Congratulations to Al Gore and the World

roni · 10-12-2007

(CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.
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"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.

During its announcement, the Nobel committee cited the winners "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."

Just Lucky · 10-12-2007

Wow, you've got to hand it to Gore! Although denied the Presidency he has pressed forward to help his fellows here on our beautiful planet!

: clap:

I liked this from the Nobel Prize website:

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By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

roni · 10-12-2007

I propose using this thread for a multi-faceted discussion and posting place about todays Nobel Peace Prize

Here is what the NY Times Lede says about it.

October 12, 2007, 8:05 am
Gore’s Nobel: The Commentariat Fires Up

By Patrick J. Lyons

Tags: environment, global warming, internet, nobel prize, politics

Brace yourself for a hurricane of heated rhetoric. The Lede confidently forecasts that everybody and his cousin Ermintrude will be weighing in today on Al Gore and his Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the United Nations’s International Panel on Climate Change. Talk radio and television, print punditry, and especially the blogosphere will be in Category Five mode over a development that lands right in the sweet spot linking the two hyperpolarized worlds of partisan politics and climate science.

An equally easy prediction: The great majority of the commentary will follow the familiar ruts, touch the same touchstones, roast the usual chestnuts and jerk the same knees. It’s already well underway. Within an hour of the announcement you could already find exactly the right-wing jeering and left-wing cheering you’d expect.

Early samples include this from Kathy Shaidle’s Five Feet of Fury blog:

If Al Gore is a decent man, thirty years from now, having finally admitted he was wrong about global warming, he will endow a new prize, to be presented annually to a man or woman who tried to undo the incalculable damage done by An Inconvenient Truth.

Meanwhile, commenters on the left are impatient for Mr. Gore to take his prize and run with it, including this rapid post on the lefty warhorse Daily Kos, which had already accumulated 230-plus comments by 7:30 a.m. Eastern time:

No more excuses!!!!!!!!! Al Gore should finally jump into the 2008 presidential race. Next big victory for Gore — in November of 2008.

Pajamas Media rounds up much of the early reaction, pro and con, along with a bit of art imposing Mr. Gore’s head on a Superman poster.

This year’s prize, like the last few, shows that the Nobel committee continues to use an expansive notion of “peace” and who and what make the most significant contributions to it. Some of the conservative reaction scoffs at the notion that global warnings about global warming are within its scope (especially false warnings, as the right sees them), while those who agree with Mr. Gore wonder how anyone could fail to make the connection between carbon emissions and global conflict.

Which makes The Lede wonder whether there are many people left undecided on the issue for either side to sway. Or is it all just preaching to the choir?

There’s a long precedent for thinking of “peace” broadly at prize time: as far back as 1970, the committee honored not some diplomatic breakthrough but the development of robust hybrid grains that sharply improved farm yields in poor countries.

It’s not hard to see why. Peace has not exactly been the world’s prevalent condition in the 106 years since the prize was first awarded. In fact, the committee has often found it impossible to award the prize to anyone — in four of the five World War I years, five of the seven World War II years, and ten other occasions between and since, most recently in 1972.

Interestingly, though, almost half of all past Nobel Peace Prize laureates now living — 14 of the 29, by The Lede’s count — were born in wartime, including the oldest (the “green revolution” agronomist Norman Borlaug, born in 1914 and honored in 1970) and the youngest (Rigoberta Menchu Tum, advocate for indigenous people, born in 1959 as a civil war was brewing in her native Guatemala and honored in 1992). World War II alone accounts for nine, including the three most recent laureates. Mr. Gore was born a few years after World War II, in 1948.

An odd bit of trivia about this least trivial of awards: Three of the living laureates began life within months of one another in 1931 — Mikhail Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the Argentine architect and human rights advocate. The peace prize in that bumper year was given to two outspoken American idealists and peace activists, the social worker Jane Addams and the educator Nicholas Murray Butler.

A complete list of laureates with biographical sketches is available on the official Nobel site.

The New York Times has set up a reader forum where you can share your comments and see what others are thinking about this year’s prize and Mr. Gore.

The Lede’s comment space might be a good place to step back a bit from all that and discuss the politicization of the climate issue and the broader question of just what it means to contribute to world peace.

Jacko · 10-12-2007

Its great to see recognition for Mr. Gore alongside these wonderful people throughout history..... click here for a list of laureates.

Gulliver · 10-12-2007

Wow, two Al Gore threads......this could bring PDS back

Jacko · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by Gulliver

Wow, two Al Gore threads......this could bring PDS back

I was thinking the very same thing

....there are actually 3 if you count Thor's original Nobel Prize thread...

Anejo ny1 · 10-12-2007

Nothing beats a good piece of fiction? Nothing.

sctx · 10-12-2007

this is awesome news

....... Lil G loves Big Al

Jacko · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by Anejo ny1

Nothing beats a good piece of fiction? Nothing.

Still having that problem sorting out truth from fiction are you? More sour grapes...

kirbyfan · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by Jacko

Still having that problem sorting out truth from fiction are you? More sour grapes...

Hes a proven LIAR....methinks its YOU Jacko that has a broken truth or fiction sorter. Call the repair dept at Moveon.org, they can come in and eliminate the whole truth part, it makes it easier that way.

Rissask · 10-12-2007

I'm ambivalent.

