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It's Gore -- BBC NEWS | Europe | Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize

ExNavyAmerican

I lost faith in them when Jimmy Carter won.

If someone wins a Nobel Peace Prize, I automatically put him/her on my s*** list. And notice how only liberals are considered for it. Obviously biased.

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Debbie

Seems to me that the award given used to have a higher standard of criteria for presentation than it does now. No one else has done better?

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Bluesman

They've stopped being what Alfred Nobel had conceived the Prize to be a long time ago. Some of the past winners do the Nobel Committee no credit, and if it stopped there, it would be tragic enough. But it hasn't; they've become just another hyper-liberal advocacy group, and if you fit their political criteria, it really doesn't matter about anything else.

And this is the latest evidence.

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dave lukins

It's been reported that Mr Gore has won the Nobel Prize

Debbie

Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize
Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The committee cited "their efforts to build up and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change".

Mr Gore, US vice-president under Bill Clinton, said he was "deeply honoured".

Mr Gore, 59, won an Oscar for his climate change film An Inconvenient Truth while the IPCC is the top authority on global warming.


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It would have made more sense to wait and see if Gore et al actually had an effect, but at least this might serve as a wake-up call to the naysayers
Geoff, Bensberg, Germany


IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said he was "overwhelmed" by the award.
He told a cheering crowd of colleagues and journalists outside his office in Delhi that he hoped the award would bring a "greater awareness and a sense of urgency" to the fight against global warming.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it wanted to bring into sharper focus the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states" posed by climate change.

It highlighted a series of scientific reports issued over the last two decades by the IPCC, which comprises more than 2,000 leading climate change scientists and experts.

The reports had "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming", the committee said.

Mr Gore was praised as "probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted", through his lectures, films and books.

The choice of recipients continues a trend of the Nobel Peace Prize redefining the potential sources of conflict and threats to peace, says the BBC's world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge.

'Planetary emergency'

Speaking in Washington, Mr Gore praised the IPCC, "whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years".


"We face a true planetary emergency," Mr Gore warned. "It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."
He said he would donate his half of the $1.5m prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Mr Gore's selection has prompted supporters to renew calls for him to stand in next year's US presidential race. Until now, Mr Gore has said he will not run.


INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC)
Established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
Made up of more than 2,000 leading climate experts
Tasked with assessing scientific data on the risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for mitigation
Does not carry out any research of its own
First Assessment Report published in 1990; its Fourth Assessment Report called Climate Change 2007 to be published mid-November


President George W Bush, who defeated Mr Gore in a bitter fight for the presidency in 2000, was "happy" at the "important recognition" for his rival and the IPCC, a White House spokesman said.

However, the president was not about to change his more sceptical stance on global warming to a more "Gore-style" approach, the spokesman said.

The former vice-president has emerged as a leading climate campaigner. His 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, was an unlikely box-office hit and won two Oscars - though it was also criticised by a British judge this week for containing nine errors, and for being alarmist.

The IPCC, established in 1988, is tasked with providing policymakers with neutral summaries of the latest expertise on climate change.

The organisation involves hundreds of scientists working to collate and evaluate the work of thousands more.

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize

Published: 2007/10/12 15:58:22 GMT

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Trooth

Isn't this a nobel prize for filmaking. Or perhaps a nobel prize for public relations. None of the research that Gore has advocated has been done by him has it?

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glyn

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC)
Established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
Made up of more than 2,000 leading climate experts
Tasked with assessing scientific data on the risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for mitigation
Does not carry out any research of its own
First Assessment Report published in 1990; its Fourth Assessment Report called Climate Change 2007 to be published mid-November


Nor by the IPCC.

dalem

I figuratively piss on the lot of them from a great height.

It's been a dangerous joke for years now, and if somebody nominated me for a Nobel Peace prize I'd punch him in the face for the insult.

-dale

Trooth

The Nobel prize has often had criticism for giving the prize to the wrong winner, but normally it is of the likes of missing people out, rather than being the wrong group. Not only should Gore not get it but its the wrong category (why not physics? or chemistry?). Peace is tenuous at best.

Bluesman

Oh, the message is pretty obvious: if those rube American war-mongering bible-beaters had made the RIGHT choice, the world would be fluffy bunnies and rainbows that span the horizons.

dalem

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

-dale