And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to...

[Bill V]

Al Gore?



OK, I don't want to turn this into a debate about global warming. We've already beaten that dead horse many times here. But I do want to ask this...



Even if you accept the premise of Global Warming (and I know many of you don't--like I said, set those opinions aside for the time being), how does combatting Global Warming qualify as a "peace" activity? It's not like prevention of Global Warming is somehow stopping wars, or preventing torture, or fighting poverty, or improving human rights, or any of the other activities which have received the Nobel Peace Prize in the past. Some might say that the improvements brought around by reducing Global Warming may reduce future warfare over increasingly limited natural resources--but that, by any standard, including by comparison to past Peace Prize winners, is quite a stretch, IMHO.



Thoughts?

 

[Bill V]

More info on the Nobel Peace Prize, including a list of past winners and the reasons for those selections...

 

[Travis Munday]

Wow...Those Swedes must really be scared of losing all their snow and ice.

 

[EddieS'04]

And the award goes to the Pompus A$$ to the left. Now he will try for Prez. again, as per Leno last night.:wacko:

 

[TomT]

I would kill to win a nobel peace prize.

 

[user 62394]

Because fighting global warming is like giving the planet a hug.



Rocks

 

[Woppy V]

I would kill to win a nobel peace prize.

classic!

 

[2]

Unbelievable, when you look at the list of previous winners in the wiki link provided by Bill V I don't see how Al Gore fits into the list.

 

[Joe Rampino]

Peace Prize? Al Gore is responsible for starting the war on global warming!

 

[D Knx]

Why give a PEACE Prize to some one who advocates SAVING THE PLANET.:blink:



D-

 

[Velo Sprout]

10,000 years ago, Chicago was under a mile-thick layer of glacial ice. Despite ample evidence of the glaciers in the form of the glacial morraines, no fossil evidence has yet been found of the SUV's that caused the glaciers to recede. Perhaps I could get a government grant to search for them...

 

[Rich Stern]

The biggest liberal political seal of approval has been handed to the purveyor of the biggest liberal political scam in history.



Are you surprised?

 

[shawn stonbraker 2]

What a waste of an award. Oh wait, he did invent the internet also. Maybe that played a part in this.:wacko:

 

[Bill V]

Thank you, everyone, for completely ignoring my request to not have this be a discussion about Gore or global warming. When it comes to meeting low expectations, you definitely don't disappoint. :angry:

 

[Nelson Atwell]

So I am wondering why he didn't get a Nobel Prize for inventing the Internet?



...and Bill, how could we have a discussion at all about your post without discussing Gore, the winner, or global warming, which you mentioned in your original post? If you didn't want anyone to mention anything in your original post, you should have titled your post, "Ignore This Post". I think you are being oversensitive.



I think you may have answered one of your own questions though in the original post. The only reasoning behind this being a Peace Prize, is that if this single, puny human has some positive effect on the Global climate in a positive way, then perhaps future wars over water rights, food, and other natural resources may be prevented.



If you think about it, each of us are simply specks of flesh on a huge Earth in an even larger Universe. Our lifetimes are not even a blip compared to the billions of years in the past. It takes quite an ego for one of us to think that we have any impact individually on something like the climate or even World events.

 

[Edward Stringer]

My God!!

After reading all the above, it's no wonder the planet is doomed.

 

[Rick Kent]

Thank you, everyone, for completely ignoring my request to not have this be a discussion about Gore or global warming. When it comes to meeting low expectations, you definitely don't disappoint.

You're welcome.

 

[EddieS'04]

Thank you, everyone, for completely ignoring my request to not have this be a discussion about Gore or global warming. When it comes to meeting low expectations, you definitely don't disappoint

Dont be so blind as to think when you post something like this, it will not stir the pot.

It always has and always will,,,:lol:

 

[Ryan Schaecher]

Nobel Peace Prize....



Al Gore

Jimmy Carter

Yasser Arafat

Anwar Sadat

UNICEF

United Nations Peace Keeping Forces (can anyone say Para Military force?!)

Kofi Annan

IAEA



Various United Nations groups have one it (7) times...



Yep. Credible. Nice.



Runner up this year was a woman who saved 2500 kids from NAZI gas chambers....

 

[Tom Schindler]

RShek,



You honestly do not think a war monger like Bush would get the peace prize...would you?





Tom