Al Gore: Nobel Savage… and What do I think About Global Warming…?
I got up early this morning to find both CNBC and Bloomberg TV alight with the news that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace prize. For those of you who haven’t heard, story here.
“We believe that the Nobel Committee has shown great courage by so clearly connecting the climate problems with peace,” said Truls Gulowsen, head of environmental group Greenpeace Norway according to the Associated Press article.
Clearly connected, huh? Not surprising, when you consider that this same body also clearly connected to peace the likes of Yasser Arafat and Kofi Annan—suffice to say this committee is very comfortable grinding the political axe, and this year is no exception.
The shameful part of this is that it minimizes the contributions of previous winners who do actual work that matters (Doctors Without Borders, Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and The Dalai Lama, to name a few).
Some more inconvenient truth: in a far less publicized story this week, a British Court found Al Gore’s movie to be “politically biased” and outlines nine distinct points the movie asserts as fact as being untrue. Reply from the Nobel savage himself: ‘I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is.’
No one should be surprised by this from the guy who claimed he invented the internet… truly one of the great over-representations of factual presentation in modern history.
What now for Al? He feigns no interest in running for President, but we all know for the chance he’d push Tipper down a flight of stairs, screaming “Down ladder! Make a hole!” like the captain in “The Hunt For Red October.” Unfortunately for Al, being just right for the folks in Norway is the basic litmus test for being just wrong for most of America.
And so it goes for Al: Quod nihil illi deerat ad regnandum praeter regnum
And what do I think of global warming? Is it getting warmer in recent years? Generally speaking, yes, very slightly. Is that caused by primarily or totally by activities of man? More than likely not. The scary part is that people have had this drilled into their heads for so long that they now accept as perfect truth what is hypotheses based upon suspect research.
So instead I will offer a different prediction: 25 years from now, the notion that global warming was primarily caused by human action will be the single greatest mass delusion since the world was convinced that simultaneously ingesting Pop Rocks and Coke was fatal… and it was fatal because it killed Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know… Mikey is alive. Did you fall for that one too?
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