Al Gore named co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize.
Early this morning, former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were named co-winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” Read the press release from the Nobel Foundation here. Al Gore issued this statement shortly after being named the winner:
I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
UPDATE: The IPCC is led by its chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri. “I was not expecting any awards for my efforts. I feel privileged to share it with Al Gore,” Pachauri said. “I am only a symbolic recipient but it is the organization which has been awarded.” Earlier this summer, ThinkProgress conducted an interview with Dr. Pachauri. Read and listen to it here.
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Congratulations, Mr. Vice President! Now ride the crest of your many successes into the White House in 2008, and return this nation to a place of respect and an agent of peace and decency in the world. A tired people calls out to you…
October 12th, 2007 at 7:44 amThis is the cue for wingnuts to start smearing the Nobel Prize.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:45 amGod I wish he’d run. He’d win for sure if he did. We could hopefully mend some fences and desparately try to pretend the last 8 years was just a nightmare..
October 12th, 2007 at 7:46 amCongratulations, Mr. President!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:48 amJust imagine…one universe over in non-Bizzarro World, this guy is the President of the United States.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:48 amGod I wish he’d run. He’d win for sure if he did.
Comment by Chocolate Jesus — October 12, 2007 @ 7:46 am
He won for sure in 2000, too.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:48 amAl Gore, a Prince among men and a contemporary prophet. Just imagine where this country would be right now if the election of 2000 had NOT been stolen. Certainly in better shape than we are, thanks to GWB!
If Al Gore were to run, he’s win by an avalanche this time. Everyone realizes how much better off we’d be with this honest man at the helm of our country. This man is a genius & a humanitarian.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:50 amIf Gore were to run, no amount of election fraud could cheat him (and us) of the Presidency this time. He would, unfortunately, most probably wind up dead under suspicious circumstances.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:52 amWell, there you go. We could have been led by a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, instead we get a sociopathic chimp and his crew.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:52 amMr. Gore,
Please run, we need you.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:55 amIf Al Gore were to run, he’s win by an avalanche this time. Everyone realizes how much better off we’d be with this honest man at the helm of our country. This man is a genius & a humanitarian.
Comment by Veritas — October 12, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Though I do agree he’d be a good president, I don’t think he should run. I think he can do much more good for the country and the world as a respected statesman bringing issues into the public eye than he could as a runner in the campaign rat race.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:57 amWhat do you think the chances are of his running? 40% Yes / 60% No?
October 12th, 2007 at 7:57 amIm not totally in agreement with this.
I dont have anything personal against Gore. I think he has been enthusiastically active in teaching Climate Change to the lobbyist ruling mind of the US general population.
However, this is a political prize. I mean, Kissinger is a Nobal Laureate, just like Arafat and other “peaceful” people. Gore was Vicepresident in the Clinton years, and just like Albright who said that the deaths of thousands of Iraqi children were worth it, Gore is responsible of those actions to.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:59 amWhen you realistically and spiritually view the lives of these two men: Bush and Gore, you can see that Thomas Hobbes statement rings true: “Where men build on false grounds, the more they build the greater is the ruin”.
GWB built his empire on false grounds: stolen elections to steal the presidency and then began to systematically rearrange all of the laws of this democracy, effectively attempting to convert it into fascism - disregarding the people whom he serves completely.
Al Gore, on the other hand, probably knew that he’d been robbed of the presidency and, instead, converted his anger and disgust into wholesome, humanitarian ends and the Nobel Peace prize.
One man chose the path of darkness and evil and finds himself reviled by all humans across the planet; the other man chose the path of light, humanity, and concern for the people and his reputation has escalated exponentially and he is reverred worldwide.
This amazing contrast in two human beings - both vying for the same position - and making choices at the same time is illustrative of just how “building on false grounds” can destroy one human being and an entire country as well.
One could argue that it was “divine design” that Bush and his cohorts stole the election of 2000 and a lesson for this country to learn. That may be so…..but did we learn it in 2004 when we permitted Bush to steal yet another election? Absolutely not!
Now, as we approach the election of 2008, which will be some eight years of protracted corruption by this same group of thugs who have attempted to rebuild this nation, this time on”false grounds”, have we learned this lesson yet??
Our continued apathy would lead one to believe that we have not.
