Gore, U.N. body win Nobel Peace Prize

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OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Gore won an Academy Award this year for his film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming, and had been widely expected to win the prize.

"His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change," the citation said. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."

It cited Gore's awareness at an early stage "of the climatic challenges the world is facing.

The committee cited the Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_.../nobel_peace_13

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I guess that the Nobel Committee is full of incongruent Commies now... ha ha ha!!

Aaaanyway,

Good for him. Maybe this will continue the spread of a greater good towards helping saving us from ourselves.

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True that.

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Considering some of the "real winners" in the Nobel Peace Prize's past, I wouldn't be so honored to receive it. But that's just me...

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Or real winners of the US Presidency for that matter [?]

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Maybe this will continue the spread of a greater good towards helping saving us from ourselves.

one can only hope...

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Good for him!

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Just shows that any idiot with a power point presentation full of lies can win.

Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth

This article was first produced following an interim judgement of the High Court, since which time the full judgement has been given. In his full judgement the Judge listed nine inaccuracies rather than the 11 from the interim judgement - two appear to have been grouped together and another omitted. In the interests of clarity we have accordingly revised the details below.

The decision by the government to distribute Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth has been the subject of a legal action by New Party member Stewart Dimmock. The Court found that the film was misleading in nine respects and that the Guidance Notes drafted by the Education Secretary’s advisors served only to exacerbate the political propaganda in the film.

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.) Nine inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.

The inaccuracies are:

* 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 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.

http://newparty.co.uk/articles/inaccuracies-gore.html

Edited October 12, 2007 by GaryC

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A few inconvenient facts, lolz.

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I love how the naysayers are about, even against such an honor. Grasping at straws much? I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee has done their research before awarding their prize....

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I'm sure he'll celebrate by buying himself a new SUV and Private jet.

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I love how the naysayers are about, even against such an honor. Grasping at straws much? I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee has done their research before awarding their prize....

Yeah,take Jimmy Carter for example.

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I love how the naysayers are about, even against such an honor. Grasping at straws much? I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee has done their research before awarding their prize....

i don't think so. mother theresa not only talked the talk, she walked the walk. can't say that for al gore and his favorite topic

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I love how the naysayers are about, even against such an honor. Grasping at straws much? I'm pretty sure the Nobel Committee has done their research before awarding their prize....

i don't think so. mother theresa not only talked the talk, she walked the walk. can't say that for al gore and his favorite topic

Oh PLEASE.

He is a former VP of the US who also won 2 Oscars, an Emmy & a Nobel Peace Prize. And created an agency for Climate Protection. Pretty freaking amazing.

"He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said Ole Danbolt Mjos, chairman of the Nobel committee.

Edited October 12, 2007 by devilette