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Utahns warm anew to issue

Don't forget that Gore is pictured with a man from China when he received money for some of our top secrets - IN THE WHITE HOUSE ! Believe him if you want.

I think global warming is just a distraction from more serious issues. I think there are plenty of scientists such as Richard Lindzen who are skeptical about how serious global warming really is. I think Al Gore and others are using this issue as political propaganda to make America look horrible and give Federal government even more control over us. I think this issue is a distraction from greater issues like illegal immigration, national security, terrorists and the fact that our government is selling our sovereignty and freedom to the highest bidder. "Global Warming"is used to villainize the U.S. Climates change and they always have. Lets focus on real issues instead of wasting time and money on theories based on biased science. Yes the environment is important and we should take care of it, but Al Gore is an alarmist. There is enough science that suggests this is not a serious issue. This science is based on science, not political debate.

You said it right -- global warming is a theory, and we would all do well to remember that. How many other theories do so many get so worked up about with so little conclusive data?
The truth about global warming, whatever it may really be, isn't going to be determined by polls, by the opinions of authority figures, by supposed experts, by jubilant activists or anyone else. The truth is the truth, even if it is only about one degree change in many years. Amazing hype.

I am shocked that this story was written without a comment from Orrin Hatch. Where is the balance? The Senator and his "scientific" panel of one (who cares if the expert is a novelist) surely have a rebuttal to this thinly veiled attempt by liberal Scandinavians to influence America politics. The Supreme Court might need to step in again to award the prize to the real winner!

The only thing this proves is that the award is political and not scientific.

I still have no respect for the father of the internet. Humans causing global warming is just as credible as the approaching ice age, ozone layer, acid rain, and other scare tactics for personal gain or political agendas. If Al Gore is so serious why isn't that reflective in his personal life?

I changed my lifestyle for the ozone layer etc. I'm not willing to be manipulated again.

84% of Utahns think man is causing global warming? This is what the average voter gets when they think research boils down to reading the Deseret News.

We are now seeing the harm of the Dnews hiring a Neoconservative in Joe Cannon.

Wow. Some of our local politicians are definitely a bit out of touch. Comparing Gore to Pee-Wee? And they're too daft to realize that the biggest reason to protect the environment (and prevent global warming) has to do with quality of life--for humans. As Tolkien said in Lord of the Rings..."the wise speak only of what they know." I have a feeling these guys haven't studied global warming very much, and they certainly don't understand the science that backs it up.

Now all we hear is 'the big question'...will he run? I almost don't think so.
If he did, he'd be accused right away of being a one issue candidate, which isn't a bad thing considering we have a zero issue president right now. And, being eloquent, knowledgeable and passionate about an issue as complex as climate change suggests the ability to deal with other complex issues, not a bad thing.
In any case, I'd almost rather see Al stay focused where he is, because the next presidency, no matter whom becomes the occupant, is going to be a career consuming mess trying to get out of Iraq, and stay out of Iran.

I am amazed that a man like Mr Gore can draw so much attention to himself on his belief that our planet is heading for disaster .I believe that there are much worse things that will harm us. All one must do and hear of the killings, drugs ,poverty in our nation and state. Look around you and tell me that a far greater power than ours has not changed the earth or its climate before Al or any of the rest of us or our generatios before us were on this earth. What covered the dinosaur and fossil fuel{dead plant life} drained Lake Bonniville? ,yes Salt Lake You live on an ancient lake bed and we put in our trust on a man and mans science is what will bring doom upon us.True we can pollute our enviroment and that is wrong,but to put our trust in a showman ,and the passion he preaches is wrong. Science is not fact, it is science. The earth will change that is a fact! Let us trust if we so believe in that being that created this earth and us,and take care of what really is important.

I can defile the earth god created and not defile god through my defilement of god's creations? It's not the quality of life of those you minister to; they are blessed that you are there worried about meeting your quota.

Once again, Utah's Republican legislators prove to be Utah's greatest source of embarrassment.

The Noble Peace Prize has no credibility.

Neither Margret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan were EVER even considered for one, but Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat were so rewarded for being left wing nut jobs, bent on destroying the sovereignty United States.

Its as bogus an award as the Oscars, and its only given to flaming liberals who stand for world government and control of its people. Big deal.

Quit trying to make it appear that even ONE Utahn has changed their position on warming because of it. Just report the news, and cease trying to create it.

What a hoot!!

People are now more convinced of the reality of "global warming" and its cause because Al Gore wins Oscar, Emmy and Nobel prizes. If there was any reason to be skeptical of the basis for the "consensus" of belief on this topic, surely this is one.

Hilarious!!!

Having Mike Noel on a committee involving natural rseources and the environment is an embarassment, to say the least.

Another article that is politicaly lopsided. Al is a socialist liberal elite. He distaians the common folk. The lifestyle he avocates for the common man is not for him or the other liberal elites.

My Kia gets 37 mpg which is doing more that Als electric bill at home or the private jet to haul himself.

Please! Take me out and while I puke. If Gore ever told the truth I would be knighted. I almost gave up buying Apple computers because it aids this prevaricator of truth. Does he still claim that he created the internet? Gore nor anyone has evidence of man's ability to affect the globe we live on. Take a trip in space, which Gore seems to do often, and view the immencity of the universe . He seems to trivialize truth presupposising man's ability to affect this vast system. He is hosted insuiceance when his draculen voice utters concepts of doom lobbied by the clowns in "wholly wood" (as in block heads) such as Tom Cruise.
We saw a possible affects when Mount St Helens blew her top. And then when the oil fields of Kuwait were lit, the world was awakened. And one cannot forget the impressive mushroom of the Pacific with the first atom bomb. BUT, all the dirt in smog and the inversion layers around the world do not melt ice in Greenland!
Does the sun warmining the pavements of the world melt snow in mountains? Do cars exhaust penetrate the oxone? Even the secret service discredit him!

It's official: That award belongs in Cracker Jack boxes. Al Gore? Mr. Do as I say, not as I do? There is no credibility left at this point. God help us all.

Just one name: Bjorn Lomberg. He and his book "Cool It" say you can believe in a version of global warming yet not be derailed into alarmist thinking. He states that it is an issue but about No. 10 in importance of the current issues facing the planet. To be less divisive and a little more scientifically accurate, call it what it really should always be called, "climate change", which is what the earth has always undergone over the millennia in even greater temperature upswings and downswings without "homo technologica" present.

If Jesus Himself warned Utahns that global warming is a real phenomenon....lots of these same closed minds would call JC a "liberal" and insist the science of which they know almost nothing was skewed.

Perhaps Al Gore is one of the "three Nephites?" One down and two to go!