The Goracle’s head bursts :
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.
Gore, who won an Academy Award this year for his film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, had been widely expected to win the prize.
Climate change has moved high on the international agenda this year. The U.N. climate panel has been releasing reports, talks are set to resume on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, and there is 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.”
Jan Egeland, a Norwegian peace mediator and former U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs, also 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.
But Al might have a few problems with his possession of the Oscar he received for his fantasy movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” The movie, an alleged documentary, proves that some Al’s “truths” were not facts .
A conservative think-tank in New Zealand has written to the president of the America’s Academy Awards asking that the Oscar awarded to the director of an Inconvenient Truth be taken back.
Former New Zealand MP Dr Muriel Newman, director of web-based think-tank the New Zealand Centre for Political Research, said she had taken the measure in response to a British High Court ruling Thursday.
She said she emailed Academy president Sid Ganis and executive director Bruce Davis with the request on Friday morning.
A British judge ruled an Inconvenient Truth, whose director Davis Guggenheim won an Academy Award for best documentary feature, contained scientific errors.
The judge said the film could be shown in British schools, although it must have guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination.
The controversial documentary starred former US vice president Al Gore talking about the perils of global warming.
“The truth, as inconvenient as it is to Al Gore, is that his so-called documentary contained critical distortions that are quite contrary to the principles of good documentary journalism.
“Good documentaries should be factually correct. Clearly this documentary is not,” a statement from Newman said.
t/b: Stop The ACLU , Michelle Malkin
Rarely has a website been so aptly — albeit unintentionally self-referentially — named.
Congrats.
George:
Thanks Bob
It is aptly named… It attracted you.
Congratulations to VP Gore! His name will resound through the ages as he takes his place among the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winners: Yasser Arafat (grubby terrorist), Rigoberta Menchu (liar), President Jimmy Carter (failed US president), and Mikhail Gorbachev (failed communist dictator). Mr. Gore is highly deserving of this award, as is that dictator-stomping, human rights protecting, oh-so-effective world body, the United Nations.
Actually, I find it interesting how difficult it is to remain objective. Then again, since blogs are nothing more than places for people to spout their opinions, why should it be objective.
Funny. I stray way to the right on most issues and yet laugh at the inability of many people to avoid name calling and making every effort to minimize the opinions of those contrary to one’s own.
It is clearly a justified entitlement. Its a blog afterall.
Now I don’t know much more about GW other than the fact that scientifically its been proven by scientists with whom I have worked that certain gases (manmade and otherwise) do have what is referred to as global warming potential. That of couse leaves this comment open to ridicule, and the accusation that the science is “junk science.” That, though, reflects the poetic moment, “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” or a “rose, by any other name, is still a rose.” Think about it.
What a disaster! The Nobel’s a joke…
Here’s this from the Telegraph:
“Climate change is a threat to the environment, not to “peace” and international order. The prize has gone to some sleazy recipients in the past, but at least you can make a case that their actions staved off bloodshed.”
Congrats to the man who also INVENTED the internet! If my memory serves me correctly, it was a joint venture between DARPA, several universities, and scientists that invented it as a way to rapidly exchange information across campuses, labs, and military bases. This guy is delusional, as are the people who give him any sort of credibility. Then again, this is the same demographic that thinks Michael Moore is right. I am by no means a fan of the current administration and their failed policies but…BUT…use some common sense. Al Gore is a good marketeer and that’s about it. He is NOT a scientist, he is NOT a policy maker, and his ideology about most things makes as much sense as an acid-dropping hippie trying to coherently recite the Iliad. If people like this are “authorities” on anything in the eyes of the majority…we are doomed as a society. Once again, common sense in this country does not apply. God help us all!!!!!
I simply don’t understand why the disingenous mythology of Gore and the Internet persists to this day, despite the FACTS…ooops! Facts?
(Taken from somewhere else): Gore never claimed that he “invented” the Internet, which implies that he engineered the technology. The invention occurred in the seventies and allowed scientists in the Defense Department to communicate with each other. In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though that’s how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of “inventing” for the actual language.
But this can go even further…see Snopes on the mythology.
And going a little further…from Wikipedia:
Al Gore was involved in the development and mainstreaming of the Internet as both Senator and Vice-President. Campbell-Kelly and Aspray note in Chapter 12 of their 1996 text, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, that up until the early 1990s public usage of the Internet was limited. They continue to state that the “problem of giving ordinary Americans network access had exercised Senator Al Gore since the late 1970s” leading him to develop legislation which would alleviate this problem. Gore thus began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as “The Gore Bill”) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).
In 1999, various media outlets suggested that Gore claimed that he “invented the internet”, in reference to a CNN interview in which he said, “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
In response to this controversy, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn wrote a 2000-09-29 article (originally sent via email) which described Gore’s contributions to the Internet since the 1970s, including his work on the Gore Bill:
“ [A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore’s contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he “invented” the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept.
The truth is really out there. It takes very little to actually see it, read it, and understand it…well, maybe not.
“The truth is really out there. It takes very little to actually see it”
Unless you’re “stuck on stupid.”
Nobel Peace Prize: NEW Global Warming Deodorant
AP – Al Gore has for a long time been full of hot air. He has a vivid imagination about the world around him. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. Al’s basic mistrust of the seasons may stem from an episode of the Twilight Zone, in which the Earth gets too close to the Sun. Summers are by nature hot & sticky, and Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures needed to create a more effective global antiperspirant, thereby save the planet.
If former college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, could save the City of Los Angeles from an errant volcano, and the world from a giant cockroach in Men In Black, then certainly big Al Gore deserves a prize for his Global Warming Deodorant Initiative to control perspiration, thus prevent the meltdown of Earth. Now, use the same effective ingredients and trusted formula that kept our leaders dry during the Cold War. As the planet heats up, you don’t have to! Clinton tested: guaranteed to leave no trace.
Truth is, nobody games the system like the Clintons: http://theseedsof9-11.com
Thank you, Stormwarning. I agree. I have seen in the news that they are thinking about asking for the Oscar back. I think they should. I don’t think this piece of made up and miss leading crock should have the honor anyway. Just because he runs around spouting what ever runs threw his head is not fact. If he was sure of his facts, then why won’t he at least say something in his own defense? Because he would be shown for what he is, a crack pot.
The commentary here is utterly silly and regressive, and apparently is an accurate reflection of this site’s readership. Fooey….I really must have something at a higher level of brainpower. Thanks for the brief introduction and good bye forever to y’all……
George:
Fooey?
Oh but will the whining EVER cease? Just because your criminal, bush, hasn’t won squat since the day he was born does not give you the right to denigrade our former president, Mr. Gore. Why don’t you simply behave graciously and accept the fact that unlike bush who is a complete failure, Mr. Gore has gone on to accomplishments you losers are so jealous about.
Here’s my take on Al Gore, Kofi Annan, the “Peace” Prize, and the UN:
Dissecting the UN Debacle in Kosovo