Al Gore visited my home country Norway this week. He received the Nobel Peace Prize together with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. You can read Al Gore's laureate speech here.
This week the Bali conference on climate change will end. Al Gore went from Oslo to Bali, where he now urges the parties to agree even if the USA choose not to join.
Even if Al Gore is awarded a number of prizes and is celebrated all around the world for his efforts related to climate change, there are groups of people doubting both the very existence of the problem and the facts that Al Gore present to us.
Al Gore needs all the help he can get. Sites like RealClimate and New Scientist have assisted him in defending An Inconvenient Truth against the UK High Court ruling that there are 9 errors in his presentations of the climate change problems. There is however one scientific field that can support his work even further and give him additional arguments when he negotiate on behalf of our climate.
Geodesy is the science of determining the Earth's shape, kinematics, rotation and gravity field. In particular the changes of these parameters are interesting for climate change research and mitigation measures. The geoid is one of the most important geodetic products and Al Gore will find it very useful.
Find out more about geodesy and the geoid in 10 reasons why Al Gore needs the geoid.
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Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech - Gristmill
Excerpt:
"Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
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."
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/10/9457/4971
"Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
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."
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/12/10/9457/4971
Gore Calls for Urgent Action in Nobel Speech - New York Times
Gore Calls for Urgent Action in Nobel Speech - New York Times
Excerpt:
"He has said it over and over again, in increasingly somber and urgent terms, to anyone who would listen. But former Vice President Al Gore used the occasion of his Nobel Peace Prize lecture here today to proclaim it to the world: climate change is a “planetary emergency,” he said — a “real, rising, imminent and universal” threat to Earth’s very survival."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/world/11nobel.html?ref=world
Excerpt:
"He has said it over and over again, in increasingly somber and urgent terms, to anyone who would listen. But former Vice President Al Gore used the occasion of his Nobel Peace Prize lecture here today to proclaim it to the world: climate change is a “planetary emergency,” he said — a “real, rising, imminent and universal” threat to Earth’s very survival."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/world/11nobel.html?ref=world
Gore joins major venture capital firm
Gore joins major venture capital firm
Excerpt:
"Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore announced Monday he's joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, an environmental activist who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms headquartered in Silicon Valley expand beyond software, computer hardware, the Internet and biotechnology to so-called "clean-tech" investments worldwide.
Gore is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins. He's already a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc. Alliance for Climate Protection, the advocacy group he co-founded, is based in Palo Alto."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_hi_te/gore_venture_capitalist_4;_ylt=Ao6X_r0camMt1hAUvS_69vgE1vAI
Excerpt:
"Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore announced Monday he's joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, an environmental activist who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms headquartered in Silicon Valley expand beyond software, computer hardware, the Internet and biotechnology to so-called "clean-tech" investments worldwide.
Gore is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins. He's already a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc. Alliance for Climate Protection, the advocacy group he co-founded, is based in Palo Alto."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_hi_te/gore_venture_capitalist_4;_ylt=Ao6X_r0camMt1hAUvS_69vgE1vAI
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