Al Gore gets a Nobel Prize?

Falstaff · Oct 12, 2007, 01:17 PM

CNN.com readers sound off on Gore, Nobel Peace Prize - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming

This is sickening

I can see why Mr. Nobel recieved an award, but my God, a buffoon like Al Gore? First the Academy Awards and now the Nobel Prize, is nothing sacred?

**Vikingod** · Oct 12, 2007, 01:27 PM

If you can think of another person that has done as much to bring to light to the masses, the realities of Global Warming, you should write a letter.

Then again, I guess you would have to believe that global warming is actually occuring, and I think we've had that conversation...

Zelig · Oct 12, 2007, 01:43 PM

The Economist covers it quite well:

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IF THE Nobel Peace Prize were awarded for making the world a more peaceful place, then this year’s winners—Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—would be a bizarre choice. But two out of the previous three peace prizes went to people and organisations who had nothing to do with peace. The 2004 winner was Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who plants trees, and the 2006 winners were Mohammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, a Bangladeshi microcredit institution. (In 2005, in a radical departure from recent practice, the prize did actually go to a person and an organisation whose work has been designed to reduce the likelihood of global conflict—Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency.)

Evidently the committee has decided to redefine the award as the Nobel Prize for Making the World a Better Place in Some Unspecified Way. In that case, Al Gore and the IPCC seem pretty good—though controversial—choices. The IPCC has put together scientific knowledge on the subject in a form comprehensible to policymakers; Mr Gore has pushed the policymakers to take action.

OmegaRED · Oct 12, 2007, 02:27 PM

It's a good enough choice. The only people upset are those who don't believe in Global Warming or think this will effect the '08 Election.

IMO, Gore won't run for Pres but if he runs as Hilary's VP there would be no way any Republicans could defeat them.

Falstaff · Oct 12, 2007, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by OmegaRED

It's a good enough choice. The only people upset are those who don't believe in Global Warming or think this will effect the '08 Election.

IMO, Gore won't run for Pres but if he runs as Hilary's VP there would be no way any Republicans could defeat them.

seriously.....

in light of the past eight years, either Hilliary or Al will just kill the chance of any democrat winning his or her chance at the helm. People dont seem to grasp why Bush won twice at all, its this political myopia that blinds the democrats from realizing what and who is actually running the country.

Senor_Mota · Nov 1, 2007, 02:08 PM

He's definitely well deserving of such an honor, because he really is making an effort to change the world without imposing too much personal bias on said change. At least he's doing something for God's grey Earth, albeit a bit of banal minutia. We're already sailing home on a sinking ship and with people like himself, the smaller holes seem to get plugged just enough to stop leaking.

If you want some real insight into how much it's really helping for ANYONE to be an environmentalist at this point, watch CNN's Planet in Peril miniseries. It will make you feel bad inside...knowing that the ship will sink sooner than we think.

Judas · Nov 1, 2007, 02:39 PM

he's Cereal!

OmegaRED · Nov 1, 2007, 04:16 PM

Well, he was right about ManBearPig.

CDsDontBurn · Nov 1, 2007, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

seriously.....

in light of the past eight years, either Hilliary or Al will just kill the chance of any democrat winning his or her chance at the helm. People dont seem to grasp why Bush won twice at all, its this political myopia that blinds the democrats from realizing what and who is actually running the country.

i think he won honestly because we have been at war with terrorism/afganistan/iraq pretty much since the beginning of his presidential term. i don't think that the american public has ever wanted to change to a new president when there is a war going on. that is unless a president has fulfilled both terms.

**ChaosMinionX** · Nov 1, 2007, 09:31 PM

Al Gore created the Internets we all use today

And I quote

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Originally Posted by Al Gore

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Falstaff · Nov 2, 2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

Al Gore created the Internets we all use today

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what was it about that whole Bill Clinton experience that made him so comtemptable...lying just comes sooooooo easy. Its not malicious..he is just a fool in a fools paradise.

Sandok · Nov 2, 2007, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

what was it about that whole Bill Clinton experience that made him so comtemptable...lying just comes sooooooo easy. Its not malicious..he is just a fool in a fools paradise.

Just because you don't agree with him doesn't make him a fool... I mean, "imagine" if you're wrong, then you're the fool and he's the hero? It's all very subjective.

However, lying can be bad. Bush totally lied about WMD in Iraq and that was malicious... But I doubt you'll see it like that

Senor_Mota · Nov 2, 2007, 09:33 AM

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However, lying can be bad. Bush totally lied about WMD in Iraq and that was malicious... But I doubt you'll see it like that

You know, George Bush has done a few good things for us. Firstly, he helped us realize that voting is more important than we really thought it was, considering the fact that if we don't speak our mind, we get stuck with a conservative and barely intelligible simpleton in office. Secondly, he provoked a nation with a quarter of the defensive capability that we have into "war" to drop the price of our most valued resource, petroleum, only to aimlessly kill innocent soldiers and civilians by raising the price of gas.