We all know how it goes with the significant lessons in life; if we don’t get it the first time, it will recur - getting more difficult each time we refuse to learn that which it is teaching us. We’ve had two lessons with GWB now - are we destined to have this nasty lesson repeated again and again before we wake up from the propagandist sleep which we’ve permitted to be cast over us?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:00 amLet’s all anticipate what the fictional trolls will say! How about:
October 12th, 2007 at 8:02 am“I hear he’s claiming he INVENTED the Nobel prize now!”
“It’s not like he WON the prize, he’s only SHARING it.”
“Look at Al Gore - taking credit for all that UN group’s hard work.”
“Well, Patraeus WOULD HAVE WON it, if it were not for the FRENCH.”
“I’m sure Osama is happy about it.”
“Think he’ll fly commercial to the awards ceremony??? I bet he charters a whole fleet of jets - the hypocrite!”
mocha
Unfortunately, none. Gore doesn’t seem interested in 2008, in part because it would be used by the right to try and discredit global warming.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:03 amtoasterhead: For Al Gore to run again would be to exponentially lower his spiritual advancement at this point. It would also probably ruin his international reputation. Besides, this country had an opportunity to have him lead us in 2000 but we allowed the frauds to steal this office from him.
Frankly, Al Gore’s too good an individual (spiritually and intellectually) to even attempt to clean up this horrendous mess created by GWB. To do so, would be to denegrade himself when it’s obvious that the level of respect for him both nationally and internationally has reached such heights.
Can you imagine a man like Al Gore degrading himself in order to deal with Congress?? That visual is laughable - it’s like Jesus with the Pharisees - give me a break.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:05 am>If Gore were to run, no amount of
>election fraud could cheat him (and us)
> of the Presidency this time.
Amen.. I did a 20 page term paper on electronic electoral fraud a few years ago. Cheating isn’t an exact science, and it can only be used to throw off the polls a few points. Any more and it would be glaringly obvious and thier trick would exposed and thus forever useless. So at most, they can only use to slightly tip the scales in close elections.
> He would, unfortunately, most probably
>wind up dead under suspicious circumstances.
You know, honestly, I was thinking that Gore, being white AND male, (and not a clinton), would actually be alot less likely to inspire homocidal rage in the flaghumpers than either Obama or Clinton. Either one would, in my opinon, be acceptable, but I worry that a minority or a woman (whose also a Clinton) would probably drive some unstable rightnutballs into a murderous rage.
Gore/Clark 08 would annihilate Rudy the Babykilling Triple Divorcee Transvestite and whatever hooker he nominated to be his VD…uhm I mean VP..oh I forgot, he’s going to nominate 9-11 to be his VP..
October 12th, 2007 at 8:06 amAl Gore has eclipsed this nation totally. In order for him to lower himself to take on Bush’s mess, he’d have to regress a decade’s worth of personal growth for starters. He’d have to kiss his international reputation and the friends he’s made all over the planet good bye.
Al Gore’s an extremely intelligent man. There is NO WAY he’d intentionally degrade himself and run for any office in this joke we call government.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:08 amChocolate Jesus: We had our chance to have Al Gore save this country from self-destruction. We blew it. He’s moved on to much bigger, more altruistic projects while we all get taken down the toilet into the darkness by the Dictator Chimp. We don’t get a second chance to do things right the first time. Life doesn’t work that way.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:09 amPOTUS is now a Booby Prize, thanks to Rove/Bush/Cheney.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:11 amI find it fascinating how just about everything in Al Gore’s “campaign platform” has or is rearing it’s ugly head as a serious problem in this country from campaign finance reform to term limits, to global warming and everything in-between.
This is why he’s being called the ‘Contemporary Prophet’. It’s like some karmic, sick joke on all of us. Here we had someone who prophesied and highlighted the problems in this country for us; we permitted him to be robbed of the presidency; and now each of those items he highlighted have grown into virtual nightmares and are the very things which are tanking this democracy right before our very eyes. Amazing foresight this man has! Amazing!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:12 amLefty: When you talk about this government of total corruption, there isn’t a prize disgusting enough to describe what they deserve. Booby Prize sounds too good for them but it’s a start.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:13 amCheers Al!
