He will share it but wow, Ive lost respect for this award(and yes I still had respect for it when they gave it to Carter)

 

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Former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.

 

 

"An Inconvenient Truth," a 2006 documentary featuring Al Gore, won two Academy Awards this year.

 

In a statement, Gore said he was "deeply honored," adding that "the climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

 

The former vice president said he would donate his half of the $1.5 million prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a U.S. organization he founded that aims to persuade people to cut emissions and reduce global warming.

 

The White House offered an initial reaction to the Nobel win by President Bush's 2000 opponent. "Of course, we're happy that Vice President Gore and the IPCC are receiving this recognition," said deputy press secretary Tony Fratto.

 

Gore's ex-boss, former President Clinton, said he's "thrilled by this well-deserved recognition," and credited Gore with "warning and educating us about the dangers of climate change for decades. He saw this coming before others in public life."

 

The Nobel committee's announcement cited Gore and the IPCC "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."

 

The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway. Watch why Gore won the Nobel prize ?

 

In recent weeks, Gore has been the target of a campaign to persuade him to enter the 2008 presidential race.

 

 

A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president.

 

But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the source. If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the source said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according to the source.

 

Gore repeatedly denied he has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grass-roots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took out a full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change his mind.

 

"Your country needs you now, as do your party, and the planet you are fighting so hard to save," the group said in an open letter.

 

"America and the Earth need a hero right now, someone who will transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and to the world."

 

 

The Nobel committee praised Gore as being "one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians."

 

"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.

 

In making the announcement, Mjos said, "Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.

 

"Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming."

 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 to study climate change information. The group doesn't do independent research but instead reviews scientific literature from around the world.

 

The U.N.-sanctioned group was formed by the World Meteorological Organization and U.N. Environment Program.

 

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "delighted" with the news that Gore and the IPCC will share in prize.

 

A spokeswoman for the IPCC, which draws on the work of 2,000 scientists, said the panel was surprised that it had been chosen to share the award with Gore and praised his contribution to environmental campaigning.

 

"We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante said, The Associated Press reported.

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The Nobel caps a series of prestigious awards associated with Gore, including two Oscars this year for the 2006 documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which followed him on a worldwide tour publicizing the dangers of climate change.

 

Last month, he also picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in U.S. television -- for "Current TV." The show, which Gore co-created, describes itself as a global television network giving viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.

 

Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former Presidents Carter in 2002, Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

 

In 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the honor in 1964. See more on 2007 Nobel winners ?

 

 

Gore was vice president for eight years before winning the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination and running against Bush.

 

But he failed in his White House bid -- despite winning the popular vote -- when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his challenge over voting results in Florida, securing an Electoral College majority for Bush

I will repeat the commentary I made at the TNA Wrestling fan forums.

 

...the Nobel Peace Prize has officially lost any meaning whatsoever. At least when Jimmy Carter got it, the illusion that he did anything meaningful for peace could be had. In this case, what has Al Gore really done for peace besides be the Vice President of somebody who accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, lobbed some missiles at Iraq for no other reason than to distract America from an adultery-and-perjury scandal, and refused to take Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him to us on a silver platter?

 

If Scandinavia has an unusually cold winter like the Southern Hemisphere just did, then they will look incredibly stupid.

You cons crack me up, especially the "No War for Monica" crap. Sure, I would have rather the Burmese monks won the Peace Prize, but I'm guessing either the vote was already taken or the nominations period was closed.

I will repeat the commentary I made at the TNA Wrestling fan forums.

 

...the Nobel Peace Prize has officially lost any meaning whatsoever. At least when Jimmy Carter got it, the illusion that he did anything meaningful for peace could be had. In this case, what has Al Gore really done for peace besides be the Vice President of somebody who accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, lobbed some missiles at Iraq for no other reason than to distract America from an adultery-and-perjury scandal, and refused to take Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him to us on a silver platter?

