12, 2007 8:17 PM CST
Really? It’s “not a political issue” anymore? Gore has ruined any chance of legitimate discussion on climate change by overly-dramatizing the issue and playing with statistics and numbers. If he really knew what he was talking about he wouldn’t be turning down the hundreds of offers he gets to debate it with skeptics.
Honest scientists are always looking for improved analysis, always questioning. But on this issue, anyone who raises a question is considered a heretic. Recall, there was once “universal agreement among scientists” that the Earth was flat. Thank God Gore wasn’t alive then; we’d still be fearful of sailing off the edge of the Earth.
JD
Oct 12, 2007 9:15 PM CST
Better title: “Al Gore Authored Fiction, Lost Credibility”
Robert F. Flanagan
Oct 15, 2007 9:41 AM CST
Al Gore crapped out of law school because he couldn’t cut it, nor divinity school. His movie is a fraud and his Alliance is a swindle like John Edwards poverty outfit in Chapel Hill -they both stashed their camp followers and cronies on the payroll. Al’s daddy bought him a Senate seat and he kept failing at running for the White House until Clinton dragged him over the finish line. Maybe Al will join forces with Jimmy Carter.
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