Oh wait, that last one isn't good at all! GODDAMNIT!!!!! Maybe Al Gore really isn't the anti-christ...

mannycat · Dec 10, 2007, 09:03 PM

You can define peace in many ways. So, if you think the healing the planet of greenhouse gases, global warming, sea level rise, catastrophic heat, hurricanes, etc. is a peaceful activity, then Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

mike2h · Dec 10, 2007, 10:39 PM

i think that the award is called the 'nobel PEACE prize' & is meant to go to somebody that actually help make this world a more peaceful place to live in.
while i actually respect al gore for taking a stand on an issue that needs the worlds attention(NOT saying i agree with his view of the cause of global warming cause i dont) & getting out there & actually doing something about it, his actions imo, dont earn him this prize.
while he has done a lot t opromote the worlds awarenes of climate change & that there are many things that need to be done, i look at him as the 'face' of a puiblicity campaign, with all the real work being done by scientists & other hard working people behind him.

CDsDontBurn · Dec 10, 2007, 11:08 PM

@ mike: remember that Gore didn't invent the internet. it was already there. all he did was make it available to all of us.

mike2h · Dec 11, 2007, 12:59 AM

yeh thats it, the internet would have been around, just not available. dont know what we would have done without good ol' al to show us the way. lol.

CDsDontBurn · Dec 11, 2007, 04:11 AM

i'm sure it would have been made available to us still. just at a much later point in time i would assume.

mike2h · Dec 11, 2007, 04:42 PM

i was being sarcastic.

i dont think he had as much to do with it as he would like to think ... & say.

Neshi · Jan 27, 2008, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Falstaff

CNN.com readers sound off on Gore, Nobel Peace Prize - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming

This is sickening

I can see why Mr. Nobel recieved an award, but my God, a buffoon like Al Gore? First the Academy Awards and now the Nobel Prize, is nothing sacred?

I thought the same thing as you when I heard it. What the hell has Al Gore done for world peace. He's even Lying and spreading fear with his, "we will destroy the earth if we don't take any actions" campaign.
where is the world coming to..

Neshi · Jan 27, 2008, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Senor_Mota

He's definitely well deserving of such an honor, because he really is making an effort to change the world without imposing too much personal bias on said change. At least he's doing something for God's grey Earth, albeit a bit of banal minutia. We're already sailing home on a sinking ship and with people like himself, the smaller holes seem to get plugged just enough to stop leaking.

If you want some real insight into how much it's really helping for ANYONE to be an environmentalist at this point, watch CNN's Planet in Peril miniseries. It will make you feel bad inside...knowing that the ship will sink sooner than we think.

People can't do shit about the global warming. We contribute for about 5% of the co2 in the atmosphere.. yea, lets all spend millions and billions into decreasing those 5%.. (nature does the biggest deal)
watch the movie "the great global warming swindle" and feel bad inside that you believed that crap. or check this site.

Not saying global warming isn't occuring. It is occuring, it is just that this has been the case in the history of earth. really warm periods and really cold periods have been going on and off. suddenly WE are the cause of all of this. Let's jump on the political bandwagen everyone!

1 thing I once read and to think about... The Co2 exhaustion of cars is about the same as humans exhale through breathing..
So if we really wanna do something about the Co2 emissions to "fight global warming", let's all hold our breath!

Senor_Mota · Feb 22, 2008, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Neshi

People can't do shit about the global warming. We contribute for about 5% of the co2 in the atmosphere.. yea, lets all spend millions and billions into decreasing those 5%.. (nature does the biggest deal)
watch the movie "the great global warming swindle" and feel bad inside that you believed that crap. or check this site.

Not saying global warming isn't occuring. It is occuring, it is just that this has been the case in the history of earth. really warm periods and really cold periods have been going on and off. suddenly WE are the cause of all of this. Let's jump on the political bandwagen everyone!

1 thing I once read and to think about... The Co2 exhaustion of cars is about the same as humans exhale through breathing..
So if we really wanna do something about the Co2 emissions to "fight global warming", let's all hold our breath!

I think that's what I said...we can't do much about it, so it's great that someone cares. I'm no "tree-hugger", but I will give the guy some credit for doing his homework, even if his citations aren't credited to the right source.

SFOSOK · Apr 17, 2008, 07:08 PM

All I know is every time I try to listen to him explain something I feel myself getting dumber.

His voice is like the air in shopping malls, thinned out and worthless.

Talking and doing are two different things, so far I haven't seen any results from him that have made the world better (he didn't make the internet). What exactly has he done to heal the planet again? Besides telling people something they already know but just don't want to admit or take responsibility for.

Hell, lets give Michael Moore, Bill Cosby, and Pamela Anderson a Nobel Peace Price while we are at it. They have done about as much for this world as Al Gore has.

Edit: I bet when all is said and done with Global Warming (if ever) he will take credit for all of it and win another damn award.

Alistair · Apr 23, 2008, 08:01 PM

Awww come on guys leave Al Gore alone, I kinda feel bad for him. He doesn't have any friends.

Seriously though... The guy has a lawsuit pending about Global Warming the last I checked and NASA is worried about us entering an ice age that they predicted would happen within 50 years (they predicted this in the 70s). All I know is if we enter an ice age I expect Al Gore to use a petroleum fueled flame thrower to melt the glaciers for his penance.