Gore, IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize

[patriotsblade]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/12/nobel.gore/index.html


(CNN) -- Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work towards raising awareness about global warming.

The Nobel committee cited them "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

The IPCC and Gore will each receive a gold medal, a diploma and split about $1.5 million. The award ceremony will be held Dec. 10 in Oslo, Norway.

Gore won two Oscars earlier this year for his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," which followed him on a worldwide tour publicizing the dangers of climate change.

Last month Gore also picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in U.S. television -- for "Current TV," which he co-created. The show describes itself as a global television network that gives its viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.

Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former presidents Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

In 1973, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The Rev. Martin Luther King received the honor in 1964.

Gore served as vice president for eight years under President Bill Clinton. In 2000, he garnered the Democratic presidential nomination and faced off against Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Gore won the popular vote but lost the election vote after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his challenge of voting results in the key state of Florida.

[Yellowdogtexan]

I was very happy to hear this. Now I hope that he reconsiders running for President

[Sweet Tart]

I was very happy to hear this. Now I hope that he reconsiders running for President

:frolic :frolic :frolic

[AYFR]

I was very happy to hear this. Now I hope that he reconsiders running for President

Let him, he lost once and will again.

[Sweet Tart]

He didn't lose :lol

[Kurtz]

:clap :clap :clap
Congrats to VP Gore, he's a winner!!

[The Q]

If Al Gore enters the race, he will win the nomination. :yep

ADQ

[Sweet Tart]

WHEN Al Gore enters the race, he will win the nomination. :yep

ADQ

:drevil

[Partyless]

Congratulations Al. I must admit I was surprised he won for an environmental issue since it's a peace prize but I suppose extreme environmental changes could spawn war one day. Seems a bit 'pre-emptive' to me but yay, Al.

Dude wins an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize in one year - yeah, I'm impressed.

But I think he'll make a far better citizen working for change than a president. Jimmy Carter has been many times more effective getting change and raising awareness of social issues as an ex-president than he ever was in office.

But for now - YAY AL! Start rapping and go for a Grammy next!

[crazierthanever]

It's a GOOD DAY! :sun

[Yellowdogtexan]

Congratulations Al. I must admit I was surprised he won for an environmental issue since it's a peace prize but I suppose extreme environmental changes could spawn war one day. Seems a bit 'pre-emptive' to me but yay, Al.The economic and military aspects of the global warming have been documented. There are going to be a number of regional and larger conflicts due to global warming.

Here is one. Russis, Canada and others are fighting over who owns any oil resources that may be found in the area that used to be covered by ice in the artic. The fable Northwest passage is open now for several months a year and by 2050 the artic will be ice free. Countries are already making claims as to the resources that will become available when there is no ice to block drilling and development.

[crazierthanever]

Here's the message I just received from Al:

Dear **** *****,

I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. 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. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

Thank you,

Al Gore

[Wabash]

I was very happy to hear this. Now I hope that he reconsiders running for President

Yep...that would be a real Spoiler for Osama and Billary!

He didn't lose :lol

Ya...........................he DID! Get over it!

The economic and military aspects of the global warming have been documented. There are going to be a number of regional and larger conflicts due to global warming.

Here is one. Russis, Canada and others are fighting over who owns any oil resources that may be found in the area that used to be covered by ice in the artic. The fable Northwest passage is open now for several months a year and by 2050 the artic will be ice free. Countries are already making claims as to the resources that will become available when there is no ice to block drilling and development.

Yada, yada, yada.....events that have repeated themselves over and over as the earth evolves.....better then an ice age coming back...

[Wabash]

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:17 PM

By: Lowell Ponte

In 1939 a member of Sweden’s parliament nominated Adolf Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Other nominees for this award have included Hitler’s fellow socialists Benito Mussolini and Soviet Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, who also murdered millions.

Odds-makers are betting that this Friday, Oct. 12, former American Vice President Al Gore will snatch what running mate President Bill Clinton never could, despite their behind-the-scenes lobbying — this Nobel Prize.

Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and military munitions, created the Peace Prize. Nobel’s will endowed what has become a $1.5 million (tax-free) annual award “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

But Al Gore has done nothing to promote international fraternity, abolish or reduce standing armies, or promote peace conferences.

Logic has been twisted into pretzels to concoct reasons why Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. The resulting sloppy syllogism (or AlGorerithm): global warming could produce famine and millions of refugees, begetting international conflicts. Gore’s anti-global warming crusade would be honored for trying to prevent this destabilization of nations.

“There are already climate wars unfolding,” the head of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Jan Egeland told Reuters. “I think the whole issue of climate change and the environment will come at some point and reflect in the [Nobel Peace] prize.”

Nobel Prize pundits told Reuters they expect the prize to be shared by Gore and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, “who has shed light on how global warming affects Arctic peoples.”

Earlier this month a British judge ruled that Gore’s Oscar-winning climate film "An Inconvenient Truth" promotes “partisan political views” and cannot be used in the nation’s schools without identifying it as, in effect, Orwellian agitprop. If troubled by Gore’s dishonest film, the Nobel committee might instead honor the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Since it began in 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to a wide variety of winners, some more noble than others.

In 1906 it was given to jingoistic President Theodore Roosevelt for his role in peace treaty collaborations.

In 1919 this prize went to President Woodrow Wilson for helping create the League of Nations, American membership in which the U.S. Senate refused to ratify.

In 1929 it was awarded to American Frank B. Kellogg for the Kellogg-Briand Pact that renounced war among the great powers and, along with arms-reduction agreements, opened the way for the militarization of Nazi Germany and imperialist Japan. The road to hell, it proved once again, can be paved by blindly-idealistic peaceniks.

In 1952 the Nobel Peace Prize went to Albert Schweitzer, advocate of “Reverence for Life,” who once paternalistically said of the hospital he established in Gabon that “I see the Africans as my brothers, but I never forget that I am their older brother.”

In 1959 the prize committee picked Philip Noel-Baker, a British peace activist who for decades blamed wealthy munitions manufacturers — like Alfred Nobel — for causing wars to make money.

In 1970, the Nobel Prize went to agronomist Norman Borlaug for his excellent research that has increased global grain production. In 2004 it honored Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai for her efforts to get women to plant trees across Africa. You should expect environmentalists would invoke both to justify a Gore win this week.

But recent decades have seen several dubious and joint prizes given to celebrate the illusion, not the reality, of peace.

In 1973 Henry Kissinger and Communist North Vietnam negotiator Le Duc Tho were given the Nobel Prize for the Vietnam peace accord that opened the way soon thereafter for the extermination of non-Communist South Vietnam.

In 1994 Israeli negotiators Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin were chosen to share the Peace Prize with terrorist Palestinian Authority boss Yasser Arafat. But Palestinian terrorism continues, and there has been no lasting peace.

The Peace Prize was becoming a debased, politicized currency. In 1990 it went to Soviet leader Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev but it was not awarded jointly to his partner in peacemaking former President Ronald Reagan.

In 1992 it went to Guatemalan Marxist activist Rigoberta Menchu, despite controversy over falsehoods in her self-serving autobiography.

In 1993 South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk shared the prize with Communist Nelson Mandela, convicted by a racist Apartheid court of killing cops. The post-Apartheid government Mandela helped create now winks at rape gangs in city streets and has begun to imitate Zimbabwe’s Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe by breaking its past promises and confiscating white-owned property.

In 2002 the Nobel Prize was awarded to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, ostensibly “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.” In reality, as the socialist head of the Nobel committee said, Carter won as a way Europeans could “kick the shins” of Republican President George W. Bush for U.S. policies in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Carter helped topple U.S. ally the Shah of Iran, which begat the Iran-Iraq War and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which launched al-Qaida and led to 9/11. Arrogant Peace Prize winner Carter has the blood of almost a million people, including nearly 7,000 Americans, on his hands.

At least 181 names were officially submitted for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, including those of radio talk-hosts Rush Limbaugh and Los Angeles KFI morning star Bill Handel.

