Well-Deserved Noble Prize

It is good week for those of us in the environment movement trying to educate the World of the danger of Global Warming and Climate Change. I am delighted in hearing the news that IPCC and Al Gore are the winners of the Noble Peace Prize this year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), created by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has been working since 1988 to alert the World of the danger of global warming. IPCC team of scientists have presented us with facts and figures to convince us that climate change is human-made, therefore we can reverse the effects of it by changing behavior of human beings. I want to congratulate Rajendra Pachauri for his excellent work as chairman of IPCC in moving the international communities and governments to take action to deal with global warming, and Al Gore, for his life-long dedications to the global environment issues. He has convinced me of the danger of global warming by his excellent presentation of facts and figures in the film “An Inconvenient Truth”. I have changed my way of living after seeing the film. Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim, the film producer, have succeeded in getting people in the World to change their ways of living to reverse the effects of global warming. As part of a world communities that want to do things differently
to reduce global warming, I try to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in my day-to-day living by driving less. I try to reduce waste and the demand for fossil fuels; to use less heat and air conditioning; to buy energy-efficient products; and to replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs in my home and office. Beyond individual’s effort, there is a need for real action, such as emission reduction, by governments to avoid the grave consequences of accelerated environment deterioration and societal upheaval as a result of global warming.

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