Posted on 10/13/2007 11:38:13 PM PDT by upchuck
10 years ago, if I had bumped into someone who told me they were awarded a Nobel, I would have been in awe. Today...I’d tell them to watch where they’re going.
Great article. Couldn’t have said any of this any better myself. If this helps propel Gore into the White House, I’ve lost all hope in the American public.
even if global warming was real, he didn’t come up with any idea that would actually solve the problem
The sad truth is....Burma Monks have earned the Nobel Peace Prize (should have).....by dying for peace. This is what makes the five individuals on the Nobel Peace Prize committee look so foolish.
I think the greatest way to “even” the situation...as they have this grand speech episode in Oslo in the coming weeks....get one of the Burma monks...dressed in red robe...to sit in the front of the audience. Let the cameras roll and catch this fine picture of a dimwit at the podium and a monk facing him.
But prepare yourself...the 2008 winner....which you can already feel and appreciate....is Bill Clinton. This is the way that the Swedish socialists can influence the US election. So you add up last year’s dummy (Carter), this year’s dummy (Gore), and you crown your achievements with Bill Clinton next year.
Says a lot for a “intelligent” bunch of Swedes.
In 1960 there were 5,000 polar bears. Today there are over 25,000.
Terrorist Yassar Arafat had one, worse than worthless slug Jimmy Carter got one, yep, Gore is in good company.
But I'm sure she really meant it. I mean yeah, it was fake -- but I'm sure it was really an accurate portrayal of how it might have happened.
And yes, I had concluded that the Nobel Prize is now a joke. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it is, as this author contends, worse than a joke.
It’s now the “Liberal of the Year” award.
Norway, not Sweden.
In fairness, the Nobels in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine have not been degraded. (First person to notice what those awards have that the Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t wins a kewpie doll.)
He is a fraud who is making untold amounts of money off people.
A substantial amount of prize money.
Nope. IIRC, the rewards for the other Nobels are less than that for the NPP.
The technical Nobel prizes are probably awarded by juries of experts in the field in which those prizes are given. Logic would suggest only experts would understand the superlative scientific contributions of other experts.
Oops, we must be fair to the Gore.
He certainly has a vision of carbon offsets by which more productive nations (read United States) transfer a portion of their wealth to less productive nations.
How about a Central Carbon Commissariat (headed by the Gore, of course) which doles out carboniferous fuel allocations to the several nations, thereby making all equal. From each according to its ability, to each according to its needs.
In addition, how about a "Carbon Tax" (alternatively, "BTU Tax") whereby it will cost so much to use petroleum, natural gas or coal as a fuel that we will all be reduced to riding bicycles.
OK, come to think of it, all these things are likely to put a major strain on relations between nations.
So, Nobel Peace Prize? It is to laugh.
BTTT
Second, you have to show that recent changes (as opposed to all the changes of the past) are due to burning of fossil fuels; not the hundred or so other factors that are simultaneously taking place.
Third, you have to prove that the man made changes will be harmful. Then, and only then can you come to the point:
MAY induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth's resources," and "there may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars.
Why not give the prize to my third grader. He MAY grow up and be the bringer of Whirled Peas.
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