Environment Forum
Global environmental challenges
A green Nobel Peace Prize next week? Or one too many?
Will the guardians of the Nobel Peace Prize make another green award in 2009 to encourage sluggish talks on new U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen?
Or is it too early after environmental prizes in both 2004 and 2007?
The five-member Nobel panel likes to make topical awards to try to influence the world – a prize announcement on Oct. 9 linked to climate change could hardly be better timed since 190 nations will meet in Copenhagen in December to agree a new pact for fighting global warming.
And the Nobel prize will be formally handed over at a ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of the death of founder Alfred Nobel – giving any winner a global loudspeaker during the the Dec. 7-18 meeting in Copenhagen.
But any would-be green laureate has a big problem — former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore and the U.N. Climate Panel shared the 2007 prize and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai won in 2004 for her campaign to plant trees across Africa.
Three prizes so fast might well be one too many.
Bookmakers don’t rate green candidates very highly this year – one has Chinese dissident Hu Jia at 5-1 followed by Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at 11/2. Greenpeace is an outsider at 40/1.
“Wow. Anon, I am not sure how old you are, but you certainly haven’t done much reading. Do your part please and inform yourself before assuming that “fairness” role.”
If you are going to make aspersions on a person’s age, education, or knowledge that says volumes about your quality as a person.
By the way, is there a reliable climate model for future climate change yet? Or a conclusive finding on exactly what the climate will be in a decade and to what point climate change will effect it? Or a concrete finding as to whether climate change will cause our extinction as a species?
Or is this something only stupid, uneducated people ask for? And all smart scientists know better then to waste time researching?
Don’t expect a response. And learn some civility.