Steve Running
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Steve Running is a professor at the University of Montana. Serves on the board of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
[edit] 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Steve Running was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, along with 600 other scientists and reasearchers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri (Delhi, India).[1] The award was given "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" on October 12, 2007.[2]
Running made the following statement to the Missoulian about winning the prize:
I never thought my name would be linked in any way, shape or form to something like this,” Running added. “I can almost certainly say that I won't write anything else the rest of my career that will have this type of impact. We've got to get past all the petty bickering and get to work. This is about a big transition for society over the next 50 years. The path we are on is unsustainable. What the Nobel committee is saying is that we've got to wake up. We've got to change the course of the whole world.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ BBC (2007-10-12). Indian's surprise at Nobel award. BBC.
- ^ Peace 2007. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
- ^ JOHN SMITHERS. UM scientist shares in Nobel Peace Prize. Missoulian.
