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Al Gore, United Nations share Peace Prize for climate work
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modfather1965 | 8:03 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
While I'm sure conservatives will be crying "bias" (what else can
they do beacuse they won't actually give credit to a Liberal when credit is
due (e.g., Jimmy Carter's earlier Nobel Peace Prize)), Al Gore deserves
this award and more. His tireless work on behalf of the planet's impending
climate crisis has sped up the debate by decades, possibly saving us valuable
time in making sound interventions. Hats off to Gore for his work. I only wish
he was running for president now instead of five years from now. Hey Repubs...
When was the last time one from your ranks won a Nobel Peace Prize??? Oh I
forgot - that's kind of hard to do when you start unnecessary wars,
don't read good books, don't care about the down-trodden and the
oppressed.
Prof | 8:12 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The nobler part of me is glad to hear this because of the valuable work it
recognizes.
The not-so-noble part of me is glad to hear this because watching the Dittoheads go apoplectic in this comment thread will provide me with at least a couple of days' worth of amusement...
3 seconds to right-wing freakout... 2.... and... GO!
The not-so-noble part of me is glad to hear this because watching the Dittoheads go apoplectic in this comment thread will provide me with at least a couple of days' worth of amusement...
3 seconds to right-wing freakout... 2.... and... GO!
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Congrats... | 8:22 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Al Gore, like Jimmy Carter, will go down in history as one of our most respected
and influential humanitarians.
Great job, and nice recognition by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Great job, and nice recognition by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Riggs | 8:31 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The Nobel Prize for peace has been further tarnshed by another political award
that bears no relationship to peace. Granting it to two contentious and
discredited political hacks like Jimmy Carter and Al Gore speak for themselves.
Hope the IRS follows the money.
Blake | 8:35 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
I can't wait to hear everyone spout off about how global warming STILL
doesn't exist...
Tim | 8:59 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The award for Mr. Gore was well deserved. Global warming is a moral and a
spiritual issue. Here's hoping LDS folks will be willing to listen and
act. Scientists from all over the world are issing a dire warning. GW is
happening. All we have to do is open our eyes and view the impact right before
us. It's not going away.
The question is: what can we do to minimize the human impact? Don't Mormons teach something about "replentish the earth?"
I have yet to see the LDS hierachy take a stand or issue a statement. Aren't they "stewards" of this world?
The question is: what can we do to minimize the human impact? Don't Mormons teach something about "replentish the earth?"
I have yet to see the LDS hierachy take a stand or issue a statement. Aren't they "stewards" of this world?
Mo-town | 9:00 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
That's because it doesn't Blake, and there isn't a shred of
evidence to suggest that it does. Liberals have created it for 2 reasons. 1)to
act as a political motivator, so that they can accuse Conservative
Administrations of not doing anything about it. 2)To create mass hysteria. The
Left loves mass hysteria
As for the Nobel Peace Price, ALL credibitly is now shot. You could have given that thing to any random schmo on any street corner and they would have been more deserving. Gore is the biggest fraud of the 21st century
The world may have a trend of warming slightly, but this fairy tale that man is the cause of it makes me want to hurl. Wake up people
As for the Nobel Peace Price, ALL credibitly is now shot. You could have given that thing to any random schmo on any street corner and they would have been more deserving. Gore is the biggest fraud of the 21st century
The world may have a trend of warming slightly, but this fairy tale that man is the cause of it makes me want to hurl. Wake up people
Mike | 9:05 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
'Anonymous' claims the "noble prize doesn't mean much".
It would be unkind to point out his many spellling mistakes and to observe that
maybe poor old 'anon' didn't too so well in school. Sure, the
Nobel prize has a political component. Getting up in the morning has a
political component. But Mr. Gore's inconvenient truth is still largely
true. We're fouling our own nest and now it's time to act like
grownups and fix it.
