Al Gore Accepts Nobel Peace Prize

by Rob Walker | December 10, 2007 at 07:13 am
621 views | 0 Recommendations | 5 comments

Photos

Al Gore in Turks

Al Gore in Turks

see larger image

uploaded by ldpfordean

Videos

Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Press Conference

see larger video

sourced by Rob Walker

Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize Press Conference

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.

recommend This comment thread is now closed
0
ldpfordean

Congratulations and a big THANK YOU for your lifes work.

0
suekuehnel

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 :)

0
atomcat

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?

  • The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
  • The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The
    Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in
    CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
  • The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
  • The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
  • The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.
    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
    .
  • The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
  • The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
  • The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
  • The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
  • The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In
    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
    .
  • The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

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.

 

0
Rob Walker

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.

0
atomcat

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 

 

This story was created over 3 months ago, the comment thread is now closed.

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from