Purdue professor shares Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore

October 16, 2007

Purdue professor shares Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University professor is among the co-recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside former Vice President Al Gore, "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

Kevin Gurney, associate director of Purdue's Climate Change Research Center, will share in the award as one of the 2,500 international climate scientists who played various roles in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Prize with Gore.

The Nobel committee cited the IPCC's two decades of scientific reports, saying they have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."

Gurney is a member of IPCC, which commissions assessments of global climate change from hundreds of experts in the field. The fourth assessment report, published this year, was based on computer modeling of global climate. Gurney, who also is an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, contributed research results on linkages between climate change and carbon cycling to the most recent IPCC assessment.

The Nobel Prizes will be awarded during ceremonies on Dec. 10 in Stockholm and Oslo.

Writer: Elizabeth Gardner, (765) 494-2081, ekgardner@purdue.edu

Source: Kevin Gurney, (765) 427-8680, kgurney@purdue.edu

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