The Goregasm Continues

All you have to do is peruse the various aggregators of punditry online like Memeorandum and you'll see that Gore's Nobel Prize win continues to make waves.

There's still one thing that bothers me to no end.

Last time I checked, the Nobel Prize is issued for peace (or at least trying for peace even when awarded to bloodthirsty thugs like Arafat).

It is not the Nobel Prize for Awareness.

What exactly has Gore or the IPCC actually done about the issue of global warming except issue alarmist shrieks that aren't necessarily supported by the science?

Can you name one thing?

That's all I ask. Has Gore actually reduced his own consumption of fossil fuels? I doubt it, especially when he's busy flying around the world on private jets to espouse the folly of fossil fuels and rambunctious consumption.

Making a movie about global warming, which may or may not be attributed to man, and for which the science still isn't clear about all the factors that play into climate change, is insufficient in my book for a Nobel Prize.

That's why I suspect the award was issued to salve the conscience of the committee to make them look like they're doing something about it. It was a political statement made about incomplete science.

Note that the Nobel science awards - mathematics, physics, and chemistry did not go to increased awareness of some theory or material science discovery. They go to tangible activities and experimenters who have their experiments repeated by others to confirm their work.

Of course, the Nobel Peace Prize operates under a different set of conventions - namely which cause is fashionable this year. That's why Gore and the IPCC won.

Too bad that the win has nothing to do with peace.