It’s that time again, when editors everywhere trot out their end-of
year lists – The Most Beautiful People, the Top 10 Trends, etc. etc.
Frankly, the Green Wombat couldn’t be bothered coming up with a list of
his own but we will pass on the 2006 One Degree Hot List:
The Year’s Most Influential in Global Climate Change. One Degree is a
Web spinoff of the Weather Channel that focuses on climate issues.
Taking the No. 1 position is, no surprise, Al Gore. "If global climate
change reached a tipping point in the public consciousness in 2006,
former Vice President Al Gore may well have pushed it over the top,"
the list editors wrote. "With his unlikely hit film An Inconvenient
Truth, Gore became the official climate change spokesman for millions
across the globe, presenting possibly the most widely distributed (and
highest grossing) science lecture in history." British Prime Minister
Tony Blair gets props for making global warming a policy priority while
George W. Bush’s fierce opposition to such policies is credited with
inspiring California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other Golden
State politicians (No. 4) to enact a landmark global warming law.
Others making the list include evangelist Richard Cizik for taking
climate change to the pulpit; NASA global warming expert James Hansen; and Wal-Mart for its conversion to the green agenda and efforts to
promote environmentally sustainable products and practices.
Green Wombat 
Leave a Reply