The Nobel Peace Prize is Officially a Joke

October 12, 2007 in Alarmism, Global Warming

I wasn’t aware that they were in the business of giving the Nobel Peace Prize to fear mongering lunatics.

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.

So let me get this straight. A guy makes a movie and goes around spreading lies and untruths, and he deserves to be honored in this way? Yeah, from this moment on I don’t take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously anymore.

Funny that just yesterday I was given a link to an article about Al Gore’s convenient untruths.

ERROR: Gore asserted that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”. The judge said: “This is distinctly alarmist and part of Gore’s “wake-up call”. It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - “but only after, and over, millennia.” The judge added that “the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.”

ERROR: The drying up of Lake Chad was used in the film as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming, said the judge. “However, it is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. “It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”

ERROR: Gore ascribes Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans to global warming, but there was “insufficient evidence to show that.”

He doesn’t even deserve the prize according to Alfred Nobel’s will, which says that the prize should be awarded to “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”

How does that describe anything Al Gore has done with his climate crusade?  If anything, it’s been the opposite: spreading fear and panic, bullying and coercing people into believing in his cause, condemning those who refuse to buy the hype.

Now, Al Gore will go into history in the company of great people like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa.  He does not deserve such honors.