Showing posts with label Nobel prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel prize. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 May 2013

Correcting some misinformation out there: the facts on the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize


In order to discredit me, especially my arguments about the need for humanity to quickly reduce carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels, someone has accused me of falsely portraying myself as a Nobel laureate. I have never presented myself as a laureate. I was, indeed, a contributing author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, especially in the 1990s, and this organization was co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore in 2007.