While channel surfing a couple of months back, hit "The View" where one of the panelists stated that if Al Gore starts losing weight, he is probably going to take a run at the Presidency. Should Team Billary be looking over its shoulder?

Well Chris Hichens will be happy. But his purpose in hoping for a Nobel prioze and presidential run by Gore was to prevent Clinton from winning.

I hope AL runs as well. In fact maybe we should hope for him to win. Better inside the tent than outside.

He said sea levels would go up 20 feet, the ipcc says betwixt 1 & 1/2 to 2 & 1/2 feet.

He says there would be more intense hurricaines, noaa says we had more in the 50's than the 90's.

He says using energy will destroy the planet and films his movie in a private jet/limo that he's travelling in to show he cares,

He heard the ice is melting in antarctica so instead of looking at a weather site or the results of studies he flew 1/2 way around the world because he cares.

Oh and he spends 30k /yr on electricity without a dime on the voluntary green fund the local utility has set up.

All he's done is scared school kids we can force them to watch "the ring" to do that.

Not since Yasser indeed.

Kathy Shaidle gets a mention in a New York Slimes article about his award.

From sharecropper to the Moonbat prize! I'm sure Alfred thinks it's dynamite that his legacy has been hijacked by the usuual suspects. I guess we should be happy the winner wasn't Osama. Or did he win last year?

How exactly has he and the IPCC promoted world peace?

Al Gore has followed the Richard Nixon strategy.

The I think about the more I think this is the right thing.

1) He runs and loses the nomination....well that about spikes things on the environmental front since he is rejected, but you likely get Pres Hillary....hmmmm

2) He runs and wins th nomination but loses the election.....better because no Hillary and his environmentla stuff gets totally rejected at the ballot box, totally spiking him

3) He runs and runs and wins....No Hillary, stil a good thing....and well no he has to live up to his own crap and words. He'll have 18 months to not piss off the american public with his envirop costs etc, and if he does congress becomes republican and he cant get anything brought forward and he is rejected.

If he succeeds then it will be because the American people agree with the direction, and then you cant really argue, and no Hillary.

I am now all for an Al Gore run at the nomination and presidency....Go Al Go!

Its the peace of the grave, Jim.

As a small teenage boy I knew when I saw Al Gore Jr. for the first time on TV 19 years ago after cleaning up in the Super Tuesday primaries that he was full of crap even by politician standards; how is it possible a teenage boy's intuition is superior to the combined wisdom of the Nobel committee?

The Nobel Peace Prize is now officially dead, made into an irrelevant joke by a committee sabotaged by politics and leftwing agendas. As noted, what has he and the UN's IPCC done for peace in the world?

What has the UN done for peace? After all, the UN has shown its inability to do anything for any peoples anywhere - in Bosnia, in Rwanda, in Darfur, in Burma, - anywhere.

Now, what will Gore do? Try for the presidency? I doubt it; the American Left has Hillary and she wouldn't allow him near her, except to be her VP. That would put the two of them on a level operating within the purely fictional. Come to think of it - that's the truth; both of them do operate within a fictional world.

Gosh, andrew, we all know the answer to your question. It's because it's YOU, YOU, YOU and Your Wisdom. That's how it's possible.

Nice outline, stephen.

Why would a science fiction movie qualify someone for nobel prize?
Don't get it, could somebody enlighten?

I have to agree that the NObel Peace Prize is officially DEAD. What a farce to give the price to this poseur and his cronies.

God Help America!!!!!

Thanks ET.

However I just saw Dona Brazile's comments. She indicated that Gore would play Kingmaker role. Hmmmmm, yes more likely. He stays out of spotlight, gets committments from a candidate. They take the heat, he stays out o the ring.

I just dont know if thats realistic though. I dont know if his endorsement is transferrable, since he has made this such a personal issue, and would he really trust Hillary to carry out a promise, I have my doubts.

Would his endorsement significantly boost Edwards or Obama and would they be willing to pay the price to be seen as his "man".

He'll run I think, after the appropriate amount of coaxing. Would Edwards back out to endorse Gore? Obama wont. But a Gore/Barack ticket....wet dream of the democratic party.

Damn, wish I'd thought of this:

"Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize; Court Awards It To Bush"

http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2730

Kate: since you mentioned the British law case, I think it is relevant to point to some interesting analysis of what the judgment actually said.

Tim Lambert has a good analysis of it and discusses the context of some the "error".

