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The Nobel Peace Prize people made a mistake. They shouldn't give a prize for merely raising awareness about global warming, the should award the prize for actually doing something about it. A better choice would have been Mount Pinatubo. While Algore was spewing fear, Mount Pinatubo spewed enough ash and gases in 1991 to cool global temperature by 0.5C. If that's not enough - and I think it is - the committee should have realized that Pinatubo's eruption also wiped out hundreds of thousands of forested acres, thus saving that land from man's deliberate and foolish exploitation. Man will now be forced to develop a realistic alternatives to agricultural and forest products. Finally, the NPP committee's snub of Pinatubo may come back to haunt them when they need to make tactical use of such rapid cooling in the future. Pinatubo has many volcanic friends that take the committee's award to Algore as an insult. Is it really wise to piss off mother nature?

They shouldn't give a prize for merely raising awareness about global warming, the should award the prize for actually doing something about it.

Although I'm not sure anything can be done about global warming, I see your point.

Nobel winners like Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa didn't just "raise awareness" about poverty. They spent their lives alleviating the suffering of the desperately poor.

By contrast, Al Gore has a lifestyle that is far more lavish than that of the average person, and uses a considerable amount of energy to maintain it, while he preaches against the "sins" of living too large the need for the rest of us to cut back.

What a travesty.