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> "Earl Evleth" <evleth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 10/04/08 9:28, in article 47fdc189$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"0BN0Z"
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>>> George Bush appears to have beaten Al Gore again.
>> Where is Bush's Nobel Prize?
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> ROTFLMAO
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> Nobel Award A Political Gimmick
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> Sunday Herald Sun
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> October 14, 2007 12:00am
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> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22579885-663,00.html
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> Czech President Vaclav Klaus cast doubt on Gore's contribution to the
> cause of peace, the ostensible purpose of the Norwegian prize.
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> 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".
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> In Norway, the main opposition party expressed its surprise at the
> decision.
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> 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."
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> In France, a sour note was sounded by a leading French climate sceptic,
> former Socialist education minister and award-winning geochemist Claude
> Allegre.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Others queried the Nobel's focus only on climate change.
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> 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."
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> AFP
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Bush stole the 2000 presidential election
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