Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize???
He would be an awful pick....but not surprising given the increasingly political nature of the award...
In fact, it would be hard to find a less deserving recipient than Gore, a man who has:
• Lied repeatedly about the existence of a scientific consensus that man's emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the Earth. Skeptics are easy to find, as only a few minutes of riding the Information Superhighway that Gore thinks he built will show .
• Made a propaganda film about climate change that a British court has deemed to be so biased that teachers there who show it must warn students about its subjectivity.
• Possibly been driven to his climate alarmism because of something called Narcissistic Personality Disorder. In a piece for IBD last year, Dr. Henry I. Miller, a physician and fellow at the Hoover Institution who worked at both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, laid out a good case that the former vice president "is disturbed."
Well, maybe he is, maybe he isn't. We're not experts. But the guy has already won an Oscar; does the Nobel committee really need to stoke the fires of his vanity even more?
• Continued to duck invitations to debate his theory. "We have tried, repeatedly, to contact Gore directly, with registered letters and calls to his office, and have never received a reply," Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute in Chicago, told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Steve Huntley.
Huntley notes that earlier this year Gore "canceled an interview with Denmark's largest newspaper when he learned it would include questions from Bjorn Lomborg, respected author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist.' "
Does Gore know what so many have missed in their environmental zealotry — that his theory's many flaws cannot be defended? Is he aware that the errors of his global warming ideas would be quite easily exposed by a knowledgeable skeptic?
Just what the Nobel committee really needs — another fraud in its pantheon of laureates. If Gore wins the prize as expected, it will mark another step in the long, politicized decline of a once highly regarded international award. How sad.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:41 AM
3 Comments:
Oh my goodness. Talk about lying. Something the Reich, oh, I mean the "Right" always do.
I would spend far too much time here posting the corrections of all your lies, but lets just say, your post is fill with nothing but lies.
A movie, documentary, based on the facts provided from Scientists is hardly "propaganda", but thank you for showing how low you stoop.
And being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of work also shows your lies.
This appears to be the Reichs fear of Al Gore showing through.
Long live the powerful PEOPLE, not the elites, religious extremists or Corporations!
Time for a COOL change,
Gore
2008
Fred - You'll notice, though, that Gore is not being considered for any of the science awards. There are many reasons, obviously, but I think chief among them is there the amount of true science in Gore's pronouncements you could place in the eye of a needle without making it much more difficult to thread the needle.
Linda,
While you may be right about our host laying it on a bit thick, he is certainly right in that that movie can hardly be called a documentary based on solid science. Please consider the following:
"British court has determined that Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” contains at least eleven material falsehoods:
• 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."
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