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- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -16/+185Global warming can be a complete hoax for all I care. If it means cleaner air, improved energy efficiency, and less dependence on foreign oil, believing in it can't be that bad.
- Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -24/+156And to other skeptics, before a flame war stars. Even if we're not responsible for global warming, wouldn't it be better to err on the side of caution and try to stop it? That's the way I feel. I'd rather do something and end up being wrong about global warming than do nothing and end up being right.
- Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+107@NoStoppingUs
Yeah, because global warming pays Al so much money. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -13/+74@NoStoppingUs
Al Gore and his wife are giving 100 percent of the profits from the book and the movie to an educational campaign.
Maybe if you learned some facts, you wouldn't have to use made up arguments.
Of course, I guess you spread ***** deliberately and don't want to learn and promote any facts. - smoothmedia, on 10/12/2007, -24/+70It would be a shared nobel peace prize with Canadian environmentalist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. The two combined represent a pretty solid nomination.
- Arabani, on 10/12/2007, -18/+61@NaterGator
If you're using "sudden" (as in "sudden overwhelming concern for our environment") to mean "since the late 70's", yes, I'd agree with you. But I do suppose close to three decades is a rather short period of time. Hats off to Gore for managing to conceal his brief publicity stunt, at least until you exposed his shenanigans. - jodokast, on 10/12/2007, -50/+89It's not fear, it's reality.
And as soon as the "skeptics" realize this, we can do something about it. - osuguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39@NaterGator: Al Gore has been about the environment forever, this isn't a sudden development. If you saw the documentary you would have seen him do a couple presentations and talk about giving over 1000 of them about global warming. Watch the film, then go ahead and comment. It's funny that when people do something good with their fame (even if personal gain is a part of it) they are shunned as bad or worse than actors and pop stars with hundreds of millions of dollars, that do very very little for anyone but themselves. I'm very happy he took it upon himself to show the world the problems we can and are facing. Go Gore.
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -14/+47@NaterGator
You climate change deniers are too dumb to listen to scientists, so we need a politician with showman skills to present the facts. Now you criticize him for being that.
So you are to ignorant to listen to scientists, you won't listen to popular characters, you won't listen to anybody.
Maybe you are already brain dead, and you shouldn't be brought to discussions like this anymore. - nonsapiens, on 10/12/2007, -14/+46NoStoppingUs:
Your analogy is flawed. Halliburton is in Dick Cheney's pocket, or vice-versa, thus a movie made about one by the other would be a biased slant.
Nature is in no-one's pocket, it cannot be bribed and is not affected by politics or warmongering. However, if the public are informed about the danger we pose to Nature, it can only do good. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33@NoStoppingUs
"i'm sure 50% of the country would probably agree with me" -- you mean 49%. - littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -12/+35Al Gore? You mean our President in Absentia? He did more good for the world in Absentia than Bush did in office.
- Vezran, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30I absolutely despise to burst anyone's bubble, but essentially, anyone can be nominated. All it takes is for a professor of a university to submit you. I would like Gore to win, because he is a genius. He was just mis-handled by focus groups and ***** back in the Presidential Race of 2000.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+47Al Gore : You are my hero.
- lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+30@sithmat
So when did you get yours? did you put it next to your five others? and your grammies and oscars?
Ok let's look at past nobel prize winners so people can stop being such ***** internet retards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates
Oh look Einstein, does he know more than you bout stuff? He ***** does. Shut the ***** up.
OOH look Marie Curie, does she have more nobel prizes than you. ***** A.
T.S. Eliot, he writes rather good poetry doesn't he. What did your latest love letter to your sweet heart look like? shut it.
if you want to know more just read up and stop embarrassing your selves.
I think i'm gonna start a charity for internet retards. - lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+28@nonsapiens:
"Nature is in no-one's pocket, it cannot be bribed and is not affected by politics or warmongering."
Unfortunately while nature may not be in anyone's pocket it is quite observable that it's affected by our politics and warmongering.
To those others trying to tar Al Gore, you realize this isn't a one hat publicity stunt, this guy cares about the environment and has done for a very long time. It's been reflected in his politics. Maybe you can't get your head around the idea about caring about something as seemingly unimportant as a hundred million acres of rain forest around the other side of the forest, but I for one do. Maybe you don't think bringing to light the seriousness of global climate change is important, but I do. Guess what, I'm one of millions. There are a great many people who care about the world around them and don't feel it's their natural right to rape and pillage it for their own pleasure, you can't trivialise us or ignore us because we're not going away. The way forward is to seriously look at the claims we make rather than to just proclaim them 'sensationalism'.
I haven't heard any good proof from climate sceptics yet, and I am entirely open to proof from either side as I consider myself and empirical person who looks at the presented evidence and decides based on that. When you guys have something, get back to me. - gentlax13, on 10/15/2007, -8/+26I'm glad to see a politician actually doing something useful. Gore has done more to make America a better place in the last 7 year than Bush has. Bush may be the most powerful man in the world but Gore is actually getting something done.
- Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Gore used his celebrity status to force global warming to center stage. That is a good thing.
No thinking person can now deny it.
Did he do it to increase his popularity? Maybe, but so what. He got more people talking about it.
That doesn't mean he'd make a good president. It means he did a great thing for the people of the world.
Not all Noble Prize winners spend their lives in a university lab. - Arabani, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21@NoStoppingUs
Gore was Vice President. I don't know when was the last time you took a civics class, but as FDR (I believe it was him) once said of his VP, "He's there just in case". The VP really has little power (Cheney notwithstanding). Also, in case you forgot, the White House can't (or shouldn't be able to, at least) pass legislation unilaterally. And considering that the Republicans controlled Congress for 6 of those 8 years, and seem to hate the mention of global warming, it's no surprise that nothing was accomplished!
Anyway, if you're saying Gore should've done something while VP, why are you bashing him for trying to do something now? If I recall correctly, there's an old saying that goes, "Better late than never." - jongens, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19you're right - i think in the documentary i recall him saying he had written books in the 70's, related to environmental concerns. the earliest book i can find on amazon is a 1989 publication, titled 'Ozone Crisis, 15 Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency' - to which he wrote the forward, or 'EARTH IN THE BALANCE ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT' which he wrote.
if i could place a vote as part of the prize, i'd vote gore. - piratearggghhh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24He should be serving his 2nd term as president right now instead of Bush.
- pxa270, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24Al Gore should have won a Nobel Prize a long time ago
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for inventing the Internet. - kazumaSHELL, on 10/15/2007, -6/+18Cartman: Dude, what are you doing?
Al Gore: I'm spreading manbearpig awareness - xcoastie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Anyone can control global warming on earth, but what is he doing about that pesky Mars global warming?
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Actually, I blame the Earth for this "publicity stunt"...she's such an attention whore.
- hablo4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@ChildeRoland420
That's like saying J.D. Salinger had something to do with the murder of John Lennon. Just because Ted Kaczynski "borrowed liberally" from Gore's book doesn't mean they share the same end goals. - sithmat, on 10/12/2007, -24/+34Getting nominated for a Nobel Prize is nothing special. Hitler was once nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (no joke, Google it).
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -7/+16nobel peace prize NOMINATIONS are worthless. it's just a little paperwork to nominate someone. the anti-death penalty lobbyists nominated that death row inmate who wrote those books on repentance and how the death penalty is wrong, and they nominated him solely for publicity.
nobel nominations don't mean *****. - rustytire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@ ...myself :(
Apparently Hitler was nominated in 1939, but that nomination was withdrawn shortly there after. (Wikipedia) Research should be your friend at all times, even (especially) in the morning. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12You got one or what?
- dignon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Andrewman, before commenting on something you should try knowing something about it first. Gore did not "just do voiceover", he has been doing presentations on the climate crisis since the late 70's. The move ("Inconvenient Truth") is just a film version of those presentations. Gore, has actually done a whole lot to raise awareness about climate change in the past 30+ years, so his nomination is quite justified. He had also said that the main reason that he ran for President was to force climate change onto the American agenda. Which, in hindsight, sounds pretty gawd-damned good. Anyway, watch the movie... its very well done (and actually interesting!)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11@ pannerplant
yes, and we all know how that turned out. - vmars, on 10/15/2007, -5/+12I'm embarrassed seeing certain diggers comments in here. Our generation will be defined as being EITHER the ones who DID something about the threat of global warming OR the ones who HAD the chance to change things but F%&ed it all up by being too stuck up our own sorry asses to do anything about it.
@nostopping, @marix, @natorgator etc.. WAKE UP AND READ THE WRITING ON THE WALL. Guess what - if in a hundred years there's still no sign of global warming you can whoop my Australian butt with utmost pleasure. Meantime you three get my Nobel Dumbass nomination for the having the biggest peabrains on Digg. + DIGG to Al Gore. - 1911wolf, on 10/15/2007, -3/+10Why are we BREAKING Al Gore? :-/
- mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"And as soon as the "skeptics" realize this, we can do something about it."
-Jodocast
You mean like this Skeptic;
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B557A-71ED-146C-ADB783414B7F0000 - trenchMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9He also invented the Nobel Peace Prize
- TheOtherGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7..and nominations are actually meant to be kept secret, with the records sealed for fifty years.
In the past the people who award the prizes haven't taken too kindly to people speculating and publicly making their nominations known.
I mean good luck to the guy - but lets all calm down just a tad. - oscarsonthepond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Let me just say that I'm a conservative who is not in any way an Al Gore fan. I haven't seen the movie and think there's a lot of junk science surrounding global warming on both sides.
Having said that:
1) Gore has been at this for decades. He didn't just "make[] a movie," he's probably done more than anybody else ever to bring the public's attention to global warming.