PJ | 9:26 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
I suspect that the only reason Republicans detest environmentalism is that it is
a platform of the Democrats. But protection of the environment is an issue that
we all should be concerned about, since we are all residents of this planet.
I'm a Republican, but I say kudos to Al Gore for trying to raise awareness
of such issues. I only wish the GOP was more concerned about environmentalism
and stopped trying to ignore it or discredit it.
Lew Jeppson | 9:28 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Commenters here critical of Gore's award either have not seen "An
Inconvenient Truth" or didn't pay attention in the unlikely event they
have seen it. Gore builds a powerful case for global warming, and for CO2 as
the primary agent of same.
Vespero | 9:33 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Tim,
I don't think the LDS church needs to take an official stance on global warming. The doctrines about stewardship are well established. LDS people have always been encouraged to be good stewards. They are also encouraged to do all things in wisdom and order. That should be enough to govern their actions.
Also, Mo-Town, there is a lot of scientific evidence about global warming. If you want to make an argument against Gore, you need to recognize this fact. However, the real debate is how much of it is human caused (and this, I think, is where Gore overstates himself and the state of the evidence). For instance, a recent Duke research publication states that between 10%-30% of variation in earth tempratures over the last decade are due to solar activity (mostly a decrease in sunspots). This is reflected in comparable global warming on Mars.
Do I think we need to pay attention to the environment and possible human contributions to global warming? Absolutely. However, I think Mr. Gore overstates himself. I am personally suspicious of his motives, but I cannot read his mind, so I will refrain from speculation
I don't think the LDS church needs to take an official stance on global warming. The doctrines about stewardship are well established. LDS people have always been encouraged to be good stewards. They are also encouraged to do all things in wisdom and order. That should be enough to govern their actions.
Also, Mo-Town, there is a lot of scientific evidence about global warming. If you want to make an argument against Gore, you need to recognize this fact. However, the real debate is how much of it is human caused (and this, I think, is where Gore overstates himself and the state of the evidence). For instance, a recent Duke research publication states that between 10%-30% of variation in earth tempratures over the last decade are due to solar activity (mostly a decrease in sunspots). This is reflected in comparable global warming on Mars.
Do I think we need to pay attention to the environment and possible human contributions to global warming? Absolutely. However, I think Mr. Gore overstates himself. I am personally suspicious of his motives, but I cannot read his mind, so I will refrain from speculation
Whoppie!! | 9:35 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
So Mr. Gore is receiving an award for re-educating the world that the planet is
going through another warming period. Whoppideedooo!! Heck, my 5th grade science
teacher taught me that way back when. The fact is that the earth goes through
changes every so often. We happen to be going through another cyclical change
and Gore is hitching his wagon to the natural phenomenon and getting an award
for what my 5th grade science teacher already knew years ago. He's getting
it because he has politicized it and turned it into a humans vs. nature thing.
So if I claim the dinosaurs were made extinct because of a rogue meteor and say
that another one is eminent, politicize it, I should also get a fancy, shiny
award too? B.S.! The fact is that there is as much evidence that it is all
cyclical as much as man-made out there. What a joke! He should have gotten it
for the creation of the Internet.
dennis | 9:49 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
This is hilarious! Gore, The United Nations, Global Warming ... All these are
things conservative guru Rush Limbaugh spews hatred towards every day. The
far-right types instead of breaking their medication in two, must now be taking
the whole thing.
to congrats | 9:52 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
you must be kidding. carter will go down as the worst president of the 20th
century. inflation, hostages, 20% mortgage interst rates,no leadership, making
the US look like fools. Thank God for Reagan. Gore...Bill Clinton? what a team.
ManBearPig!! | 10:08 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
In 30 years, Al Gore's Nobel Prize will be seen as the joke that it is.
Really. I'm super serial!
Really. I'm super serial!
What a joke | 10:20 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
First, I am a moderate who believes in global warming and believes man is
contributing to it.
