At first I figured it was going to be the Nobel Prize for greatest work of fiction. I was wrong.

OSLO (AFP) — Former US vice president Al Gore and the UN’s top climate panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a major boost to the international campaign for action against global warming.

Gore, who has reinvented himself as a climate warrior since failing in his bid to become US president in 2000, said he was “deeply honoured” by the award and warned of the “planetary emergency” posed by climate change.

The White House sent its congratulations on the “important recognition” for Gore’s work, but stressed there would be no change in the US administration’s environmental policies.

The 2007 prize was jointly awarded to Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — a UN body of about 3,000 experts which has highlighted the human role in steadily mounting global temperatures.

The Norwegian Nobel committee cited the recipients for their work “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.”

The committee said it wanted to contribute to efforts “to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.”

You can read the full propaganda piece article here.

And of course, there are now renewed calls for Gore to run for President. I wonder how many carbon credits Hillary has to buy from Gore’s company to keep him out of the race.