nobel peace prize for al gore and IPCC

[japanesebaby]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_re_eu/nobel_peace

[Steve]

Deserved I think. I have watched Inconvenient Truth a few times & it still leaves me gob smacked.
It also makes me think differently about all the climate change (formerly global warming)stuff.
It's a fact that there is really nothing we can do to stop it, but we do have to think about how to survive it. :roll:
Once that chunk of Greenland slides off into the sea, the whole of northern Europe is pretty much knacked. Time to get out the wooly gloves, hats & stuff. It's gona get mighty cold.....brrrrrr

[Janko]

I THINK IT'S A GREAT MISFORTUNE THAT THE GUYS LIKE AL GORE GET AWARDS

IT'S SO SAD THAT PEOPLE FORGET THAT THE GUY WAS A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND DURING THAT TIME HE DID NOTHING (OR MORE LIKELY - CONTRIBUTED TO THE PROBLEM)

I MEAN, WHATS NEXT?

WILL ONE DAY PARIS HILTON FIGHT FOR FEMINIST ISSUES?!
I BET SHE WILL, AND NOONE WILL REMEMBER THE VALUES SHE PROMOTES NOW...

WILL LINDSAY LOHAN FIGHT FOR TEMPERANCE?!
I BET SHE WILL, BUT JUST BECAUSE ONE DAY SHE'LL BECOME NOBODY AGAIN...
JUST LIKE AL GORE WAS...

[silversand]

I think it's good that Al Gore got the nobel peace prize. I have the impression that he means it very serious with the climate change. I've watched his film the Inconveniet Truth on tv and i like it very much.

He is interested in the environment a long time, that was before he became the vice-president, if i am not wrong. I think it's good that he or it can also be someone else, say that the environment protection is very important to all of us, maybe if he overact a little bit.

Maybe he wanted to do something during his time at the vice-president of the usa and he couldn't.


Paris Hilton is in my opinion the wrong person to fight for feminist issues and Lindsay Lohan is the the wrong person for fight for temperance. I hope both will be gone forever and will be a nobody again.

[j]

I, just like the majority of Americans, voted for Al Gore the year he had the election stolen by a puppet cowboy warmonger.  Here's to hoping that Al has something to do with the next administration.  Keep in mind, that, as Vice President in 1997, Al Gore signed the Kyoto Protocol.  Shame the Clinton Administration never put it to the Senate for ratification, then when the chimp stole the election in 2000, any chance of ratification was flushed down the toilet, along with the US's standing in the global realm.

Hopefully Hillary will lean heavily on old friends.....


Here's a pic of our glorious leader:



And, in looking for this pic, I found a very interesting quote, rather fitting in this situation:

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing.  The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin

[japanesebaby]

I THINK IT'S A GREAT MISFORTUNE THAT THE GUYS LIKE AL GORE GET AWARDS

IT'S SO SAD THAT PEOPLE FORGET THAT THE GUY WAS A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND DURING THAT TIME HE DID NOTHING (OR MORE LIKELY - CONTRIBUTED TO THE PROBLEM)

I MEAN, WHATS NEXT?

WILL ONE DAY PARIS HILTON FIGHT FOR FEMINIST ISSUES?!
I BET SHE WILL, AND NOONE WILL REMEMBER THE VALUES SHE PROMOTES NOW...

WILL LINDSAY LOHAN FIGHT FOR TEMPERANCE?!
I BET SHE WILL, BUT JUST BECAUSE ONE DAY SHE'LL BECOME NOBODY AGAIN...
JUST LIKE AL GORE WAS...

is he a guy who's truly and deeply into campaigning for environmental issues or is he just some opportunist who's found a good way to stay in public and make some nice profit at the same time? i don't know, i don't know the guy personally. but whatever one might think of him as a person, he has done a lot for taking the climate change into headlines and increase awareness of this huge huge crisis that's about to fall upon us all already during the lifetime of our generation. for that i think he anyone should be rewarded. the environmental changes are a real issue and people should realize the severeness of it all. because it's going to hit us all, all around the planet, whether directly or indirectly. but nevertheless, it's going to be severe.

for instance, most of the northern europe will turn pretty much uninhabitable (just like most of siberia is), once the gulf stream shutdown becomes real (as it's been predicted):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation

then we'll all be properly fucked up up here! (which could very well be already during our lifetime :!:)


so i'd like to think that if anyone out there is trying to work for this things, regardless of whether he personally made a buck or two at the process, i don't think it's the most stupid thing ever for granting someone an award. (and money money money: well i think eveyrone knows that nothing works without money today - and bigger the business, the bigger money in question, it's no secret. fighting for the environmental things is fighting against some multinational firms and well i think we all know how that relates to money).

and what comes to the prize money alone, i think gore said he'll give all his prize money for the climate research anyway - so maybe he's not just buying a new private jet (like paris hilton surely would have done).


most importantly, let's also remember that the prize wasn't awarded to al gore alone but also to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under United Nations. there are more than 150 UN countries that participate in it.
http://www.ipcc.ch/
so gore is more like just a frontman - somebody to speak for the issue. there's a big multinational nonprofitable organization behind this, it's not an oneman money making business. but in all, i think it's only good that IPCC has found such a frontman, someone who's known enough all around the world and who after all does have some credibility among the general public. surely he's not the best man who ever walked this planet but who could really ask for that?

because think of it people: the next IPCC report will state that the critical amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will go to red alert (=game over) within next few years only. it's not going to be in 2050 like some previous reports said but it'll happen around 2010.
so what we have here is a couple of years to do something, anything.   

yet awards alone don't change anything.


(@j: stalin huh? how approriate... sadly. )