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Posted on 10/12/2007 5:43:28 PM PDT by Monique in Manchester
Reaction from around the world to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to former US vice-president and climate change campaigner Al Gore, and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
PROFESSOR WANGARI MAATHAI, FOUNDER OF GREEN BELT MOVEMENT AND NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE 2004
When it was first announced that I would be receiving the peace prize in 2004, many people asked what does the environment have to do with peace?
By choosing Al Gore and the IPCC for the award in 2007, the Nobel Committee have rightly brought to our attention that climate change is the single biggest threat to world peace we have ever faced.
TONY FRATTO, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN
Of course [US President George W Bush] is happy for Vice-President Gore and happy for the international panel on climate change scientists who also shared the peace prize.
Obviously, it's an important recognition and we're sure the vice president is thrilled.
UK PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN
Al Gore has been inspirational in focusing attention across the globe on this key issue. The IPCC's work on the science of climate change has been vital and they are now leading a process by which all countries will work together to tackle the effects of climate change.
ACHIM STEINER, HEAD OF UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP)
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has today made it clear that combating climate change is a central peace and security policy for the 21st Century.
SPOKESMAN FOR CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV KLAUS, CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTIC
He is somewhat surprised that Al Gore got the Peace Prize, because the relation between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct.
It rather seems that Gore's questioning of the basic foundation stones of the current civilisation does not contribute to peace much.
DR JEREMY LEGGETT, OXFORD UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INSTITUTE
I can't think of a better combination for this award - the previously unsung and much-falsely maligned legion of scientific whistleblowers, and their tireless chief advocate.
Perhaps now the shrivelling band of fossil-fuel-funded contrarians and car-enthusiast media stars will finally have the good grace to shut up with the ignorance they pedal about the threat we face.
TONY JUNIPER, EXECUTIVE DIRECT OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
This is a very welcome signal that the world is beginning to wake up to how environmental challenges are going to shape many aspects of human welfare long into the future. We hope that politicians everywhere will see this signal and take heed.
JOSEPH BAST, HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
Al Gore doesn't understand the science behind climate change or he deliberately misrepresents it. Either way, that should disqualify him from a prize like this.
PIERS FORSTER, SCHOOL OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
It's every scientist's dream to win a Nobel Prize, so this is great for myself and the hundreds that worked on their reports over the years.
It is perhaps a little deflating though - that one man and his PowerPoint show has as much influence as the decades of dedicated work by so many scientists.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON (SPOKESMAN)
The secretary-general notes that largely thanks to the IPCC's lucid and well-documented findings, it is now established beyond doubt that climate change is happening, and that much of it is caused by human activity. As a result, there is now unprecedented momentum for action on climate change around the world, and recognition of the UN as the forum for reaching agreement on it.
SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER, CANADIAN INUIT ACTIVIST AND PREVIOUSLY TIPPED FOR THE PRIZE
The Planet Earth is a winner today and that is what counts for me.
BJORN LOMBORG, AUTHOR OF THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST
Awarding it to Al Gore cannot be seen as anything other than a political statement. Awarding it to the IPCC is well-founded. [Gore's film The Inconvenient Truth has] some very obvious mistakes, like the argument that we're going to see 6m of sea-level rise.
They [the Nobel committee] have a unique platform in getting people's attention on this issue, and I regret they have used it to make a political statement.
JOSE MANUEL BARROSO, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT
[The recipients'] contributions to the prevention of climate change have raised awareness all over the world. Their work has been an inspiration for politicians and citizens alike. The European Union remains committed to its ambitious goals in the field. I call on all our partners to take this Nobel Peace Prize as an encouragement to approach this challenge even more swiftly, and decisively.
Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/7041573.stm
Published: 2007/10/12 15:16:50 GMT
© BBC MMVII
I’m not sure which is more arrogant for humans: to say we caused it or to say we’re going to fix it.
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I have yet to see proof that global warming and cooling are anything other than natural phenomenons.
I see you’re already history. Assume you’re from Manchester, England.
I suggest you read up on what your courts have to say about Al Gore’s enviro agitprop.
Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore’s ‘alarmist’ climate change film
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486969&in_page_id=1770
You can’t legally show Gore’s propaganda to British schoolchildren without revealing all the lies. For this, Gore gets a Nobel? That’s a serious lack of standards by the Nobel committee.
Wow, did you see that? Zotted right off, I bet that was Ralph!
It’s that pesky sun.
No one but a commie ever gets any Nobel prize.
Gore fits the bill!
INTREP
Given the registration date, she was probably a retread.
Intelligent thread topic is needed for that...
In after the Zot, again!
VACLAV KLAUS, 2008
(My new bumper sticker)
Can British citizens control the weather?
Wow!
AGW™ ping
You did well. A proper discussion? That's utterly laughable. The left is using global warming strictly as a vehicle to destroy Capitalism and impose totalitarian control over every aspect of our lives. I fear the left will never let up over this issue -- they will push it relentlessly, until they wear us down; or by some miracle, their fraudulent scheme is rejected by most people. This issue is not going away. The left is pure evil.
“Apocalypse MEOW”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
IF my "scientific" knowledge and memory serves me correctly, this will happen when the sun exhausts it supply of Hydrogen, which it currently fuses into Helium to produce energy.
The sun will contract, causing even more intense heat at it's core, which will cause it to start to fuse Helium into Carbon (I think). When this happens, the sun will become a "Red Dwarf" star, and swell from it's current diameter of about 1 million miles to around 50-100 million miles. The planets Mercury and Venus will be totally consumed, and if Earth isn't, it will be cooked to a cinder. The oceans will boil, and the atmosphere will be blown off into space by the sun's intense solar wind.
All this is to take place in about 4 billion years or so....
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