That said, this award is a total joke. Nobel PEACE prize? What does Al Gore's action on global warming have to do with peace? Nothing at all. Climate change action is a worthy cause, but it has absolutely zero to do with promoting peace, war, fighting, etc. By giving it to a politician who wants to act on climate change, they have dishonored the memories of past winners who have truly promoted PEACE (supposedly the subject of the award). People like Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa. Grouping Al Gore in with them is an insult to that group.
Maybe Al Gore should win an award for his efforts, but it should be an award that's actually relevant to what he's trying to do.
That said, this award is a total joke. Nobel PEACE prize? What does Al Gore's action on global warming have to do with peace? Nothing at all. Climate change action is a worthy cause, but it has absolutely zero to do with promoting peace, war, fighting, etc. By giving it to a politician who wants to act on climate change, they have dishonored the memories of past winners who have truly promoted PEACE (supposedly the subject of the award). People like Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa. Grouping Al Gore in with them is an insult to that group.
Maybe Al Gore should win an award for his efforts, but it should be an award that's actually relevant to what he's trying to do.
Mo-town | 10:27 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Vespero- I respect your opinion, I really do. But there isn't concrete
evidence that man is the cause of the slight increase in the earth's
temperauture, and you failed to prove to me otherwise.
What nobody on the Left mentions, is that for every scientist that credits the problem, there's another scientist who fails to credit any problem at all. We have zilch proof that man is responsible in any way whatsoever, and we have to start dispelling the myth, or else Gore will contnue on with this time and resource-wasting charade
And I love the point Dennis made, that just because Rush Limbaugh says something, it's all of a sudden not true. As if everything Limbaugh says is automatically garbage. Evidence why, Dennis. We need evidence why
What nobody on the Left mentions, is that for every scientist that credits the problem, there's another scientist who fails to credit any problem at all. We have zilch proof that man is responsible in any way whatsoever, and we have to start dispelling the myth, or else Gore will contnue on with this time and resource-wasting charade
And I love the point Dennis made, that just because Rush Limbaugh says something, it's all of a sudden not true. As if everything Limbaugh says is automatically garbage. Evidence why, Dennis. We need evidence why
true blue | 10:30 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Everyone has there niche, being president just wasn't gore's. I
wouldn't say it's bush's either.
Go Bronco Mendenhall for president
Go Bronco Mendenhall for president
Dave | 10:32 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The Nobel committee is making a statement about climate change that really
belongs in another category. The work of Al Gore and the UN panel about climate
change does not come up to the standard of a Nobel Peace Prize. This event will
be dissed by thinking people.
Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan very much deserved the Peace Prize. They were on task, and they have results to show.
Not so Al Gore, keep hugging trees though, maybe they'll come up with a prize for that.
Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan very much deserved the Peace Prize. They were on task, and they have results to show.
Not so Al Gore, keep hugging trees though, maybe they'll come up with a prize for that.
Thomas | 10:36 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Considering that the Nobel Prize has previously been awarded to the likes of
Yasser Arafat, I'm inclined to think that winning the prize is something an
honorable man ought to aspire to.
Regardless of how convinced you are of the extent of human-caused global warming, I don't see how one can fairly call Al Gore anything but a propagandist. He constantly touts the "consensus" on global warming, and demonizes dissenters from the most alarmist scenarios -- but then he makes a movie like "An Inconvenient Truth" which presents unsubstantiated, extreme scenarios as established fact. He thus attempts to confuse his audience into confusing his extreme scenarios with the actual scientific "consensus," which is much less sensationalistic.
Examples include the tying of Hurricane Katrina to global warming, the idea that polar bears face a serious threat from sea ice, and the idea that there is a realistic possibility of a 20-foot rise in sea level as a result of manmade global warming. Those scenarios are certainly well outside the global-warming "consensus," but Al won't tell you that.
