This is awesome news:
Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to stop it.The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as "the single individual" responsible for convincing world governments that climate change was real, caused by human activity, and posed a threat to society.
What a contrast - the man who won the popular vote in 2000 over Dubya now wins the Nobel Peace prize. Dubya, meanwhile, busies himself making the world a far WORSE place, bringing death and destruction everywhere he goes. Imagine if Al Gore had been President of the United States the past 7 years, how much better off we'd all be, and how much progress we'd already have made towards energy independence and solving the global warming crisis?!? Ugh, it's depressing to even think about.
By the way, Gore joins my hero Teddy Roosevelt in winning the Nobel Peace prize (for negotiating a peace treaty between Russia and Japan). Al Gore and Teddy Roosevelt...they make me proud to be an American (in contrast to the current corrupt crew in the White House).
STATEMENT FROM FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE
Friday, October 12, 2007I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
I gotta believe that his statement that he would not formally and firmly final announce his decision to run until after January 1st is still some what operative......
He has the money, the name, the experience, and the trust from both sides and almost the entire world.
Yeah, I Know?.. Hillary has the big lead?. But as they always say?. Things can change?.. ?
I don't have to tell you how proud of Al Gore I am. As I turned on CNN to find out how they were handling it (they are increasingly FAUX-lite), I find a very large font question on the screen saying: "Did Al Gore deserve the Nobel prize?" They are already at it.
And Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Time is said to heal all things, but, alas, perhaps not.
I feel even more heart sick and betrayed today than in
the weeks following the stolen election of 2000.
Want to know who "hates America and her values"?
Look in the mirror GOP.
Here's my answer...
You're kidding me, right Brian? What does the threat of global warming have to do with peace? I can't believe you could be so insulate!With global warming comes the potential for increased famines, floods, and disease outbreaks leading to mass migration; increased competition over food, arable land, water, and energy; and profound economic crises and great social unrest. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that by 2080, 1.1-3.2 billion people would be experiencing water scarcity, 200-600 million hunger and 2-7 million a year coastal flooding. These things become huge security threats that lead to government instablility and/or collapse in most unstable parts of the world. Look at the Darfur crisis as an example of the effect climate change to escalate many other existing conflicts. Ergo, Al Gore's work to raise the world's awareness to the impending climate crisis is peacekeeping work.
...An endorsement from former Vice President Al Gore might not add up to much, as Howard Dean sadly discovered in 2004. But an endorsement from NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER Al Gore is something much, much more valuable. In just seven years Gore has been transformed from a mere politician despised and ridiculed by Republicans and even many within his own party to a global prophet who is widely admired across the partisan spectrum. It's a shocking change that has GREATLY increased his cachet as an endorser.
And, according to Cillizza, "if our intel is right, that candidate will either be Obama or Edwards." This should be interesting.
Also, great "intel" from Cilliza. Of course it's going to be Obama or Edwards.
Several groups are working to get Gore on the ballots in several states. Do you not think that if a groundswell of people working to get Gore on the state ballots occured, we could get him to run?
I have endorsed no candidate. I have held out the hope from the very begining that Gore would run. There has not been a candidate I have liked more, and there will not be. If he runs, I will give generously of my time and money.
Now it the time to act. Virginia ballot petitions need not be in until early December. 10,000 signatures, 500 from each congressional district would be an easy task for a 100 signature gatherers. I have already printed up my official petition forms.
Please draft Al. America needs another Adlai Stevenson.