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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is now Nobel Laureate Al Gore. He's in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize today. He shares that honor with the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which gives you a clue to what Gore won for - his work on global warming. In his acceptance speech, Gore warned that for nations confronting global warming, quote, "it is the 11th hour."
Mr. AL GORE (Former U.S. Vice President): The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion? Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
