Sometimes I feel like I’ve stepped into a strange warped version of our world, kind of like Alice in her Adventures in Wonderland.
The Queen says everyone must stop using so much fuel and energy while flying in a private jet to spread the message (OK, Al Gore is not a queen… but work with me here).
He then wins a Nobel Peace Prize for … um … what exactly did he win the award for again? Be right back…
Here we go…
From CNN: … the Nobel committee announced he would share the award with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to raise awareness about global warming.
Oops… guess I should have known that. So much for raising awareness…
If only the Nobel Peace Prize was actually still a credible award.
1994 Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO and a sponsor of terrorism, shared the award with Shimon Peres and Yitzak Rabin.
2001 the award went to the United Nations and its corrupt head, Kofi Annan.
The very next year, the arguably the worst president in US history, whose policies and “leadership” set the stage for the current situations in Iran and Iraq as well as providing early evidence to Islamic extremists that the US no longer had the will to defend ourselves, Jimmy Carter received the award for his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts”… otherwise known as opening up the US checkbook to buy peace in the mideast:
Several BILLION dollars … annually… to both Israel and Egypt. Heck, I’ll stop arguing for that kind of green too. Since you and I are paying for this every year without fail, maybe we should get a turn or two with the Nobel Peace Prize on our mantel.
But I digress.
So Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize for spreading a message. Apparently there was no requirement that the message actually be credible, as long as it was spread.
From The Sydney Morning Herald: One of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.
His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.
“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”
Whoa now.. hold on there partner. What gives you the right to question Al Gore? What makes you think that you, a long-time professor and world renowned meteorologist, knows more about the cause of global warming than Al Gore, a man so knowledgeable about so many things, a man who once stood before busts of Washington and Jefferson and asked “Who are these people?” Don’t believe me, hear it for yourself here or visit the full site here.
So what has all this raised awareness accomplished? Let’s just say that, if we really are the cause of global warming, we’re in real trouble with role models who fly in private jets and ease there conscience by buying “carbon offsets”, who sponsor rock concerts to raise awareness that use more electricity in one day than my town uses in a year (OK.. I’m guessing … and they all had to get to and from the concert with all there gear somehow), and by talking endlessly on the subject (CO2… remember, the more they talk the more CO2 comes out of their mouths… that’s a greenhouse gas. All this awareness raising is also raising the temperature of the Earth. Please, for everyone’s sake, do us all a favor and stop talking.)
Which brings us to painting the roses green.
NBC went green this weekend, or so I’ve heard. I didn’t watch anything on NBC this weekend, but apparently they did clever things like painting the peacock green… sounds like they are bucking for a Nobel Peace Prize to me.
But I’m as concerned with the future of our home planet as the next guy, so I plan to do my part to help reduce my Co2 footprint. Next weekend I plan to paint my five cars, my lawnmower, my snow blower and maybe a few of the neighbors cars, green. Although this won’t actually reduce the amount of CO and CO2 I create through use of these evil implements of man, I will have done my part to raise awareness and can rest peacefully knowing I am in the company of great men like Al Gore.
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