Good for him for donating his half of the award money, though.

not a member · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by kirbyfan

Hes a proven LIAR.....

So is Bush.

kirbyfan · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by Rissask

I'm ambivalent.

Good for him for donating his half of the award money, though.

It is good of him to donate that but why not all of it? I mean, Al's got plenty of money and with his yearly sales of carbon credits he should be set so why not just give it all away to a "good cause"???

kirbyfan · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by KMAN

So is Bush.

He wasnt just given the Noble award.

not a member · 10-12-2007

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Originally Posted by kirbyfan

He wasnt just given the Noble award.

You are correct, it's worse then that - He is the leader of the most powerful country in the world!

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roni añejo Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 59,636	Congratulations to Al Gore and the World (CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming. art.gore.nobel.ap.jpg "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. During its announcement, the Nobel committee cited the winners "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." Last edited by roni; 10-12-2007 at 07:32 AM..

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roni añejo Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 59,636	Commentary about the Peace Prize and Big Al I propose using this thread for a multi-faceted discussion and posting place about todays Nobel Peace Prize Here is what the NY Times Lede says about it. October 12, 2007, 8:05 am Gore’s Nobel: The Commentariat Fires Up By Patrick J. Lyons Tags: environment, global warming, internet, nobel prize, politics Brace yourself for a hurricane of heated rhetoric. The Lede confidently forecasts that everybody and his cousin Ermintrude will be weighing in today on Al Gore and his Nobel Peace Prize, shared with the United Nations’s International Panel on Climate Change. Talk radio and television, print punditry, and especially the blogosphere will be in Category Five mode over a development that lands right in the sweet spot linking the two hyperpolarized worlds of partisan politics and climate science. An equally easy prediction: The great majority of the commentary will follow the familiar ruts, touch the same touchstones, roast the usual chestnuts and jerk the same knees. It’s already well underway. Within an hour of the announcement you could already find exactly the right-wing jeering and left-wing cheering you’d expect. Early samples include this from Kathy Shaidle’s Five Feet of Fury blog: If Al Gore is a decent man, thirty years from now, having finally admitted he was wrong about global warming, he will endow a new prize, to be presented annually to a man or woman who tried to undo the incalculable damage done by An Inconvenient Truth. Meanwhile, commenters on the left are impatient for Mr. Gore to take his prize and run with it, including this rapid post on the lefty warhorse Daily Kos, which had already accumulated 230-plus comments by 7:30 a.m. Eastern time: No more excuses!!!!!!!!! Al Gore should finally jump into the 2008 presidential race. Next big victory for Gore — in November of 2008. Pajamas Media rounds up much of the early reaction, pro and con, along with a bit of art imposing Mr. Gore’s head on a Superman poster. This year’s prize, like the last few, shows that the Nobel committee continues to use an expansive notion of “peace” and who and what make the most significant contributions to it. Some of the conservative reaction scoffs at the notion that global warnings about global warming are within its scope (especially false warnings, as the right sees them), while those who agree with Mr. Gore wonder how anyone could fail to make the connection between carbon emissions and global conflict. Which makes The Lede wonder whether there are many people left undecided on the issue for either side to sway. Or is it all just preaching to the choir? There’s a long precedent for thinking of “peace” broadly at prize time: as far back as 1970, the committee honored not some diplomatic breakthrough but the development of robust hybrid grains that sharply improved farm yields in poor countries. It’s not hard to see why. Peace has not exactly been the world’s prevalent condition in the 106 years since the prize was first awarded. In fact, the committee has often found it impossible to award the prize to anyone — in four of the five World War I years, five of the seven World War II years, and ten other occasions between and since, most recently in 1972. Interestingly, though, almost half of all past Nobel Peace Prize laureates now living — 14 of the 29, by The Lede’s count — were born in wartime, including the oldest (the “green revolution” agronomist Norman Borlaug, born in 1914 and honored in 1970) and the youngest (Rigoberta Menchu Tum, advocate for indigenous people, born in 1959 as a civil war was brewing in her native Guatemala and honored in 1992). World War II alone accounts for nine, including the three most recent laureates. Mr. Gore was born a few years after World War II, in 1948. An odd bit of trivia about this least trivial of awards: Three of the living laureates began life within months of one another in 1931 — Mikhail Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the Argentine architect and human rights advocate. The peace prize in that bumper year was given to two outspoken American idealists and peace activists, the social worker Jane Addams and the educator Nicholas Murray Butler. A complete list of laureates with biographical sketches is available on the official Nobel site. The New York Times has set up a reader forum where you can share your comments and see what others are thinking about this year’s prize and Mr. Gore. The Lede’s comment space might be a good place to step back a bit from all that and discuss the politicization of the climate issue and the broader question of just what it means to contribute to world peace. __________________ - .. New Da Blog

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sctx my own peon Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Body in San Marcos Tx....Tankah in my mind Posts: 37,180	this is awesome news....... Lil G loves Big Al

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Jacko añejo Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 30,887	Its great to see recognition for Mr. Gore alongside these wonderful people throughout history..... click here for a list of laureates.

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Gulliver life=playa Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 519	Wow, two Al Gore threads......this could bring PDS back

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Anejo ny1 beachaholic Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Nowhere I want to stay. Posts: 280	Nothing beats a good piece of fiction? Nothing.

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Rissask Canada Dry Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 49,560	I'm ambivalent. Good for him for donating his half of the award money, though.

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