This morning, as I made the daily trip up to my 11th floor office, the first thing I saw broadcast on Elevator TV was Algore's gleaming smile over the caption "Gore wins Nobel Prize". As a rational, thoughtful man with some time on my hands, I began to wonder what the Nobel prize was really all about. After all, I thought that it was the purview of visionary scientists and literary icons to take home the prize. I suppose that some may consider the invention of global warming to be a great boon to mankind (at least those who are employed by environmental "science" and lobbyist groups), but I wasn't sure that really qualified him to win a Nobel prize. My curiosity piqued, I decided to do a little research using one of Alley G's previous inventions, the Internet (btw, did he win a prize for that too, or was that the year Yassar Arafat stole the show for ordering an increase in the handicapped population of the Middle East?)
In creating his annual prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and the promotion of world peace, Alfred Nobel stated the desire in his will to honor "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." An earlier draft of Nobel's will also stipulated that prizes in all categories should be "a reward for the most important pioneering discoveries or works in the field of knowledge and progress."
OK, can anyone explain how calls for a carbon tax, caps on production and denial of feasible electricity to third world nations (all in the name of "saving the planet") provide either a benefit to mankind or advance knowledge and progress? As a matter of fact, Algore's pontifications on global warming seem to ignore the fact that in the 70's everyone lived in fear of the next ice age. Or that in the 30's newspapers were reporting melting ice flows contibuting to polar bear extinctions and floods of Biblical proportion. Rather than advancing knowledge, that's a better illustration of those ignorant of history being doomed to repeat it.
In creating his annual prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and the promotion of world peace, Alfred Nobel stated the desire in his will to honor "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." An earlier draft of Nobel's will also stipulated that prizes in all categories should be "a reward for the most important pioneering discoveries or works in the field of knowledge and progress."
OK, can anyone explain how calls for a carbon tax, caps on production and denial of feasible electricity to third world nations (all in the name of "saving the planet") provide either a benefit to mankind or advance knowledge and progress? As a matter of fact, Algore's pontifications on global warming seem to ignore the fact that in the 70's everyone lived in fear of the next ice age. Or that in the 30's newspapers were reporting melting ice flows contibuting to polar bear extinctions and floods of Biblical proportion. Rather than advancing knowledge, that's a better illustration of those ignorant of history being doomed to repeat it.
Although I ony had a few minutes to look into the Nobel prize and its previous recipients, seeing Gore's name on the roster along with Carter and Arafat has led me to believe that the title of this award is fast becoming an oxymoron.
Yahoo news posted an interesting article on this topic, that's worth a read: http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20071012/cm_rcp/al_gore_and_the_mission_of_the
Yahoo news posted an interesting article on this topic, that's worth a read: http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20071012/cm_rcp/al_gore_and_the_mission_of_the
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