I can't write an email this time.
What is done is done.
Besides destroying the credibility of the actual award, a group of Norwegians have debased the work of Muhammad Yunus, Kofi Anan, and Doctors Without Borders.
Climate change is a threat to the environment, not to "peace" and international order. While there is an arguement that environmental strife could cause wars in the far future, you can not win a Nobel on a hypothetical.
I went to the Nobel website and looked at some of the reasons people have won this award. Some examples are below:
-efforts to create economic and social development from below
-efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way
-her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
-efforts for democracy and human rights
-decades of untiting efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
All have several things in common:
- the recipient sacrificed many things to achieve their goal
- the recipient helped alleviate pain and suffering
I don't think anyone would argue that Gore has helped alleviate pain and suffering. So lets talk about sacrifice and walking the walk.
Al Gore flies around in a private jet and lives in a 20-room eight bedroom mansion. In 2006 he spent $30,000 in electric and gas bills. I have no issue with private jets or mansions, I only have an issue when you manipulate people into thinking that you care and telling them that they should sacrifice, that they should loose their factory jobs because the United States should cut down on carbon your jobs. Then you go back to your house and turn it down to 73 degrees because of the heat of the Tennessee summer.
The movie is full of false facts and claims that were recently ruled by a British judge to incite fear. Not only that, they could not be played in schools unless they also talked about the other side of the debate. This sounds familiar no? (Creationism vs. Darwinism)
Like Bush, who mentioned yellow cake and terrorists every time he wanted to take away our human rights and invade other countries, Al Gore does the same thing to a different end: Win over masses who have lost healthy skepticism, and a desire for truth, even though have been repeatedly lied to by the government for the past 7 years.
I would like to point out here that I don't think we should polute, waste energy, and look for alterative and sustainable sources of fuel. I think we should cut our carbon emessisions as a country, even if it means cutting jobs. However, I don't need to be manipulated through fear of the future to know this.
Here are some of the most BLATANT LIES in The Inconvenient Truth
Gore claims that the rises in carbon dioxide and temperature over 650,000 years show an "exact fit". That's wrong, says Mr Justice Burton: there is a connection, but not a precise correlation.
Gore predicts sea levels rising by up to 20ft in the near future. Not so, according to the judge: that will happen only after millions of years. OUTRIGHT LIES MEANT TO SCARE PEOPLE (Bush bush bush bush)
Those low-lying Pacific atolls that Gore claims have been evacuated? No evidence.
Polar bears who drowned swimming to look for ice? Again, no evidence: four bears have drowned - but because of a storm.
Global Warming is just like a religion for atheists and agnostics, and Gore is the new tele-evangelist. To
illustrate, I am going to substitute "God" for "Global Warming". You'll get the idea.
Gore stands up on stage, claims to know the future, have the key to our salvation, damns us sinful humans and our wicked ways, tell us we can change and we all have goodness in our hearts. He asks for money to support his cause , and spits out "proof" that "God" exists. He recruits, creates followers, who then go out and knock on doors and try to convince the skeptical and wicked ones who don't believe in "God" that they are wrong, and in fact, everything we need to know about "God" can be found in this movie called "An Inconvenient Truth."
Just like the scientists in the age of Copernicus, anyone who disagrees with "God" is ridiculed and accused of conspiring with the "Devil." (Let's make the "Devil" synonymous with "Corporations.") Although the scientists had the facts that the earth is round, revolves around the sun, etc, because it destroyed the foundations of "God," they were tortured or cowed into silence by the masses. Facts and the masses don't mix, but facts require a brain to digest them, and we all know the masses have no brains.
Here is a quote that my wonderful friend Stuart Schimler found, and it made me giggle.
"He's like the proverbial nut that grew into a giant oak by standing his ground," Patrick Michaels, a scholar with the free market Cato Institute, said in a statement. "We can only hope that he can parlay his prize into a run for the U. S. presidency, where he will be unable to hide from debate on his extreme and one-sided view of global warming."
Please fact check people! Here is more info on why Al Gore is a manipulator of truth.
1: Gore claims that a survey of 928 scientific articles on global warming showed not one disputed that man's gasses were mostly to blame for rising global temperatures. Only dumb journalists and bad scientists in the pay of Big Oil pretended there was any genuine debate.In fact, as Dr Benny Peiser, from Liverpool John Moores University has demonstrated, Gore relies on a bungled survey reported in Science.
