| Oct 12, 2007 @ 10:37 AM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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Always_Striving
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No global warming huh?
Al Gore, U.N. panel win Nobel Peace Prize
Ex-VP, intergovernmental body jointly honored for global warming work
MSNBC staff and news service reports
OSLO, Norway - 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.
"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said in a statement. "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."
Gore won an Academy Award this year for his film "An Incovenient Truth", a documentary on global warming, and 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."
Panel's two decades
The committee also cited the Intergovernmental 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."
The IPCC groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods. It was set up in 1988 by the United Nations to help guide governments.
Climate change has moved high on the international agenda this year. The U.N. climate panel has been releasing reports, talks on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate are set to resume and on Europe's northern fringe, where the awards committee works, there is growing concern about the melting Arctic.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee 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."
Gore said he would donate his share of the $1.5 million that accompanies the prize to the non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection.
Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the prize committee, said the award should not be seen as singling out the Bush administration for criticism.
"A peace prize is never a criticism of anything. A peace prize is a positive message and support to all those champions of peace in the world."
President Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol because he said it would harm the U.S. economy and because it did not require immediate cuts by countries like China and India. The treaty aimed to put the biggest burden on the richest nations that contributed the most carbon emissions.
The U.S. Senate voted against mandatory carbon reductions before the Kyoto negotiations were completed. The treaty was never presented to the Senate for ratification by the Clinton administration.
“Al Gore has fought the environment battle even as vice president,” Mjoes said. “Many did not listen ... but he carried on.”
Fans and foes
Reaction to the award was immediate.
"He's like the proverbial nut that grew into a giant oak by standing his ground," Patrick Michaels, a scholar with the free market Cato Institute, said in a statement. "We can only hope that he can parlay his prize into a run for the U. S. presidency, where he will be unable to hide from debate on his extreme and one-sided view of global warming."
British bookmakers once put 100-to-1 odds on Gore winning an Oscar, becoming a Nobel laureate and becoming president. He has now accomplished two of the three, and on Friday bookies slashed the odds to 8/1 from 10/1.
Gore, 59, has been coy, saying repeatedly he’s not running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, without ever closing that door completely.
FoxNews.com columnist Steve Milloy alleged that Gore "plays fast and loose with the facts to advance his personal agenda."
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Gore " inspirational in focusing attention across the globe on this key issue."
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, head of the World Conservation Union, said that, "as Mr. Gore and the IPCC have clearly demonstrated, we can solve the grave dangers posed by climate change if we have the will. Let the Nobel Peace Prize become the embodiment of that will."
Al Gore made it okay to talk about global warming over breakfast and dinner tables all across America," added Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "He made this unprecedented challenge understandable and the solutions accessible for millions of people."
'Question of war and peace'
The Nobel committee often uses the coveted prize to cast the global spotlight on a relatively little-known person or cause. Since Gore already had a high profile some had doubted that the committee would bestow the prize on him.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 10:40 AM |
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Always_Striving
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In recent years, the committee has broadened the interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts outlined by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in creating the prize with his 1895 will. The prize now often also recognizes human rights, democracy, elimination of poverty, sharing resources and the environment.
Two of the past three prizes have been untraditional, with the 2004 award to Kenya environmentalist Wangari Maathai and last year's award to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, which makes to micro-loans to the country's poor.
Jan Egeland, a Norwegian peace mediator and former U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, called climate change more than an environmental issue.
"It is a question of war and peace," said Egeland, now director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. "We're already seeing the first climate wars, in the Sahel belt of Africa." He said nomads and herders are in conflict with farmers because the changing climate has brought drought and a shortage of fertile lands.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 10:43 AM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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MusicMonster
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Yup.. And as mentioned there, some are saying that is likely to project him right into the White House! 
-MM 
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 11:36 AM |
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budo13
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The Nobel Peace prize became a joke a long time ago so it no surprise that a assclown like Gore won it
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 11:57 AM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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lefthandedluckie
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Great job, Al!
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:15 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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Don't you have to do something pertaining to bringing about world peace in order to receive the "PEACE" prize? So...Al Gore made a movie (ok..powerpoint presentation) about global warming and then won an Oscar.
And?
I'm sure there were people who actually did try to bring about some sort of peace this year...and they award it to him?
Whatever.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:30 PM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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lefthandedluckie
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This is not an answer to anyone...but, seeing how Gore presented his findings to the world, as a whole, then showing it to be a world problem, Global Warming, I can see where his presentation is considered a call for world peace and accord!
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:32 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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No.
Actually...this isn't the Peace Prize anymore, it's the "Make The World Better In Some Unspecified Way" Prize.
