FORMER US Vice President Al Gore is heading for a unique double: An Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize.
Gore took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for his movie An Inconvenient Truth — an essay on the impact of climate change.
Now, the word is, Gore could win a Nobel Prize for his environmental campaigning and calls are growing for him to run for US President in 2008.
It is tempting to be cynical about Gore, who spent years as a campaigning politician. But he has played no small part in changing the world’s perceptions on climate change. Give the man a great big Nobel prize!
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Why not? The Nobel committee is certainly not known for it’s common sense or anything like that. It’s not an honor, it’s not an achievement, it’s not something to look at in awe ~ it’s a POLITICAL statement and NOTHING else!
Of course, Al will cash the check, won’t he?
Hypocritcal twit that he is!
Al Gore has been fighting an uphill battle for years. Thankfully, he has been persistant. The world has finally taken notice and is reacting. When the naysayer’s are won over, after waking up to 120 degree mornings, it will be a little too late. Ignoring the problem will not make it go away. Fighting environmental problems will create new industry and spur on an economic revival. Get your head out of your a*@.
Carl (Huey)
Paul (Lewey)
Tony (Dewey)
Hey you THREE !! Didn’t you notice your duck suits are on backwards?
Al gore doens’t deserve that prize, because our country in general (USA) is causing damage in the whole world. it is like the president of Iran gets the prize. USA and all the middle east countries are dividing the entire world. For global warnin? come on, we are the first ones to promote pollution gore doesn’t have any moral to be part of this historical prize. When the us “the americans” will stop having extra cars, or extra industrial companies, then somebody who promotes that will deserve the nobel peace prize.
Jerkee, most agree that there is some increase in world temperature. Many correctly see it as a natural cycle and mankind will make the necessary adjustments over time. Gore and fellow libs want the little guy to make the sacrifices based upon faulty poli-science that pins all of the blame on humans. The change light bulb folks will not support steps that could cause real change such as building many nuclear power plants. It’s all left wing politics. PS, US economy is booming.
This isn’t about Gore or the Nobel prize. This is about connecting the dots. Any opportunity to become more inclusive spreads the information which educates our pathetic species about its clumsy damage to Mother Earth.
The HOUSE is on fire and some of you are worried who shouts fire (accompanied by graphs, charts, images and logic) might get some credit.
Look to yourselves. Do something nearly as great as Gore has accomplished and then you might be eligible to comment on his motives.
So deserving is Mr. Gore to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Several decades of work on the environment and global warming crisis, his vision, business intellect and pro Peace peace and sustainability position an policy.
And so deserving are we to have Mr. Gore be our President.
Time for a COOL change,
Gore
2008
Never fear — we just figured out how to set saltwater on fire.
I would LOVE to have Gore run and be president.
It would make my life!
Those of you who ask what Global Warming have to do with Peace, well what happens when water supplies run low and millions of people have to compete with eachother for what’s left? War, that’s what! Educating the world on global warming will not only save lives and property but prevent conflict. If that’s not a worthy and peaceful cause in the eyes of the Nobel committee, then nothing is.
I don’t think global warming is an issue that needs to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. Regardless of whether you like Gore or not, linking his efforts on global warming to peace is a stretch at best. Give the prize to someone who actually did something to prevent or end a war, or someone who helped innocent people during a war, or something of that nature.
If global climate change has nothing to do with peace then why is the pentagon pouring resources into coming up with contingency plans for climate change induced wars ?
Hey Tegurinni- too bad they don’t have a nobel prize for grammar. You’d be a lock!
It’s been said that only fools fight in a burning house. If the dangers of global warming are ignored, none of the other peace efforts will matter in the long run.
I do respect climate change problem but Gore is a pure lobbyist that claims things that no scientist ever talker about, like his 8m of see level while most catastrophist scientists claim 1m.
He also claims tornado in US have a direct link while no scientist suggested it, as well as he claims that glacier melting is caused only by warming while they were already melting 70 years ago during a global cooling period.
But the more fear you create, the more you are listened to, so…
“If global climate change has nothing to do with peace then why is the pentagon pouring resources into coming up with contingency plans for climate change induced wars”
The Pentagon is hardly “pouring resources” into such plans. The Pentagon has war plans for a wild array of contingencies, and has long included conflict over resources in their planning. Small three-look teams of staffers draw up most of these plans, and that’s where they remain. A plan on paper, a report. That’s not “pouring resources” into it.
Conflict over resources is not new, it’s not a global warming thing. Climate change can drive resource conflicts, just as can overfarming, desertification, drought, etc.
Sorry to be the one to throw a little context into things and burst your bubble.
Absolutely! The world needs Al Gore. Bush & Co. have plundered the reputation of the USA. We need Gore to save our planet from global Warming, wars and uncontrolled big business.
Carl Riker
October 10, 2007 at 5:26 pmGive Gore a kick in the a*@ not a Nobel. He is a hypocritical, elitist who has never had to work a day in his life. Carbon credits and all what he preaches is good for eveyone else but not Gore Give me a break….