"Earl Evleth" <evleth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"0BN0Z"
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>> George Bush appears to have beaten Al Gore again.
> Where is Bush's Nobel Prize?
ROTFLMAO
Nobel Award A Political Gimmick
Sunday Herald Sun
October 14, 2007 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22579885-663,00.html
THE award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the UN's top climate
panel on Friday has prompted a fresh chorus of criticism from global
warming sceptics -- with one dubbing the award "a political gimmick".
The former vice-president has an Oscar for his film on climate change,
An Inconvenient Truth, and the Nobel prize proved a laurel too far for
some of his detractors.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus cast doubt on Gore's contribution to the
cause of peace, the ostensible purpose of the Norwegian prize.
In a statement, the climate change sceptic said he was "a bit surprised
that Al Gore has received a peace prize because the connection between
his activities and world peace are vague and not very clear".
In Norway, the main opposition party expressed its surprise at the
decision.
Gjermund Hagesaether, from the far-right Progress Party, said: "We
believe it is strange to give the prize to Al Gore for having made a
film on climate that is subjective, one-sided and full of one-sided
assertions."
In France, a sour note was sounded by a leading French climate sceptic,
former Socialist education minister and award-winning geochemist Claude
Allegre.
He brushed off Friday's announcement as "a political gimmick", saying:
"The amount of nonsense in Al Gore's film! It's all politics, it's
designed to intervene in American politics. It's scandalous. There's a
presidential election upcoming in the United States, and it's well known
that Gore wants to run."
The White House -- which Gore lost to George W. Bush in 2000 after the
intervention of the US Supreme Court -- was studiously neutral on the
award.
Others queried the Nobel's focus only on climate change.
Bjorn Lomborg, author of A Sceptical Environmentalist, said: "The Nobel
Prize committee should have focused on the other great forgotten
problems like malnourishment, malaria, the lack of free trade in
farming, rather than climate change."
And one of the world's foremost meteorologists called the theory that
helped Al Gore win a share of the Nobel prize the product of "people who
don't understand how the atmosphere works".
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane
forecasts, spoke to a packed lecture hall at the University of North
Carolina and said humans were not responsible for global warming.
"We're brainwa****ng our children," said Gray, 78, a longtime professor
at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie and being
fed all this. It's ridiculous."
AFP
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"How does a small increase in a very small component [of CO2] have such
a large apparent effect [On Climate]? The truth is that no one has yet
shown that it does." Don Aitkin
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