Just when you thought Al Gore’s head couldn’t get any bigger…
Oh, mega-crikey:
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
The winner of the $1.5 million prize, perhaps the world’s top accolade, will be announced in Oslo on October 12 from a field of 181 candidates. The prize can be split up to three ways.
“There are reasonably good chances that the peace prize will be awarded to someone working to stop the dramatic climate problems the world is facing,” said Boerge Brende, a former Norwegian environment minister.
He noted that the U.N. Security Council, the top forum for debating war and peace, held a first debate in April about how far climate changes such as droughts, heatwaves or rising seas will be a spur to conflicts.
“We have many good candidates for the prize and we are approaching a decision,” said Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute where the five-member committee meets.
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Related: Via USAToday, “U.S. judge kills Calif. suit citing car makers for global warming:”
In a rebuff to Attorney General Jerry Brown, a former California governor, U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins ruled it would be impossible to gauge automakers’ responsibility for climate change in the state, AP writes. Jenkins said lawmakers, not judges, should determine to what extent car makers share responsibility for global warming.
The ruling is here.
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At least Rush Limbaugh is also a competitor within the field of 181 candidates!
So if he wins the Nobel Prize; How many carbon offsets does he have to buy to make up for the private jet and ceremony?
Sadly his ego is more than makes up for the emissions from cattle
I’d love a million bucks as much as the next guy, but when you hand these things out to Arafat and Carter you lose the right to be called the “top accolade”.
If this idiot gets the Nobel Prize, it will lose all credibility and become an annual joke. They may as well give the next one to Dr. Phil or Rosie O’Donnell at the next Academy Awards Show.
He turns my stomach.
LOL … the world has truly become a joke. Insanity rules. Mad Max and the Thunderdrome here we come.
For goodness sake. Are these people not paying attention? What has Algore done for peace? Nada. What has he done for the environment? Nada. Is he a scientist? Nope.
I will tell you one truth – he is smart as heck. He set up his company to purchase carbon offsets from himself before he released his movie. Genius (I don’t care if you like him or not) pure genius! Ranks right up there with the pet rock. Someone did something completely useless and made millions. Of course in Algore’s case, that would be billions.
Seriously, if Al Gore wins, I will spend the rest of my life trying to win one as well, so at the cerimony I can toss it in a trash can and say “You gave one to Carter, and the Al Gore… Obviously thing thing is worthless…”
If Rowan and Martin were still alive he could get a “Fickel Finger of Fate ” award making it a trifecta of worthless door stops.
@trinitytim
Well, since you’ve “set up and worked many VIP security details” I guess that is the end of the discussion. We both know, good sir, the weight that evidence-less claims of expertise hold in these parts when it comes to winning an argument. Yes, your credentials speak for themselves. I bow to your obvious experience in these matters.
Respectfully,
29Victor
King of Rome
CRAP! Wrong thread. Michelle, could you please delete this and my previous post.
Just move along people, there’s nothing to see here.
More neurotic than George Bush. Is he still taking alpha male lessons?
Okay, now for the real post:
It took, like, ten years for Watson and Crick to get their Nobel Prize for discovering frikin’ DNA, Jonas Salk never got one at all and now Al Gore is going to get one for “campaiging” on something? This prize is now officially purely political.
Even if Global Warming were everything that Gore says it is he still hasn’t accomplished anything other than telling people about it. There has been no worldwide rejection of fossil fuels or reduction in the creation of “greenhouse gasses.” To hear the Warmists we’re racing toward this balmy Armageddon faster every day.
The 1.5 mil will be good for Gore tho. He can use it to pay his electric bill.
Let us not forget that other winners of this “prestigous” award happen to be Koffi Anan and Mohamed El Baradei. I’m thinking the word peace should be replaced with something else…any suggestions?
Am I the only one that thinks alGore looks like Jabba the Hut?
Dude, lay off Jabba.
anAL GOREtentive
that prize lost all prestige when they wanted to take Perez’s prize away but not arafat and giving it to Carter in the middle of the Iraq War. Giving it to the goracle would not make it fade any less in my eyes.
This is Reidiculous
Then they should pick a poor candidate who needs the money to buy carbon offsets. Selling indulgences just doesn’t work if the
suckerstrue believers are too poor to buy them.Seriously, the Nobel Peace Prize is a sham prize given to left-wing activists for their left-wing activism. They have little to nothing to do with peace. Otherwise such prizes would ahve been awarded to people like Churchill, Truman, Reagan or even Woodrow Wilson
First an Oscar, then an Emmy. Now he’s in the running for a Nobel?
What’s next? The Tony? Goracle: The Musical?
Or maybe he can star in a revival? He could don blackface and a dress to portray Eliza in a revival of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. As he flees across the ice to escape Simon Legree, he could stop and give an impassioned speech about Global Warming and how — if it is allowed to progress — future Elizas will be up the creek without an ice floe.
Simon Legree will of course be played by a man wearing a George W. face mask.
wait…look at the two pics….the original included on the front and the one on THIS page.
His head is LITERALLY getting bigger!!!
Let us not forget his valient crusade to help rid the world of its second greatest made up threat, manbearpig.
Look on the bright side, he was almost president! Can you imagine?
Good point almehan-
thats just too gruesome to imagine.
The only way Al Gore won an Emmy was to have the Emmy people make up a new category, and THEN have Al’s crappy channel as the ONLY nominee.
It’s like winning the Middle School Student Council Secretary post when you are the only name on the ballot. IT MEANS NOTHING.
Gore’s got a pretty good racket. Selling the notion of global warming, and buying carbon offset credits from a company he has financial stake in.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:08 pm, taylork said:
Let us not forget that other winners of this “prestigous” award happen to be Koffi Anan and Mohamed El Baradei. I’m thinking the word peace should be replaced with something else…any suggestions?
Cmon, thats an easy one
Gorebal Peace Prize
This guy here, Aaron Jackson is way more deserving of a Nobel Prize than Gore the Bore.
Aaron Jackson
ha.
It’s more of an also-ran, a failure, a monstrosity of disappointment and that is a disappointment as well.
.
Honor and credibility sure aren’t what they used to be.
For people like Gore.
The Nobel prize has been turned into just so much mud pie contest.
The more you can sling the more likely you’ll get rewarded for producing the most mud and making a mess with it.
Of course the Nobel Prize was started by a guy whose good intentions wound up being responsible for the deaths of millions, isn’t it?
The only reason Gore is even pushing so hard to win this award is so he can charge even more money for his speaking engagements. A vice president earns x amount of dollars while a vice president who has won the Nobel Peace prize gets x+y amount of dollars. Thats why he has spent millions of dollars and “carbon credits” jetting off to Europe to petition himself for this prize. Its rather sick.
So is Cindy Sheehan in the running? She has done as much for achieving peace as Carter and Arafat did.
Maybe she’ll have to wait and see if president billary surrenders in the name of peace or not.