Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize

[jazbug5]

Nothing to do with him keeping his 'peace' when Bush stole the first election, then.

Surely not.

[The Pastor]

Hmmm, got a source? The peace price sounds a bit odd - hasn't he only been involved with the climate debate?

Anyway - if he turns out to be the guy who manages to pull america's head out it's ass (on the climate issue) then he certainly deserves praise.

Errr, whats to say that climate change is a bad thing? last time I checked the climate has never remained static.

CNN probably counts as a reasonably reliable source.

Shrug. If in fact global warming is the issue that the klaxon-sounders make it out to be, and Gore has in fact caused the impact that he's tried to make, then I guess the prize is hardly undeserved.

I make no judgement either way, however.

Im in no way saying his stuff he has "done" is "bad" but he in no way should of gotten the noble - its a too higher award for someone who is just trying to get more votes.

Al Gore is a cock.

I think global warming is a misleading term. People hear it and think: Great! I could use a longer summer. It's not just about a rising temperature - it's about all the things that are caused by it (e.g., storms & 'extreme weather', floods, heat-waves, etc.)


Yeah, how dare he try and do something for the good of the planet and everyone on it...

All hes doing is trying to be president.

If you believe that was his sole motivation good on ya

How much would he have bankrolled from that little venture?

a lot

This has got to be a joke. If not, how could we ever take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously again?

couldn't of said it better myself. only in America

Certainly diminishes the achievements of past recipents-all you need now is a cut and paste power point presentation and a lot of hot air (sic)

your forgetting the biased movie. and other stuff. gotta have the movie, they make good money.

[RantyDave]

What an insult to the previous laureates.

I don't think it's a bad thing at all for a couple of reasons:

1, Like it or not it adds a sheen of authenticity to the whole "climate change" thing.
2, He has worked really hard over the last few years to bring the issue to the forefront of the world's press and keep it there.
3, It's not like there's exactly a queue of people doing huge amounts of good right now

If the science round climate change is even halfway right, this stuff is really important. However, if the science is not even halfway right it won't be the first time and I reckon the jury's still out to be honest.

Besides, he gets to say "fuck you, George".

Dave

[The Pastor]

I don't think it's a bad thing at all for a couple of reasons:

1, Like it or not it adds a sheen of authenticity to the whole "climate change" thing.
2, He has worked really hard over the last few years to bring the issue to the forefront of the world's press and keep it there.
3, It's not like there's exactly a queue of people doing huge amounts of good right now

If the science round climate change is even halfway right, this stuff is really important. However, if the science is not even halfway right it won't be the first time and I reckon the jury's still out to be honest.

Besides, he gets to say "fuck you, George".

Dave

What he is doing is "good" (I personally think its a waste of time, but that is irrelevant), but the noble? I don't think so.

[Mikkel]

Well whether the climate change is all bad or all good it's likely that it's going to have a significant impact over the next 100 years or so.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter if it'll be BAD(tm) - at the rate we're consuming this planets fossil resources we're going to run out sooner or later. When that happens we'll be in deep shit if we haven't prepared for it properly. I shit you not if I say that on a bad day it could mean an end to society as we know it. And while you might rejoice at the thought of no speeding tickets I'm sure that the guy in the big black 4x4 savours the thought or being able to run you over without consequence. Not that any of this would matter since we'd all be walking/cycling anyway - but I'm sure you get the point.

Maybe we're lucky and it won't happen in our lifetime - but if you look at history you should be able to tell that there's only one thing that is "constant": change will happen - some will adapt and others will perish.

[Bullitt]

I don't think it's a bad thing at all for a couple of reasons:

1, Like it or not it adds a sheen of authenticity to the whole "climate change" thing.

Why? a politician who knows very little about science (AFAIK) who takes some incorrect conclusions and come up with an incorrect theory which every other politician (who also have no science knowledge) jumps on the band wagon.

2, He has worked really hard over the last few years to bring the issue to the forefront of the world's press and keep it there.

Bringing something to the forfront of everyones minds isnt always a good thing. What if he appeared on TV every day and managed to convice everyone that the world was flat?

3, It's not like there's exactly a queue of people doing huge amounts of good right now

Agreed, and he is included in that.

RIP Augie Auer

[kelleyb]

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Article from Breitbart.com

[Dilligaf]

What a joke...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp

For those who believe Gore has done a good thing - yeah right. A severe case of do as I say not as I do if there ever were!!!

[The Lone Rider]

couldn't of said it better myself. only in America

Aint the Nobel prize an award that does not originate in the United States and isn't handed out by an American committee?