 

If Scandinavia has an unusually cold winter like the Southern Hemisphere just did, then they will look incredibly stupid.

 

You're so full of it.

 

They did not lob any missiels at Iraq during the Lewinsky scandal. They bombed the hell out of Sudan and some other country, where we thought Bin Laden was.

Dr. Martin Luther King (Civil Rights Movement)

Henry Kissinger (Vietnam Peace Accord)

Mother Teresa (Poverty Awareness)

Nelson Mandela (Helped Terminate Apartheid Regime)

 

Al Gore (An Inconvienent Truth, Environmental Hypocrite, Fat)

 

I lol'd.

Henry Kissinger (Vietnam Peace Accord)

 

 

I lol'd at Kissinger and peace in the same sentence.

Yeah, lol @ negotiating an end to the Vietnam Conflict.

 

Hysterical.

I will repeat the commentary I made at the TNA Wrestling fan forums.

 

...the Nobel Peace Prize has officially lost any meaning whatsoever. At least when Jimmy Carter got it, the illusion that he did anything meaningful for peace could be had. In this case, what has Al Gore really done for peace besides be the Vice President of somebody who accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, lobbed some missiles at Iraq for no other reason than to distract America from an adultery-and-perjury scandal, and refused to take Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him to us on a silver platter?

 

If Scandinavia has an unusually cold winter like the Southern Hemisphere just did, then they will look incredibly stupid.

 

You're so full of it.

 

They did not lob any missiels at Iraq during the Lewinsky scandal. They bombed the hell out of Sudan and some other country, where we thought Bin Laden was.

My mentioning of "bombing Iraq" and "refusing to take Osama bin Laden" were not mutually inclusive.

 

Operation Desert Fox, December 1998

 

Some critics of the Clinton administration expressed concern over the timing of Operation Desert Fox. The four-day bombing campaign occurred at the same time the U.S. House of Representatives was conducting the impeachment hearing of President Clinton. Clinton was impeached on December 19, the last day of the bombing campaign. A few months earlier, similar criticism was leveled during Operation Infinite Reach, wherein missile strikes were ordered against suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan, on August 20. The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

Unlike some people, of any political persuasion, I don't pull this kind of stuff out of my ass.

Yeah, lol @ negotiating an end to the Vietnam Conflict.

 

Hysterical.

 

 

Because that's the ONLY thing he did during his tenure and before the accord. Maybe you can remind me, what happend to South Vietnam after the Peace Accord?

 

I'm sure the people of Bangladesh, East Timor and the victims of Suharto, and Cambodia see him as a beacon of peace and justice.

Unlike some people, of any political persuasion, I don't pull this kind of stuff out of my ass.

 

The getting Bin Laden on a silver platter is bulls*** and twisting of the situation, and you know it. Sudan wanted nothing in return, right?

Yeah, lol @ negotiating an end to the Vietnam Conflict.

 

Hysterical.

 

 

Because that's the ONLY thing he did during his tenure and before the accord. Maybe you can remind me, what happend to South Vietnam after the Peace Accord?

 

I'm sure the people of Bangladesh, East Timor and the victims of Suharto, and Cambodia see him as a beacon of peace and justice.

A lot of times its based on a single event in a single year.

 

I didn't know the award was a crystal ball as well.

...and Al Gore's mission to increase his political capital continues. He will go for the presidency again. But the next time he runs, he wants to make sure he wins.

...and Al Gore's mission to increase his political capital continues. He will go for the presidency again. But the next time he runs, he wants to make sure he wins.

We can only hope there are enough people that aren't stupid enough to fall for his bull.

 

Then again, my opinion is that Hillary and Al are the two Democrats that would probably be easiest to beat if they get the Dem nod.

I will repeat the commentary I made at the TNA Wrestling fan forums.

 

...the Nobel Peace Prize has officially lost any meaning whatsoever. At least when Jimmy Carter got it, the illusion that he did anything meaningful for peace could be had. In this case, what has Al Gore really done for peace besides be the Vice President of somebody who accidentally bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia, lobbed some missiles at Iraq for no other reason than to distract America from an adultery-and-perjury scandal, and refused to take Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him to us on a silver platter?

