YES! Congratulations to the man who should have been our president, the man who has been ahead of the curve on almost every major issue of our time, and one of this country’s most wise leaders.
Statement from Al Gore on winning the Nobel Peace Prize:
“I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.”
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.
“His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,” the citation said. “He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”
It cited Gore’s awareness at an early stage “of the climatic challenges the world is facing.
The committee cited the Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have “created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.”
Members of the panel, a network of 2,000 scientists, were surprised that it was chosen to share the honor with Gore, a spokeswoman said.
“We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue,” spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante said.
An Inconvenient Truth:
Didn’t you hear the talking point? The Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t count anymore because they gave it to Arafat one time.
Al Gore, congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Now it is time to announce your wish to become America’s president, take your seat in the White House, and be the leader we have all been waiting for to move beyond the corrupt system of Empire and towards Earth community.
Al Gore, congratulations on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Now it is time to announce your wish to become America’s president, take your seat in the White House, and be the leader we have all been waiting for to move beyond the corrupt system of Empire and towards Earth community.
Frankly I don’t know what’s worse, Al Gore in the same boat with terrorist Yassir Arafat, or Al Gore in the same boat with a real scientist and peace activist like Andrei Sakharov. Both men tarnish Gore tremendously, albeit in opposite ways.
And yes Oliver, Gore has been way ahead of the curve on many issues. Perhaps you should link to any one of the numerous YouTube archives of his 1992 speech outlining all the ways that Saddam Hussein was connected to international terrorism, and how Bush 41 didn’t deal with him seriously enough.
In the future, as more and more of Gore’s film is shown to be junk science and hysterical piffle, or perhaps a clever mechanism to line his pockets through his carbon offset company, this whole thing will be simply a quaint little reminder about the vanity of the chattering class.
On the other hand, Gore could use the prize money to purchase a reasonable-sized, energy-efficient new home and actually practice what he preaches.
For the record, I am still appalled at the fact that Pope John Paul II never won a Nobel peace prize. Any public figure who frightened the Soviets so badly that they attempted to assassinate him deserves our eternal gratitude. Even Reagan didn’t provoke Moscow to that extent.
But Al Gore uses energy sometimes! And he flies places! And…and…global warming is a hoax! A hoax, I tells ya! The Nobel Committee is a liberal front for George Soros! Al Gore said he invented the Internet! And he’s fat! Look at how fat he is!
Wow, Mike, I thought the left was supposed to be the side of the nattering nabobs of negativism…
Respond to this, punk……
In a racist rant against Justice Clarence Thomas, Angry Left blogger Oliver Willis observes: “If Thurgood Marshall were still alive at Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination he would have surely recoiled at the neanderthal positions Thomas held on race.”
In his memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” Justice Thomas describes visiting the court in the week before his formal swearing-in. From page 286:
What was supposed to have been a brief courtesy call on Justice Marshall ballooned into a two-and-a-half-hour visit, and I loved every minute of it. He regaled me with tales of his long, remarkable career as a civil-rights lawyer. “I would have been shoulder to shoulder with you back then–if I’d had the courage,” I said.
“I did in my time what I had to do,” Justice Marshall replied. “You have to do in your time what you have to do.” Those words have stayed with me too.
As all of us must, Justice Marshall did eventually die–on Jan. 24, 1993, 15 months after Justice Thomas took his seat.
I’ll see your Yosser and raise you Henry Kissinger. And frankly, Yosser in 95 (alongside, remember, Rabin and Peres) deserved it for the Oslo Accords more than Kissinger did for Paris.
“In the future, as more and more of Gore’s film is shown to be junk science and hysterical piffle, or perhaps a clever mechanism to line his pockets through his carbon offset company, this whole thing will be simply a quaint little reminder about the vanity of the chattering class.”
Oh god. And when it isn’t Mike, will you and all your idiot bretheren please just go away?
Make fun all you want SpiderJ, but Gore’s own words label this as a “crisis”. When something is a crisis, you do everything in your power to avoid causing more damage. So why is Gore still traveling via private jet and consuming electricity by the terra-watt?
The guy who will use more carbon this year than I will in my lifetime just won a Nobel Peace prize for telling people to use less carbon. Please tell me how that makes ANY sense.
Mike and Farris are so funny. Though for a higher insanity score, you really have to include references to states’ rights, fluoride in the water, and the looming Muslim Caliphate.
