Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore

So what criteria have to be met to get a Nobel Peace Prize? I couldn’t believe that Al Gore’s efforts in the Global Warming arena would support any notion of peace as the believers of Global Warming (GW) basically feel anyone that doesn’t believe in GW is only worthy of scorn and outright ridicule. So Wikipedia states that according to Nobel's will, “the Peace Prize should be awarded "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"”

Ok so we have our criteria. What did Al Gore do to work for fraternity between nations, abolish standing armies or promote peace congresses? Well – nothing actually. Al Gore got his shared award (shared with the U.N.) for "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" (source is Wikipedia). I am still drawing a blank here.

In the vein of past winners such as Mother Theresa, Henry Kissinger, Martin Luther King Jr., we can add the name of Al Gore for educating folks about Global Warming. That just doesn’t seem to fit.

I heard somewhere a few years back that the term “Art” becomes meaningless if anything is called “Art” (including a photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine). I think this award has gone the way of the “Art” term and has lost its meaning. Quite frankly wouldn’t a better recipient by President Bush or England’s PM Tony Blair for their liberation of the Iraqi People?

PatriotPost has a much better summary of this on their website here including how the Nobel Committee is elected by the Norwegian Parliament which is currently controlled by the Labor Party whose political ideology is “social democracy” or seeking to “reform capitalism democratically through state regulation and the creation of state sponsored programs and organizations which work to ameliorate or remove perceived injustices inflicted by the capitalist market system.” (source is Wikipedia). Ok – so basically leftist ideology is in charge of picking the Nobel Committee. Rush Limbaugh never had a chance. This award is politically motivated and is basically more hot air to pump up Gore’s already full opinion of himself.