Stoat also has a good look at the specific nine points (yes, in the actual ruling there are 9 "errors" not 11 as presented in a link earlier).

Regards,
John

The Nobel Peace Prize now carries about the same degree of importance as a trinket found in a Crackerjack box. What a f--king joke!

Any other questions?

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."

"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."

H. L. Mencken

The Nobel humanitarian organization has just created credibility suicide.

Will the Goreicle give the cash award to buy carbon credit for his opulence? Or will he buy a new SUV with it?

Good Lord, this insufferable POS somehow managed to make himself even MORE repugnant.

HE'S GETTING RICH OFF THIS SCAM, PEOPLE! WAKE UP!

Doc Wright sez: "All he's done is scared school kids "

You don't think that was the plan?

This comic book level hysteria movie is meant to impact the gullible. As Stalin said, give me them (children) before they're 9 and I will have them forever.

Gore has no chance of beating Hillary. Barack has less than a 5% chance.

The Nobel Peace Prize was always a bit of a joke, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that Gore won it. If this makes the prize seem an even greater joke than it already is then I'm all for it.

Still, it's hard not to shake one's head in dismay because the left-wing greenhouse gas crowd will use it to further their cause.

Gore will make even more money now. What will he do with it? Build an extension on his house? More trips in private jets?

The stench of hypocrisy gets ever greater....

You gotta give Gore his credit, he's right up there with Vince McMann of the World Wrestling Federation... One hell of a first class promoter.. He can convince the public of authinticity (sp) and reality out of Fakeism via theatrics..

bono must be pissed...

Can't win unless you get nominated.

Even though Algore says his mission is not political, it's more moral and spiritual, somebody had to put his name up.

Even though nominations are supposedly only to be put forward by credible history professors, this one seems to have been put up by science-fiction loving activists.

Power over the masses, anybody?

Ironically, Algore will not win the Nobel Prize for Science.

Own three homes, demand $100,000 appearance fees and make a movie riddled with errors and you can win the Nobel.

Put yourself in the street to face down the bullets and truncheons of a military government and you will be ignored.

It's a crazy world.

Al Gore's only noteworthy achievement:

Losing presidential election to George Bush (oh yeah, that's right Dubya stole it with help of US Supreme Court).

What a stain on the Nobel prize. The peace prize has been dead since Arafat won it anyway.

Gore is now in the company of Jimmy "peaunut" Carter who never met a blood-soaked thug-dictator he didn't love (so long as they hated jews) and good ol Yasser Arafat the godfather of terrorism who has left piles of corpses over many countries.

Being given the nobel peace prize is like a nasty slur. I'd be insulted.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been a piece of trash since they gave it to Yasser Arafat. It means nothing now.

Yes, Warwick here is list of recent winners:

2005 - Mohamed El Baradei (for stopping Iran's nuclear proliferation?)

2002 - Kofi Annan (Rwanda man, Oil for Arms)

2001 - Jimmy Carter (humiliated USA, emboldened Islamists everywhere, continues to embarass his country)

1994 - Yasser Arafat (corrupt lying killer who invented present Islamist tactics; oh, so peaceful)

What a joke.

Who was the Goracle competing against? Was there a person who helped Jews in the Holocaust?

Shamrock,

I forgot about those others. What a pathetic joke.

If you were going to sneeringly make fun of the nobel by satirizing it you couldn't do a better job than they've done themselves.

What kind of degenerate, moralless, honourless cretins are these people?

Next years winner: The dictator of Burma. You know, for leaving one or two monks alive. After all, it's a communist thug state.

Leftards (especially Eurotrash/internationalist leftards) are vermin. They're like cockroaches and maggots but less useful.

WL Mackenzie Redux:

Doc Wright sez: "All he's done is scared school kids "

You don't think that was the plan?

This comic book level hysteria movie is meant to impact the gullible. As Stalin said, give me them (children) before they're 9 and I will have them forever.

I think it was a side effect I think the plan was to make $$$$$$$ and get dames, oh and the president stuff,

PS watch what you say WL you are being watched,...

: )

Ironically, Algore will not win the Nobel Prize for Science.

Of course he won't. The amount of real science in his film could be placed in the eye of a needle without making it much more difficult to threat it.

Based on Hugh Hewit's article, Al Gore has a lot in common with Dalton McGuinty. Obviously a shared Liberal behavioural pattern. Even more confusing is why people reward them for such behaviour.

more and more it looks like Al Gore has sat on an airhose.

what is he trying to do, present himself as a walking Carbon sink.

