Today Mr. Gore is being honored in Oslo, Norway, along with the IPCC (the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on their decades of work to alert the world and change course on man made Climate Change caused by Global Warming.
Oslo, Al Gore: "I have one reason for being optimistic, and that is that I see throughout my own country, the United States of America, and throughout the world the rising of the world's first people-power movement on a global basis," he said.
After serving in Vietnam, even though he was opposed to the War,
he reported for his local paper, The Tennessean, for 5 years before entering politics and holding his first position in the US House for Tennessee.
always committed, here in the House he championed food labeling
Years of service to the people,
working to get out his message,
...rescue efforts in New Orleans,
Hearings in DC on the Climate Crisis
His slide show presentations,
and acknowledgement for his lifes work
``The new president, whichever party wins the election, is likely to have to change the position on this climate crisis,'' Gore told The Associated Press in an interview before accepting the peace prize at a ceremony in Norway. ``I do believe the U.S., soon, is to have a more constructive role.''
The former vice president said it was not too late for Bush administration to join efforts to draft a new global treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
``I have urged President Bush and his administration to be part of the world community's effort to solve this crisis,'' Gore said. ``I hope they will change their position.''
Gore Urges Bold Moves in Nobel Speech
Gore on 'peacepath'
A clearly amused but enthusiastic Nobel Peace Prize winner will literally
leave his mark on Norway, on a new Path of Peace in Stavanger.
The path is an ongoing project by human rights foundation Point of Peace, and will incorporate footprints from various peace figures in a route that ends at the Cathedral Square in downtown Stavanger.
Former US vice-president and Nobel Peace laureate Al Gore gladly rolled up his trouser legs and took off his socks in order to have his footprints set in alginate. The form will then be sent to Kristiansand and cast in bronze before being placed near the Stavanger Cathedral.
"Funny and nice, a very good idea. I have never heard of this, but I think it is a very good idea," Gore told newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad.
WE THANK YOU, Mr. Gore.
Mr. Gore's acceptance speech.
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Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him "The Merchant of Death" because of his invention – dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.
Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken – if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.
Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, "We must act."