I don't think that Gore deserved the award. I'm not down playing his efforts to bring awareness to global climate change but his actions have nothing to do with any peace effort.
On the other hand Rush Limbaugh had a great suggestion on who should have received the award, General Petraus and the US military. Now I have nothing against our troops fighting overseas, but I really don't see them as messengers of peace. I think Rush may be dipping his hand in the prescription bottle again.
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You're right. I was wrong about him winning it for the fictional movie he made. Apparently he and the panel for the farce that is the UN won it for pushing that same fictional agenda to others in the world.
And even if it weren't fiction, I still do not know what it has to do with peace.
Unbelievable....you're straight out of Jesus Camp.
besides trying to sell a book, a movie and a lecture tour what is Al Gore's motivation? pandering to the evil solar industry? give me a break.
I mean, he's as smart as the CEOs who sold out humanity for a couple of bucks.
According to a February 27, 2007 article in The Concord Monitor, "Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s." During his tenure in Congress, Gore co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste in 1978–79, and hearings on global warming in the 1980s. On 14 May 1989 while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in the Washington Post which argued that, "Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with the planet Earth. The world's forests are being destroyed; an enormous hole is opening in the ozone layer. Living species are dying at an unprecedented rate."
On Earth Day 1994, Gore launched the GLOBE program, an education and science activity that, according to Forbes magazine, "made extensive use of the Internet to increase student awareness of their environment".
In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95-0) the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations. The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
And so on...
I guess we can give him the benefit of doubt regarding just doing it to sell a movie and a book. You're usually not plotting selling a movie for about 30 years Of course he also makes a lot of money with his speaking engagements, royalties for books etc and consulting fees, but that's something all the former presidents of the US do as far as I know, so why accuse Gore of being a hyprocrite but not Clinton or Carter?
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They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
I guess we can give him the benefit of doubt regarding just doing it to sell a movie and a book. You're usually not plotting selling a movie for about 30 years Of course he also makes a lot of money with his speaking engagements, royalties for books etc and consulting fees, but that's something all the former presidents of the US do as far as I know, so why accuse Gore of being a hyprocrite but not Clinton or Carter?
I guess it's hard to convey sarcasm through type.
gore deserved it. period. end of story.
even if he had lost the election, he shoud've been president.
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On the other hand Rush Limbaugh had a great suggestion on who should have received the award, General Petraus and the US military. Now I have nothing against our troops fighting overseas, but I really don't see them as messengers of peace. I think Rush may be dipping his hand in the prescription bottle again.
Unbelievable....you're straight out of Jesus Camp.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=07WX3F7UQWA
It was jointly awarded.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
According to a February 27, 2007 article in The Concord Monitor, "Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s." During his tenure in Congress, Gore co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste in 1978–79, and hearings on global warming in the 1980s. On 14 May 1989 while still a Senator, Gore published an editorial in the Washington Post which argued that, "Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with the planet Earth. The world's forests are being destroyed; an enormous hole is opening in the ozone layer. Living species are dying at an unprecedented rate."
On Earth Day 1994, Gore launched the GLOBE program, an education and science activity that, according to Forbes magazine, "made extensive use of the Internet to increase student awareness of their environment".
In the late 1990s, Gore strongly pushed for the passage of the Kyoto Treaty, which called for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. He was opposed by the Senate, which passed unanimously (95-0) the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States". On November 12, 1998, Gore symbolically signed the protocol. Both Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman indicated that the protocol would not be acted upon in the Senate until there was participation by the developing nations. The Clinton Administration never submitted the protocol to the Senate for ratification.
And so on...
I guess we can give him the benefit of doubt regarding just doing it to sell a movie and a book. You're usually not plotting selling a movie for about 30 years
They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
I guess it's hard to convey sarcasm through type.
gore deserved it. period. end of story.
even if he had lost the election, he shoud've been president.