Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize - Ends US Drought in Norway

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for raising awareness on the subject of global warming. Al Gore, after picking up an Emmy and an Oscar has completed the activist trifecta and finally brought gold back to the United States.

Al Gore's big win was celebrated by hundreds of Americans, ending the United States' five year drought at the Nobel Peace Prize table.

"It's been a long five years since an American won the Nobel Peace Prize," says a spokesperson made up for this article. "We're ecstatic to see Al Gore finally bring the big prize back to the United States."

Tens of Americans took to the streets to celebrate Al Gore's Nobel Prize win. "It's like a dream come true," said Alice Green, vice-president of the Committee to Regain A Peace Prize (CRAPP).

"The last American to win a Nobel Peace Prize was Jimmy Carter, who won the prize in 2002 for doing a bunch of stuff like promoting actual peace," adds Green. "That's nothing compared to what Al Gore has done."

"You can't compare the two," said a fictional Al Gore for Peace Prize supporter. "Did Jimmy Carter win an Academy Award, or an Emmy, or hang out with Cameron Diaz? I don't think so."

Despite the celebration, several Americans were shocked to learn that Al Gore will be sharing half the Nobel Peace Prize with the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "Al Gore won only half the Peace Prize?" asked a disgruntled man picketing outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. "This is just like the 2000 presidential election. There should be a recount and he should get the whole prize."

Al Gore and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize "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," according to the official Nobel Peace Prize website. You can read the official release by clicking HERE.

Al Gore , who is scheduled to fly back to the United States on a jet that pumps 200,000 deciliters of carbon gases per minute into the atmosphere, declined to comment as to whether he would ask for a recount of the votes to get the entire Nobel Peace Prize for himself.