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...less than a week, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will travel to Oslo to collect their Nobel Prize for their efforts to build awareness of, and combat climate change. Though they will collect a prize worth well over a million US dollars, we could imagine no better present that the United States government could give them than the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the decade-old international treaty designed to limit emissions and pollution that cause global warming. Ironically, the United States has already signed the Kyoto Protocol (under the Clinton administration) but foregone...
...international leaders were as united as the scientific community on climate change, warming might be a thing of the past. This year the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a series of reports that laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real - and outlined the frightening consequences of continued inaction. At the release of the IPCC's final summary last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon - who has made climate change a top priority of his administration - laid out the threat in stark terms. "The world's scientists have spoken clearly...
...mind reader. On Nov. 26, President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore were all smiles before meeting privately for the first time in seven years. Gore, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was at the White House for the traditional presidential photo op with Nobel recipients...
...Forum Director Bill H. White said next week’s event—the third forum of the year to feature a Nobel Peace Prize winner—has already created a huge demand for tickets...
...might have been passed over for Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2005, but five undergraduates on Tuesday won first place in the national Federal Reserve Challenge Competition—the first time that Harvard has ever made it to the finals, let alone taken the top prize. The Harvard Fed Challenge Team beat out the SUNY Geneseo team, who came in second, and the three-time returning champions from Northwestern University, who finished third. The Harvard team—who won the competition by arguing for their decision to hold the Federal Funds rate constant—was awarded...