As if we needed more confirmation....
1994 Nobel Winner
Posted on 10/09/2007 5:58:37 AM PDT by Roberts
THE environmental campaigner Al Gore is being tipped as a favourite to win the Nobel peace prize in Oslo this Friday in a controversial move that could place saving the planet above saving people from war and conflict.
Gore, a former American vice-president and failed presidential candidate, has reinvented himself as the “Goracle” with a rock star following after presenting last year’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, about the dangers of climate change.
He was nominated for the Nobel prize jointly with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a Canadian Inuit activist who has campaigned about the effect of climate change on Arctic peoples.
“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel peace prize is making a difference and Al Gore has made a difference,” said Boerge Brende, a former Norwegian environment minister who nominated Gore and Watt-Cloutier.
“I think they are likely winners this year,” said Stein Toennesson, director of Oslo’s International Peace Research Institute. The winner will receive $1.5m (£750,000) in prize money.
Gore spent last year assessing whether he ought to run for the White House in 2008, teasing his supporters by saying, “I haven’t completely ruled it out”, and prompting observers to keep a close eye on his girth for signs that he was slimming for a presidential bid.
Some commentators in America, including the British writer Christopher Hitchens, believe he could use a Nobel win to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
“Can he stand to watch another Clinton walk away with a nomination that could have been, or could still be, his?” Hitchens asked. Close supporters believe the answer is yes. Gore appears to have concluded that the Democrats are satisfied with their candidates. Global temperatures will rise 2.5C within the next century even if the world hits its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the scientist leading research into the issue.
Consequences could include widespread starvation, as farm yields fall 50% in parts of Africa, water shortages for 300m and the destruction of 20-30% of species. If targets are missed the rise could reach 4C.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, issued his warning in London last week.
“We have come to the conclusion that global warming is unequivocal,” he said. “What is particularly worrying is that it is accelerating.”
Give him the Peace prize. prove again how worthless it is.
And the winner - for Best Dramatization of a Liberal Pipe Dream is-——————————Al Gore.
That would be funny. As Al “the Fonz” Gore takes his place alongside such notables as Jimmy Carter and Yassir Arafat, could anyone anywhere say “Nobel Peace Prize” with a straight face?
As if we needed more confirmation....
1994 Nobel Winner
The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke.
The ultimate confirmation of the irrelevancy of this “prize”.
What do politicians do when they can't make it as a politician? Get the Nobel.
Add to it as you wish.
that will aid him in paying his enormous utility bills that he has at the expense of telling us not to do the same.
“he (Gore) has made a difference”....how pray-tell?
“Al Gore tipped to win Nobel”
Of course, he’ll win. He’s a psycho who has done not a thing for world peace, but he speaks the correct political ideology to millions of people and that’s all that counts with the judges.
There’s a Norwegian rolling in his grave.
Arafat got one, so Pee Wee Herman is supposed to have three!
I forgot about Arafat - Carter was the last fraud that I remember winning it.
-it jumped it with arafat and again with jimmah.....
In other news, a British court found 11 major misrepresentations in Al Gore’s film. So the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for Best Propaganda?
I liked gore better when he was a soreloserman pouting and eating his way through his loss.
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