Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

At this point I'm hoping he runs and win the presidency. Just to piss Raymond off.

prndll wrote:

This does nothing but tell me that the Nobel prize is worthless.

It's awesome how you feel so much more qualified in deciding what is worth and what is not than the people whose job is actually to decide exactly that....

prndll wrote:

The man won a Nobel prize for making huge amounts of money for lies and misdirecting people. This does nothing but tell me that the Nobel prize is worthless.

The man shares the Nobel prize with the IPCC for pushing the topic into the public eye and doing so for longer than I suspect you've been alive.  I'm still waiting to see where he 'lied'.  He's been wrong and to be honest, he gets much of the science wrong, but the point behind his babbling is still valid. 

Nobody is going to pay attention to a room full of scientists (sadly) and Gore could have spent the last 8 years wallowing in self pity or shooting spitballs at the current administration.  Instead, he went back to doing what he did before he was even vice president and used his clout for something positive. 

So, yes, genius, the Nobel prize is worthless. 

Luckily, it was left in the hands of people who are more prone to thinking about peace and less prone to being internet jackholes.

Which are you?

ScanIAm wrote:

Luckily, it was left in the hands of people who are more prone to thinking about peace...

Again, I'd like to point out that the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yasser Arafat.

This is really lame though.  I mean they turned down a woman who saved 2000 children in the Holocaust for some guy who made a movie about lies.  A British court actually declared official inaccuracies in his film.

Nobel peace prizes are basically worthless now, they even give them to terrorists too.

prndll wrote:

....the Nobel prize is worthless.

 

Nobel prize winners receive a share of the interest from the money left in a bank by Al Nobel the inventor of dynamite.


10 million Swedish kronor = 1.55448 million U.S. dollars

10 million Swedish kronor = 1.09609364 million Euros

10 million Swedish kronor = 762 598.116 British pounds

ScanIAM:
If your not carefull, you'll end up being mean spirited. Personally, I would rather think about peace...but that's just not all that realistic when I see so many power hungry ego maniacs in high places operating on insane levels of irrational thinking. Since we can agree that he gets the science wrong and we can agree that he does what he does willingly/knowingly...I call it a lie when he willingly/knowingly spreads things that are not accurate. Accuracy and truth is why I come to places like this. If I'm wrong about something then I will be the first to bow. But the attitude your giving me isn't going to convince me of anything.

Now...on to something a little more interesting....
Didn't the topic get pushed into the public eye long before Gore's movie?

It was 90 degrease in New York City last week, we know global warming has arrived.

Anyone who lives near the ocean has seen the tide rise, we know global warming is here.

DigitalDud wrote:



This is really lame though.  I mean they turned down a woman who saved 2000 children in the Holocaust for some guy who made a movie about lies.  A British court actually declared official inaccuracies in his film.

Nobel peace prizes are basically worthless now, they even give them to terrorists too.

Thats funny, it is like you are saying that British courts get things correct 100% of the time? What a crock of ....

It is very hot in California last year. But, I don't think anyone need to tell me that cause I already bought AC for that. Besides, global warming has nothing to do with peace and the is old news.

I would ask what does raising the importance of dealing w/ Global Warming have to do with peace? Granted if Rush would have won (no chance in H3ll) he would have done the same amount for peace that Mr. Gore has done. Please list of all the accomplishments that Mr. Gore did to end some form of war, bring about peace and change or anything else that a "Peace Prize" should be given for. I am serious, I don't understand how global wrming has anything to do with peace

I was curious about the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and the economy, political situation and political parties in Norway.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/committee/index.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/no.html

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3421.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Norway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Norway

It seems that the Red-Green Coalition, also known as the Socialist Coalition, has a slight majority in the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament, that appoints the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-Green_Coalition_%28Norway%29


The current members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and their party affiliation:

2006-2008	Mjøs, Ole Danbolt (Chairman)	b. 1939	Christian People's Party
	Furre, Berger Ragnar (Dep. Chairman)	b. 1937	Socialist Left Party
	Five, Kaci Kullman	b. 1951	Conservative
	Rønbeck, Sissel	b. 1950	Labour
	Ytterhorn, Inger-Marie	b. 1941	Progress Party

The Norwegian Nobel Committee Since 1901

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/committee/nnclist/index.html


No wonder Al Gore won-- the "watermellons" had a lock and a former Conservative Minister actually nominated Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-socialism

The one person I believe should have received the Nobel Peace Prize and never did was Mohandas Gandhi. 