2) See my post below - it's very easy to get a nomination, so this isn't even a big deal at all
3) Basically NOBODY who wins a peace prize needs the money. I doubt anybody cares all that much about the money - it's the notoriety they care about.
4) Why would you not like politician because he got nominated for a peace prize even though he doesn't have anything to do w/ the nomination? - j3ffray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6tkstock:
"Water vapor causes 95% of the greenhouse effect"
Let's see - how could water vapor cause an increase in greenhouse gases?
MAYBE IF THERE WERE AN INCREASED TEMPERATURE IN OUR WATER!!
Stop trying to be a ***** scientist, people like you spout reckless musings you picked up someplace, and now you're an expert. You're not. Go to a university and find a ***** credible scientist and ask them about global warming. Retard.
OH - WAIT EVERYBODY - LET'S CLOSE THIS FORUM! WE FOUND OUT THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY WATER AND COW FARTS! OH, AND NOBEL PRIZES ARE A JOKE AND THE UN IS USELESS. FIRE UP THE COAL PLANTS! I need more mercury in my fish. The amount of mercury in the blood of my 3 year-old son tells me all I need to know. ***** you naysayers. Go find another planet to pollute. I'll clean up after your party here. Just go away. - sithmat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10"Your arguments that the Nobel Prize is somehow tainted because Hitler was nominated (note: didn't win it) is flawed."
And I mentioned the Nobel Prize was tainted where? The point is that being nominated for a Nobel Prize is not difficult, and this story makes it seem that Al Gore's nomination is some sort of great accomplishment on his part. It isn't. Anyone can be nominated. What matters is who wins, so this story should not be making a big deal out of Al Gore's nomination unless it leads to actually being awarded the prize. - kokorhekkus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@javasharp
In 2002. The nomination process isn't exactly strict... from what I've read past nominees has included: Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.
Article about the 2002 nomination:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,645075,00.html - HunterKiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6From my perspective, any naysayers about global warming are trying to justify the correctness of polluting our earth.
Okay... So you don't believe in global warming. You are saying that Al Gore is full of it. Does that mean that what he wants us to do is wrong? The underlying message is that we have to take better care of the planet that we live on, regardless if you believe in global warming or not.
/OPINION - voidvector, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Andrewcool is correct, see the BBC link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1801773.stm - babakm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5QUOTE: "If he wins, we're really going to feel like idiots"
Why? We elected him. Maybe the Electoral College will feel like idiots. - uberkling, on 10/15/2007, -5/+9You know... left/right, liberal/conversative, unwashed-hippy/ill-informed-corrupt-neo-con-fundamentalist-christian-agenda-corporate-backroom-deal-making standpoints aside, I wonder if someone had invented a future viewing aparatus and had said to the american people;
"Yup, in 6 years this bloke will have blitzkrieged two effectively defenseless countries, left one to rot with a token contingent and a puppet government while the other one gets embroiled in a civil war costing hundreds of billions with mounting sectarian violence and rising death tolls while our citizens want our troops home, THEIR citizens want our troops home and our troops want to be home. The other bloke gets nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize."
...Would election results have been skewed a little more one way or the other? Just worth thinking about I think.
Now I got that out of my system, just let me say. Congratulations on the nominations Mr Gore, you deserve it :) - oscarsonthepond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't know if you guys are familiar w/ the nomination process, but basically anybody can get nominated. It's very very easy to do so. Also, they don't officially release who has been nominated, so this is just a couple members of Parliament saying they've done so (although I'm sure they're telling the truth). This is definitely not breaking news - I'm guessing Gore gets nominated every time.
- VANOS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7OH MY GOD. I thought Mac and Windows fanboyism was annoying. Where did the Al Gore fanboys come from? WOW! You guys really are sensationalists. You probably even watched his silly movie and believed everything as if it was being fed to you from your mommas "teet."
Although I cannot be too surprised at such a fanboy following. I mean, after all, HE INVENTED the internet (sources: http://sethf.com/gore/ ), so you're just paying him a usage tax or something by promoting his agenda, which I'm sure in NO WAY benefits him. Not at all. No way. (Waiting for the snopes.com reply. I'll save you the time: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp )
Just once I would like people to not just believe every load of crap shoveled down their throats by the media and politicians. Wait, no, I would also like them to not spread fanboy sensationalism as if their idol was a savior of the human race, the world, the nation, or any other grand and untouchable union of people, things, or ideas. - digdug135, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is hardly important news. "Any social science, history, philosophy, law, and theology professor, judge, or legislator in any country (plus a few others) can nominate anyone for a Nobel Peace Prize (past nominees, just in 1901-1951, included Hitler, Stalin, and Molotov). ... [M]any nominees have real merit; but that someone has been nominated by one of likely hundreds of thousands of potential nominees is little evidence of such merit." http://www.volokh.com/posts/1132596092.shtml
On the other hand, if he wins.... - pabster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, Adolf Hitler was nominated as well.
Buried for lameness. - febryle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If he wins, he can keep it in a locked box.
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