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Al Gore & IPCC win 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

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That's one way to render the Peace Prize meaningless.

Whose work do you think has been of the greatest benefit to mankind this past year?

It's not a question of benefit. I'm not arguing that Gore's promotion of the Global Warming threat wasn't a great benefit, but that he did not deserve the Nobel PEACE Prize.

Evangelizing the Global Warming movement doesn't promote peace in any direct way. It might promote it in an indirect way (by stopping resource wars) but even that is doubtful.

Give the Peace prize to someone truly deserving of the title ... say the Burmese monks who are attempting to free and save their country/people from oppression.

If you can't find someone to give it to, don't give it out at all.

This is equivalent to giving Apple the prize for Physics because they put a small hard drive in everyone's hands instead of the people who actually invented the technology.

I guess the Norwegian committee decided that Gore did "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." The Burmese monks are doing something within a single nation.

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_com_will1.html

http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/will/short_testamente.htm...

That's just it... what did he do?

Sure everyone knows about global warming, but there's still nothing being done. The US is standing still, the Kyoto protocol is a joke and China/India are still industrializing so their fossil fuel consumption is only going up.

Europe has made some efforts but nearly enough. I just think it's ridiculous to give out the Peace Prize for basically, promoting a cause.

Well whatever :) The committee gave it to him, so congratulations I guess.

I liked Kottke's comment: "Al Gore won a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for what is essentially a PowerPoint presentation." http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/10/14273.html

Steve Jobs makes a lot more money than Gore making essentially powerpoint presentations. But you know that is essentially not true.

Actually, Jobs makes decisions and presents them. As Kottke explained to those who complained, the prize is for the movie. No movie, no prize. The movie was a slide show dramatization of results Gore didn't find.

I think Gore is working on redoing that presentation with the new Google presentation tool.

I fully support the decision to award Al Gore and IPCC the nobel peace prize. Wars are started for many reasons and global warming will definitely be one of them. Darfur is just a taster.

Now I just hope he runs for president.

He has consistently denied that he will run but you never know. After all he is a politician!

http://draftgore.com

Look at recent winners and see if you can spot the pattern.

The noble committee is a disgrace.

There is no connection between global warming and peace.It is questionable whether global warming is a threat in the first place.

What does a lifetime politician know about global warming anyway.

The noble peace price should be given to the US armed forces. They are the ones eradicating terrorism so the world can have peace.

-Augustus

Seriously?! Call it political bias but the Nobel committee will never give the peace prize to someone who starts a war preemptively.

"They are the ones eradicating terrorism so the world can have peace."

You mean this in a "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" sense, presumably?

"...noble peace price..."

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