Regardless of how convinced you are of the extent of human-caused global warming, I don't see how one can fairly call Al Gore anything but a propagandist. He constantly touts the "consensus" on global warming, and demonizes dissenters from the most alarmist scenarios -- but then he makes a movie like "An Inconvenient Truth" which presents unsubstantiated, extreme scenarios as established fact. He thus attempts to confuse his audience into confusing his extreme scenarios with the actual scientific "consensus," which is much less sensationalistic.
Examples include the tying of Hurricane Katrina to global warming, the idea that polar bears face a serious threat from sea ice, and the idea that there is a realistic possibility of a 20-foot rise in sea level as a result of manmade global warming. Those scenarios are certainly well outside the global-warming "consensus," but Al won't tell you that.
Douglas | 10:42 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Congratulations Al:
I'm sure you will put it in a prominent location in your home and add a couple of coal fired produced electric spot lights to highlight your accomplishment. Read this month's National Geographic, there is a whole lot more at play here than just man. The man found under the receding Italian Galcier wasn't put there during a cooling cycle, could it possibly be that there was a previous global warming period before?? Sure, we're a very minor contributor, but tilt, orbit, the sun play a much more significant role.
I'm sure you will put it in a prominent location in your home and add a couple of coal fired produced electric spot lights to highlight your accomplishment. Read this month's National Geographic, there is a whole lot more at play here than just man. The man found under the receding Italian Galcier wasn't put there during a cooling cycle, could it possibly be that there was a previous global warming period before?? Sure, we're a very minor contributor, but tilt, orbit, the sun play a much more significant role.
faulty science | 10:42 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
So today you can get a nobel peace prize for creating a movie that lauds faulty
science, has a political agenda, and is hardly watched. Global warming is fear
tatic to push personal agenda's. Anybody wonder what happened to the OZONE
LAYER! How come there is no push for that? Because they were WRONG! What about
the ice age concern of the mid and late 70's that was "scientifically
proven" would happen in 30 years? Anyone, anyone...Buhler, Buhler. Once
again they were wrong.
Wesley | 10:44 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Al Gore, meet Milli Vanilli.
Tank | 11:01 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Al Gore for President?!
Billary, can you say, "Ross Perot"?
Al, can you say, "Vince Foster"?
Now that is a Global Warning that's not imagined.
Billary, can you say, "Ross Perot"?
Al, can you say, "Vince Foster"?
Now that is a Global Warning that's not imagined.
smitty | 11:03 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Tim,
There are also scientists around the world who seriously question the modules used to proclaim global warming. It is NOT universally and unequivically accepted as fact in the scientific community. Those yelling CRISIS are trying to drown out the naysayers, but the volume doesn't make their conclusion any more correct than the name calling in this forum. In time it MAY be borne out, but the global cooling crisis of the 70's seems to have...cooled a bit? The panic mongers have more on their agenda than global environment and the pre-rush to certainty here fosters that agenda, $$$.
Giving Al Gore the Nobel for his "environmental" scare tactics is as viable as giving to it him for his self proclaimed invention of the internet.
And, YES... we do have the burden to protect this planet, but forcing feeding biased data down the public throat is not the best approach.
Those of you ready to call me names, go for it.
There are also scientists around the world who seriously question the modules used to proclaim global warming. It is NOT universally and unequivically accepted as fact in the scientific community. Those yelling CRISIS are trying to drown out the naysayers, but the volume doesn't make their conclusion any more correct than the name calling in this forum. In time it MAY be borne out, but the global cooling crisis of the 70's seems to have...cooled a bit? The panic mongers have more on their agenda than global environment and the pre-rush to certainty here fosters that agenda, $$$.
Giving Al Gore the Nobel for his "environmental" scare tactics is as viable as giving to it him for his self proclaimed invention of the internet.
And, YES... we do have the burden to protect this planet, but forcing feeding biased data down the public throat is not the best approach.
Those of you ready to call me names, go for it.