 

If Scandinavia has an unusually cold winter like the Southern Hemisphere just did, then they will look incredibly stupid.

 

You're so full of it.

 

They did not lob any missiels at Iraq during the Lewinsky scandal. They bombed the hell out of Sudan and some other country, where we thought Bin Laden was.

My mentioning of "bombing Iraq" and "refusing to take Osama bin Laden" were not mutually inclusive.

 

Operation Desert Fox, December 1998

 

Some critics of the Clinton administration expressed concern over the timing of Operation Desert Fox. The four-day bombing campaign occurred at the same time the U.S. House of Representatives was conducting the impeachment hearing of President Clinton. Clinton was impeached on December 19, the last day of the bombing campaign. A few months earlier, similar criticism was leveled during Operation Infinite Reach, wherein missile strikes were ordered against suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan, on August 20. The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

Unlike some people, of any political persuasion, I don't pull this kind of stuff out of my ass.

 

no offense meant as I care little either way but wikipedia as a source?

The Nobel Peace prize is pretty much irrelevant after this, not that it wasn't already the most irrelevant Nobel prize category.

no offense meant as I care little either way but wikipedia as a source?

Yes. It's not like this is some sort of vanity article or some bulls*** like Numa Numa. This is an event in history.

OK, I'm not really buying this either, but I don't think it's COMPLETELY laughable. Climate change has the potential to cause a lot of tension and bloodshed now and in the future. I don't want to make this an argument about whether climate change is something man can control. I'm pretty sure the jury is still out on that one. But for the sake of argument, let's just say Al Gore is right, and that man can slow global warming, and therefore help slow the pace of a whole bunch of other types of climate change that global warming is responsible for...if that's true, his contributions to raising awareness of global warming could--in the future--possibly be seen as one of the greatest contributions to world peace ever.

 

As an example, a lot of people say the mass killings in Sudan are a result of climate change. Something about global warming, and the rains shifting south, and a giant drought in the North, cassing a mass movement of people south, which led to an inevitable conflict. It's a long line of connect-the-dots, but it isn't COMPLETELY ridiculous to say the conflict could have been prevented, or at least minimized, if humans hadn't been contributing to global warming all this time.

 

Now, for me, that long line of connect-the-dots is too long. You know, maybe A connects to B, and C connects to D, and so on, but maybe B doesn't connect to C. There's too much "what if?". Surely, there had to be other candidates with more tangible contributions to world peace.

I don't think it makes sense for him to win the Peace award. That just doesn't add up.

 

Does he deserve some awards? Sure. He already won an Oscar.

Surely, there had to be other candidates with more tangible contributions to world peace.

Saad Hariri, one of the leaders of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon.

 

It's not saying much, but he's definitely more deserving than Al Gore. And the only other deserving person I can think of, Aung San Suu Kyi, is already a laureate.

 

Oh, wait... the Buddhist monks of Burma, now that I think of it. Then again I don't think you can nominate people that are likely already dead.

Does he deserve some awards? Sure. He already won an Oscar.

Somehow, that may actually have been less deserved.

Does he deserve some awards? Sure. He already won an Oscar.

Somehow, that may actually have been less deserved.

Doubtful.

I'm going to claim ignorance on the process of the Nobel voting process, but if the prize was voted and decided upon in, say, June I'd have less of a problem with it than if this were decided within the month, when the film has been defeated as nothing more than propagandist media.

Dr. Martin Luther King (Civil Rights Movement)

Henry Kissinger (Vietnam Peace Accord)

Mother Teresa (Poverty Awareness)

Nelson Mandela (Helped Terminate Apartheid Regime)

 

Al Gore (An Inconvienent Truth, Environmental Hypocrite, Fat)

 

I lol'd.

 

May I add Yasser Arafat to your lol list?