If Gore wins the Nobel Prize, this 2000 Democratic Party standard-bearer might yet enter the 2008 Democratic race for its presidential nomination. Corporate billionaires have given Gore enormous wealth. “The national DraftGore.com organization has gathered around 127,000 signatures to put Gore on primary ballots,” NewsMax reported on Oct. 9, “and is planning to run an ad in The New York Times [doubtless at the discounted MoveOn.org rate] urging him to run.”

Liberal political TV series The West Wing starred Martin Sheen as a Nobel-prizewinning (in economics) Democratic president. Could Al Gore make this left-wing fantasy come true?
http://www.newsmax.com/lowell_ponte/gore_nobel/2007/10/10/39694.html?s=al&promo_code=3B49-1

[Ringo]

If Al Gore enters the race, he will win the nomination. :yep

ADQ

A slightly less Criminal, maybe a little more in tune with the real America, stupid enough he might not get us all killed, and it would keep the Communist out of Office, and of course he would lose again and then the whining would start, and run for 8 years! Damn teh Commie or the Whiner...hmmm???:nerd:mw

[Ringo]

The National Climatic Center has went to great lengths to not disclose their monitoring stations, even to the point of shutting down their Website, for those looking to locate the TRUTH behind this GORE LIE! He is a fraud, he needs a straight jacket and a jail cell, not a pedestal!!!:nerd:borg:nerd:godzilla

[April15]

Al Gore is a hundred fold better than G Wrong Bush. The problem is he has ethics and bush hasn't. I think Hillary will be a better candidate than Al at this time. Hillary already has the the repubs scared out of their dresses. It is time people came before corporations.

[Yellowdogtexan]

Here is the statement for Al Gore on this honor and what he intends to do with prize money. http://blog.algore.com/2007/10/i_am_deeply_honored.htmlI am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis -- a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. 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. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

[Oceanbreeze]

Here's the message I just received from Al:

Dear **** *****,

I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. 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. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

Thank you,

Al Gore

Queston #1 is why would he profit off of globaloney?
Question #2 will the Gore's start living an enviromental "green" life style?
Question #3 when globaloney is debunked will he give back his shared award? Never mind, Hilter didn't, so I'm sure Gore won't have to either. :nerd

[Yellowdogtexan]

Congratulations Al. I must admit I was surprised he won for an environmental issue since it's a peace prize but I suppose extreme environmental changes could spawn war one day. I hope that this article explains why global warming is so important. Even the Pentagon thinks that global warming could affect the peace of the world.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_sc/nobel_widening_peaceWhat does global warming have to do with global peace? The globe may find out sooner than we think, experts say.

"Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on Earth as we know it to be," retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, former U.S. Army chief of staff, told a congressional panel last month.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee agrees. In awarding the prize Friday to climate campaigner Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N.-sponsored network of scientists, the Norwegian committee said the stresses of a changing global environment may heighten the "danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."

Those like Sullivan who study the issues point particularly to the impact of drought and altered climate patterns on food and water supplies, leading to shortages that could spur huge, destabilizing migrations of people internationally.

In a report in May, scientists advising the German government noted specific scenarios that could upend the lives of millions, driving them across borders to overwhelm other lands.

"The dieback of the Amazon rain forest or the loss of the Asian monsoon could have incalculable consequences for the societies concerned," said the German Advisory Council on Global Change.

In some cases, potential backlashes from warming weren't foreseen even a few years ago. One example: The stunningly swift shrinking of Arctic Ocean ice in recent summers has drawn attention to looming international disputes over rights to the newly open seas.

The unpredictability of when, where and how some of the changes will occur has frustrated Pentagon planners and others trying to prepare.

A 2003 report commissioned by the Pentagon warned that abrupt climate change "could potentially destabilize the geopolitical environment, leading to skirmishes, battles, and even war due to resource constraints."

But that study's scenario for abrupt change hinged in part on fears that the Atlantic's Gulf Stream current might slow, chilling northern Europe and eastern North America and curtailing food harvests. Now, however, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's "very unlikely" the current will slow abruptly.

[Yellowdogtexan]

The idiots at Faux News are still upset. I love the concept that the prize should have gone to Petraeus instead of Vice President Gore. You can count on the idiiots at Faux to be totally clueless