He was nominated five times.


Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/index.html

Gandhi & the Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/GandhiNobel.html

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

prndll wrote:

ScanIAM:
If your not carefull, you'll end up being mean spirited. Personally, I would rather think about peace...but that's just not all that realistic when I see so many power hungry ego maniacs in high places operating on insane levels of irrational thinking. Since we can agree that he gets the science wrong and we can agree that he does what he does willingly/knowingly...I call it a lie when he willingly/knowingly spreads things that are not accurate. Accuracy and truth is why I come to places like this. If I'm wrong about something then I will be the first to bow. But the attitude your giving me isn't going to convince me of anything.

Now...on to something a little more interesting....
Didn't the topic get pushed into the public eye long before Gore's movie?

Yes, in 1988 by James E. Hansen, the father of global warming alarmism.

The Global Warming Debate

"...The figure showed the first predictions made with a 3-D climate model and time-dependent climate forcings — it was a figure from a paper that we had published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1988 and it had been a principal basis for testimony that I gave to the United States Senate in 1988...."

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/

James E. Hansen talks about the urgency of the climate crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hHlxaYNb0

James Hansen concerned IPCC ignores danger of ice sheet melt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oMf_WnaA8&mode=related&search=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

Both James E. Hansen and Al Gore remind me of Paul Ehrlich:

"The battle to feed humanity is over.
In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."

~ Paul R.  Ehrlich
The Population Bomb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

Ehrlich was on the Johnny Carson several times.  Too bad I cannot find a video on YouTube.

Ehrlich lost the famous Simon-Ehrlich bet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager

This time you going to drown or die of heat stroke.

LOL

eagle wrote:

It was 90 degrease in New York City last week, we know global warming has arrived..

It's only going to be in the mid-80s tomorrow in Dallas. I don't think that warming is quite global yet.

eagle wrote:

Anyone who lives near the ocean has seen the tide rise, we know global warming is here.

The tide has always risen and lowered.

Somehow, I don't think they're celebrating

j0217995 wrote:

I would ask what does raising the importance of dealing w/ Global Warming have to do with peace? Granted if Rush would have won (no chance in H3ll) he would have done the same amount for peace that Mr. Gore has done. Please list of all the accomplishments that Mr. Gore did to end some form of war, bring about peace and change or anything else that a "Peace Prize" should be given for. I am serious, I don't understand how global wrming has anything to do with peace

You know what?  This is the first serious argument against Gore being involved with the Nobel prize.  I'm not sure why he deserves it either, and your points are well taken.  He didn't end a war.  He didn't even spend time negotiating the end of a war.  He certainly didn't forward the idea of peace as an alternative to wasting energy.

This is the kind of questioning that makes me believe that we're not just a bunch of retarded monkeys

I just wish that the rest of us could look past the "ZOMFG I HATE GORE SO MUCH MY EYES ARE BLEEDING" and question the logic.

Thank you.

j0217995 wrote:

I don't understand how global wrming has anything to do with peace

Custa1200 wrote:



DigitalDud wrote:  This is really lame though.  I mean they turned down a woman who saved 2000 children in the Holocaust for some guy who made a movie about lies.  A British court actually declared official inaccuracies in his film. Nobel peace prizes are basically worthless now, they even give them to terrorists too.

Thats funny, it is like you are saying that British courts get things correct 100% of the time? What a crock of ....

Thing is, they DID get it right, but the media reporting is wrong. The court did not find that there were errors in the documentary, Mr Dimmock lost his case and journalists can't tell the difference between 'errors' and errors.