And now we have lover boy, ozone al.
He makes women swoon.
Posted on 10/12/2007 4:23:07 AM PDT by Barney Gumble
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They 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.
Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.
Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nobelprize.org ...
Good point. This clown was in the Senate for a good long time, he was VP for eight long, weary, dreary years. Why didn't he get anything done then, when he was in a position to get something done? The number one thing he could have done was push changes to make it easier to use nuclear energy, to displace carbon-polluting coal burning plants. He didn't do it. In fact, he's anti-nuclear. How is that for helping the climate? Guess he'd rather be fund raising for 'Rats and covering Clinton's sorry butt than doing any real work to effect policies that help with climate change.
I guess hypocracy is not a disqualifier for the Nobel Piss Prize.
Anymore, it's like a requirement. They gave a murderer like Yassar Arabfat the so-called "peace prize", and now this dunce. The whole thing is a political stunt.
I wouldn’t be surprised if next year the award was won by Osama Bin Laden.
Add Pulitzer to your list a.k.a.the Walter Duranty memorial prize.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And now we have lover boy, ozone al.
He makes women swoon.
Politics, politics, politics. They have made the Prize meaningless over the years.
More water doesn’t mean more drinking water, nor will the changes in humidity be the same across the globe.
Deserts are growing and lakes are drying up these changes can create violent reactions and we are seeing more of them.
Here’s a laugh!
Guess who was invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, i.e. awarder of the Oscars?
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel Weisz, and Dakota Fanning!
Libs inhale their own fumes, and the stench keeps emanating from the whole collective.
Welcome, Al Gore!
Violent reactions usually come from misuse of land or appropriation of land, not climate changes. As for deserts growing, no. The Sahara is shrinking and rains have flooded deserts in China. Some lakes are shrinking due to overuse, some due to changes in climate. Others are growing in Siberia and Canada. Climate change is mostly good, see Global Warming is good for you (unless you are an American)
The climate is always changing. It is not static. There is no way man can attach a thermostat to the planet and dial up any temperature he wants.
There will be less drinking water.
Do you have a factual basis for that statement? And have you ever heard of desalinization plants like those in Israel and Saudi Arabia?
There will be more human migration and enviromental refugees
There always have been such "refugees." Today, we are witnessing one of the greatest mass migrations in history, i.e., from Latin America to the US. These are economic refugees who are and will be far more numerous than any "environmental" refugee.
One might not like that it was also awarded to Al Gore but no *sane* individual can deny the facts presented by the IPCC.
Sorry, there are tens of thousands of scientists who disagree with these politically-biased findings. One of these is RICHARD S. LINDZEN, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.
I hope and expect that the global community at the very least are able to see that peace is achived [sic] in many different ways and that awareness over possible future conflict is certainly one way to achive [sic] peace.
The "global community" is a pipe dream. Nation states are still the prime actors and they will do what they perceive to be in their best interests. If you believe that China will go "green," stop being the biggest polluter, and sacrifice its economic progress in pursuit of some dubious actions that will have little to no impact on climate change, you are very naive.
No!
Awards are Leftist propaganda tools, otherwise worthless.
True. It used to be these awards stood for something now they give them out at will to any liberal lunatic they choose. I would never accept any of these crummy, over rated, joke of awards now. This proves that the left can ruin anything if they put their shallow little minds to it.
“It is a question of war and peace,” Mr. Egeland, now director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo, told the Associated Press. “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.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Apr05/0,4670,UNClimateChange,00.html
Parts of the developing world are “particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and least equipped to cope with them” because of instability, current or recent conflicts. It cited the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, parts of the Middle East and parts of Asia and the Pacific.
See for yourself with images from Google Earth - http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=487&ArticleID=5350&l=en
Lake Chad, a great shallow lake in West Africa which was once the sixth largest in the world, shrunk to a wetland one tenth its original size between 1963 and 2001. The user can follow the rivers that feed it to their sources, which no longer provide enough water to maintain the lake. Google Earth shows the countries and cities affected by the lake’s decline and offers the ability to search the internet for additional information about Lake Chad
Of course Algore won the peace prize. It was a forlorn conclusion. Look at the other finalist. All she did at great personal risk to herself was save 2,500 Jewish kids from Treblinka’s gas chambers. That’s nothing compared to saving the entire world from man made “global warming!”
To think that Al Gore, Michael Moore share the award with Laurence Olivier, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins.
Ridiculous.
I am not so blinded by images of shrinking lakes and calving glaciers that I can't see the causes and effects. The lakes in Africa are changing primarily because of natural climate change. See for example: http://www.aaas.org/international/africa/ewmi/livingst.htm:
In more remote times hydrologic changes were much greater. Lake Victoria seems to have been completely dry during a period that did not end before 12,500 years ago (Kendall, 1969; Stager et al, 1986; Johnson et al, 1996). The deepest part of Lake Naivasha in Kenya seems to have been dry during a brief period about 3,000 years ago (Richardson and Richardson, 1972)...
Then I suggest you join me here in Norway and see the effects with your own eyes, while the glaciers are still here.
Speaking of shrinking glaciers, the rivers from the melting ice is another source of clean drinking water that will vanish from many places
Peru’s glaciers in retreat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4720621.stm
“This area is mainly desert and the people who live here receive their water from the mountains. Melting glaciers also provide water for hydroelectricity, industry and farming.”
The evidence of change is there, the cause is important to understand how to prevent it but awareness that it is happening will help prevent future conflicts.
Being aware of the changes that are a reality will help us to react and that alone serves the cause of peace.
You have decided a priori that "global warming" has caused all of this and only by "reacting" in ways you and the other socialists specify, can we stop this from happening. First, it is incorrect that all climate change is due to CO2, only some of it. Second, the remedies to climate change, reducing economic growth and increasing government control of the economy are much much worse than any of the changes that you are pointing out.
What do the ramblings of a lying envirofanatic have to do with world peace? The Norwegian Nobel Committee are now proven morons.
Pathetic. And how Al Gore and Michael Moore - both charlatans, can actually accept these awards with a straight face. Carter, Moore, Gore - buffoons all!
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