Gore will not be entering the Presidential race. Folks give your head a shake, in terms of his personal wealth the peace prize $ are peanuts. He is a major share holder of a little company called Google - some of you may have heard of it, its stock topped $636.00 yesterday, oh, and by the way - he is on its board of directors!

I think that must be another Al Gore Imagination

http://investor.google.com/board.html

Judging by a few of the previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, it couldn't be more fitting that Al Gore and his cronies won. Perhaps the Nobel Peace Prize is a euphemism for Moron of the Year Prize in this particular case.

I think there's good chance Al Gore will use his (well-deserved) Nobel Peace Prize as a launching pad for a presidential bid. Many of his devotees think he is "owed" the presidency because he was robbed in 2000 even though he won the popular vote. He would be a formidable candidate against Hillary and would probably defeat any Republican nominee.

He [the Goreacle] would be a formidable candidate against Hillary and would probably defeat any Republican nominee.

Yeah right. Bush, reviled by the left, beat Gore in 2000 and beat the traitor Kerry in 2004. And a Republican will stomp the donks in 2008, especially if he’s a Conservative.

MikeW, you say Gore is a major shareholder in Google, didn't he claim he invented the computer/internet?

Looking over some of the more recent winners of the Nobel Peace Prize reads like a Rogues Gallery listing.

Nobel Prize...from the people who invented the "Participation" ribbon. Just so everyone can "feel good".

The nobel prize committee can't be all bad, they could have given him the award for science.

check out my link, he has nothing to do with Google just like he had nothing to do with the internet .

he imagines things on a large scale.

http://investor.google.com/board.html

I demand a recount!!

New prophecy from Goreacle: Gaia speaks directly/through her Prophet. Move over, Mo.
...-

"Polar Ice Cap Will Be Gone in 23 Years With Catastrophic Results"
Fox News

A dyn-o-mite decision!

Cal2: Gore sitting on air-hose. David Frum made a good point: watch Gore's weight. If he starts losing some he may run. The face is getting positively unnerving.

I believe Gore is insane - that the insanity arose not from losing per se but from losing to the dumbo Bush.

AND YET: I still cannot forget Al Gore in that debate with Ross Perot: he presented the best defence of global free trade I've ever encountered in MSM. Curiously, Clinton was a great free-trader too. Go figure.

The "internet" thing may be understated, but don't overlook my personal favourites:

http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html

* Al Gore got the translation of the official motto of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, completely backwards.

* Gore called The Washington Post's executive editor to tip him off on an "error" in the paper. "I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down on the front page of the paper," Gore said.
(Source: Florida Times Union 4/3/98 )

* Plus he lied to Courtney Love!

If Bush/Reagan/Dan Quayle had said half the things quoted in the article above, well, you know.

Maz,

Is this like Ed Broadbents prediction in 1988 that Health Care would be gone in 25 years because of Free Trade?

"Polar Ice Cap Will Be Gone in 23 Years With Catastrophic Results".....except the hard science people have evidence that the ice caps are enlarging.

The amusing thing about Gore's award is that it sure as hell would have never been awarded by the Nobel's Science Committee, idiots they aren't. So here you have the typical lefty Peace Committee numbskulls putting the perfume on Gore's pig.

I question the timing...

Seriously, Chris Hitchens makes a good case here that this prize is primarily intended by our witty Scandinavian friends to manipulate the U.S. presidential election. Between pressure from his backers and his own bloviated ego, the Goreinator will have a hard time saying no to a run for the nomination.

http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/

Alfred Nobel, creator of the five Nobel Prizes, was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. He disposed the Nobel Peace Prize in his will to be awarded 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."

Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939, but the nomination was retracted. Other nominees included Joseph Stalin, Fidel castro and Benito Mussolini. Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize despite his efforts to promote non-violent protests and fair government in India

Other Winners include: Yasser Arafat (murderer & terrorist) (1994); Kofi Annan (incompetent and corrupt leader who allowed Ramanda to happen & connected to the oil for drugs scandal in Iraq)(2000); Jimmy Carter Jr. (mild mannered and out of touch with reality leader) (2002).

