AL GORE WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE !

Caution Police wrote:

He'll also win the Nobel Prize for Inciting Panic with his psuedo bullsh*t science endorsements.

Global Warming is a fact and part of a natural cycle. Less than 3% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be attributed to human causes - pollution, deforestation, etc.

Global Warming as caused by humans is bullsh*t and this moron is using it for political gain.

He's Chicken Little and anyone who believes him is a sucker.

Gore should run for president with fat ass Michael Moore as his side kick - they deserve each other.

Astute and well-reasoned argument. Congratulations! Kicked your dog yet today?

Congratulations to AG. Call him a zealot but he has champoined a worthy cause.

Gore for president.

Dem wrote:

Caution Police wrote:

He'll also win the Nobel Prize for Inciting Panic with his psuedo bullsh*t science endorsements.

Global Warming is a fact and part of a natural cycle. Less than 3% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be attributed to human causes - pollution, deforestation, etc.

Global Warming as caused by humans is bullsh*t and this moron is using it for political gain.

He's Chicken Little and anyone who believes him is a sucker.

Gore should run for president with fat ass Michael Moore as his side kick - they deserve each other.

Astute and well-reasoned argument. Congratulations! Kicked your dog yet today?

Congratulations to AG. Call him a zealot but he has champoined a worthy cause.

Yeah, good for him. Too bad he doesn't truly believe in the cause that he champions.

I see a new episode of South Park coming soon.

dopes wrote:

This award along with many other national and international awards are run by commitees with a left wing agenda. It should really come as no suprise. The whole thing is just another group of elites patting each other on the back.

But it's making all the right wing nut bags so apoplectic they're choking to death on their own spittle. That in itself promotes world peace, so the committee succeeds in their mission. Good work all around.

Caution Police wrote:

Global Warming is a fact and part of a natural cycle. Less than 3% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be attributed to human causes - pollution, deforestation, etc.

I remember the good old days when right wing whackos claimed there was no such thing as global warming.

Now they claim, sure, it's warming up, but only 3% of CO2 molecules are from human causes.

Please....post a link to some scientific study that has found a way to poll CO2 molecules to find out from whence they came.

I could link you to the studies that show atmospheric CO2 increasing steadily throughout the 20th century, but I am sure you would blame that on a volcano (already disproved), or possibly hot air from conservative pundits (more likely).

Albus Dumblegore deserves that Nobel Prize. After all, he invented global warming didn't he!

If only Al Gore backed up all his talk. He is a hypocrite! How dare you (Al Gore) tell us to conserve the environment then go back to your power plant in Tennessee and suck up more power in one week than i use in my house in one year!! He is a hypocrite, thats why i didn't vote for him and thats why i didn't vote for Kerry. I don't understand why people support someone who does a lot of talkin but not a lot of walkin.

LOL... conservatives have their own reality. facts are their enemy. the world is still flat, the earth only 6,000 years old, anyone not white and wealthy deserves scorn, no republican has ever done anything wrong, 12 year old kids can be stalked and threatened but thats OK. They are the most frightened bunch of pantywaists I can imagine, can you for a minute just try to think of the horror our founding fathers would shriek if they could see these idiots? Give me liberty or give me death..yeah right, not with these cowards.

Sure, buddy.. wrote:

I remember the good old days when right wing whackos claimed there was no such thing as global warming.

Now they claim, sure, it's warming up, but only 3% of CO2 molecules are from human causes.

Please....post a link to some scientific study that has found a way to poll CO2 molecules to find out from whence they came.

I could link you to the studies that show atmospheric CO2 increasing steadily throughout the 20th century, but I am sure you would blame that on a volcano (already disproved), or possibly hot air from conservative pundits (more likely).

James Inhofe and Miles O'Brien.....

INHOFE: And I wonder also, Miles, it wasn't long ago -- you've got to keep everyone hysterical all the time. You were the one that said another ice age is coming just 12 years ago.

O'BRIEN: I said that? I didn't say that.

INHOFE: You didn't say that. Let me quote you...

O'BRIEN: No, no, no. I'd be willing to tell you there are stories like that. But there's not...

(CROSSTALK)

INHOFE ... quote you so I'll be accurate. I don't want to be inaccurate.

