Al Gore gave his Nobel lecture today in Oslo, speaking along with Rajenda K. Pachauuri of the IPCC.
In his speech, Mr. Gore invoked Winston Churchill, Robert Frost, Gandhi, the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, and the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, among others, to underline the urgency of his message. He wrote the speech himself, he said in the interview, “with the help of Mr. Google.”The significance of Gore's Peace Prize should not be understated by partisan cynics. Those who picked apart An Inconvenient Truth for its (remarkably small) degree of factual errors, or complain that the Prize should go exclusively to "real" scientists, miss the point entirely. Should we instead send dense scientific papers on global warming (laced with equally dense footnotes) to the households of every American? Should we only listen to documentaries which the common man cannot understand? Of course not. No American has been able to describe the essential threat of global warming to the American people as eloquently as Gore.
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