One can only hope that Gore's war on GhG is as successful as the war on heavy metal music he conducted with his wife Tipper a few decades ago...Ask Twisted Sister's singer Dee Snyder how well the Gores managed on that one.
For a good tummy chuckle rent the documentary: "Heavy Metal: A headbangers journey" for the full inquisition. A must see!

""Polar Ice Cap Will Be Gone in 23 Years With Catastrophic Results".....except the hard science people have evidence that the ice caps are enlarging."

Enlarging in the Antarctic, decreasing in the Arctic. The NW passage was open for a couple of weeks this year, the first time it occurred in 100+ years.

And having the Arctic ocean open for navigation is good news. Nothing catastrophic here.

IMHO the best view on AGW is that of Bjorn Lomborg, as pointed by K. Shaidle in her blog. Lomborg believes AGW is real, but doesn't buy the alarmist nonsense of Gore & al. That's my position too.

As for handing the Nobel Prize to Gore, I can't believe the Nobel committee could not find a worthy recipient on this planet who actually worked for PEACE.

Gore will never take the wind from Hillary's sails at this point in the game. I'm expecting a Clinton/Obama ticket when the dust settles. Gore is so over politically here. He's got his Nobel prize, like Michael Moore got his Oscar, they are more dinner circuit/campus lefty icons, useful idiots for endorsing whatever crisis de jour the left serves up.

Al had faded into obscurity until this new Gaia gig opened up for him. I don't think the Dems would touch him as a serious candidate. If they go with Hillary/Obama they've got a twofer with the victim voters of which sadly there are so many.

Let's see: that's an Emmy, an Oscar, and now a Nobel Peace Prize: quite a collection of consolation prizes for a guy who lost the presidency by a few hundred votes. I'll bet Gore's so happy he could just scream.

Re: GORELERO

While Gore's record suggests he is a pathological liar or has only a tenuous grasp of reality, he occasionally tells the exact truth. From Gore's biographical entry in Wikipedia:

Gore opposed the Vietnam War and could have avoided serving overseas by accepting a spot in the National Guard that a friend of his family had reserved for him or by other means of avoiding the draft. Gore has stated that his sense of civic duty compelled him to serve in some capacity....As his unit was standing down, he applied for and received a non-essential personnel honorable discharge two months early in order to attend divinity school at Vanderbilt University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore

Never a truer word! He told the U.S. Army he was non-essential, and non-essential he remains. Why stoke his overinflated ego with any further honours or offices?

uh, penny? That the Antarctic ice cap (note: btw, it's not "ice caps" that are enlarging, just "ice cap", ie Antarctica; that the northern ice cap is decreasing in extent is well documented) is initially - and I stress "initially" - enlarging is actually due to global warming:

"It is an effect that has been predicted as a likely result of climate change," said David Vaughan, an independent expert on the ice sheets at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England.

In a region known for the lowest temperatures recorded on Earth, it normally is too cold to snow across the 2.7 million squares miles of the ice sheet. Any additional annual snowfall in East Antarctica, therefore, is almost certainly due to warmer temperatures, four experts on Antarctica said.

"As the atmosphere warms, it should hold more moisture," said climatologist Joseph R. McConnell at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, who helped conduct the study. "In East Antarctica, that means there should be more snowfall."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/20/MNGS9CS5141.DTL&type=science

So what we're seeing in Antarctica is exactly what was predicted in the warming models: a higher average temperature increases the amount of moisture held in the atmosphere over the Antarctic and increases the rate of local snowfall, which increases the extent - but only temporarily, if warming continues, after which melting will occur - of the southern ice cap.

Next year the Nobel committee plans to honor O. J. Simpson for his tireless search for the real killers of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

I agree with Penny. Gore isn't in any position to make a run at the presidential nomination. He supported Dean the last go-round and has pissed-off a lot of high profile Dems and their supporters with his anti-war rants.He has basically burned all his bridges and is in no position to begin a campaign while Hillary and the Magic Negro are well ensconced in theirs.
Even the most rabid Dem has a hard time buying into his global warming theories and that is his ultimate achilles heel. Who wants a president that wants to ruin the domestic economy with wild
and crazy ideas? The dems might be a little crazy but they're not totally insane.

For days I've been hoping Al would win, if only so that I could come over to SDA and watch all the little... err, budding scientists, go apeshit.

Well done.

Arthur A.: "For days I've been hoping Al would win ..."

A glimpse into the hopes and dreams of puds.

Richard Ball: Good one!

Arthur:

In case you hadn't noticed, Algore's prize was not earned for scientific truth.