One man on a mission to save the world.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:14 am>Life doesn’t work that way.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt. Although in this case you’re probably right. I dont think this is one of those times. Believe in quantum theory/string theory/alternate universes much? I do. Maybe we can at least be a warning to some other world…
October 12th, 2007 at 8:15 amHi TripMaster! Yes, imagine where this country would be right now if Al Gore were president? Wow! It makes me teary-eyed just to think about it. I don’t think we’d be in Iraq for no reason, that’s for sure.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:15 amand then all the trolls heads asploded
October 12th, 2007 at 8:19 amChoc: There is no doubt that the work of Al Gore will be in history books; while the legacy of this botched president will also be there but for opposing reasons.
For a long time, I held onto the dream that Al Gore would swoop in, like a knight in shining armor, and the eleventh hour and run for president again. I think he’s made it clear that he has no intention of doing this. And personally, as much as I’d love for this to have a “fairy tale ending”, I can see the asynchronicity of it all. You just can’t take a spiritual master or guru and expect him to lower his spiritual calibration to that of a snake. It’s that asynchronous.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:19 amI’m just very proud of Al Gore and what he’s done for humanity. And, although I can get my panties in a wad about how the election was stolen from him, etc. etc., it’s certain that his “mission” was much greater than that of playing politics with a bunch of crybabies, liars, and frauds. His mission was international in scope. Al Gore HAS the ability to view the “big picture” and to dialogue with foreign diplomats & heads of state. This clown that we have had in his place can’t even complete a simple sentence. That’s how disparate the qualities of these two men differ.
Al Gore’s star has risen and this country has gotten the shaft.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:23 amWelcome Big Al to a great cast of characters winning this coveted prize!!! You fit right in Big Daddy!!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:25 amTo have a politician in high regard is the wrong way to go, IMHO.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:29 amThe right-wing rant-jockeys will be all abuzz today.
Limpballs: “I was robbed. The prize was mine!”
Insanity: “Global warming is a myth perpetrated by liberals to control us.”
The cry-babies will be in rare form, indeed.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:33 amI think that the Norwegian Nobel Commitee´s intentions were to shake the US thinking about Climate Change giving Gore the award.
Gore has been a very active promoter and informer of IPCC activities, much of which would never reach the common American, otherwise.
Now, IPCC deserve this award like no one else.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:33 amSuch great news to wake up to in the morning.
Congratulations to Al Gore and to the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC).
October 12th, 2007 at 8:42 amNow, the trolls are going to have such a soared ass…
Hehehehe.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:44 amI agree that Gore’s mission is well beyond cleaning up the unbelievable train wreck of the Bush / Cheney Empire. But,who would be better to lead the US and the world as we face our most awesome challenge? I hope he says YES.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:47 am@14
veritas - a very insightful comment.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:49 amI have already today heard someone complain that Gore won because the award committee improperly stretched the definition of peace to include environmentalism.
I explained this simple connection to him but I doubt that he was smart enough to comprehend it. Peace is enabled by the reduction of competition for resources. Environmentalism enables the optimization of resources. Therefore, environmentalism increases the potential for peace.
This is in contrast to GDumbya, Darth Cheney and the Keystone Kops who started a war for oil in Iraq and put our collective tit in the wringer. I’ll take Gore’s answer over GDumbya’s.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:53 amBut,who would be better to lead the US and the world as we face our most awesome challenge? I hope he says YES.
Comment by Ditch Mitch KY
Errr… the world? American-centrism is one of the thing NOT-AMERICAN people particularly dislike about Americans. Dont worry about the world. It would be fine without military superpowers.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:53 amI am SO super serial!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:55 amThis is a sad day for all previous Nobel Peace Prize winners, whose hard works have been diminished by this obviously politically proferred award.
Libs couldn’t stand that awards intended to bolster their own credentials, in lieu of military valor, were starting to lean towards conservatives, so they had to throw the awards Mohamed ElBaradei, instead of John Bolton, and to Al Gore, instead of Rush Limbaugh.
I suspect recent controversies surround Rush Limbaugh were actually intended to swing votes Al Gore’s way.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:04 amI don’t think he needs so much money to run, he is well known,he can debate all candidates on the list from both parties.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:06 amDemocrats are looking for someone with solid record and knows the job of presidency very well.
I think right now, he is the most qualified ,looking at the names on the Democrats candidates’ list and Republicans.
There is still time to do it.
Kerry in 2004 elections was in fifth place before Iowa surprise. There is plenty of time.
It is up to him…he came very close in 2000, he even won the popular vote by over 1/2 million over G. Bush in that year.
If Al Gore were to run, he’s win by an avalanche this time. Everyone realizes how much better off we’d be with this honest man at the helm of our country. This man is a genius & a humanitarian.
