Global Warming Activists In Running for Nobel Prize

OSLO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists.

If a campaigner against global warming carries off the high world accolade later this month, it will accentuate a shift to reward work outside traditional peacekeeping and reinforce the link between peace and the environment.

If we and the earth are both lucky, a week from today when Al Gore accepts the Nobel Prize he will announce his candidacy to win the Presidency a second time.

What a concept, huh? Having a President who gets an award from a world body for his efforts at peace, as opposed to having a resident of the White House who runs around in flagrant violation of every canon of peace.