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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.'"
So the IPCC helped Al Gore invent the intarweb?
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One more word: Congratulations
Awarding that prize to such a high profile PARTISAN poltician has pretty uch destroyed the reputation of the prize. This isn't the first time the decision has been a bad one. Irish biggots won it a few years ago too when they were the main people who caused the problems
A little embarrassing that "An Inconvenient Truth" was banned in schools in Britain for its inaccuracies. The judge said it met the criteria for political indoctrination.
it's just alarmist nonsense your pushing there.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Right wing naysayers need to get over themselves. Here's a link to rebut yours:
http://neutralsource.org/content/blog/detail/598/
Falsely charging a celebrity with hypocrisy vis-a-vis global warming is a lame straw-man argument to deflect from the issue. Al Gore, through carbon offsets, leads a carbon-neutral life; and, thorough his work, he has inspired many, many others to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprint.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'?
This man spends almost as much on electricity as the average American makes in a year. Al Gore receiving this award is a sign of how irrelivant it has become.
He was screwed on the election
Yeah, Bill Clinton really fucked him over by wasting the incumbent advantage. If Gore hadn't been roped into defending that perjurer, he would have won with a very comfortable margin.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
it is in fact proof that anyone who opposes al gore has achieved rhetorical and intellectual bankruptcy
basically, rather than counter al gore on any facts or logic or rationale (because they can't), the last few blind idiots who don't agree with al gore (most of the world does now) have their backs to the wall and go for the final desperate charge against him: doubt the guy's integrity and conviction
so you're saying "if you think it's so important to stop polluting the atmosphere, why don't you stop using electricity"
heh
1. as if there were valid options besides modern electric grids for modern life
2. as if you need to be a complete saint to be critical of anyone or anything
3. as if you need to turn on a dime and radically change your life just so you can be able to say everyone needs to gradually and slowly and deliberately change course
in other words, some fools want al gore to lead by example, when that is not necessary to understand his observations, and not possible to do because of how the entire world's energy usage patterns are structured
they find al gore responsible for things like the emissions of the jets he flies. so what do you want him to do? not fly? oh yeah, that will shut him up really well, wouldn't that be nice? i understand your real point now in wanting him to live in a shack without running water or electricity before he can say anything (smiles)
or how about al gore design and build a no emissions airplane before he can go anywhere and talk about climate change. will that make you happy dear propagandized fools? (rolls eyes)
well, he did design and build the internet (joke)
look, propagandized fools: if al gore were in a position to be an important world figure AND use far less energy, he would
but he can't be both in today's CURRENT energy usage patterns... not AL GORE's energy usage patterns, but the WORLD's energy usage patterns. which is the WHOLE F***ING POINT: WE ALL USE TOO MUCH ELECTRICTY. THE ISSUE IS ALL OF US, NOT AL GORE. NICE ATTEMPT TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT
again, al gore is NOT a hypocrite... but... let's run with the propagandized fools for a moment, for the sake of argument right here, and say al gore WAS a complete and utter hyprocrite. ok, where does that lead us now?
guess what: it doesn't nullify any of his observations and our need to move away from current energy usage patterns!
so: one last time: doubting someone's integrity and conviction is the last redoubt of the desperate loser who is rhetorically and intellectually bankrupt in their opinions
al gore is not the subject. CLIMATE CHANGE IS
nice propaganda bait and switch there, losers
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Nobel Peace Prize was disgraced, when Yassir Arafat and Mikhail Gorbachev received theirs. The latter caused Andrei Sakharov's wife Elena to try to get her husband's name crossed out in disgust.
Al Gore is joining a good company, indeed. I wonder, what Henry Kissinger would be thinking about this new club-member.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
It should be noted that most of the science Al Gore uses is junk science or poorly interpreted science. His case, though, is not based on science its based on emotion. Some would say "fear mongering". But, this is the highly politicized "Peace Prize" not one of the Science prizes, where showing your proofs is required.
By now, anyone who claims that there is a scientific concensus on man-caused global warming is either a "kool-aid drinker" or being highly disingenuous.
Yes, global warming is occuring. The cause is far from certain but a lot of evidence is piling up that it's an on-cycle occurance with little to do with man. Yes, polluting is bad, but science shows we've survived numerous heating and cooling cycles ("numerous" as long as you don't believe that we've only been on earth for 6 thousand years).
I'm beginning to believe that the faithful of Holy Church of Global Warming are much like our ancestors. In an effort to stave off the disappearance of the sun in the winter, to keep the dragon/snake/lizzard from eating the sun, to keep floods from the village, we are making blood sacrifices. They had a poor understanding of the underlying science. Those that did understand the science used it to their own advantage. "Priests" showed their power by "blessing" the congregants through the events, and surprise, everyone survived the eclipse, except for a few unfortunate virgins.
With people like Al Gore, and our eco-frauds selling "carbon offsets", acting as the temple priests, they warn us of this great coming catastrophe. Meanwhile, the sacrifice we make is to their pocket books. Money, effort, energy, and electorate good will that could be better spent on feeding the poor, healing the sick, and educating the masses is instead spent on halting a natural process that the world has survived many times before.
Can we live greener? Yes. Should we clean up our backyards? Yes. Can we help emerging nations build clean? Yes, and that will improve their living standards. But, to spend the money and electorate goodwill on halting development will lead to the improvement of the most poor.
People like Al Gore will eventually distract us from our real work, caring for the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the less fortunate. Why? Because we will be too busy "Saving the World", so that we can't save the world.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Wow. The first sighting of sane, non-dogmatic Democrat on /.
The fabled unicorn has been found!
Perhaps people would listen to you if you showed them a little more respect, eh?
A large swath of the American public voted in a administration that had thrashed your economy, national prestige, and your liberty. they did so twice. Idiot is a very generous description. English does not have a noun that is strong enough to accurately describe the target audience.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
14% is not a consensus. It is a political theory which 14% of climate scientists subscribe to. It is not a scientific theory.
What "got into her" was Soviet Army's shooting at civilians in the Baltic Republics of the then-USSR. Scores have died — not just in Lithuenia.
Yes, it could've been worse — a'la Yugoslavia (although, considering the Azerbajdjan vs. Armenia war, it would not be much worse). But it could've been better too — a'la Chechoslovakia. And yet that most exemplary peaceful split resulted in no Peace Prizes.
Giving a Peace prize to a Communist is a disgrace — and Gorbachev was not the first one...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Not to mention just plain lying. The melting the arctic ice is completely natural, and snowfall and temperatures are plummeting in lots of places. First the popular myth was global cooling, but global warming won out because it's better for the liberal agenda.
Global warming is 100% politically driven, and the hype has to be stopped. The Nobel committee is now handing out prizes to liars. What next? A dog wins the prize?
No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
But I'm not trying to be funny. So I am not understanding your point. Suppose, I was trying to be funny, then in that supposition it would matter if others thought I was being funny.
No, I was being moody, maybe cynical or just downright opinionated.
If you want funny go to a comedy club.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.