Blake | 11:05 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Do you really think that the 'LIBERAL MACHINE' in this country can
influence all the scientists all over the world who will tell you that global
warming exists? I guess it is a much easier thought to just assume that Jesus
will have his second coming before things get really bad. That way...we can all
drive SUV's, run our air conditioners and act like ignorant fools.
GOOD ONE MO-TOWN!
GOOD ONE MO-TOWN!
Thomas | 11:32 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
This whole argument bores me, really.
Because none of it is going to have the slightest effect on anything.
Hillary Clinton is going to be elected in 2008. (Sorry, Republicans -- as Patton said, Americans will not tolerate a loser, and not winning a war decisively in four years or less gets counted as a loss.) She will sign some version of the Kyoto accords requiring the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels, or something. And then year after year, not only will we fail to reduce CO2 emissions, they'll continue to increase despite all we can do. (That's exactly what's happened in the European countries that *did* adopt the orignal Kyoto protocols.)
The predictions of the global-warming theorists may be borne out, and the temperature will tick up by a degree over the next century -- or it will be discovered that they did their sums wrong, and it won't get any warmer. In any event, nothing that we do will have any effect on anything -- because China and India will continue to grow (and belch out CO2) and dwarf whatever emission reductions we manage to eke out.
Because none of it is going to have the slightest effect on anything.
Hillary Clinton is going to be elected in 2008. (Sorry, Republicans -- as Patton said, Americans will not tolerate a loser, and not winning a war decisively in four years or less gets counted as a loss.) She will sign some version of the Kyoto accords requiring the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels, or something. And then year after year, not only will we fail to reduce CO2 emissions, they'll continue to increase despite all we can do. (That's exactly what's happened in the European countries that *did* adopt the orignal Kyoto protocols.)
The predictions of the global-warming theorists may be borne out, and the temperature will tick up by a degree over the next century -- or it will be discovered that they did their sums wrong, and it won't get any warmer. In any event, nothing that we do will have any effect on anything -- because China and India will continue to grow (and belch out CO2) and dwarf whatever emission reductions we manage to eke out.
Mark Whitney | 11:53 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The Nobel Prize is a sham. That much has been obvious for decades, but this
shouts the irrelevence of the Prize from the rooftops.
If lies, propaganda, and self-serving are noble enough for a Nobel it should go to Kim Jong Il who is a better at all three than Gore.
A British High Court Judge has ruled that Gore's film is deceptive and political. It may be shown to students, but teachers must inform students that the film is one-sided and not scientific. The teacher must also stress eleven major inaccuuracies presented by Gore.
But you can't blame Gore for laughing all the way to the bank. Liberals, both Democrat and Republican, are very skilled at self-deception so leaders like Gore and Bush take advantage of it. What else is new?
Mark Whitney
Sandy
If lies, propaganda, and self-serving are noble enough for a Nobel it should go to Kim Jong Il who is a better at all three than Gore.
A British High Court Judge has ruled that Gore's film is deceptive and political. It may be shown to students, but teachers must inform students that the film is one-sided and not scientific. The teacher must also stress eleven major inaccuuracies presented by Gore.
But you can't blame Gore for laughing all the way to the bank. Liberals, both Democrat and Republican, are very skilled at self-deception so leaders like Gore and Bush take advantage of it. What else is new?
Mark Whitney
Sandy
Mark B | 11:56 a.m. Oct. 12, 2007
I knew there would be "heck" to pay when I heard that the folks in
Stockholm awarded the Prize to Al Gore without consulting first with the wise
GOP men of SLC. Perhaps you could start the campaign for next year's prize
to be awarded to Dick Cheney, or maybe the guy who thought up "enhanced
interrogation methods" (the term, not the actual methods). "Give me a
T. Give me an O. Give me an R. Give me a T.................."
Mark Whitney | 12:14 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Dave-
"Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan very much deserved the Peace Prize. They were on task, and they have results to show."