Peace prize does not equal scientific truth in my world.

How exactly was the cause of world peace honoured here? Oh, yeah, the United Nations part of it, the one world government.

Being that the whole global warming/ethanol fuel thing is going to starve and cause malnutrition for third world peasants because it will drive up the price of food, I don't quite understand how Al is a hero.

This is almost as goofy as when Jimmy Carter won the Nobel prise for peanuts.

Let us see now.
The committee of fine people selected a guy that made a B grade science fiction movie, to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why?
What is it that the guy has done for peace?
If what Hewitt listed is true, the guy is obviously a liar.
Did the committee give Nobel Peace Prize to a liar?
There is something in the minds of these fine people that compels them to make irrational decisions. That would be because there, on the face of it is nothing specific to peace that the guy has done. One would expect that a peace prize is given in honor to someone that has done something outstanding, extraordinary, for the cause of peace.
As it is then, the Swedish committee that awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is composed of lotus eaters, those who go about being alive, not worrying about anything and are happy with themselves, sort of like that joke about the blond that was happily reaching with her arms here and there to see if she can catch some thoughts in her hands.

To me it doesn't make much sense to grow food to essentially make whiskey so we can burn it in cars and SUV's. I, and I believe the 3'rd world people would rather use the grain to produce actual food.

Thanks to Gore and Suzuki more people will starve in the furture as they shamed and scare mongered us to ease our consciences to burn rationed food (in the form of Ethanol) in cars rather than actually feed people. And its just starting, Grain prices are starting to go up, Grain supplies will become more scarce for food in 5 to 10 years as demand for Ethanol increases.

People will starve, but this is a small price to pay as Gore and Suzuki will have achieved their goal in that we will have reduced out CO2 output.

The starved people won't care lot if the world warms up by 0.5 Deg. More money for Gore and the rest of us.

Ethanol produces 70% more greenhouse gases than oil.

Waddabunchomorons.

Make that Norwegian crowd instead of Swedish

If those Euro intellectuals believe that Big Al belongs deserves the same award as that that old kleptocrat, terrorist, Yasser Arafat, who am I to argue? Yasser stole his millions from some of the most desperate and poor people on the planet. At least Big Al is getting his millions for the most part by fleecing urban rubes. Although he is having a trickle down effect:

“NEW DELHI: This is eco-logic gone perverse. Now, if a UK citizen flies to India on a holiday to see the Taj Mahal, he can cleanse himself of the guilt of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted from burning fuel by ensuring farmer families in India stop using diesel pump sets and instead begin pumping water manually….”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Poor_joke_on_carbon_credits/rssarticleshow/2381365.cms

Too bad Yasser is not with us anymore. Wouldn’t it be grand to see him congratulating Al and planting a kiss on his cheek with those big luscious lips that he had?

(Hope you weren’t in the middle of a meal)

Just a note -- Al Gore never won an Oscar. His film won two Oscars, but he was not credited with the wins.

My apologies - Gore is not on the board of Google, my usually reliable source was incorrect, I should have checked for myself. I am still of the opinion he was an early investor in Google and retains his shares.

Nobel prizes have been awarded for 105 years. Each category gets a set amount of money. My question is: Did Nobel leave enough money, that invested wisely over the years, raises the money for the prize. What was the original amount of his fortune. Where does the money come from.
More importantly, where is the money invested, maybe we should use the same people so we can also get rich.

Huh? My friend won the prize in '85 as part of a group of physicians.
Gore won, along with an internationally respected inclusive group of the most highly respected researchers in the world.
You want to bicker about insignifigant tripe?
I remember being at this site when you whiners were scapegoating a supposed non credible placement of a temperature recording device that some fanatic obsessed over and you all bought into.

I mean it, get over your infantile pretentions of meaningful rhetort and criticism. I don't care if Gore is so stunningly insipid as to glorify the death of animals, he has been awarded THE Nobel Prize for Peace, and it is said and done, and you can't do anything about it but eat crow over the fact that you are fricking stupid and wrong about climate change, and the rest of the world moves on without you.

Small dead Brain Cells, that would be a more witty name for this trash.

"...fricking stupid and wrong"?

Such high rhetoric, mikmik; we're all falling at your feet to retract our witty trash... NOT.

Too bad that same court cant order gore to return that undeserved prize i mean he should be made to return that oscar becuase his film is certianly no documentry