Okay, so I usually don’t use this blog as my personal soap-box but certain events have filled me with intense anger a frustration this evening.
I have noticed several media giants (NewsCorp/Fox) and “conservative” bloggers have been bashing the Nobel commission’s decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the UN Panel on Climate Change.
Now, The Inconvenient Truth, alarmist or not, over-exaggerated or not, and whether you are a Gore fan or not, does not take away the fact the his movie and the publicity behind the movie, as well as Gore himself- has made a significant impact on informing the world about the environment and climate change.
Everyone (republicans and conservatives) wants to exploit the holes in Gore’s data, and sure, there are probably several as research on climate change changes daily, and very from scientist to scientist, but nobody in the world can deny that climate change and greenhouse gases are affecting and going to continue to effect out planet in a negative way. We are burning through our planets resources at an alarming rate and this is not the World Bank, cause when credit runs out – we can’t pay it back with anything but the future of our species.
The fact is that over 98% of the scientific community agrees that global warming exists, and is destroying our planet.
Gore may just be the cover-boy for the Global Warming campaign, but he is one of the biggest reasons that it is in the public eye and a house-hold word.
So does he deserve the Nobel Peace Prize – Fuck yeah! And nobody has ever deserved it more.
