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Nobel Peace Prize

NOAA Contributions to International Climate Change Reports Recognized

IPCC poster graphic showing the path to to the Nobel Peace Prize

NOAA scientists are among the hundreds of researchers in many fields around the world who have contributed, especially to the scientific basis for these reports, to four assessment reports created since 1988 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. On October 12, 2007, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former U.S. Vice President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. 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."

Dr. Susan Solomon, a senior scientist with NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), and Dr. Dan Albritton, former Director of NOAA’s Aeronomy Laboratory and the Chemical Sciences Division of ESRL, now retired, are among 25 attendees representing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at a ceremony for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Monday, December 10, in Oslo, Norway. The Nobel ceremony will be webcast live in full.

NOAA has compiled a list -- NOAA Contributors to the IPCC Assessments - by Report -- which names the NOAA contributors, shows their affiliations and the assessments to which they contributed.

Explanation of abbreviations used in the list of contributors:

NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OAR = Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA)
NESDIS = National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NOAA)
NWS = National Weather Service (NOAA)
NOS = National Ocean Service (NOAA)
NMFS = National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA)

WG1 = Working Group I, which assesses the physical scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change.
WG2 = Working Group II, which assesses the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to it.

12/6/07