Just when you thought Al Gore’s head couldn’t get any bigger, Part II
Update 9:50am Eastern 10/12. While envirozealots celebrate the Goracle’s coronation, Jim Hoft notes that University of Illinois has just reported that ice cap growth in the Antarctic is at its highest level in recorded history.
And Allahpundit says: “Look on the bright side: after Arafat, Carter, and Iranian marionette Mohammed ElBaradei, the award couldn’t possibly be more degraded.”
Har.
The Czech president speaks some truly inconvenient truths:
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, a rare vocal global- warming sceptic among heads of state, is “somewhat surprised” that former US vice president Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize, the president’s spokesman Petr Hajek said in a statement.
“The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct,” the statement said. “It rather seems that Gore’s doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace.”
Klaus said in a recent speech that environmentalists’ efforts to halt global warming “fatally endanger our freedom and prosperity.”
The Czech president publicly expresses doubt on what scientists, including those participating in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, deem very likely – that global warming is caused by humans.
He also said that rising temperatures may not matter enough for governments to throw funds at halting the process.
In a newspaper interview earlier this year, Klaus said that only Al Gore, and not a sane person, would say that mankind is ruining the planet.
Update 8:58am Eastern 10/12. And so it has come to pass…
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for fighting it.
Gore, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for his film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” had been widely tipped to win the prize.
He said that global warming was not a political issue but a worldwide crisis.
“We face a true planetary emergency. … It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity,” he said. “It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.”
The win is also likely add further fuel to a burgeoning movement in the United States for Gore to run for president in 2008, which he has so far said he does not plan to do.
The Nobel Peace Prize citation is here, extolling the IPCC and Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
PJM round-up here.
Flashback…Al Gore: An Inconvenient Story…
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10/11 2:07pm.
I noted the Nobel Prize buzz around Al Gore last month.
Well, the Big Reveal will take place on Friday, and Gore has canceled on a Babs Boxer fundraiser to travel overseas for the announcement. (Update: Or not? HT – HAHeadlines)
No doubt he’s already purchased carbon offsets for the trip…if he does indeed win the prize.
Don’t forget: You can offset his offsets here!
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What took you so long Kev??? They hand out nobel prizes the same way they shell out Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…
Sham! I demand a recount.
Lol, gipp
the ego driven Stars pay $15,000.00 for their walk-o-fame accolades…paid for buy a sponsor of course..cough cough… lmao.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. ….The only reason Gore was 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.
Notice that global warming has yet to generate any Nobel science prizes. Apparently, the Swedish Academy is more grounded than the Norwegian parliament.
Accordingly, I would hereby like to honor the science winners.
The medicine prize went to Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the U.S., immigrants respectively from Italy and England, and Sir Martin Evans of Wales for developing techniques for altering mouse genes in the labratory in order to replicate human conditions, such as hardened arteries and diabetes, for further medical research. (I’m sure this must have the PETA people grinding their molars!)
The physics prize went to Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany for discovering independently of each other the principle of giant magnetoresistance, which is what has led to ever-shrinking hard drives storing ever-expanding volumes of data.
The chemistry prize went to Gerhard Ertl of Germany for discoveries concerning chemical reactions on solid surfaces. According to press releases, these discoveries are behind the technology leading to the development of fuel cells that will in the future replace fossil fuels.
In all, worthy awards.
This has nothing to do with “peace.” It’s psudeoscience at best.
I don’t think making the world more concious about global warming will stop the radical Islamist from attacking us or stop the fighting anywhere. Are the folks awarding the Nobel prizes smoking crack?
“The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct,” [..] “It rather seems that Gore’s doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace.”
Hear, hear!
It’s time for truth in advertising. I offer this challenge to the Nobel Foundation:
Either start calling this prize “The Nobel Prize for Left-Wing or Progressive Activism,” or stop handing it out altogether.
