I'm very, very anxious to read your comments on this award.
No surprise, IMO a little far fetch for a peace prize though... He'll be donating the prize money, maybe to buy a bunch of trees to balance out all the hotshots flying in to the ceremonies and banquette and all
It comes as no surprise to me. They gave it to Carter for no other reason than as a political statement against Bush. And let's not forget that this prize has also been awarded to such "peaceful" noteworthies as Arafat.
This prize is independent in everything but name from the awards for true achievements, and so who really cares?
So, let me get this straight: the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the person that has done more to take the issue of humans causing Global Warming, real or imagined, and polarize it along political lines than anyone else.
Gore didn't make it political. It is political because the issue involves money and power. What is more political than money and power? (That raving leftwinger Alan Greenspan thinks that's why we invaded Iraq).
It is also political because some right wing nutjobs say that no matter how much evidence there is and the essential universal agreement of scientists -- global warming must not be happpening simply because they hate Al Gore and he agrees with those scientists. Al Gore better not say that 2+2=4 or they will stop being able to do simple math.
there are 5 categories of Nobel prizes.... physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. I am curious about Al Gore's win because it has nothing to do with peace, but climate change... looking at the list of Nobel winners, this is the first "non-peace" Nobel "peace" prize winner I can see...... I am not saying that he accomplished nothing, but it seems weird to award it for peace, and it turns out, so soon..... Most scientific nobel laureates win after a "recognition time lag" or in other words, until the body of their work has stood the test of time, and is shown to have produced the greatest impact on the topic, and for humanity. I think there is some politicizing here, but this is far from unusual.. Nobel Prizes have been controversial for a long time.
Many die before their work is "recognized", and fail to win because the award rules prohibit "posthumous" nominees, the two exceptions died after they were nominated. Mahatma Gandhi was rumored to have been the favorite the year he was assassinated.... Amazingly, he was nominated 5 times and never won.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
The news article I read explained that if the dire predictions come to pass, there will be mass migrations to less affected areas, and desperate competition for resources, leading to conflict and wars. If that's taken at face value, then one could find justification in promoting awareness of global warming in an effort to reverse it and avoid those conflicts. One still might not agree, but at least it doesn't seem completely far-fetched.
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The Peace prize has long been known to be very politically motivated, and they as much as admitted this in the statement they issued when awarding it to Jimmy Carter. As opposed to the scientific awards, this one tends to be radically subjective....
Yep, that is how Gore made it political. By making himself the host/narrator for the movie instead of someone considered politically neutral, he pretty much assured that opinion on this would be drawn along party lines.
The Burma monks deserved this far more than he.
Wait a second, is this a prediction of what global warming could bring about, or merely a brief summary of the history of mankind? Throughout human history, there have been several mass migrations away from areas impacted by some sort of climatological phenomenon towards more temperate areas, leading to competition for resources (whether it be land, oil, water, fishing grounds, hunting grounds, etc.), which has led to conflict and war. So basically, according to this article, global warming is a critical issue because it will cause mankind to continue to do what it has done since the dawn of man?