Photo: Al Gore, Climate Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize

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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change today won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Gore is seen here speaking at the Climate Change Forum in London on June 21, 2007.

AP Photograph/John Stickwell/WPA Pool

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