I give you an 8.6
“why is Gore still traveling via private jet and consuming electricity by the terra-watt?”
To publicize the problem. Conservatives tried to attack Martin Luther King personally in order to distract from the Civil Rights issue, and it would up calling more attention to it. Conservatives lost. Bill Buckley’s still smarting over that one. The same thing’s happening now. Attacking Al Gore personally is a self-defeating strategy, Farris. If you weren’t retarded, you would know that. But then, you wouldn’t be a movement conservative, either.
Nice threadjack attempt, ‘taters, but you’re late.
Meanwhile, I probably won’t get a lick of work done today. I’ll be too busy reading all the wingnuts sputtering and foaming about Mr. Gore’s little award.
Haw!!
Conservatives tried to attack Martin Luther King personally in order to distract from the Civil Rights issue
King didn’t make Rosa Parks sit in the back of the bus on the way to the rally.
Oh, and it was strictly Conservatives attacking King?!? Who knew the Kennedys were part of the VRWC? It really is Vast!!!
Can you hear that sound? Very faint, in the distance.
Wingnut brains going POP! all across this great land of ours.
Yes, exactly, Farris! Shoehorn that in to your theory that both JFK and MLK would be conservatives today! Throw in a little Laffer curve, go back to the Islamic Caliphate, and you’ve got a perfect storm of conservative tard-spiracy theory!
And by all means, compare Al Gore’s energy usage to Southern conservative segregationists AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE! That’s how conservatives lost on civil rights, that’s how you lost on women’s suffrage, that’s how you’re losing on gay rights, and that’s how you’ll lose on global warming. History is just one never-ending slow-motion defeat for you guys — lean back and enjoy it!
By the way, you’ve got to love how conservatives whine, whine, whine about Democrats “personalizing” the S-CHIP debate, but then turn around and do everything they can to personalize the global warming debate. Is Al Gore your “human shield” now, Farris and Jay!
*WE* are “personallizing” the Global Warming Debate? Really?!? I didn’t make a movie about me starring me with me as the leading expert. Nor did I accept an award given to me for a movie that was made about me.
VDH, this has nothing to do with JFK being a modern-day Red Stater or Blue Stater. My snide semi-off-topic remark was about how you’re tarring one side of the aisle with the bad acts that were perpetraded with a little help from the other side of the aisle.
Remind me again, who compared Gore to MLK? Oh right, it was YOU. Why you’re blaming me for it I have no clue.
Huh? You’re off in fantasy-land again, Farris. Gore has not personalized anything. He’s spoken out about a specific issue. It’s the conservatives who seek to derail that conversation by focusing on Gore personally. You’re riding the tiger of the Malkinized right. Don’t be surprised when it backfires.
Al Gore knew perfectly well he was Al Gore before he started having “opinions” which were damaging to the military industrial complex. Therefore whatever O’Reilly’s on you go now.
“Make fun all you want SpiderJ, but Gore’s own words label this as a “crisis”. When something is a crisis, you do everything in your power to avoid causing more damage.”
But Young Republicans should NEVER be asked why they aren’t serving in the defining crisis of their time, the war on terror. Cons have ZERO self-awareness.
Whether Gore is wrong or right, what does global warming have to do with world peace? While Arafat should never have been so honored, at least his prize had to do with his promoting peace (or at least pretending to).
Whether Gore is wrong or right, what does global warming have to do with world peace?
Now y’see, Hedley? That’s what happens when you get all your news from right-wing sources. You miss the answers to really simple questions, even when those answers are published all over the place.
Here’s the relevant graf from today’s story in the Washington Post:
@Mike:
Did you think no one would click through your link? Did you bother to do so yourself?
The story you linked reports exactly the opposite of what you say it does.
Mike:
Linked article:
Knucklehead.
Mike, you might want to back off from demonizing individuals in the global warming debate. It cost you the S-CHIP issue, so you might want to think twice about trying to Malkinize Al Gore this go-round. I’m just sayin’.
They just spent the last week trashing a 12-year-old boy who suffered a brain-stem injury from a car accident. Denigrating the Nobel Prize will be a walk in the park for these people.
And you really have to hand it to Mike to ridicule the right-wingers with such skillful satire, weaving in every single moronic right-wing cliche into one post as if he actually means it.
Brilliant! Colbert’s got nothing on you, man!
Silly liberals. Don’t you know that a British judge found that Gore lied Nine Times in his film?
Except that, um, the judge found nothing of the sort.
