This morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee revealed the worst kept secret in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize when it announced that Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are this year’s co-recipients. And in saluting them, the Committee proclaimed that they were selected:
…for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Meanwhile, given my series of commentaries highlighting the convenient lies Gore and the IPCC have disseminated to further their (political) cause, a number of you have already e-mailed to suggest that I must regard their selection as utter bullshit. Well, you might think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment….
Instead, I shall suffice to refer you to the Related Articles below. Although, I cannot resist noting the inconvenient timing of an instructive decision an English High Court judge handed down this week. Because in ruling on whether Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, could be shown in schools, he declared that it was riddled with such egregious errors that it was unfit to show – unless accompanied by neon warnings about its inaccuracies.
But just imagine the inconvenient, if not embarrassing, irony this presented for Gore and the Nobel Committee. After all, this film not only formed the primary rationalization for awarding him this prize; but the judge actually cited the findings of the co-recipient, the IPCC, to justify his condemnation of the global-warming prophecies Gore’s film propagates as scientific fact.
Incidentally, am I the only one who wonders what sounding unwarranted alarm about climate change has to do with world peace? Of course, I suppose if the late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and former Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres could win the Nobel Peace Prize for a Palestinian peace that never was, then Gore and the IPCC winning for specious environmental prophecies is no less meritorious.
Which brings me to this final word about the Norwegian cabal behind the Nobel Prize: It is naïve to think that politics do not govern its purportedly merit-based selections.
Indeed, here’s what I wrote just months ago after Chinua Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for Literature:
Nobody familiar with his work would be surprised that I think one of the great injustices in the world of literature is the Nobel Committee never awarding Achebe, 76, this hallowed prize. Especially given that he is universally acclaimed as the father of modern African literature.
And, apropos political motivations, I have no doubt that these Scandinavian peaceniks are hoping that awarding Gore their coveted prize will fuel the petition drive launched recently to draft him to run for president of the United States.
After all, what better way to kill two birds with one stone: ie, rebuke war-mongering George W. Bush – by helping elect the man who personifies everything anti-Bush; and humble philanthropic-upstart Bill Clinton – by denying Bill and Hillary the opportunity to fulfill their “2 for 1” presidential ambitions. Because Hillary as president would only allow Bill to render both the Nobel Committee and the United Nations even more irrelevant with his Clinton Global Initiative….
Related Articles:
Mother nature makes fools of Gore and IPCC
Chinua Achebe awarded Booker Prize
The global overreaching of Bill and Hillary Clinton
*Published originally yesterday, Friday at 10:36 AM
Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize
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