Welch Scientists Gets Nobel Honor

A WELSH scientist who has described climate change as a “weapon of mass destruction” is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice-President Al Gore, the Western Mail can reveal today.

Sir John Houghton will be part of a delegation from the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to receive the award next month.

The former head of the Met Office chaired the climate change panel between 1998 and 2002 and was the lead editor of its first three reports on global warming.

Mr Gore is sharing the award with the IPCC as recognition for his efforts in raising awareness of the problem through his documentary An Inconvenient Truth and other work. The Norweigian Nobel Committee recognised the IPCC’s work on global warming over the last two decades. The IPCC and Mr Gore will receive the award at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10.