Climate change awareness gaining peace prize

The Alfred Nobel Foundation has just awarded the 2007 Peace Prize to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Al Gore, for "..."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"

This is great news. Climate change is happening, that is sure enough, but there are large unknowns as to the actual impacts, scale of the impacts, time line and possible measures to alleviate them. That doesn't mean we should do nothing; this generation, our generation, is burdened with the task of making sure that further activities down the line, from now on, take into account potential impacts on climate . That is the main message of UNFCCC and Al, and hats off to the Nobel Committee for recognizing an important message when they see one.

Congratulations to the winners!

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