Nobel committee had to get one right eventually

Al Gore shares Nobel peace prize with IPCC

OK, suppose you have not heard that the IPCC and Al Gore will share the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on getting the word out on the role of human activity in climate change.  For about the next week, you’ll hear of little else. Heaven knows most MSM journalism critters lack the ability to write anything interesting about stem cell targeting, and they wouldn’t know Giant MagnetoResistance if it bit them in their hard drives.

I am not sure how meaningful the Peace Prize is anymore, since it’s been given to Henry Kissinger and Yassar Arafat.  But predictably the “don’t wanna hear about no ‘vironment” right wing is freaking out over it anyway.

All I can say is, kudos to Al Gore, and to the committee as well.  This was a good choice.  Too bad the Supreme Court is giving the award to Bush.

Posted by George on 10/12/07 at 06:03 PM
Politics •

  1. It will give him some pocket change while he out spreading his half truths and no realistic solutions policy.

    Posted by james old guy  on  10/13/07  at  02:29 PM

  2. Right on schedule…

    Posted by george.w  on  10/13/07  at  03:01 PM

  3. Oh my, seems Dr William Gray agrees with me.

    Posted by james old guy  on  10/15/07  at  08:25 AM

  4. Oh my, seems Dr William Gray agrees with me.

    That he does. Dr. Gray is the old-school cranky contrarian (though somewhat past his sell-by date as far as predictive methodologies go) and who knows?  His prediction of a cyclical reversal and a cooling trend could turn out to be right, and literally thousands of scientists analyzing cross-disciplinary data from satellites, geological strata, tree rings, ice cores, coral reef cores, and ocean temperature readings could turn out to be wrong.  Maybe it doesn’t matter if we burn gigatonnes of fossil carbon every year.

    That’d be nice, but I’m not counting on it.

    Posted by george.w  on  10/15/07  at  08:45 AM

  5. Thousands of so called scientist supported by grants that they receive to produce data that supports the theory the grant is written for, hardly an unbiased source.

    Posted by james old guy  on  10/15/07  at  11:14 AM

  6. Well reality does have a well known liberal bias…

    Posted by webs05  on  10/15/07  at  12:20 PM

  7. Yo DOF, I think we both have a fan LOL!  big surprise

    Posted by webs05  on  10/26/07  at  10:57 AM

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