See here.While I definitely think things need to be done about the way we treat the environment, and I've blogged about An Inconvenient Truth before, it seems a little weird that Al Gore's work on climate change wins a Nobel Peace Prize.
I don't get it.
UPDATE: Apparently I'm not the only one with this thought. NPR had a bit on it here.
(Photo courtesy of USA Today)
The Nobel Peace Prizes have been handed out to a lot of undeserving folks lately. Last year it was Mohammad Yunus, a banker who did early work in micro-credit lending. It's not that the work Gore or Yunus have done aren't important -- they are quite significant -- but most people think they don't deserve a Nobel Prize. There just aren't many Mother Teresa's or Nelson Mandela's in the world right now, or they aren't being recognized.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I must say that I support Gore's receipt of the Peace Prize more than the Academy Award he got last year. That was such a crock. His stupid movie was nothing more than a fancy PowerPoint presentation, and it was factually dubious as well. It was chosen just for the message, which is wholly inappropriate, but par for the Hollywood course.
so is part of climate change that hell has now frozen over?
ReplyDeletePeter - but at least his Powerpoint presentation was made using Keynote instead of Powerpoint. ;)
ReplyDeleteBrad - *LAUGH!*