Comment by Veritas
I so agree with you. I think the day he announced he was running he would be beating Hillary. I was watching Countdown last night and Keith was discussing this with one of his pundits who said they doubted Gore would run since he is only polling in the teens. I screamed at the TV “Of course he’s polling in the teens you doofus, he isn’t even running!”
Gore/Kucinich 2008!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:16 am>because the award committee improperly stretched the definition of >peace to include environmentalism.
they are related. even the pentagon has said that global warming is a bigger threat to world stability than terrorism
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/ international/ story/ 0,6903,1153513,00.html
October 12th, 2007 at 9:18 amMission Well on the Way to being Accomplished.
Now throw that hat in the ring and reverse the travesty that occurred eight years ago.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:23 amAl Gore has eclipsed this nation totally. In order for him to lower himself to take on Bush’s mess, he’d have to regress a decade’s worth of personal growth for starters. He’d have to kiss his international reputation and the friends he’s made all over the planet good bye. Comment by Veritas
On this one I disagree with you Veritas. I don’t think that Al Gore would have to kiss his international reputation and friends goodby. I believe that he would bring the good will he has around the world to the Whitehouse, and it certainly needs good will at this point.
If Al Gore were to agree to run for President, it will be a completely selfless thing to do. There isn’t a lot in it for him. He would be inheriting a terrible mess that is going to take a long time to clean up. But, I would give just about anything to have Al Gore cleaning up the mess over Hillary. I’ll vote for her if I have to, but I will be holding my nose when I do it. I would vote for Al Gore with joy in my heart the way I did in 2000.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:25 amHi Bilbo: Wouldn’t it be like awakening from a wonderful “dream” to find that Al Gore has reconsidered a bid for the presidency?? With so little “hope” for this country on the horizon now that the thugs have all but destroyed it, it would be such a cataclysmic moment for this country - one of incredible unification - were Al Gore to announce that he will run.
If I’m to empathize and even suggest walking in his shoes, however, I can see how implausible a “dream” this would be. You see the dream part of it only applies to us - a country rapidly descending down into the abyss of darkness. Al Gore’s “world” is so much more expansive and bright than ours. He’s become an international celebrity and has the respect of all foreign leaders right now - bar none. Quite the opposite picture from Dictator George!
For those narrow-minded, myopic spinmeisters already out there attempting to trivialize Gore’s worldwide work by saying that the Nobel “Peace” prize should be about obvious “peace work”, I challenge each and every one of them to try to spin how Gore’s work DOES NOT PROMOTE AN AGENDA OF PEACE & UNITY. He’s so far evolved as a spiritual being that to him, the unification of all mankind in this one effort, would bring world peace to the planet by default.
Of course, you cannot expect a myopic, brainwashed, hate-filled “misanthrope” like most Republicans are today to ever come close to comprehending this world view - to even beginning to understand the interconnectedness of all mankind. Hell, they can’t even stand their own constituents let alone others on the planet!
So to those detractors who profess that Gore’s work IS NOT “about peace”, I say they are only manifesting profound ignorance and myopia if they cannot see how this unified approach to global warming would not also net us world peace.
I challenge any one of them who attempts to spin this otherwise. When they do, they will show their incredible level of ignorance in so doing.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:26 amWhy the hell would he run? On the one hand you have an important mision where people are listening to and respect your knowledge. You have international good will directed toward you. He runs for president: he is in a constant state of smear from people in the country he represents. He is working to clean up someone else’s mess and probably being tharted at every turn. Meanwhile, his heart’s calling is not getting the attention he would like to give to it, because he has to fight the American Political machine at every turn.
No, I don’t think he will run. I wouldn’t if I was him. America is already lost.
As an aside, notice the 2 polititians winning a Nobel prize in our time both have D’s after their names? Coincidence? I think not.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:27 amI am SO super serial!
Comment by Pete Bogs — October 12, 2007 @ 8:55 am
EXCELSIOR!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:29 amGore was Vicepresident in the Clinton years, and just like Albright who said that the deaths of thousands of Iraqi children were worth it, Gore is responsible of those actions to.
Comment by Juan C.
