Moments after the Nobel Peace Prize committee turned its sights on the battle against global warming by bestowing the 2007 award upon former US vice president Al Gore, George W. Bush moved in to steal it.
"I'm the disseminator," claimed Bush, followed by a weak, disbelieving laugh.
In a shocking turn of events, Mr. Bush's legal team filed papers to dispute the Norwegian Nobel committee's claims that Mr. Gore's 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 were sound reasons to give him (and the IPCC) the coveted prize instead of giving it to Mr. Bush.
Bush reiterated his position: "Al Gore may be the single individual who they say has done the most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted to combat climate change, but - heck, I'm the disseminator and I'm confident that history will cement in the minds of all future human peoples that I, George Dubya, and not Al Gore, deserved the Nobel prize."