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Nobel Gore
October 12th, 2007“A peace prize is a positive message and support to all those champions of peace in the world.”
Sure. And the Inquisition was a positive affirmation of all those who championed Christian values in the world. Just ask any Jew who became an NBA candidate after a positive adjustment on the rack.
The quote above, as self deluded as it may be, came from Ole Danbolt Mjoes the Nobel Committee chairman discussing their decision to give Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m sure Mjoes believes what he uttered, as did Miguel de Morillo when he said “Light ‘em up” at a witches pyre.
Perspective is a commodity rarer than oxygen on the moon whenever belief and politics intersect. The generation currently in control of the planet were whelped in time to suffer the excesses of the ecological revolution, and as a group want to “save the planet.” Their belief that humans are mightier than the entire globe, combined ecosystems, and that damned hot nearby sphere we call Sol, demonstrate more conceit than common sense.
It also shows a lack of historical evaluation about Mister Gore and his stock in trade: inciting unfounded panic.
Al has a unique gig. He finds small but credible scientific theories, then projects a worst case scenario in order to instill dread in the hearts of the mindless. This is akin to seeing a flowing garden hose and anointing yourself the new millenia Noah. Al does the same thing, and has been doing so for a long, long time.
Back in 1992, when Al had yet to occupy the seat for has been politicos know as the Vice Presidency, he published “Earth in the Balance”, which predicted imminent catastrophe through over population (populations knee-curved in many high-growth countries), pending famine (we’re now over-producing food) and social meltdown (which has always been the human state). In short, Gore promotes the End of Times and rakes in cold cash from the pockets of those unable to think critically or question their political heroes.
See, you can profit from stupidity without taxation.
This makes one ponder the motivation of the Nobel committee. There is no end of negative critique of Gore’s general environmental predictions (past and present) and even the core theories of anthropogenic global warming. In the absence of confirmed, irrefutable scientific proof, Gore’s doomsday forecasts should be held in suspicion deeper than that reserved for theology. After all, one unfounded belief is no better than the next.
Yet the Nobel committee’s acclimation echoes those who have not reviewed the debate, the claims, methodological errors, counter-claims, and relative proportions of man-made pollutants to the net ecomass. The Nobel committee substituted policy for peace, and in awarding Gore this prize, improved neither.
Yet, I speak to the wind. The fact that a few billion lemmings have run off the Cliffs of Gore. They will lay claim to any positive change in the weather, and amplify their collective fears whenever it rains or snows harder than they can recall (which given the copious amount of dope they may be smoking, this is likely an abbreviation period of time). The political die has been cast, and critical thinking has been nailed to the cross.
Hail Gore, our new Caesar.
‘He finds small but credible scientific theories, then projects a worst case scenario in order to instill dread in the hearts of the mindless. ‘
‘Runaway climate change is a theory of how things might go badly wrong for the planet if a relatively small warming of the earth upsets the normal checks and balances that keep the climate in equilibrium.
‘As with a lot of climate science, what used to be theory is now being seen in practice on the ground. New information makes clear that reaching the tipping point is a much more immediate threat than was previously thought.’
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1922045,00.html
‘The generation currently in control of the planet were whelped in time to suffer the excesses of the ecological revolution, and as a group want to “save the planet.” Their belief that humans are mightier than the entire globe, combined ecosystems, and that damned hot nearby sphere we call Sol, demonstrate more conceit than common sense.’
It’s quite easy to critisize and ridicule other people who seem to be doing their best to try to change the world for the better.
Perhaps the notion that we can ’save the planet’ is misleading, but how much enviromental destruction are we prepared to put up with?
In a survey, of 400 biologists, nearly 70 percent agreed with the prediction that up to 20 percent of all living populations could become extinct within 30 years (by 2028). Biologist E. O. Wilson estimated in 2002 that if current rates of human destruction of the biosphere continue, one-half of all species of life on earth will be extinct in 100 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction#Modern_mass_extinction
It’s quite easy to find some scraps of evidence to suggest that mankind is not responsible for global warming. It gives us a ‘convenient’ excuse for apathy.
Setting aside for a moment the argument about whether global warming is happening as a result of man’s activities.
We’ve been told by the IPCC report that “Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”
And seeing as this has been said by respected scientist we tend to (rightly or wrongly) believe them.
Yet what ‘gets’ to me is that as a species we don’t seem overly concerned, considering the disasterous results of even a relatively small temperature increase.
http://www.peterrussell.com/Earth/RunawayCC.php
Al Gore I think should be applauded for being one of the few people who actually seems to care enough about it to take some kind of action. Personally I feel guilty for not doing enough, because I know that my children’s future and the future of the planet seems to be being spoilt in some way, yet like nearly everyone else I do virtually nothing in the way of activism.
‘Hail Gore, our new Caeser’