Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize

Hello! I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI top news headline on this Friday, October 12, 2007.

Former Vice-President Al Gore is the proud recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was honored today for his work to raise awareness about global warming. Gore says he's deeply honored and added that the climate crisis is not a political issue, but a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. He received one and a half million dollars, half of which he says he's donating to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a U.S. organization he founded.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning U.S. officials to back off on a plan to install military defenses in Eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow. The Russian government sees the U.S. missile defense plan as a step toward weakening Russian security. Washington describes it as a way to circumvent the threat of a missile attack from Iran. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was with Putin when he made those comments, says they'll find ways to cooperate.

Turkey is warning of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killings of Armenians by Turks during World War One as genocide. Yesterday, the country recalled its ambassador to Washington. A Turkish government official says it may have to cut logistical support to the U.S. The country is a conduit for many of the supplies shipped to American bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. drugstores are clearing their shelves of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for infants. Leading manufacturers announced yesterday they were withdrawing the products amid concerns about their safety. The medications can reportedly cause severe hallucinations, seizures, high blood pressure, and heart and breathing problems that can be fatal. The companies who manufacture the products say they acted because of the risk of their complications when misused. Critics say they hazardous even when used at the usual doses.

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[lNeolNomad]

Some ppl don't like him winning the prize. The fact and the reality is that he just won the prize. What can you do? Deal with it and stop whining. If you insist, invent a time machine and go back in time to stop him from winning the prize. Or win one yourself if you can.

[loreleikg]

Why don't you just chill out. People are entitled to opinions other than yours. You don't have to agree with me. I don't need you to. If you're so confident in your beliefs then why do you need to resort to name calling? I think it discredits you a bit.

[oilhammer04]

Well so much for the Nobel Peace Prize having any meaning. Now it is awarded to a snake oil salesman.

[Nomorewarworldpeace]

Hello,

This is Jeff Fisher posting.

Just Google Al Gore Jeff Fisher HBO

Contact is AlGoreJeffFisher(at)Live(dot)c om

[buddyboyofcanada]

There immediate ways to solve the problems but it will take drastic action. Wecansolveitorg is not one of them nor Climate Protection Al Gore.

We Can Solve It recruits global memberships and donations but refuses to allow any products on their website unless it is made in the USA. That's not global thinking that is nationalism which is what got us into the shit world we are now facing.

[jeckledc]

why people being so negative at least he has succeded in raising alot more awarness

[Illuminatiii]

The Earth indeed has cycles, but not with the temperature differences we have seen the last 30-40 years. Those are man made changes, and when 2500 of the world's best scientists on that area came to the conclusion that the increases in temperature indeed are man made. You must be really stupid to think something else.

[Illuminatiii]

If you had done some research you would have found out that it was a great amount of methane gas that leaked into the atmosphere that caused the melting of the last ice age. And methane gas is a green house gas whose impact on the atmosphere is over 20 times greater than carbon dioxide. That is largely why the last ice age where over about 10000 years ago.

[delta9999]

i hate al gore with a passion.

fucking attention whore

[tube2a]

Orjanst1.. how about you actualy look at the facts without a sheeps mind and investigate??? And there are plenty of scientifical facts against evolution for one to wonder. Evolution has not been experimented nor observed on a level other than adaptation. So until its a fact ill consider it as what it is.. a THEORY. And Man-Made global warming as a Hypothesis. Al Gore's facts displayed in an inconvieniant truth (convieniant lie) even go against teh very scientist whom he atained his facts from.