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Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel
eldavojohn writes "Former US Vice President Al Gore has been announced as a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on environmental awareness & climate change. He shares his award with the the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'Speaking in Washington, Mr Gore praised the IPCC, "whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years". "We face a true planetary emergency," Mr Gore warned. "It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity." He said he would donate his half of the $1.5m prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection, reported the news agency Reuters.'"
"... a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
Humanity? Shouldn't he be including the right wing too?
Technically, murder-suicide does not violate the golden rule.
A movie gets an Oscar when it was clearly inferior to its peers.
A website that nobody ever went to gets an award for "transforming television."
And now this travesty to the Nobel name.
I might just have to start believing those Foxistas about the limousine liberals and their Hollywood circle jerk.
I hope the science Nobels are selected better.
I'm sorry, but this just proves to me that the Nobel Peace Prize is a big crock of politically correct shit. Fat boy gets a Nobel Peace Prize. What an embarrasment!
I have a hurricane insurerer as a client and all of these global warming induced hurricanes that were supposed to happen haven't happened at all. There just hasn't been. So I wonder, what other predictions of our doom aren't going to come true.
I'm not saying that there isn't some kind of climate change taking place, or that man isn't somehow partly to blame, but, hey, one would think that the supposedly prestigious nobel prize committee would come out of its liberal ideology for a second, do some math (for a change). They would see that the likes of Kyoto won't reduce carbon levels in the earth atmosphere, that its just a transfer tax designed to bring about some form of global socialism backed by the fear mongering lie of planetary catastrophe, and that, domestically, the big companies like GE, pushing for CO2 laws are doing so soley because they have CO2 laws to sell.
If Global Warming were the big threat to mankind that Al Gore hypes it to be, then we should be building hundreds of nuclear plants and millions of electric cars, starting yesterday. Clearly the longer term problem of nuclear waste is not so severe as the ice caps melting tomorrow. But if the far most environmental crazies can be content to wait for some sort of a breakthrough in solar power or windmill to replace the 80% of the US electrical capacity that comes from fossil fuels, then perhaps all of the hype about global warming is just that, hype.
If there is no time, then build nukes, and if there is time, then I'm getting a V8 engine, and Al Gore and his likes bitch about it, they can take that nobel prize and shove it up his ass while he flies around on his personal carbon belching jet.
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It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise intelligent people on both right and left can get so caught up in something they want to true that a flat lie becomes merely an "inaccuracy".
Have you noticed perhaps how "global warming" has become "climate change"? Why? Because it really isn't warming that much and the boys getting government funds for climate research want the grants to keep coming. Money and power. Money and power.
Oh, yeah, Al, Arafat, and the UN -- terrorism for fun and profit.
Not really surprising. The Nobel Peace Prize really should be renamed the Nobel Anti-American President Prize, since the primary motive of giving it out the last few years has been to try and embarrass whoever happens to be leading the country at the time. I mean, Jimmy Carter? Al Gore? And what about Yasser Arafat? Yeah, 3 guys that have really contributed to world peace. The teacher that breaks up the schoolyard fight is more deserving than those three.
Scientists are whores, aye? Spread the doom-n-gloom (never mind if it's all made up) and you can make a bundle.
I'm tellin' ya guys, this is just another hoax. See also:
Killer Bees that will attack people on the streets as early as 1979
The coming Ice Age that will engulf NYC before the year 2000
The invisible Ozone Hole that'll burn off our skin
Killer Earthquakes, cats sleeping with dogs, it's all over.
There *is* a climate change going on. But CO2 (now called a 'pollutant' by the EPA) doesn't cause it, it corrects it.
There is no 'perfect' climate...how do we know the change won't be better?
These are the people who can't predict the weather past 3-5 days; how can they tell us in 20 years we'll be under sea water?
The media is sure in control of those who can't be bothered with the facts.
And in balance, recall the recpient of the first Nobel Peace Prize: Orville and Wilbur for the aeroplane. With it, wars would be impossible.
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According to the latest peer reviewed analysis. It's something like 13% of climate scientists. 13% only constitutes a majority in the minds of Al Gore and his followers.
Actually, I couchsurfed through Europe recently, and exactly zero of the houses/apartments/hotels I stayed in had AC. Bordeaux can be a bitch in the summer because open windows == mosquitoes, closed windows == too hot to sleep well. Not even the Louve had AC (as far as I could tell).
The general excuse for this lack of what Americas view as a common necessity was that it is "a waste of energy." I'm guessing that it has more to do with a lack of money than environmentalism, since Europeans make half as much money as Americans and pay more in taxes.
It is good to know that some places in Europe have AC. I don't know where you live but I hope you put it in your nursing homes, too.
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