Normally your comments are insightful. This time they are NOT! Since when (before Chaney) does the Vice President of the United States have the power to overrule the President? For all you know Gore was vehemently against the embargo on Iraq that caused so much suffering. From the posts you have made on this thread it is obvious you don’t have much use for Al Gore. I wonder why?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:29 amAt face value, I agree Bilbo. But if you consider the case of an individual who has evolved spiritually so as to calibrate say in the area of most prophets/gurus (in the 400 category), it’s almost impossible, without serious personal consequences, to actively choose to lower one’s spiritual energetic calibration. In doing so, they lower themselves exponentially, crash and burn. I don’t know if you understand metaphysics but this is how it works. Look into the work of David Hawkins, MD when you have a chance. Very fascinating stuff.
As for losing the respect of the international community, I would suspect that the leaders who comprehend how the spiritual laws actually work would see this as a very bad move for Gore.
We, in our eternal altruism, always want that knight in shining armor to rescue us, but as we know, it’s up to “us” to rescue ourselves - there is no knight in shining armor, sadly.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:31 amPower Versus Force, by David Hawkins, M.D. is a great place to begin one’s comprehension of how spiritual calibration actually works.
After all, we are all “energy” and the consequences of our choices can easily be felt by those who are sensitive to the metaphysical side of things.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:32 amshould be “thwarted”
I also think with the mindset of the American people right now it would be pointless for him to run. Yeah, he might be able to clean some things up, but with all the stuff in place that Darth and others set up in all branches of gov’t and the tendrils affecting media and corporate America, I think he would be stymied. The general populous of America is willing to wear the cloth over their eyes for the rest of their llives becuase it is easier. I really don’t think he would get that much accomplished.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:32 amIt would be like Miss America deciding to enter her local 4H “Miss Heifer” contest?? It doesn’t compute.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:34 amOf course, you cannot expect a myopic, brainwashed, hate-filled “misanthrope†like most Republicans are today to ever come close to comprehending this world view - to even beginning to understand the interconnectedness of all mankind. Hell, they can’t even stand their own constituents let alone others on the planet! Veritas
Congratulations. I think you have just written the most accurate description of Republicans I have ever written. I’m going to write that one down!
If Al Gore were to run, it would be because he loves his country as much as he loves his cause. It would be a totally selfless thing to do. The part of me that loves this country wants him to run. The part of me that loves this earth doesn’t. It’s quite a conundrum.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:34 ambluedahlia: You can see the folly in this thinking. Why would someone who is CEO of an organization demote himself to the rank job of scrubbing the floors?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:35 ammost accurate description of Republicans I have ever written.
That should read “most accurate description of Republicans I have ever read”, not written, since you wrote it, not me!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:35 ambluedahlia: You can see the folly in this thinking. Why would someone who is CEO of an organization demote himself to the rank job of scrubbing the floors?
Comment by Veritas
Oh come on, he won’t have to scrub the floors. Take out the garbage maybe, but not scrubbing the floors. He can find other people to do that.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:36 amI know, Bilbo….I know your sentiments so very well. Al Gore does love this country but he sees the larger picture as well - he loves this planet. How can we expect him to regress back to the “smaller picture” when he’s reached the stars? The laws of nature and of spirituality just don’t work that way.
Can you imagine this man being mired down in Congressional nonsense at this point? Really! He’s so far evolved beyond any of that.
The only way he could chose to lower his spiritual calibration at this point would be if he has yet another personal lesson to learn which, I fear, is not the case.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:37 amI wonder why?
Comment by bilbobaggins
Im trying to avoid the troll line of thinking: the idolization of a politician.
When you start praising instead of questioning, as a society, you let governments get away with what they want: power.
Whats the lesson of Bush´s years if we replace him with somebody we just happen to like? Black and white is all we got?
If I were Vicepresident and the Pres attacks an aspirin factory (guess, that was another intel misinformation) in order to punish the civilian population of that region for some bombings in US embassies, I would have resigned. If some lady says that thousands of Iraqi children are worth it, I would have slapped her in the face, not just resigned.
But politicians dont do that. They are what they are for a particular reason. Progress doesnt mean to favor this or that guy. Progress is to question and criticize everything in order to improve it.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:37 amTo have a politician in high regard is the wrong way to go, IMHO.