That's a funny one. Kofi Annan is personally responsible for the atrocious murder of as many as a million Rwandan Tutsis. Yeah, he was on task and has as results buckets of blood and billions of embezzled dollars from the "Oil for Food" program.
Carter was a puppet who instituted the Panamal Canal givaway and weakened our internal security by stripping this country of its traditional security institutions. At least we can say that Gore is in appropriate company.
Mark Whitney
Sandy
"Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan very much deserved the Peace Prize. They were on task, and they have results to show."
That's a funny one. Kofi Annan is personally responsible for the atrocious murder of as many as a million Rwandan Tutsis. Yeah, he was on task and has as results buckets of blood and billions of embezzled dollars from the "Oil for Food" program.
Carter was a puppet who instituted the Panamal Canal givaway and weakened our internal security by stripping this country of its traditional security institutions. At least we can say that Gore is in appropriate company.
Mark Whitney
Sandy
A Texan. | 12:17 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
It seems to be an undisputed fact that the earth is going through a warming
trend. Also, it is true that humans are polluting the earth and air and
something needs to be done about it. However, I haven't seen enough
credible evidence linking the two. I get really tired of hearing about it. Why
don't we just focus on lowering pollution for the sake of having a cleaner
planet and air and stop the alarmist nature of "Global Warming."
It's hard for me to take it seriously when I remember back in elementary school being truly worried that another "Ice Age" was coming and we were probably all going to die from it. I think we would have welcomed Global Warming back then!
Knowing now how incredibly wrong the so called "experts" were about the Ice Age just 30 year ago, I have a hard time swallowing their latest propaganda.
It's hard for me to take it seriously when I remember back in elementary school being truly worried that another "Ice Age" was coming and we were probably all going to die from it. I think we would have welcomed Global Warming back then!
Knowing now how incredibly wrong the so called "experts" were about the Ice Age just 30 year ago, I have a hard time swallowing their latest propaganda.
just a thought | 12:19 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
If I were a scientist who had spent my life trying to prove the existance or non
existence of global warming, Al Gore's award is a slap in the face to the
many scientists who have gone to college, done research, etc. You can't
tell me that all Al Gore has done since he lost the election is study science?
He doesn't even have a degree...has he taken any college classes?
Let's face it, Al Gore is the poster child for global warming.
Nicholas | 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
So we give the Peace Prize to President Bush because he has done so much to make
he world safe?
Of course a "Liberal" is more likely to win the prize than a "Consevative". By their very definition a Conservative disqualifies themsevles from consideration and a Liberal spends their lives earning the prize.
What does knowing about Global Warming have to do with peace? If the situation gets much worse, cyclical or not, there will be widespread unrest. Fighting for resouces that will become more scarce. Education helps to prevent scarcity which would help prevent panic and violence
Of course a "Liberal" is more likely to win the prize than a "Consevative". By their very definition a Conservative disqualifies themsevles from consideration and a Liberal spends their lives earning the prize.
What does knowing about Global Warming have to do with peace? If the situation gets much worse, cyclical or not, there will be widespread unrest. Fighting for resouces that will become more scarce. Education helps to prevent scarcity which would help prevent panic and violence
WakeUpWorld | 12:35 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Will some Global Warming supporter please explain why four (4) of the warmest
years in history were in the 1930s?
The world population was much lower, the rain forest intact, very little industry, and virtually no carbon producing vehicles. How can this be? Everything that Al Gore claims causes global warming was not even taking place. Please explain if you can.
Oh, one more thing. NASA provided the information about the warmest years in history. Of couse they had to recently revise their data after a private individual found an error in their calculations. Hard to believe since global warming supports seem to believe science is never wrong. Funny how I could not pass along my science text books to my kids to use in school. Turns out that they no longer were accurate after only 10 years.
Please educate us all on the 1930s please.
