Al Gore gets Nobel Peace Prize? You’re kidding me right?
I am in total agreement with his Grace on this:
Cranmer felt slightly nauseous when former US Vice President turned environmental campaigner Al Gore won an Academy Award for his environmental docu-fiction ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. But now, out of 181 potential candidates, he has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The citation for Mr Gore read: ‘His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change… He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.’
Cranmer now feels positively sick. Rather like a peerage, this award is now devoid of prestige, completely discredited, and utterly without honour. The awarding of this prize to an unqualified charlatan is testimony to the extent that Mother Earth has become the only globally-unifying metanarrative for the postmodern age. Mr Gore said: ‘We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.’ Environmentalism is the new religion – not so much incarnate as infoliate – and to question or reject this ‘green’ faith is to risk the ages-old accusations of narrow-mided bigotry or spiritual apostasy.
Yet only this week, a British judge ruled that schoolchildren could not see Mr Gore’s film without accompanying notes which give a balancing view to some of his claims. The Times records the abundant errors, but it seems that matters of truth are of little consequence to the Nobel selection panel. According to them, Al Gore now ranks deservedly alongside some of the greats of history: Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mikhail Gorbochev, the Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu, Lech Walesa, Mother Teresa, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Henry Kissinger, Martin Luther King Jnr…
Cranmer hasn’t seen the secret list of this year’s hopefuls, but is inclined to think that any of the other 180 nominees would have been rather more worthy. Not least because Mr Gore will almost certainly now use this global accolade to upset Hilary Clinton and Barak Obama, and enter the 2008 race to be the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Cranmer will then feel the sickest he has felt in a very long while.
Perhaps the following will be sobering:
Thanks for posting the video(s). Fascinating!!
“Climate change” or “Man the centre of all things”?
“It’s getting hotter! It must be because of me!”
The thing is, it’s nearly impossible I would imagine for a scientist to get funding for a project that would disprove anthropocentric climate change. All the money is being thrown at supporting the doomsday scenario.
“All the money is being thrown at supporting the doomsday scenario”.
Um, that’s a joke. Right?
Or did I miss the huge amounts of money being used to spent to shore up
the case for climate change denial by the oil industry and other
commercial interests? (Such as the oil and mining interests who
financially backed the recent court case in the UK against the Al Gore
film – whose overall message the judge found in favour of, don’t
forget).
Still, I suppose the amounts invested in scientific research do dwarf
the pitiful resources available to the oil and mining industries. Oh,
wait…
I’m not quite sure it’s “climate change denial”. Rather it’s wanting to have a proper examination of the evidence.
As regards the recent High Court Case, to be fair the errors in the film didn’t need a multi-million pound legal team to point them out.
Here’s one listing of the amount of money spent in the US (compiled in 2005, so not totally up to date, but gives you an idea). http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=289 Click on the PDF file to see the details of foundation and governmental money being spent. Fascinating reading.