I"m sure Prof. Don Wuebbles is a fine and distinguished academic. However, even he was probably a little surprised this morning and found out that he was now a Nobel Laureate.
Somehow, the headline writer for the News-Gazette extended Wuebbles' work for the IPCC (Wuebbles doesn't show on a search of the IPCC website) into him being a Nobel Laureate based on their receipt of that award in 2007. In fairness, the writer of the article doesn't come close to making that error and the online article's headline is different.
As a former collector of pennies for 1965 Nobel Peace Prize winner UNICEF, I'd like to also be known as a Nobel Laureate.
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That is amusing. Were they ever instructed to <a href="http://www.newsgazette.com/news/local/2009/12/22/ui_professor_calls_recent_climate_accord_a_real_start">run a correction</a> of the error?
NOBEL PRIZES DEBUNKED!
According to a headline in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Prof. Don Wuebbles is a Nobel Laureate. Upon checking the "records" listing "Nobel Laureates" we have determined that such is not the case....it does not exist. Thus, we have now confirmed that based on the information provided by the News-Gazette that there is no such thing as a Nobel Prize.
-Fox News