Inconvenient facts; Gore gets Nobel Prize for propaganda

 

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DrewM at Ace of Spades linked the video 

Well, we all knew it’d happen, didn’t we? The Nobel Prize committee awarded Al Gore the prize for his manbearpig documentary;

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.
 
Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

“His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change,” the citation said. “He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.”

The fact that British courts even decided last week that the documentary is full of inaccuracies, it didn’t deter the committee from making the politically-correct decision;

A British judge has ruled the Oscar-winning film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” contains “nine errors.”

High Court Judge Michael Burton, deciding a lawsuit that questioned the film’s suitability for showing in British classrooms, said it builds a “powerful” case that global warming is caused by humans and that urgent means are needed to counter it.

But he also said former Vice President Al Gore, the documentary’s moderator, makes nine statements in the film that are not supported by current mainstream scientific consensus.

And the “inaccuracies”? Curt from Flopping Aces enumerates;

• The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.  The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
• The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years.  The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
• The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
• The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
• The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.  It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
• The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
• The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching.  The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
• The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously.  The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
• The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
• The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
• The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand.  The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

 

The Nobel Prize panel is merely following a precedent they set sometime ago, though. They gave the Peace Prize to the blood-drenched terrorist Yassir Arafat, and Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency for making the world a more dangerous place by ignoring Iran’s march towards nuclear weapons, they might as well give a science prize to someone who makes a science film that has no science in it.

Greg Gutfield has a similar take;

Winning the Nobel Peace prize is like getting Miss Congeniality — it’s saying: Nice job, now leave the building, you homely pig. It’s why Arafat and Jimmy Carter each won one. It was the only way to get them off the stage without a giant hook.

Junk Science writes;

Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity (in person) to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 1 year, 9 months, 1 week, 20 hours, 1 minute, and 56 seconds have elapsed.

From Hot Air;

There are few things more important to the American left than the approval of the international left (a.k.a. “the way the world sees us”), though, which is why this really will turn up the volume on the “draft Gore” nonsense. 

Michele Malkin has a link roundup full of more inconvenient truths. 

Fausta calls it the “Norwegian Badge of Uselessness”

Don Surber reports the proper way to receive the news of your Nobel Prize. Persia-born British citizen and new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is now being claimed by Iran according to Kamangir. Apparently this another Zionist plot.

Jammie Wearing Fool uncovers the guy that sells Al Gore his carbon credits.

Protein Wisdom’s Karl tells “A Tale of Two Oslos”

Wall Street Journal has the Norwegian Noble Committee Peace Prize 2007 citation.

Past winners from Associated Press;

• 2007: Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded

• 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, and the International Atomic Energy Agency

• 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya

• 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran

• 2002: Jimmy Carter, U.S.

• 2001: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

• 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea

• 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)

• 1998: David Trimble and John Hume, Northern Ireland

• 1997: Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, U.S.

The Washington Post records Gore’s reaction to the announcement;

In a brief public appearance in California, Gore vowed to use the award to increase awareness and push for a more urgent response to climate change.
“It truly is a planetary emergency, and we have to respond quickly,” he said.
 

I’m super serial. Excelsior!

Footnote: I’m honored that PajamasMedia picked this post up this morning – especially since this was my first-ever post written while still in my pajamas. I guess I’ve arrived.

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