Posted on 12/07/2007 7:42:11 AM PST by SmithL
OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore arrived today in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he shared for the campaign against global warming, and shunned the traditional airport motorcade in favor of climate-friendly public transport.
Gore will accept the prize he shared with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital on Monday. Upon arriving in Oslo, Gore urged governments meeting at a climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, "to promptly produce a strong mandate."
He said he hoped they would move forward by two years the date for a successor to the Kyoto treaty, "so we don't have to wait until 2012," when Kyoto expires, to have a tougher agreement in place to reduce the emissions blamed for warming.
The governments meeting in Bali hope to finish drafting a new climate treaty by 2009, and have it ratified by 2012.
Before his arrival with his wife Tipper, Gore informed his hosts that he would not need the traditional motorcade from the airport, preferring to take the high-speed and environmentally friendly airport train and then walking to his downtown Oslo hotel.
"I use public transport when I can. It isn't always possible," Gore told The Associated Press while walking up Oslo's main street to his hotel. He said the train was much faster than a limousine, but that it was also a symbol of efforts to reduce pollution in hopes of slowing climate change.
"It is a gesture. It is also one of the changes we are all going to have to be doing anyway," Gore said.
Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore, left, and Geir Lundestad, right, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, board the high speed train from Oslo airport to the city center, shortly after Gore's arrival in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007.
keep him
keep him...pleeeeeeze
I don’t see the ribbon around his neck - you know, the one on which he will wear his Nobel?
What’s the temperature?
Its like the stars going to the Oscars. They show up in a Hybrid, they leave in limos and private jets.
Please. Did he fly in on a private jet, or did he fly coach?
Meanwhile communities of Branch AlGorians gather searching the storm fronts for signs of diminished activity and great heat waves.
Stay there, Al.
Its so nice to know ahead of time that there will be a happy ending.
This is another stupid liberal pet trick...like Teresa Heinz and Ketchup Boy pretending to eat at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant with The Silky Pony & spouse.
He’s sharing the awards he gets but he gets to take the glory. International politicking at its best.
My own prize goes to men like my father and uncles who survived the Great Depression, served their country in time of war, paid their taxes, worked hard and supported and sustained their families faithfully and unremittingly throughout their lives. They never expected or wanted any society’s prize and believe me they never received one.
The prizes are variously politicized.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke.
The Nobel Prize for literature is not much better.
The various prizes for science have generally gone to deserving recipients, but there is some politics there, as well, since there are more deserving recipients than prizes, and the guys with the best connections tend to get awards first, unless their discoveries are just too brilliant to ignore.
So Algore gets a prize for his first train ride.
Global Warming at work.....
Hmmm...the more I think about it, the more I realize that I really don’t care about his ‘peace prize’.
*sigh* Oh, well...
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