Comment by Juan C. — October 12, 2007 @ 8:29 am
Politicians are no worse than any other potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (named for the guy who invented dynamite, remember). One could just as easily criticize Mother Teresa or Mohammed Yunus or Norman Borlaug for their work.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:37 amWell, maybe not scrubbing floors but taking out Bush’s garbage is a horse of a different color…:)
October 12th, 2007 at 9:38 amToasterhead: Besides Al Gore left the “political circles” when he was robbed of the presidency. He hasn’t held any public office for years. They have no legitimate argument on this one although they’ll try to spin it some way or other. The fact is that they only illustrate their own level of ignorance and lack of spiritual evolution when they do. It’s a double-edged sword to tackle this guru!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:40 amJuan C: I don’t believe you can continue to call Al Gore a “politician” at this point. It’s like calling Mother Theresa just a “nun”. It doesn’t work.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:42 amVeritas,
October 12th, 2007 at 9:43 amI agree with you. I had a hard time for a long time myself willing him to run. It would be dragging him back down to something that might help me and my foolish contry, but also pull him down. He is doing good work in the global community for our planet. Our foolish country needs to look at the person that is willing to try and clean up this mess as his priority. Kucinich. Let’s not make another mistake of Gore proportions again.
Just for shits and giggles, here’s a little on line poll from
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21264312?GT1=10450
Do you think Al Gore should run for president in ‘08? * 20653 responses
Yes
60%
No
36%
I’m not sure
3.8%
If Al Gore were added to the current group of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination, who would you vote for? * 20436 responses
Joe Biden
1.3%
Hillary Clinton
9.3%
Chris Dodd
0.1%
John Edwards
3%
Al Gore
55%
Mike Gravel
0.2%
Dennis Kucinich
0.8%
Barack Obama
5.5%
Bill Richardson
1.6%
None of the above
October 12th, 2007 at 9:43 am23%
Toasterhead, I agree.
However, I was talking about some comments made here, praising Gore like he was some sort of Angel from Heaven. The guy is smart, well-spoken and he probably likes puppies, but he, as any other politician (which is paid by the people to do their biding) should be always questioned.
For example, he is making his famous lectures. He is going to present himself next month here in Mexico, do you know what he asks in order to present it?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:46 amVeritas, fair enough.
What is he, then?
October 12th, 2007 at 9:46 amJuan C: I don’t believe you can continue to call Al Gore a “politician†at this point. It’s like calling Mother Theresa just a “nunâ€. It doesn’t work.
Comment by Veritas — October 12, 2007 @ 9:42 am
Well, he is. Al Gore is still a politician. Instead of campaigning for office, he’s now campaigning for an issue, and raising awareness instead of money. The outcomes are different, but the mechanics are just the same.
Point being - the Nobel Prize is not a Lifetime Achievement Award. It’s a recognition of an individual’s or organization’s work in a particular area. You don’t have to agree with every decision Gore made as Vice President to salute him for his work raising awareness about climate change. It’s not deifying him as a person, it’s just saying “good work in this particular area - keep it up.”
If we’re going to start awarding Nobel Prizes based on the totality of a person’s life, we’ll have to take away Albert Einstein’s Physics Prize for cheating on his wife and doing poorly in high school.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:49 amToasterhead, that was lame. :P
October 12th, 2007 at 9:52 amJust imagine…one universe over in non-Bizzarro World, this guy is the President of the United States.
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — October 12, 2007 @ 7:48 am
I think we are in Bizarro World already. Bizarro Pretzel is a leader, Science and Logic is scorned, and Gore is mocked for his study on Global Warming.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:56 amTeddy Roosevelt
October 12th, 2007 at 9:57 amElihu Root
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Dawes
Frank Kellogg
Nicholas Butler
Cordell Hull
Emily Balch
Ralph Bunche
George Marshall
Linus Pauling
Martin Luther King
Norman Borlaug
Henry Kissinger
Elie Wiesel
Jody Williams
Jimmy Carter
Al Gore
Congratulations, President Al Gore!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:58 amthank you, Al Gore, for showing us that Manbearpig is real…
October 12th, 2007 at 9:59 amHeh. Great job Al & IPCC.
C’mon TP, let the trolls on this thread — you could get 5000 hits. ;)
October 12th, 2007 at 10:02 am“For all you know Gore was vehemently against the embargo on Iraq”
Actually, we do indeed know that he supported the United Nations sanctions:
GORE: We have maintained the sanctions. I want to go further. I want to give robust support to the groups that are trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Some say they’re too weak to do it. But that’s what they said about those opposing Milosevic in Serbia.
