Al Gore, former vice president of the United States and former Grizzly Adams look-alike, has been named, along with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as the winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel committee said it picked Gore and the IPCC "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."

Gore will have to share the $1.6 million in prize money, but will get his own gold medal and diploma, suitable for framing. He can put it right next to his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth.

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"This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis - a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years," said Gore.

Gore said he would donate his share of the prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that he said is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

Gore serves as chairman of the alliance.