Damn, can’t an honest wingnut get away with a little lie every once in a while?
“The panel said global warming “may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.”
So he won a peace prize for possibly stopping a conflict that no one has any proof that it would happen. That is like giving a peace prize to a crazy homeless person predicting the apocalypse. If the apocalypse were too happen “there may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.” But Gore’s movie made money so everything in it must be true. After all he has a degree in science…too bad it’s political science.
“The panel said global warming “may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.”
So he won a peace prize for possibly stopping a conflict that no one has any proof that it would happen. That is like giving a peace prize to a crazy homeless person predicting the apocalypse. If the apocalypse were too happen “there may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.” But Gore’s movie made money so everything in it must be true. After all he has a degree in science…too bad it’s political science.
So he won a peace prize for possibly stopping a conflict that no one has any proof that it would happen.
Yeah, no proof. Because we all know that no one has EVER gone to war over oil. How ridiculous to even suggest that such a thing could happen.
Speaking of lack of proof, how’s that hunt for WMDs going? You remember them, right? We invaded a country and overthrew government because Saddam was going to attack us with them. Yep, I’m so glad right-wingers demand so much “proof” on these issues.
But Gore’s movie made money so everything in it must be true.
Actually the movie is true because the science in it is sound and verified by empirical data. It would be true whether it made money or not. That’s how reality works. Only in right-wing fantasyland are everything and everyone judged by how much money they make.
So he won a peace prize for possibly stopping a conflict that no one has any proof that it would happen. That is like giving a peace prize to a crazy homeless person predicting the apocalypse.
Yes, provided the crazy homeless person had been studying the apocalypse for 20 years, held congressional hearings, and consulted with the best scientific minds in the world and had written two bestselling books on the subject and lectured tirelessly to anyone and everyone who had even an atom of intellectual curiousity about the subject.
It’s exactly like that. Numbskull.
Hey — you guys ever read the National Review on Martin Luther King after he won *his* peace prize? Take a look at conservative thought from not-so-long ago…
“For years now, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his associates have been deliberately undermining the foundations of internal order in this country. With their rabble-rousing demagoguery, they have been cracking the “cake of custom” that holds us together. With their doctrine of “civil disobedience,” they have been teaching hundreds of thousands of Negroes — particularly the adolescents and the children — that it is perfectly alright to break the law and defy constituted authority if you are a Negro-with-a-grievance; in protest against injustice. And they have done more than talk. They have on occasion after occasion, in almost every part of the country, called out their mobs on the streets, promoted “school strikes,” sit-ins, lie-ins, in explicit violation of the law and in explicit defiance of the public authority. They have taught anarchy and chaos by word and deed — and, no doubt, with the best of intentions — and they have found apt pupils everywhere, with intentions not of the best. Sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.”
Will Herberg, “‘Civil Rights’ and Violence: Who Are the Guilty Ones?”, The National Review Sept. 7th, 1965
Nobel Peace Prize, NEW Global Warming Antiperspirant, or Follow The Money
AP – Al Gore has for a long time been full of hot air. He has a vivid imagination about the world around him. His inherent mistrust of the seasons stems from an episode of the Twilight Zone, in which the Earth gets too close to the Sun. Summers are hot & sticky, and Al is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures needed to create a more effective global deodorant.
If college roommate Tommy Lee Jones, could save the City of Los Angeles from errant magma (Volcano), and the world entire from a giant cockroach (Men In Black), then certainly Al Gore deserves a prize for his initiative to combat global wetness. The same active ingredient and trusted formula that kept our leaders dry during the Cold War – now in unscented. As the planet heats up, you don’t have to! Clinton tested: guaranteed to leave no trace.
Now that Global Warming has been legitimized, a “private group” out of Monterey, California, wants to seed the North Atlantic with iron oxide pellets to help plankton absorb more carbon dioxide (greenhouse gasses). Strategy: “cleanup the planet and make a buck on the side.” Another inconvenient truth: how these Bolshevik’s misguided scam to pirate the “Peace Dividend,” sparked the worst terrorist attacks, to date, on United States soil.
Ps. I like a good spoof, but facts are facts. To whom did Al Gore donate the $1.8 million dollar Nobel Prize purse? Who is the Alliance for Climate Protection? Perhaps not coincidentally, Al Gore is the founder and chairman of the § 501(c)(3) alliance. Three guesses who the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis - a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years, during this true planetary emergency are: http://theseedsof9-11.com