Well, The Gore Scholastic Indoctrination Has Begun
Just got off the cell phone with my “grapevine” sister who reports already at several primary schools and junior highs in Queens and Nassau County teachers are heralding Gore’s “contribution to peace” in the classroom as the best chance for them to survive on earth. Is there no way to legally counter this bilge if the younger generation really believes the peace prize is now an honorable and respectable title and any opponents are anti-green “ignorant bigots” as some teachers actually suggest?
Watch for Gore’s effect on educational TV folks!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
MUST ‘08 campaign slogan: ”Ask a student whether they’d prefer keep 95% of their earnings and take care of themselves, or take home 40% and have someone take care of them”
I can’t wait until I get the day off from work for “Global Warming Awareness Day.” I live in CA and just worked through Columbus Day, heaven forbid we actually observe a federal holiday. I’m sure we’ll have no problem taking off this new day in honor of the Goracle. What a joke.
If the Goal of the Noble organization was to try to destory all credibility they have they succeeded.
What is funny is who the MSM completely ignores why he made his movie. It was to promote the Carbon Credit trading scam as a solution, which of course you to do with his own Carbon Credit trading scam company.
Generation Investment Management LLP
People are shouting for him to run for President but there is no way he will because he is making Millions now with is scam company.
While I am pretty much a die-hard conservative on every other issue, I have to say that after reading documents from both sides of the dispute, I tend to agree with the IPCC.
As far as I know, I’m the only conservative republican that actually believes in Climate change caused by humans. We can get together in 30 years and see who was wrong. Until then, I won’t argue about it, since pretty much everyone already has their minds made up, and you won’t change my mind.
It’s lonely out here….
Btw, I work in a coal fired power plant, and spent the last 15 to 20 years on the road visiting other industrial plants around the country (not just power plants). I know what gets dumped into the air.
All that being said…I can’t stand Al Gore either. As Bill O. says, he’s a ‘Bloviating’ hypocritical windbag.
A Sci-fi novel I read has one of the best lines I think to those that have bought into the Global Warming hype hook line and sinker.
“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
I am excited!! The Draft Gore move is now really trying to generate steam…I say every concerned conservative get over to the Draft Gore site and sign up/donate a bit of money to encourage him….That is a show I would love to watch..Hillery vs Gore! Talk about implode from within!!!
Fascinating stuff … I’m buying more ammo and MREs today …
Fat Albert, how much methane comes out of your back end?
nbarry:
“….which will in the future replace fossil fuels”. I’d recommend changing that to “….which may…” Predicting the future has a habit of making the predictions wrong. Fuel cells have been a promised technology for quite a long time already. We can hope but I’d not count those chickens yet.
Isn’t this whole global warming thing an elevation of man’s place in the universe? Man is so powerful he can change the temperature on the earth. Yeah right. In fact, he’s so powerful he can even change it without even knowing he’s doing it. I AlGore will fix it for you though.
The Nobel Peace Prize is “supposed” to be awarded for someone who constributed to the peace of the world. How can Gore win because of what he is saying about global warming? Global warming seems more of a science. Even that the science is flawed. In my opinion, the Nobel Prize Committee should have never nominated him for the prize in the first place. Rush should have won the prize not Gore.
I have to agree with cR that we can’t predict the technological future. A friend of mine predicts that it will be 50 years before fuel cells become cost effective. Still, this takes nothing away from Ertl, who by far got his science research more exact than Gore.
So, Al Gore joins the growing list of tyrants honored with a Nobel Peace Prize.
Yawn.
the ONLY reason I’m upset the award didn’t go to El Rushbo is b/c this means he won’t be running for President…siiiiiiigh…
CANNOT— HAVE—GLOBAL—WARMING——-STAY PUFT—-WILL—-MELT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s an inconvenient truth about al-Gore’s relationship with ‘carbon credits’ — http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
Well to be prefectly honest, the competition wasn’t very stiff.
What? Like the prize committee was going to pick Irena Sendler anyway? What did she do that was so great? Save 2500 Jewish kids from the Nazis in Poland? They probably just grew up be Zionist Oppressors anyway. I mean….Gore made a movie.