O'BRIEN: All right, go ahead.

INHOFE: You said, in talking about a shift that was coming -- you said, "If the Gulf Stream were to shift again, the British Isles could be engulfed in polar ice and Europe's climate could become frigid." That's another scary story.

O'BRIEN: But that also is a potential outgrowth of global warming when you talk about the ocean currents being arrested. This is "The Day After Tomorrow" scenario that we're talking about.

oftenrunning52 wrote:

What "peace" has Gore championed? Global warming is not a peace issue.

I haven't read what the Nobel committee has said about Gore's work. Without that info, it may not be obvious but if you put a little thought into it, you should be able to figure out that global warming is a serious peace issue.

Haha, Gore couldn't even win his "home state" in the election. Do we really want someone like that?

its ok, he won the Nobel Prize in the category of "Extreme Douchery." It was between him and Michael Moore. Tough call, I know.

Bullhorn wrote:

If only Al Gore backed up all his talk. He is a hypocrite! How dare you (Al Gore) tell us to conserve the environment then go back to your power plant in Tennessee and suck up more power in one week than i use in my house in one year!! He is a hypocrite, thats why i didn't vote for him and thats why i didn't vote for Kerry. I don't understand why people support someone who does a lot of talkin but not a lot of walkin.

We support someone who's a hypocrite because there are so few leaders who practice what they preach in truly important matters. If Al Gore can get a million people to be environmentally conscious, that's more important than his wastefulness in his personal life. He's more influential for the environment as a hypocrite than John Smith, who sits in his basement with the lights off, never drives anywhere, and recycles everything, but reaches zero other people with his message.

It would be better if Gore weren't a hypocrite of course, but good luck finding someone who is able to be a position of that much influence who isn't one.

With that said, I do not think that Gore presents the environmental problem in a very constructive way.

Gambatte! wrote:

oftenrunning52 wrote:

What "peace" has Gore championed? Global warming is not a peace issue.

I haven't read what the Nobel committee has said about Gore's work. Without that info, it may not be obvious but if you put a little thought into it, you should be able to figure out that global warming is a serious peace issue.

It's clear why it's a peace issue. The US military has been studying this for some time. Climate change could cause mass relocations due to flooding or impacts to agriculture. Relocation means instability, instability means war.

Really guys, it's not just the right-wingers here. Climatological studies don't support global-warming nearly as much as the left-wing. Sure we are polluting the environment and contributing to greenhouse gasses, but there isn't unanimous consent in the scientific community that this will cause out-of-control global warming. Looking at climate records for hundreds of thousands of years (through gases trapped in ice cores, lake sediment, tree rings, etc) we can clearly see that the earth has undergone huge climate fluctuations before humans could have had an impact. It is by no means certain that we are causing this rising temperature trend, it could feasibly just be a natural fluctuation.

Skuja wrote:

Well deserved. Congratulations to AG!

What did Bush get?

Ft. Worth wrote:

president

Good use of the lower case "p" there! Your point is well taken.

In fact the "Medieval Warm Period" that preceded the "Little Ice Age" is comparable to our current warming trend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png

I predict a major shift toward colder weather in the next 100 years...of course we'll all be dead by then...but Letsrun will live on!!!

Alan

abacus wrote:

Really guys, it's not just the right-wingers here. Climatological studies don't support global-warming nearly as much as the left-wing. Sure we are polluting the environment and contributing to greenhouse gasses, but there isn't unanimous consent in the scientific community that this will cause out-of-control global warming. Looking at climate records for hundreds of thousands of years (through gases trapped in ice cores, lake sediment, tree rings, etc) we can clearly see that the earth has undergone huge climate fluctuations before humans could have had an impact. It is by no means certain that we are causing this rising temperature trend, it could feasibly just be a natural fluctuation.

This kind of crap reminds me of the arguments I used to hear from many of the same people about smoking and cancer: "Many scientists (for example those at the marlboro institute for the advancement of smoking knowledge...) dispute the findings of the scientific 'establishment'(a word always said with scorn). Remember, correlation does not equal causation blah blah blah..."

Nobel prize for anything outside of the sciences (e.g., peace, lit, etc.) are just to appease the liberal non-producers in society (IMO of course).