He didn't do anything for world peace.
He made a powerpoint presentation and his findings are suspect.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 12:52 PM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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budo13
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it's called the almighty dollar LGQ but what can we say about the man who invented the internet! The english newspaper the gardian has an interesting story about the movie
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 1:35 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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he never claimed to have invented the internet.
what he said was that he was on the committe that financed the invention of the internet.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 2:13 PM |
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blazinblue21
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I think it's wonderful that the IPCC and Al Gore are receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.  I haven't actually seen Al Gore's movie, but I have watched all of the IPCC PowerPoints on their website. They have a point and I hope that this award will open the United States to dialogue about consumption and carbon dioxide.
OK, who am I kidding? I'm too young and idealistic. Look at the IPCC website. We've already fried our planet. There's no reversal now, just a slow down of the process. The Democrats and the Republicans both have their minds on winning, and making people cut consumption in this materialistic culture is a political death wish. We're screwed.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 2:44 PM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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making people cut consumption in this materialistic culture is a political death wish.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 3:38 PM |
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Paralegal_at_Law
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The Nobel Peace prize became a joke a long time ago so it no surprise that a assclown like Gore won it
The man is a raver and his conclusions are known to be in need of modification before being accepted as truth.
What Al Gore doesnt say, but I will, is that the Earth has been in a phase of "global warming" ever since the thaw of the last ice age. And that thaw happened for reasons other than man flooding the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
We do need more trees to be planted, and it would be an ideal thing to change the character of deserts through a concentrated environmental plan that includes the removal of mountains to permit moisture laden clouds to provide precipitation where otherwise it would be restricted to hardly any, the planting of flora, the transplatation of fauna, and the creation of man-made canals to serve as a conduit for the creation of new residential lake communities with cities under domes for air conditioning purposes, recreational lakes, public water supply reservoirs, agricultural water supply reservoirs and irregation projects, and also to provide the water for new wetlands for wildlife. As for the human population in the reclaimed desert areas, they can build factories and duplicate the wonders of Corning New York with its Corningware factories, using all the abundant sand to make the finest glass.
Al Gore is a buffoon and is unelectable. But whether or not man created Global Warming or not, we do need to take measures to insure the viability of our soft agricultural underbelly before global warming begats global famines.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 3:43 PM |
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MarysPlace
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Don't you have to do something pertaining to bringing about world peace in order to receive the "PEACE" prize?
Interesting notion there darlin'. I always thought that you have to be a supreme biologist to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. That's only cuz Nobel Prize for math doesn't exist.
I'm happy that Al won. He's not gonna have to worry about his electrical bill no more cuz he's got cash.
And me, well, I'm perfecting the art of using confetti instead of toilet paper cuz Al and Cheryl told me so. But why on earth did the Swedes fall for this bullshit? One would think that they of all people would welcome temperature rise.
Al Gore is a buffoon and is unelectable.
Especially since he blew up like a balloon. All that hard work made him put on like 50 pounds.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 3:55 PM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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lj450
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Wow, first he creates the internet for everyone.......and now this?
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 3:59 PM |
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MarysPlace
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Wow, first he creates the internet for everyone.......and now this?
Yep. You have the internet so you don't need toilet paper.
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 4:12 PM |
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Mission_Impossible139
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The global warming is truly happening and it's because of the increased effect of greenhouse gasses. As much as you naysayers like to condemn him, if you can't see the facts, then you have your head in the sand.
However, global cooling is also happening. Did you know that? Global cooling comes from the fact that the amount of pollution, in the form of particulate, has accumulated in the cloud system and has formed smaller particles of water molecules. This has a mirror like effect and is reflecting the heat of the sun back into space.
The big challenge is to decrease both at the same time. If you decrease greenhouse gasses, the earth cools down too fast. If you decrease the particulate pollution, the earth superheats. It's a multifaceted problem but it does exist.
The people who claim there is no problem are the ones who want to put creationism in the school system. They are the ones who think that if you believe in Jesus, you won't need healthcare. Oh yea, let's all follow them!
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 4:14 PM |
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MarysPlace
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So. Mission Imp, how much toilet paper do you use up per sitting?
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 4:14 PM |
Guess who's getting a Nobel Peace prize and guess who isn't? It ain't GWB or DC
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Mission_Impossible139
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Yep. You have the internet so you don't need toilet paper.
You are a constant barrage of negativism, attacks and nonsensical garbage.
Why don't you show us what you are all about and come up with something half way
intelligent???????? Or did you learn nothing when you finally made it to the USA?
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| Oct 12, 2007 @ 4:21 PM |
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mrobvious444
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ouch 
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