Maybe you'd be more accurate to say "Only in Sweden"

[Street Gerbil]

Well, after the Noble Piss prize was given to creeps like Carter and Arafart, giving it to Goracle seems a bit like a calculated insult. Not that he'll ever see the irony...

[tri boy]

Peace prize
F**ken "COCK HEAD" prize.
Flys himself and six staff around the US in a bloody 737 burning off tons of jet fuel, and then wanks on about global warming.

[Mikkel]

A lot of Gore hate going on here. What has the man done that is so bad? I'm just curious. I can only think that it's positive that someone with voice is trying to get all the bloody yanks to see that there might be a consequence of always voting in the dumbasses that promises the lowest petrol prices.

TBQFH NZ could do with someone to try and raise the environmental awareness right here. The only reason that NZ is clean and green is because there are fuck all people... And it seems that the good guys who wouldn't dream of littering, etc are getting fewer and further inbetween as well. Seriously - thermo windows and insulation was invented many years ago and in case noone have noticed this isn't exactly equator. But nah - why bother about that. After all, NZ has mimicked the US well enough that if the shit hits the fan Superman will zoom right in and save it all!

[marty]

This has got to be a joke. If not, how could we ever take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously again?

especially cause we all took it so seriously before..........

[Finn]

especially cause we all took it so seriously before..........

It ended for me the moment Mother Theresa took gold. She was one nasty mother.

[James Deuce]

I don't think it's a bad thing at all for a couple of reasons:

1, Like it or not it adds a sheen of authenticity to the whole "climate change" thing.
2, He has worked really hard over the last few years to bring the issue to the forefront of the world's press and keep it there.
3, It's not like there's exactly a queue of people doing huge amounts of good right now

If the science round climate change is even halfway right, this stuff is really important. However, if the science is not even halfway right it won't be the first time and I reckon the jury's still out to be honest.

Besides, he gets to say "fuck you, George".

Dave

There's always climate change. There were several "anomalies" in "An Inconvenient Truth", not least amongst them is if all the ice on Greenland melts, the world's oceans will rise 20ft.

Not.

I wonder why people have forgotten why it was called Greenland? Because Scandinavians settled and raised cattle there because of the superb green grass.

Maunder Minimum pops along, Gulf Stream gets diverted, POW back to glaciers.

Climate change within the the last Half Millennium, but well prior to the Industrial revolution. Catastrophic for a large farming community. But the world's oceans didn't drop 20ft in sea level, did they?

There's something very fishy about using 4 reported, documented dead Polar Bears floating some way from any ice pack as evidence that Polar Bears are dying of exhaustion due to retreating ice packs. The Polar Bear corpses were all found after huge North Atlantic storms.

Al Gore is a big fat liar. He's admitted as much in the last week. All I have to do to win the Nobel Peace prize is tell a Big Fat Convenient lie and make it look plausible by frowning a lot.

Bill & Al made a good team. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

"I used hyperbole to wake everyone up to the threat of climate change induced by mankind."

Planetary environments and ecologies are NEVER in stasis.

People aren't important to a planet. It doesn't care and it will change the composition of the atmosphere in response to stimuli. The Carbon credit industry is based on a faulty premise. The two worst things for accelerating Global warming are sulphuric acid aerosols (volcanoes like Mt Pinatubo create millions of cubic tons of them) and plain old dihydrogen monoxide in the form of vapour.

Earth's Atmosphere: 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 1% other gases

To change the composition of the atmosphere the components of the atmosphere have to become compounds. To increase Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide in the atmosphere the nitrogen, oxygen, and "other gases" have to become something else in measurable quantities.

We plain don't know enough to say that WE are heating the atmosphere up, or is some quantum physics effect that could be explained by Unified Field Theory doing it. Or has the Sun been 800C hotter over the last 1000 years and the cumulative effects are only being felt now?

Putting your hand up and saying, "I can demonstrate beyond doubt that Human Beings have heated the planet up significantly in the last 100 years" is just asking for an intellectual kicking. But thanks to the politicisation of the Climate Change arguments, intellectuals and scientists aren't allowed to discuss ideas because their research funding (particularly ecology, meteorology, oceanography - anything to do with charting and measuring global changes vs time) is tied to supporting the argument. Disagree and we'll find someone else to make a hash of your research.

Saying "Fuck You George" isn't worth creating a propaganda machine many totalitarian Governments would be proud of.

It's really simple: Oil is running out (maybe) and the emotive image of communities drowning is being used as a tool to make it OK to lower general standards of living for us serfs.

Climate Change on Planet Earth is real. It's been going on for 4 billion years and it will keep going on once it has scrubbed the over-excreting virus from its surface - US.