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The recent announcement by the Norwegian Nobel Committee that the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize was being awarded to Albert Gore and the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a disgrace. The following
article from the Patriot Perspective outlines legitimate reasons why Mr.
Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do
not deserve the honor of the award.
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Albert Gore, Patron Saint of gaseous emissions
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE
Albert Gore, Ignoble Laureate
In 1867, Swedish chemist and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel
made a remarkable discovery: By combining highly explosive nitroglycerin
with an inert absorbent such as diatomaceous clay, he could stabilize the
volatile chemical, making it far safer to handle and transport. He thus
patented "dynamite," and made a fortune from its production around the
world.
Nobel was subject to much condemnation for the military application of his
inventions and consequently, as stipulated in his 1896 will, he set aside
the equivalent of more than $100 million in trust to establish annual awards
for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and, of course, the "Peace
Prize" -for "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for
fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing
armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." (An award for
economics was instituted in 1969.)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, consists of
five members who are elected by the Norwegian parliament. For almost a
century, the Nobel Committee has bestowed its award upon leaders who were
notable for their contributions to world peace-recipients such as Martin
Luther King, Mother Teresa and Lech Walesa.
The Committee, however, has been under the thumb of the Norwegian Labor
Party for more than a decade, and the results have been telling. A number of
recent prize-winners pale in comparison to previous laureates, and their
achievements, such as they are, can hardly be said to embody the stated
purpose of the award.
In 1994, for example, the Committee conferred the Peace Prize upon Yasser
Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in
the Middle East." Arafat, of course, was less a peacemaker than a terrorist,
and his treachery did more to undermine Middle East peace than any regional
leader other than Saddam Hussein. Palestinians would counter that Peres and
Rabin were also terrorists, but not one single Jew under their watch walked
into a crowded market or onto a bus with the express purpose of detonating a
bomb and killing as many non-combatant men, women and children as possible.
In 2001, the Committee awarded the Peace Prize to the United Nations and its
General Secretary Kofi Annan, "for their work for a better organized and
more peaceful world." And yet terrorism and genocide flourished under Annan'
s watch.
The following year, the award went to Jimmy Carter, "for his decades of
untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to
advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social
development." Carter's feeble leadership undermined U.S. strength at home,
helped give rise to Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and damaged
democracies around the world-and he's still at it today.
Clearly, the Peace Prize loses its luster when awarded in accordance with
contemporaneous political agendas rather than Nobel's stated criteria.
Perhaps no award other than Arafat's, however, has damaged the standing of
the Peace Prize more than the Committee's 2007 award to Albert Arnold Gore
and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Committee praised Gore, noting, "His strong commitment, reflected in
political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle
against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done
most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to
be adopted."
For his part, Gore said, "I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a
political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
To the contrary, the "climate crisis" is a colossal "political issue" that
Gore has gussied up as "a moral and spiritual challenge." (That's why we
tagged Gore "the populist pope of eco-theology" after the release of his
"Inconvenient Truth".)
It is notable that Gore's Nobel Prize was not for scientific achievement,
but then Gore's pseudo-science declarations and political motives have been
thoroughly debunked in, among many places, my comprehensive essay, "Global
Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame."
However, it is most notable that Gore has accomplished exactly nothing in
terms of "fraternity between nations," or "the abolition or reduction of
standing armies" or "the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
This year, to its eternal shame, the Nobel Committee passed over a long list
of more deserving nominees, a sample of whom were listed in a Wall Street
Journal editorial: Burmese monks challenging their authoritarian government;
Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders;
Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam jailed for his support of
pro-democracy groups; chess champion Garry Kasparov and the several hundred
Russians who have been jailed for resisting President Vladimir Putin's
descent toward authoritarianism; Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil
Saakashvili who, despite the Kremlin's malfeasance, stayed true to the
spirit of their peaceful "color" revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia; Britain
's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern (and the voters of Northern
Ireland), who in March set aside decades of hatred in favor of joint
Catholic-Protestant rule; Chinese bloggers who risk arrest by bringing
uncensored information to their countrymen; scholar and activist Saad Eddin
Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour, and other democracy
campaigners in Egypt; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim
Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, which helps
North Korean refugees escape to safety. To name a few...
And what of those who have given their lives in order to depose a murderous
dictator and establish a free Iraq? No mention of them.
As for Gore, caveat emptor. He has a limitless political agenda, and he and
his green minions are now weighing a draft for president using his Nobel
Laureate status as a launch pad. However, the greatest obstacle to a Gore
draft is the fact that he has irrevocably distinguished himself as a
disingenuous politico, a case study in narcissistic personality disorder.
Indeed, Gore is an ignoble laureate of the first order.
Quote of the week
"It is hard to say which of Al Gore's awards seems more improbable: his
Academy Award, although he does not possess a single skill required for
filmmaking, or his Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming,
although he has no technical skills in that area and he has misled the world
profoundly as to the danger. It just goes to show how good life can be once
you officially are designated a victim of George W. Bush." -Tony Blankley
Open query
"People are asking the obvious: How has Gore's alarmism on global warming
aided world 'peace'?" -Brent Bozell
The BIG lie
"Yes, the prize is rightly his. No one has devoted himself with such
dedication and intellectual probity to a cause as important as this one. No
one. So he deserves the Nobel. And the country deserves Al Gore to make
another run at the presidency, he having lost his last try through chicanery
and the arrogance of a party for which lying is second nature. Or maybe
first." -Marty Peretz, editor of The New Republic
This week's 'Braying Jackass' award
"In the scientific community, there was literally zero dissent [on global
warming]. But at the same time...[there is] a massive propaganda campaign by
the Exxon corporation and by others... that has been very, very successful
at persuading the media not to cover this issue seriously and reporters
simply don't go read the science." -Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Peace Prize was being awarded to Albert Gore and the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a disgrace. The following
article from the Patriot Perspective outlines legitimate reasons why Mr.
Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do
not deserve the honor of the award.
BC
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Albert Gore, Patron Saint of gaseous emissions
PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE
Albert Gore, Ignoble Laureate
In 1867, Swedish chemist and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel
made a remarkable discovery: By combining highly explosive nitroglycerin
with an inert absorbent such as diatomaceous clay, he could stabilize the
volatile chemical, making it far safer to handle and transport. He thus
patented "dynamite," and made a fortune from its production around the
world.
Nobel was subject to much condemnation for the military application of his
inventions and consequently, as stipulated in his 1896 will, he set aside
the equivalent of more than $100 million in trust to establish annual awards
for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and, of course, the "Peace
Prize" -for "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for
fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing
armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." (An award for
economics was instituted in 1969.)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, consists of
five members who are elected by the Norwegian parliament. For almost a
century, the Nobel Committee has bestowed its award upon leaders who were
notable for their contributions to world peace-recipients such as Martin
Luther King, Mother Teresa and Lech Walesa.
The Committee, however, has been under the thumb of the Norwegian Labor
Party for more than a decade, and the results have been telling. A number of
recent prize-winners pale in comparison to previous laureates, and their
achievements, such as they are, can hardly be said to embody the stated
purpose of the award.
In 1994, for example, the Committee conferred the Peace Prize upon Yasser
Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in
the Middle East." Arafat, of course, was less a peacemaker than a terrorist,
and his treachery did more to undermine Middle East peace than any regional
leader other than Saddam Hussein. Palestinians would counter that Peres and
Rabin were also terrorists, but not one single Jew under their watch walked
into a crowded market or onto a bus with the express purpose of detonating a
bomb and killing as many non-combatant men, women and children as possible.
In 2001, the Committee awarded the Peace Prize to the United Nations and its
General Secretary Kofi Annan, "for their work for a better organized and
more peaceful world." And yet terrorism and genocide flourished under Annan'
s watch.
The following year, the award went to Jimmy Carter, "for his decades of
untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to
advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social
development." Carter's feeble leadership undermined U.S. strength at home,
helped give rise to Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and damaged
democracies around the world-and he's still at it today.
Clearly, the Peace Prize loses its luster when awarded in accordance with
contemporaneous political agendas rather than Nobel's stated criteria.
Perhaps no award other than Arafat's, however, has damaged the standing of
the Peace Prize more than the Committee's 2007 award to Albert Arnold Gore
and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The Committee praised Gore, noting, "His strong commitment, reflected in
political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle
against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done
most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to
be adopted."
For his part, Gore said, "I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a
political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
To the contrary, the "climate crisis" is a colossal "political issue" that
Gore has gussied up as "a moral and spiritual challenge." (That's why we
tagged Gore "the populist pope of eco-theology" after the release of his
"Inconvenient Truth".)
It is notable that Gore's Nobel Prize was not for scientific achievement,
but then Gore's pseudo-science declarations and political motives have been
thoroughly debunked in, among many places, my comprehensive essay, "Global
Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame."
However, it is most notable that Gore has accomplished exactly nothing in
terms of "fraternity between nations," or "the abolition or reduction of
standing armies" or "the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
This year, to its eternal shame, the Nobel Committee passed over a long list
of more deserving nominees, a sample of whom were listed in a Wall Street
Journal editorial: Burmese monks challenging their authoritarian government;
Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders;
Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam jailed for his support of
pro-democracy groups; chess champion Garry Kasparov and the several hundred
Russians who have been jailed for resisting President Vladimir Putin's
descent toward authoritarianism; Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil
Saakashvili who, despite the Kremlin's malfeasance, stayed true to the
spirit of their peaceful "color" revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia; Britain
's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern (and the voters of Northern
Ireland), who in March set aside decades of hatred in favor of joint
Catholic-Protestant rule; Chinese bloggers who risk arrest by bringing
uncensored information to their countrymen; scholar and activist Saad Eddin
Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour, and other democracy
campaigners in Egypt; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim
Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, which helps
North Korean refugees escape to safety. To name a few...
And what of those who have given their lives in order to depose a murderous
dictator and establish a free Iraq? No mention of them.
As for Gore, caveat emptor. He has a limitless political agenda, and he and
his green minions are now weighing a draft for president using his Nobel
Laureate status as a launch pad. However, the greatest obstacle to a Gore
draft is the fact that he has irrevocably distinguished himself as a
disingenuous politico, a case study in narcissistic personality disorder.
Indeed, Gore is an ignoble laureate of the first order.
Quote of the week
"It is hard to say which of Al Gore's awards seems more improbable: his
Academy Award, although he does not possess a single skill required for
filmmaking, or his Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming,
although he has no technical skills in that area and he has misled the world
profoundly as to the danger. It just goes to show how good life can be once
you officially are designated a victim of George W. Bush." -Tony Blankley
Open query
"People are asking the obvious: How has Gore's alarmism on global warming
aided world 'peace'?" -Brent Bozell
The BIG lie
"Yes, the prize is rightly his. No one has devoted himself with such
dedication and intellectual probity to a cause as important as this one. No
one. So he deserves the Nobel. And the country deserves Al Gore to make
another run at the presidency, he having lost his last try through chicanery
and the arrogance of a party for which lying is second nature. Or maybe
first." -Marty Peretz, editor of The New Republic
This week's 'Braying Jackass' award
"In the scientific community, there was literally zero dissent [on global
warming]. But at the same time...[there is] a massive propaganda campaign by
the Exxon corporation and by others... that has been very, very successful
at persuading the media not to cover this issue seriously and reporters
simply don't go read the science." -Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.