Congrats Gore

In an honour for Indian environmentalist R K Pachauri, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by him was on Friday awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.

Former US Vice-President Al Gore also won the award, announced in Oslo by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, jointly with the IPCC.

The IPCC, a UN body comprised of about 3,000 atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ice specialists, economists and other experts, is the world's top scientific authority on global warming and its impact.

The panel has been given the award for its 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, the Nobel committee said.

The 67-year-old Director General of the environmental organisation Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) reacted by saying that with the award, the issue of climate change will come to the fore.

"I was not expecting any awards for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore. I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organisation which has been awarded," Pachauri told PTI.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/000200710121521.htm

Former vice president Al Gore and a United National panel that monitors climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to control it.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as "the single individual who has done most" to convince world governments and leaders that climate change is real, is caused by human activity, and poses a grave threat.
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Now there is not a chance in hell he can win the presidency.

Joe(Bush: 'How come I didn't win a Noble?')Nation

I can't believe he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

News headlines have been absolutely rediculous lately, but this one takes the cake!

Adolf Hitler was nominated for it in 1939...if he'd only reduced CO2's...or bought carbon offsets he might have won it.

The Bay Area has been the staging area for an online movement to draft the former vice president to mount another campaign for the White House. A San Francisco-based Web site, www.Draftgore.com, claims more than 165,000 signatures and comments on an online petition, including several placed early this morning congratulating Mr. Gore on his win. The same group also placed a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, pleading with Mr. Gore to rectify his bitter defeat in 2000, when he won the national popular vote but lost the electoral college after the Supreme Court ruled against a recount in Florida.

"I'll actually vote for you this time," wrote one signee, Joshua Kadel of Virginia, on the Web site this morning. "Sorry about 2000!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/13nobel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

If Gore can keep Hillary out of the White House.... Hell, I'll vote for him! It's getting pretty bad when elections drop from "the lesser of two evils" to "the least of many evils".

Halfback

White House praises winners

The White House praised Mr Gore and the IPCC for their work to raise awareness of the threat of global warming.

"Of course we're happy for vice-president Gore and the IPCC for receiving this recognition," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

Mr Gore has been a vocal critic of the environmental policies of President George Bush, who beat him narrowly in a disputed presidential election result in 2000.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/al-gore-joint-winner-of-nobel-peace-prize/2007/10/12/1191696167302.html

What a stark contrast. Bushie's war crimes. Gore's Nobel Peace Prize.

This year, climate change has been at the top of the world agenda. The UN climate panel has been releasing its reports, talks on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate are set to resume, and on Europe's northern fringe, where the awards committee works, concern about the melting Arctic has been underscored by this being the International Polar Year.

In recent years, the Norwegian committee has broadened its interpretation of peacemaking and disarmament efforts outlined by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in creating the prize with his 1895 will. The prize now often also recognizes human rights, democracy, elimination of poverty, sharing resources and the environment.

Two of the past three prizes have been untraditional, with the 2004 award to Kenya environmentalist Wangari Maathai and last year's award to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank.
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Gore, who was in San Francisco as Friday dawned, issued a statement through his office that said, in part:

"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. ... We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

"My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100% of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis."

The last American to win the prize, or share it, was former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who won it 2002.
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I wonder how many carbon offset credits he will have to buy from himself in order to go pick up the award?

well we all know the nobel peace committee is made of terrorist sympathizing tree hugging liberal pussies who are merely a tool of the left wing agenda to overthrow America so I wouldn't put much stock in it.

after all they're not known to be a very bright group. Probably couldn't even spell ridiculous. :wink:

Gore was one of the few politicians of national stature who vocally opposed a preemptive war against Iraq amid the war fever of the time. In a speech in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2002, he described the dangers of the Bush Doctrine's muscular unilateralism and the harm that could result from charging into Iraq.

Bashing Gore

Gore was excoriated by the Inside-the-Beltway pundit class for his deviant behavior in questioning President Bush's wisdom.

"Gore's speech was one no decent politician could have delivered," wrote Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly. "It was dishonest, cheap, low. It was hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts -- bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible."

"A pudding with no theme but much poison," declared another Post columnist, Charles Krauthammer. "It was a disgrace -- a series of cheap shots strung together without logic or coherence."

While some pundits depicted Gore's motivation as "opportunism," columnist William Bennett mocked Gore for banishing himself "from the mainstream of public opinion." In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, entitled "Al Gore's Political Suicide," Bennett said Gore had engaged in "an act of self-immolation" by daring to criticize Bush's policy.

"Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be," Bennett wrote.
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Truer words were never spoken.

You Haters are funny.

Cycloptichorn

"Like all Americans I have been wrestling with the question of what our country needs to do to defend itself from the kind of intense, focused and enabled hatred that brought about September 11th, and which at this moment must be presumed to be gathering force for yet another attack. I'm speaking today in an effort to recommend a specific course of action for our country which I believe would be preferable to the course recommended by President Bush. Specifically, I am deeply concerned that the policy we are presently following with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.

To begin with, I believe we should focus our efforts first and foremost against those who attacked us on September 11th and have thus far gotten away with it. The vast majority of those who sponsored, planned and implemented the cold blooded murder of more than 3,000 Americans are still at large, still neither located nor apprehended, much less punished and neutralized. I do not believe that we should allow ourselves to be distracted from this urgent task simply because it is proving to be more difficult and lengthy than predicted. Great nations persevere and then prevail. They do not jump from one unfinished task to another"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-09-23-gore-text_x.htm