Source: Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University Oct 11, 2000
See also:
http://www.cnn.com/ ELECTION/ 2000/ resources/ where.they.stand/
October 12th, 2007 at 10:06 amCongrats Mr. should-now-be-PRESIDENT Gore. You deserve it.
I would love you running in the next election. But, please don’t - it would wreck your peaceful, sane life. The next president will heir a broken America from this lunatic, war oriented, blood covered Bush; which I doubt will be ever possible to rebuilt to what Bill Clinton gave us.
But the happiets guy on earth today is RUSH LIMBAUGH! Now he has more material to keep talking nonsense. Just talking, not debating. Because he does not debate, he just talks BRAIN-WASHING his audience.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:29 amThat’s lame, Exley. :-D
October 12th, 2007 at 10:30 amWow, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded the cult leader of The Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Yasser Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize, too.
It is a prize based on lies. It is a political agenda prize.
While you are all being deceived by the False Prophet Gore on global warming, comes this BREAKING NEWS:
In fact, ice cap growth in the Antarctic is at its highest level in recorded history! From the University of Illinois:
The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km. The observed sea ice record in the Southern Hemisphere (1979-present) is not as long as the Northern Hemisphere. (meaning it has not been tracked as long as the North Pole) Prior to the satellite era, direct observations of the Southern Hemisphere sea ice edge were sporadic
Sorry to bring in science and facts to your reign of Hallelujahs here. I know how you hate science and facts when they shred your religious views.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:32 amI think President Gore is doing exactly what he is meant to do and I think he’s too smart to let himself be distracted by a political quest. The work he’s doing now will impact the world for generations and beyond. This is sweet vindication for him, and I congratulate him.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:33 amIn fact, ice cap growth in the Antarctic is at its highest level in recorded history! From the University of Illinois:
Sorry to bring in science and facts to your reign of Hallelujahs here. I know how you hate science and facts when they shred your religious views.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Hey, thanks for the link! The science and facts I found there do indeed shred your moronic science denial:
UPDATE: Thursday, August 16, 2007 - New historic sea ice minimum
One week after dipping below 4 million square kilometers Northern Hemisphere sea ice area and setting the new historic record NH sea ice minimum, there is currently 3.58 million sq. kilometers sea ice area. This new minimum is almost 11% lower than the previous historic minimum.
UPDATE: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - New historic sea ice minimum
There is currently 3.22 million sq. kilometers sea ice area in the Northern Hemisphere.
UPDATE: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - New historic sea ice minimum
While the pace of sea ice retreat has slowed, the Northern Hemisphere sea ice area continues to decline. There is currently 2.99 million sq. kilometers sea ice area in the Northern Hemisphere.
UPDATE: Thursday, September 6, 2007
The Northern Hemisphere sea ice area has been oscillating near 3 million sq. kilometers for the past week and is currently at 3.07 million sq. km. We are near the historic calendar date of the NH summer minimum and there is about a 50/50 chance that we have already reached the minimum sea ice area for the year (2.99 million sq. km).
October 12th, 2007 at 10:37 amZooey,
I respectfully disagree. Bilbobaggins in criticizing Juan C’s post said essentially that there is no evidence that Gore supported the UN sanctiona against Iraq during his tenure as Vice-President.
As we see from the transcript of the 2000 presidential debate, as well as the CNN.com outline of the 2000 presidential candidates’ positions, Al Gore did indeed support the UN sanctions.
Thus, Juan was correct. BilboBaggins was in error.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:45 amSorry to bring in science and facts to your reign of Hallelujahs here. I know how you hate science and facts when they shred your religious views.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Grasping at straws to support your ignorance and shortsightedness, suckdog, what a surprise (NOT)!
October 12th, 2007 at 10:55 amCongratulations, Mr. Gore !!
∞
October 12th, 2007 at 10:58 amDuckMog, let’s show the folks the whole picture.
http://pubs.acs.org/ subscribe/ journals/ esthag-w/ 2002/ jan/ science/ ws_antarctic.html
Indeed, over the past few decades, average global temperatures have been rising, by 0.19 °C per decade, but this rise has not occurred everywhere. One important exception appears to be in Antarctica, where recently, Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a team of scientists, report finding a marked decrease in temperature—as much as 0.7 °C per decade since 1966.
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Although Doran and co-workers believe that the observed cooling trend is associated with decreased wind flow over the areas that were studied, they are unsure what may have caused wind velocity to decrease. In addition, the data provide no clues about whether the observed cooling trend is likely to continue in the future.