The world population was much lower, the rain forest intact, very little industry, and virtually no carbon producing vehicles. How can this be? Everything that Al Gore claims causes global warming was not even taking place. Please explain if you can.
Oh, one more thing. NASA provided the information about the warmest years in history. Of couse they had to recently revise their data after a private individual found an error in their calculations. Hard to believe since global warming supports seem to believe science is never wrong. Funny how I could not pass along my science text books to my kids to use in school. Turns out that they no longer were accurate after only 10 years.
Please educate us all on the 1930s please.
Andy | 12:37 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Al Gore....what a joke! WINNING NOBEL PRIZE HARDLY ASSAILS A BOX OF CRACKER
JACKS!
Here are a couple of famous Al Gore quips:
Gore and the Internet
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.
Gore supported technological advances related to the advancement of the Internet, but to say that HE took the initiative in creating the Internet is a bit much.
Let's play "Insult the Host"
Gore sometimes shows publicly that he lacks Clinton's finesse. Take a reception in Los Angeles last month. It was Gore's moment to shine before donors who ponied up $2.8 million. But he wound up egg-faced when he compared electing a Republican as president to rejecting an Oscar-winning team in favor of the producers of the Hollywood clunker ''Howard the Duck.'' One of the evening's hosts, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was a driving force behind ''Howard the Duck.'' The crowd tittered.
Gore once proclaimed:
Here are a couple of famous Al Gore quips:
Gore and the Internet
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999.
Gore supported technological advances related to the advancement of the Internet, but to say that HE took the initiative in creating the Internet is a bit much.
Let's play "Insult the Host"
Gore sometimes shows publicly that he lacks Clinton's finesse. Take a reception in Los Angeles last month. It was Gore's moment to shine before donors who ponied up $2.8 million. But he wound up egg-faced when he compared electing a Republican as president to rejecting an Oscar-winning team in favor of the producers of the Hollywood clunker ''Howard the Duck.'' One of the evening's hosts, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was a driving force behind ''Howard the Duck.'' The crowd tittered.
Gore once proclaimed:
Hardy har har | 12:41 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Most of the rest of the world outside of Happy Valley know that global warming
is real and largely human-caused. Most of the rest of the world is going to
deal with it. Conservation will increase, beneficial new technologies will be
created, and maybe--just maybe--we'll manage to avert the displacement and
starvation of a few billion of our fellow humans.
I'm sure that a number of those venting against Gore, Carter, Clinton, Liberals, Bogey Men, moose and pink ribbons are getting tremendous satisfaction from name-calling, just as they did last year when they were nine-year-olds. But the fact is that they are irrelevant. The world and the nation will move on, with them or without them.
I'm sure that a number of those venting against Gore, Carter, Clinton, Liberals, Bogey Men, moose and pink ribbons are getting tremendous satisfaction from name-calling, just as they did last year when they were nine-year-olds. But the fact is that they are irrelevant. The world and the nation will move on, with them or without them.
Rich | 12:55 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Now, now, conservatives. Stop whining - you, too, have had your moment in the
sun today. I am referring, of course, to Senator Larry Craig's induction
into the Idaho Hall of Fame. Nobel Prize, my foot! (my foot touching your foot
under the stall, that is!)
J | 1:04 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
The point is that Gore has brought attention to the important topic. He is doing
so much around the world to support economic development, humanitarian efforts,
prosperity, tolerance, PEACE, and climate change. Had Gore been placed in
office as President of the USA, our world would be a much more peaceful place.
He inspires us as Americans and world citizens to be better. This is very
unlike George Bush who has left us with the most threatening siutation we have
found ourtselves in in American history. Bush has taken the USA back at least 15
years in time. Gore deserves this prize and shows that the world is turning and
become more interested in global warming. This is important. Congrats to Gore!
Anonymous | 1:13 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
What a joke. Big Al joins the incompetent Jimmy Carter and the insane Yasir
Arafat on the list of past recipients. What great company. The Nobel Peace Prize
has become a liberal political award, nothing more.
