Persbericht Norwegian Nobel Institute IPCC en Gore winnen Nobelprijs voor de Vrede

[Henk Vreekamp]

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Uit dit detail blijkt eens temeer, Marc, dat je overspannen bent: een vrouw
kan geen vrijmetselaar worden.
hv,u
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At 11:34 10/12/2007 +0200, Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks wrote:
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>[De grootst mogelijke wetenschappelijke ramp, lijkt me... Erger kan eigenlijk
>  niet. Die Doris Lessing van die literatuurprijs is trouwens ook Vrijmetse-
>  laar, net als Al Gore]
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>Bron:  The Norwegian Nobel Committee
>        Norwegian Nobel Institute
>Datum: 12 oktober 2007
>URL:   http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_lau_announce2007.html
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>THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 2007
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>
>The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for
>2007 is
>to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on
>Climate
>Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their 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.
>
>Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the
>utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our
>minds.
>Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of
>much
>of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater
>competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly
>heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be
>increased
>danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.
>
>Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades,
>the IPCC
>has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between
>human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials
>from
>over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty
>as to
>the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be
>merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its
>support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer
>and the
>consequences still more apparent.
>
>Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist
>politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the
>world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity,
>lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate
>change.
>He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater
>worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.
>
>By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the
>Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the
>processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world's
>future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind.
>Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control.
>
>Oslo, 12 October 2007
>
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>(c) 2007 Norwegian Nobel Institute
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