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Al Gore Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
Well, I suppose working this hard to inform people about global warming would lead to some recognition, but a nobel peace prize? Maybe I'm just jealous.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Monday that the United States and China will "stand accountable before history" if they fail to take the lead against global warming — a daunting threat that would require wartime resolve.In accepting the prize he shared with the U.N. climate panel, the former U.S. vice president said humanity must make peace with the earth or slide down a path of "mutually assured destruction."
"We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here," Gore said at the Nobel ceremony in Oslo's City Hall.
Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, represented by its chairman Rajendra Pachauri, shared the coveted award for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.










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at 08:18 on December 10th, 2007
Congratulations and a big THANK YOU for your lifes work.
at 08:44 on December 10th, 2007
My grade 10 geography teacher told me the same stuff about global warming in '79 - well actually, it was more accurate but I'm being picky....uh..same teacher also told us the biggest threat in future would be the Middle East. He never even got a teacher recognition award :)
at 20:16 on December 10th, 2007
Gore is sooooooooooooooooo fuill of crap it's pathetic
people get dumber everyday!
GORELERO - by Hugh Hewitt
It began when Al Gore was a young man…
In the fall of 1968 Al Gore claimed that
he’d influenced the nomination acceptance speech of Hubert Humphrey
through conversations with a Chicago Sun columnist. Al Gore asserted he
was Humphrey’s ghost writer, but the columnist said that he had nothing
to do with that speech. Al Gore’s claim wasn’t true.
In 1987 Al Gore told the DesMoines
Register as he began his Presidential campaign that his youthful
reporting had led to the indictment and imprisonment of several people,
but that wasn’t true.
In August 1987 the Los Angeles Times
reported that Gore had bragged that half of his Presidential Campaign
staff were women, but it wasn’t true.
In February of 1988 the Washington Post
quoted Al Gore that he been shot at in Vietnam. It wasn’t true. That
claim was shot down by Newsweek in December of 1999.
In April 1988 Al Gore told a League of
Women Voters gathering that he had written the law of Superfund.
Recently he changed his story because the real author of the Superfund
law was James Florio. more lies at
al-gore-a-chronic-liar-you-be-the-judge
In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The
Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument.
2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be
in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of
political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be
specifically drawn to the attention of school children.
How marvelous. And what are those inaccuracies?
Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in
CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar
bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm
over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive
migration.
In the end, a climate change skeptic in the States must hope that an
American truck driver files such a lawsuit here so that a U.S. judge
can make similar determinations.
Of course, even if one could find such an impartial jurist, our media wouldn’t find it newsworthy, would they?
—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
at 05:21 on December 11th, 2007
Not to get into a debate, but simply saying 'that isn't true' or 'this
was disproved' without citing any sources or studies, or really any
factual information at all, is no better than what you're implying Gore
has done.
at 07:23 on December 11th, 2007
Rob
Follow the links, do some research. You live in a pop culture world. Gore is Mr. pop culture for today and he is taking full advantage. $6000.00 a minute, nice coin. Finding the truth is the job of a journalist. This is my last comment on the subject here, I leave the rest to you. Give your readers something more that news wire spin.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
http://www.afn.org/~govern/strong.html
http://www.globalpolicy.org/finance/docs/machan.htm
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663
or google Al Gore Maurice Strong
It's all about the money
Real news take time and research, it's not just about commenting on the spin that comes off the news wires. The real news will always be found behind the headlines not in them.
Ron