(There's another thread in Breaking News about this, but given the thread title and typically negative comments, I hope this isn't considered the same thing and merged with that crap.)

Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. panel, CNN.com, Oct. 12, 2007:

Outstanding!!

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He can use that money to buy more credits.


Seriously though; I'm happy he won even though I disagree with him and his global warming BS.

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Here's a link to the official announcement - The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007:

And it doesn't look like he'll be buying any credits with his half of the prize.

Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize - statement of Al Gore:

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Curly

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goering

Giving Gore the Peace Prize is like recognizing Clinton for his work on women's rights and making us aware of the problems of sexual harassment.

I suppose you can rationalize anything if you try hard enough.


RJ

well we tried or best to prevent the nobel panel from reaching their voting apparatus..but we didn't get it done this time, Oslo isn't big on road blocks and water cannon...

what a joke....maybe he'll quite ducking invites to debates among experts on the issue. I wonder what he'll do with the money? buy more offsets? Lets see, how will he get to the event to accept...I think...oooohh, private jet?

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Congrats to Gore. Anything that raises the public/media profile of this important issue is good in my books.

From Post #3:
~My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.~

So what if he does travel in a private jet? That's well within his personal financial means.

What are the criteria for the peace prize - does anyone know offhand to give a good summary?

I would think that work on environmental issues would fall under a scientific heading, rather than this.

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Maybe he'll buy himself a small tropical island somewhere, dissappear and discontinue his retarded little charade ?

Maybe he'll realize he's only impressing himself and an unknown number of ignoramuses willing to buy his nonsense as "science" ?

Doubt it though. We can HOPE :-)

What Gore has been doing is not exactly science. He's been dedicated to the public awareness side of the issue. And that's what he's recognized for here.

Raising global awareness of this issue contributes to world peace in the opinion of the Nobel committee.

I don't know. I hope that they continue to keep Hollywood-like celebrity out of the other awards, though.

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The Norwegian Nobel Institute- Nomination Process Index

This is what I'm curious about. I'm wondering what the rationale for this is. I would think that a peace prize would be reserved for those who have brokered peace through statesmanship or addressed crises of human rights.

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Thanks for the link. I perused through some of the links on the page, but saw more about justification of the location, committee size, etc as well as the people who were allowed to make nominations. Perhaps I just missed it, but I didn't see the criteria required for nominees.

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

good deal, he can provide some more grade school proselytization...

And as far as being able to “afford” to fly in his own private jet, uhmm, do I have to point out the irony here? Or the hypocrisy?

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No individual can plan his own existence in their view.

So the state planners must arrogate to themselves the right to manipulate any sector of the economic system if the good of “society” or the “general welfare” is paramount.

Ipso- if the rights of the individual get in the way, the rights of the individual must be sublimated.

The Road to Serfdom
FA Hayek (interpretation)


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