I recently saw in a Portuguese blog dedicated to Apple (AppleTuga) that Al Gore and his foundation won the 2007 Nobel Piece Prize. Well, before I talk about the (not so) strange Apple reaction, I've a few things to say.
Besides the polemics over Al Gore's campaign, and money earned thanks to his movie An Inconvenient Truth, I've the opinion that if someone advises you to do something with good argues and if the action advised is truly the best thing for you to do (which may only be noticed after a while), you've only to thank. It's not necessary that the person who gives advises follows exactly what it promotes. So, even if Al Gore, with all his campaign, changed the mentality about the global warming crisis of just one person, it was worth it, no matter what. So, I think this Nobel was truly deserved and I expect IPCC to continue to help changing people's awareness.
Where does Apple get in the story? Well, it imeddiatelly changed its homepage to thank Al Gore. Err... why? What does Apple have to do with it? Well, perhaps Al Gore gave Apple some more credit of being a "green" company (that Apple was not, but tried to be, after some Greenpeace actions, if you remember) in his movie, where there are several images of himself working with his Apple products. Coincidence? I don't think so.