Peiser checked again and found just 13 of those 928 papers explicitly endorsed man-made global warming, and 34 rejected or doubted it. The debate is real.
2: Gore says the man who first made him realise we were heating up the earth was his late professor, oceanographer Roger Revelle, who noticed carbon dioxide levels were increasing.In fact, Revelle shortly before his death co-authored a paper warning that "the scientific basis for a greenhouse warming is too uncertain to justify drastic action at this time". And some warming might even be good, he added.
3: Gore says ice cores from Antarctica, that go back 650,000 years, show the world got warmer each time there was more carbon dioxide in the air.In fact, as the University of California's Professor Jeff Severinghaus and others note, at least three studies of ice cores show the earth first warmed and only then came more carbon dioxide, many hundreds of years later. So does extra carbon dioxide cause a warming world, or vice versa?
4: Gore shows a series of slides of vanishing lakes (like Lake Chad) and snow fields (like Mt Kilimanjaro's) and blames global warming for it all.In fact, Lake Chad is so shallow it nearly dried out as far back as 1908, and again in 1984. So many more people depend on it now that the water pumped out for irrigation has quadrupled in 25 years. No wonder it's drying.
And Mt Kilimanjaro was losing its snows more than a century ago, not because of global warming, but -- says a 2004 study in Nature -- largely because deforestation has cut the moisture in the air.
And that worrying picture Gore shows of vanishing glaciers in the Himalayas? Newcastle University researchers last month said some glaciers there are now getting bigger again.
5: Gore shows scary maps of how New York and Shanghai would drown under 20 feet (600cm) of water if all Greenland's ice melted.In fact, various studies say Greenland's snow cover -- and Antarctica's -- is increasing or stable. The scientists of even the fiercely pro-warming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict seas will rise (as they have for centuries) not by Gore's 600cm by 2100, but by between 14 and 43cm.
6: Gore claims the seas have already risen so high that New Zealand has had to take in refugees from drowning Pacific islands.In fact, the Australian National Tidal Facility at Tuvalu in 2002 reported: "The historical record from 1978 through 199 indicated a sea level rise of 0.07 mm per year." Or the width of a hair.
Says Auckland University climate scientist Chris de Frietas: "I can assure Mr Gore that no one from the South Pacific islands has fled to New Zealand because of rising seas."
7: Gore claims global warming has helped cause coral reefs "all around the world" to bleach.In fact, new research from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the seas rapidly cooled from 2003 to 2005. And most bleaching is caused by El Nino events.
8: Gore claims hurricanes are getting worse because of global warming, and he shows pictures from Hurricane Katrina.In fact, America has this year had fewer hurricanes than usual. And most hurricane experts agree with Dr Chris Landsea of the US National Hurricane Centre, who says "there has been no change in the number and intensity of (the strongest) hurricanes around the world in the last 15 years".
9: Gore claims warming is causing new diseases and allowing malarial mosquitoes to move to higher altitudes.In fact, says Professor Paul Reiter, head of the Pasteur Institute's unit of insects and infectious diseases: "Gore is completely wrong here." Reiter says "the new altitudes of malaria are lower than those recorded 100 years ago" and "none of the 30 so-called new diseases Gore references are attributable to global warming".
10: Gore never even hints at other possible explanations scientists have given for the warming globe.And here's just one: increased solar activity. That's a theory suggested by leading American scientists such as Sallie Baliunas, Willie Soon, Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Some even predict we're about to suffer a new bout of global cooling. Says Professor Bill Gray, world hurricane authority from Colorado State University: "My belief is that three, four years from now, the globe will start to cool again."
Or as Khabibullo Abdusamatov, head of the Russian of Sciences astronomical observatory, warned last week: "On the basis of our (solar emission) research, we developed a scenario of a global cooling of the Earth's climate by the middle of this century."
I'm sorry to raise these inconvenient truths just when so many of our scientists seem to prefer the certainties of faith over the uncertainties of evidence.
The last part of the article was copied from an article by
Andrew BoltI feel so vehemently about this topic here are more resources:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhMGIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc
25 inconvenient truths for Al GoreBy Iain Murray a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/20060627/20060627_07.html
A few articles from TechCentralStation.http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=052506C
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Inconvenient Truths Indeed”
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=052406F
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Rachel Goreson”
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=060806D
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An Inconvenient Truth” by Dr Pat Michaels
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/08/09/an-inconvenient-truth/
Falsehoods in Gore’s An Inconvenient Truthhttp://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/gore.html