…What is certain is that the declining temperatures are having a pronounced effect on terrestrial ecosystems in dry valley areas in Antarctica. The scientists report that primary productivity of lakes in these regions is reduced by 6–9%, and soil invertebrates are declining by more than 10% annually. (Nature, January 13, 2002, 10.1038/nature710).
…The new data, which provide the best assessment yet of the mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, indicate the ice sheet is growing by 26.8 gigatons annually, in contrast to older estimates that there has been an ice mass shrinkage of 20.9 gigatons annually. The researchers say that stagnation of some of the region’s ice stream flows is the primary contributor to the ice buildup.
So how do you consider this anomaly to be good news?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:00 amHi Exley nice to see you back, nitpicking but entertaining as usual!
Muckdog, I didnt see on that page where this “fact” supports your scientific conclusion that global warming isnt real. Whats your scientific background?
You know even fox news is admitting its happening now, and saying its a good thing?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:06 amMuckdog, do you have any more brilliant quotes from that guy who thinks cigarettes are good for you and that more asbestos would have saved the world trade center?
October 12th, 2007 at 11:10 ammuckdog
Weird that you think followers of those you disagree with are cultish.
I would say the same for anybody still arguing against the fact of global warming.
A cult requires it’s members to believe absurdities on faith and junk science.
I had just watched a Naked Science show that featured the loss of ice shelves Larsen A and B… and explored the degradation of ice elsewhere in Antarctica. Not trusting just one source, I then searched the internet.
It seems that if the south pole ice gets thicker that too is because of global warming… more snow.
At any rate science is still collating on the subject. It’s interesting reading.
Good article about the debate: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ category/ story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10421304
October 12th, 2007 at 11:18 amOh, I see. It’s warmer because of global warming. It’s cooler because of global warming. Yankees lose, Rockies win, Brad Miller in cornrows? Global warming.
Heating, cooling, used cars, new cars.
We can only hope that Al Gore runs and wins the Presidency. Then he will be unable to hide from global warming debate.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:48 amOh, I see. It’s warmer because of global warming. It’s cooler because of global warming.
Comment by muckdog — October 12, 2007 @ 11:48 am
Global warming causes weather patterns to fall out of balance, therefore causing bigger changes in temperatures all over the place.
Warm air doesn’t circulate as it did, and doesn’t warm cold areas anymore: ergo, colder winters. Cold air doesn’t circulate as well, and therefore isn’t cooling hot areas anymore: ergo, warmer summers.
That’s a quick “Weather for dummies” answer; for more information, Google is your friend.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pmI heard that nut cake Savage prove, because he’s a scientist with a PHD in
October 12th, 2007 at 12:49 pmnutritional ethnomedicine that global warming is untrue because record cold was reported in half a dozen cities in the US in 2006.
LOL
>It’s cooler because of global warming.
uhm… global warming doesnt mean its warmer everywhere all the time.
your argument is basically “look, its colder somewhere, so global warming must not be happening anywhere”….
allrriighty then. any more asbestos guy quotes?
October 12th, 2007 at 12:50 pmThis is the cue for wingnuts to start smearing the Nobel Prize.
Comment by Perry logan — October 12, 2007 @ 7:45 am
Of course they have: http://thinkprogress.org/ 2007/ 10/ 12/ gore-nobel-attacked/ #comments
And obedient Troll muckdog is their hilarious little pet.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:03 pmThat’s a quick “Weather for dummies†answer; for more information, Google is your friend.
Comment by Luis M — October 12, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
The Faux Noise troll muckdog isn’t smart enough to understand anything written for dummies.
My advice: ignore his and report him for abuse. He is OFF TOPIC!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:06 pmSo let me get this straight!! This year’s Nobel PEACE (I’ll spell it for you left nut libs - P-E-A-C-E as I know it’s very difficult for you all to even understand what this means let alone spell it!) Prize goes to someone who has this wacky idea about something called “global warming”!! Now, am I correct???
Well, IF I am, PLEASE could someone out there in libland tell me what the hell this charade has to do with P-E-A-C-E???????????? Please, please tell me.
Oh, PLEASE also tell me why that renowned lover of peace -Mr Arafat - was awarded this? Oh, and also PLEASE tell me why the worst President ever - Jimmah Carter - was also awarded this “prestigious” honor!!
Phew!!
October 12th, 2007 at 1:28 pmwooooooot!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:35 pm