[Monique in Manchester]

Intelligent comments invited. I am interested in the reactions of American citizens, speaking as a concerned British citizen. Surely anything that highlights this issue is a good thing?

[LdSentinal]

There is no such thing as "global warming."

[Question Liberal Authority]

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.

Actually, it highlights the fact that government overreach is the single biggest threat to world peace we have ever faced.

[Always Right]

Gorebull Warnings are nothing but propaganda. It’s all politics.

[plangent]

This will become “An Inconvenient Prize”

Stupid Nobel Committee + preening of award winner + debunking of “concensus” scientists = deflatus.

There was a time when a critical element of scientific
inquiry was robust scepticism. Now we have wholesale scientific quest for acceptance. Go along to get along.

A pox on them all.

[citizencon]

I agree with the Czech President...
Gore’s prize should have been for voo doo science...

[Clink]

Another quote:

"The Nobel prize will go a long way in legitimizing Al Gore's crass agenda of making billions of dollars through his fear mongering of chicken-little citizens who swallow his unscientific bullshit".-Clink

[Cicero]

I sympathize somewhat with Piers Forster’s pain.

It must be a little deflating to a junk scientist that hundreds of junk scientists were passed over for the award, while Al Gore got it for doing a Power Point show about junk science.

[Aliska]

Seems like the Guardian only quoted a few negative comments, and they are obviously politicizing it, too. I'm open to the possibility of global warming, but we have had it before in ages past when there weren't enough people and fossil fuels to have brought it about. As to affecting me, where I live, generally the winters have been a little warmer and the summers not as hot for such long stretches as often happens.

Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't see that it has a whole lot to do with peace. The nations are raging as never before, even though we aren't currently into as severe wars as the two world wars of the past as to body count, it is very serious now what we are now facing with the terrorists, and how global warming has anything to do with that is beyond me.

Even though fossil fuels are non-renewable, think of how mad those countries with oil will be if the money supply dries up if alternative energy comes into widespread use. They will be fighting mad. As if they aren't already. Just much worse.

Most people around me are true believers and have bought into the hype, useless to argue with them when you aren't up on the science of it. Some pretty prestigious scientists have stated that they do not believe the theory as it is being proliferated, and they are quickly discredited, ignored, or shot down.

The book of Revelation says the sun will get very hot, but does not explain why, how or when, if it is literal or figurative.

[indcons]

Hmmm, Monique....what did you do that got you banned this early on the thread?

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
• The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died
• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Global Warming and Solar Radiation
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics (PDF)
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• Global warming is not a crisis
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• Global warming 'is good and is not our fault'
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Strong Evidence Points to Earth's Proximity to Sun as Ice Age Trigger
• THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• On the Phenomenon of Atmospheric Backradiation
• Does Man really affect Weather and Climate? Are the Interactions really understood?
• The Thermodynamic Atmosphere Effect - explained stepwise
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Rising Surface Temperatures Drive Back Winter Ice In Barents Sea, Researchers Findx
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:

This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

[ErnBatavia]

ERNBATAVIA, FREEPER EXTRAORDINAIRE:

Pandering to brand newbie Monique, will keep it simple - Al Gore found a mythical bandwagon and jumped on it. It's paid off so far, but once his "Inconvenient Truths" come full circle and bit him in the ass,becoming inconvenient for him, he'll retire to his energy hogging estate in Tennessee in disgrace.

[chaos_5]

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.

Exactly my thoughts on the matter.

[gunservative]

Gunservative: "Al Gore wants to freeze the planet!"

[2111USMC]

Junk science.

Welcome to Free Republic!

[ErnBatavia]

This account has been banned or suspended.

Good Zot, mod! There was a definite ozone whiff as soon as I clicked in...

[UnChained]

I was struck by this statement:

“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.”

We are now combating climate change. The climate has changed drastically in the past without significant human input but now we are going to put an and to all that change. The way things are is the way we are going to keep it from now on because the current climate is as good as good can be.

[prophetic]

And so again the esteemed Nobel Prize Institute give a boob prize for Science Fiction!!

[Delta 21]

[ChildOfThe60s]

Surely anything that highlights this issue is a good thing?

I am not being sarcastic when I say this. Anything that highlights the utter lunacy of these people, and this incident does just that, is a good thing.

So yes, this is a good thing, but not for what you are thinking.

[13Sisters76]

Gore and the IPCC receiving this prize drives the final nail in the coffin of the Nobel’s credibility.