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Published October 13, 2007 at midnight

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The award: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

The winners: Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a network of 2,000 scientists. Of those 2,000, more than a dozen lead authors and 50 other scientists are Coloradans. They work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Center from Atmospheric Research, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado.

Show me the money: The panel will split the $1.5 million prize with Gore, but it's not clear if any of the local contributors will receive money.

Why they won: The panel produced four reports since 1990 showing the connection between human activities and global warming.

How they celebrated: An awards ceremony and birthday celebration for NOAA's Earth Systems Research Lab quickly became a Nobel Prize party with 200 guests. NCAR staffers might do their celebrating Monday with a champagne lunch.

What they said:

"Yes, it's very nice personally to be attached to it, but more meaningful is realizing how much this will underscore the global warming issue. It will really elevate its prominence and make people real people take notice."

--Linda Mearns of NCAR

"I hope this will get people to realize how serious we are. We are in a very dangerous stage."

-- Tingjun Zhang, National Snow and Ice Data Center at CU

"My view is that science and information is a service that provides a basis for people to have a good conversation. From there, they have to decide what to do."

-- Panel co-chairwoman, Susan Solomon, NOAA

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