Al Gore wins Nobel "Peace" Prize
It was an impressive year for Al Gore... he convinced Iran to abandon their nuclear program. He brokered the Anbar Awakening in Iraq. He jetted to Palestine and convinced Hamas and Fatah to stop fighting. Then he got the Israelis to join them. Then he drove up the road to Damascus and got the Syrians to stop blowing up Lebanese politicians.
He deserves his "Peace" prize. Good for him. It'll look nice on his mantle next to the Oscar for Best "Documentary".
BTW, there is a reason he wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics or Chemistry:
The Nobel "Peace" Prize is a political prize. Past recipients include: Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Mohamed El Baradei, Le Duc Tho.
He deserves his "Peace" prize. Good for him. It'll look nice on his mantle next to the Oscar for Best "Documentary".
BTW, there is a reason he wasn't awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics or Chemistry:
Al Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary contains nine scientific errors or omissions, a British judge said, ruling on a challenge from a school official who did not want the film shown to students.
High Court Judge Michael Burton said he had no doubt that the points raised in "An Inconvenient Truth" about the causes and likely effects of climate change were broadly accurate, but in a ruling published Wednesday he wrote that they were made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration."
Burton outlined nine errors — including Gore's claim that sea level rises of 7 meters (23 feet) might occur in the immediate future — something Burton characterized as "distinctly alarmist." Other errors, he said, included the claim that Hurricane Katrina, the evaporation of most of Lake Chad and the melting of the snows of the Kilimanjaro were all the result of global warming. Burton said there was insufficient evidence to back his claims.
The Nobel "Peace" Prize is a political prize. Past recipients include: Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Mohamed El Baradei, Le Duc Tho.
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posted by Neall at
7:17 PM
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I suspect you got your information from one of the "journalists" who got the story all wrong. Check this out:
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/10/an_error_is_not_the_same_thing.php
I don't want to start a big GW debate and declared a heretic. Just for the record, I believe that GW exists and that man has contributed to it. But is man the sole contributor? Or are there other factors at play? Maybe, maybe not. My GW beliefs fall more in alignment with Penn professor Bob Giegengack than Al Gore.
Thanks for the link though and anyone interested in a different perspective should read THE WHOLE THING. I wouldn't say it refutes what the British judge ruled. Many of the "corrections" are defenses for Al Gore's "poorly worded" documentary.
Which comes back to my main point of the post:
Al Gore won the prize for being a GW alarmist and exaggerator, neither of which the Nobel "Peace" Prize was meant to encourage. Originally the prize would go to a person that created peace - by ending WARS. But in the past 20 years or so, the prize has been awarded to recipients for purely political reasons. Surely it would have been a more powerful statement if he was awarded one of the science prizes - after all, those are awarded by SCIENTISTS. But the science of GW isn't settled (as much as GW followers state otherwise) and the "Peace" Prize is awarded by POLITICIANS. In the end, the Nobel "Peace" Prize no longer means what it was intended for and it's importance in incredibly tarnished. And that's a shame.
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