Thomas | 1:20 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
"Bush has taken the USA back at least 15 years in time."
Wonderful. Only 102 years to go!
"...the most threatening situation we have found ourselves in in American history."
Right. 10,000 Soviet nukes pointed at us, the Pacific Fleet sunk and German U-boats enjoying a "Happy Time" off the East Coast, the Confederate Army shelling the outskirts of Washington, the British burning Washington, the British conquering New York, the Indians dang near annihilating the Jamestown settlement altogether -- all minor inconveniences compared to the awful threat of not having turned a ramshackle Arab nation into Switzerland in four years or less.
Wonderful. Only 102 years to go!
"...the most threatening situation we have found ourselves in in American history."
Right. 10,000 Soviet nukes pointed at us, the Pacific Fleet sunk and German U-boats enjoying a "Happy Time" off the East Coast, the Confederate Army shelling the outskirts of Washington, the British burning Washington, the British conquering New York, the Indians dang near annihilating the Jamestown settlement altogether -- all minor inconveniences compared to the awful threat of not having turned a ramshackle Arab nation into Switzerland in four years or less.
Smitty | 1:36 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
This ought not even be a political or partisan discussion. If Mr. Gore's
self promotion and pandering is all it now takes to achieve Nobel status, then
the lofty ideals of the original donor have, indeed, risen to a new low. When a
person's work contains as many flawed conclusions as does Mr. Gore's
and still qualifies for a Nobel prise, it denigrates the value of the others
selected.
Global environment is important enough on it's own merits that it deserves honest representation and not the slight of hand proffered by the Global Warming alarmists. With less grandstanding and ambulance chasing and a little credence given to all scientific findings, perhaps people from a greater demographic could be enlisted into a reasonable, unified effort to benefit our planet.
Resistance to the current forced Global Warming PC does not make a person anti environment. It just might mean one is tired of being force fed incomplete data for an argualbly flawed political agenda.
Global environment is important enough on it's own merits that it deserves honest representation and not the slight of hand proffered by the Global Warming alarmists. With less grandstanding and ambulance chasing and a little credence given to all scientific findings, perhaps people from a greater demographic could be enlisted into a reasonable, unified effort to benefit our planet.
Resistance to the current forced Global Warming PC does not make a person anti environment. It just might mean one is tired of being force fed incomplete data for an argualbly flawed political agenda.
Anonymous | 2:10 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Al Gore may be quite involed in promoting environmental awareness, but everytime
he gets on his private jet or turns on the lights in one of his mansions he
personally emits more green house gasses into the atmosphere than 50 energy
conservative housholds combined. Mr. Gore is nothing more than a hypocrite. If
Mr. Gore wants to really show he is helping the environment mabe next time he
goes to acceptan award he should fly coach.
Tim | 3:44 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
Thomas: Have you ever read the list of scientist who have acclaimed Mr.
Gore's book and movie? It's an impressive, worldwide list of
scientists who look for proof and facts rather than slippery hopes.
You obviously don't want to admit you may be wrong in face of the mounting evidence to the contrary.
You obviously don't want to admit you may be wrong in face of the mounting evidence to the contrary.
anonymous | 5:04 p.m. Oct. 12, 2007
What I think is funny is that conservative guru, Rush Limbaugh was also
nominated for the prize (probably nominated himself) His fans must be clamoring
for their medication by now. Gore, The UN, Global Warming ... wow! The
Limbaughites must be ready to internally combust.
Anonymous | 1:36 p.m. Oct. 17, 2007
The British Judiciary issued judgement Al Gore and his movie AIT was not honest
in 9 major claims therefore not suitable for showing in schools . Al Gore should
give his Nobel prize back. Marion Jones gave her medals back for cheating .
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May be myth but I beleive Stalin, and tooki williams also were offered prize. They are evil people so prize don't mean much.