Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize

Al Gore deserves the prize for his promotion of the environment. Just one criticism is his continual promotion of himself which often lets him down. His book 'An inconvenient truth' contains some excellent truth, but is spoilt with to much personal stuff which is of no interest to anyone but himself.

So Liam put it, his Inconvienient truth had some excellent truth, but for many academics who actually study the environment, there were many inconsistencies about his speech about the environment which have been proven blatently false.  Did Gore know this in advance? No one can say.  I think a Nobel prize is a tad over the top for someone who was only a popular mouthpiece, who in all likelyhood really didnt understand what he was saying using a preprepared speech written by others. I say this, because if they were his own words he would have known he was spreading lies.  Hence some fear mongering groups pretty much wrote everything for him.

Does this classify as Nobel material? Especially if you are pretty much just an actor ex president reading someone elses work? I think not!  I think most would agree if the original authour of this material tried to pass these lies without Gores help, he would get the story past the first Producers Read through.

I wrote a blog post about the discrepancy between Gore's efforts and the scientific errors in the inconvenient truth documentary.

Can be found here; http://andtheworldtoday.blogspot.com

If this propels Gore into running for president, 2008 is going to be one of the most fascinating election campaigns in modern history.

Call me a contrarian, but the thing I don't get is what does speaking up about climate change (whether or not you believe in it -- I do) have to do with world peace, per se? The Nobel Committee's rationale is here -- basically, global warming could spur conflicts between civilizations over increasingly scarce resources -- but it's kind of a stretch.

This is a political award just like the terrorist Arafat and worst president ever Jimmy Carter won.It has lost it's meaning.

Sorry to rain on the parade, but Al Gore is just another politician. Climate change may be true, but in BC, he and our provincial premier chummed around giving each other kudos, while clearcutting of old growth forest inside a watershed area (Chapman Creek, Sunshine Coast) happened recently, thanks to our premier's "green initiative". It may have been better to have let the IPCC have all the glory, than to have to share it with Gore. For more on Al Gore and the Premier and the forest clearcut, please view this video, before giving "high fives" to Al Gore.

Sunshine Coast Watershed - Al Gore & Premier Gordon Campbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JWxltjm_k