William Yeatman

Let's make this really, really simple. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee gave the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and about 3,300 UN bureaucrats and professors who worked on the chi-chi, politically correct, ultra-hip topic of global warming. As far as I know, none of the 3,300 ever had to put his or her life on the line. Mostly, they worked in air-conditioned classrooms and labs and were well paid. Al Gore has made an enormous business of his opposition to the oil companies. He has made literally tens of millions from his crusade (far, far more than any oil company executive presently working ).

A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors.

So, former Vice President Al Gore is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded every year with a nice bag of money “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” The first thought that naturally springs to mind is a movie by a politician of him giving speeches about something that, well, won’t stand up in court.

THE tormentors of Al Gore, who last week won a legal victory against his film, An Inconvenient Truth, are to step up their battle by sending British secondary schools a documentary attacking the science of global warming.

The reasons Gore was given the Peace Prize, according to Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel awards, was not for mitigating any current conflict, but for preventing conflicts that haven’t yet occurred and for all we know, may never occur (unless the prize committee includes a few precogs we don’t know about).

“Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states”

Past winners have included founders and members of the Red Cross, members of the United Nations, human rights activists, and medical professionals.

Whether right or wrong, winners of the past were at least actively engaged in solving problems that directly affect human life on earth (war, disease, famine, etc). Gore has, thus far, provided the human race with the following: one bad movie, an increase in hand-wringing, hot-air, and panic. While he may not be the only black mark in the history of the award, Gore’s lack of contribution to human peace casts a shadow on the whole list of past winners.

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