And so what if the Nazis sentinced her to death for helping the children? Al Gore stood up to… ummm… the oil companies or… somebody.
Al Gore
Capturing the hearts of the world and taking prizes from old ladies whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.
On another note:
All partisanship aside………..we are praying for Senator Kennedy and his family.
This is infuriating.
Big Al wins another one.
I think the Nobel Peace prize should go to Marcus Luttrell (of Lone Survivor fame) and his 3 dead Navy Seal teammates for almost single handedly removing an entire Taliban army.
A Taliban elimination would go a lot further to promoting World Peace than An Inconvenient Truth.
The Nobel Prize, particularly the Peace Prize, is as meaningless and irrelevant as the Oscars have become. It’s fitting the Manbearpig has won both.
As for Vaclav Klaus, he sounds like my kind of guy. Maybe if Empress Hillary takes the throne, I’ll move to Prague
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For next year, I would like to nominate two German scientists, Gerhard Gerlich & Ralf D. Tscheuschner, for the Nobel Science Prize, for their paper:
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
in which, without any funding from any oil company, they logically, scientficially, and conclusively DISPROVED the “Greenhouse Gas” theory.
I urge anyone and everyone to run your search engines to find this paper and start verifying it.
Michelle,
I have e-mailed the PDF document to you. Please check your e-mail for the following message:
TIP — Document I promised to you in your comment section …
Please grab a scientist to help you with the formulae (I had great difficulty) and start sending this around the web. We need to spread the word:
Al Gore is half right! The science is settled, just not the way he says it is!
Your my hero, Michelle, so please don’t let me down.
—Tim
The Nobel Peace Prize committee, continues to expose themselves as the left wing moonbats that they really are. What a worthless “honor”.
Please tell me all of the right wingers commenting on this issue won’t complain next time the DailyKos has comments making fun of the physical appearance of YOUR favorite politician. Please tell me you won’t wont call it juvenile, sophmoric, or “hate speech” when the leftist cites namecall republicans based on physical appearance. Please tell me there isn’t hypocrisy going on here.
The Nobel for Chemistry foretold the rise of the Goracle.
I am just beside myself. I learned of this when I took my daughter to her high school this morning listening to Laura Ingrahm. I was just sick and livid.
This is just another way of the Left to say, “See? Look what you could have had. Instead of a warmonger like Bush, you could have had this man of peace.”
The Left’s reinventing of Gore has been one of the great mysteries of the American political wars. It has been one of the most disgusting, dishonest…I can’t say enough. But to turn their backs on people who are true instruments of peace for this hoax is something truly unforgivable. To actually reward him for his Stalinistic bullying and hypocritical lifestyle is also unforgivable. They could have rewarded the Polish/American woman who helped Jewish children in WWII, but that would mean that they were not anti-Jew. What about the man working to fight AIDS in Africa? What about the 180 others…even Oprah…who were far more deserving of this award that Algore.
And to listen to the Libs in the media this morning has truly been horrendous. So many of them saying, “No one was more deserving of this award”, well that just shows you were they really put their peace thoughts and efforts. Forget those fighting to end war and hunger. They are not deserving of the award. Give it to the guy who flew there in a hurr and brought his entourage in SUV’s.
God but I am disgusted.
If you want to ask the Nobel Committee yourself just what they were thinking in tawarding this liar the award and committing this attrocity then go to this site. You can ask them until the 15th of this month. Apparently they are allowing questions. Flood them and tell them just how you feel. Maybe in the future they will stop politicizing this award and return to giving it to true workers for peace.
http://nobelprize.org/prize_announcements/peace/ask_questions_07.html
Bullseye!
Here’s more proof that Jimmy C. is a loon:
Jimmy needs to stop smoking the peanut shells.
Mary Jo Kopeckne had no comment.
75% blockage of his carotid artery…meaning that the O2 levels were severly cut off to his brain. Hmmmm…this might explain a few things.
Are my eyes deceiving me or is Gore looking more and more like the late Marlon Brando?
The Island of Dr. Moreau, anyone?
Al Gore