Will awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the U.N. & former vice-president Gore spur the U.S. to action?

Question

The question actually stems from optimisim expressed on the Union of Concerned Scientists website. The organization began as a collaboration between students and faculty at MIT in 1969, and is now an alliance of more than 200,000 citizens and scientists. The non-profit apparently prides itself on being " ... the reliable source for independent scientific analysis."

Do you agree with them? Or do you expect a backlash because Gore shared the prize?

http://www.ucsusa.org/

If it's a joke, it's a very prestigious and expensive one.

Answer 1

I think it's good publicity for the issue. The award will raise awareness, which is always a good thing. I still don't think the US will be taking any significant action prior to 2009, but perhaps the increased awareness will spur change at that point.

Answer 2

No. Anyone who compares Gore's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize to the criteria for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize will lose respect for both Gore and the committee that selected Gore to win. Gore's work on global warming has done nothing to further the goal of pacifism. Accordingly, there is no reason for the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to spur the United States to action.

However, as to you question about agreeing with students and faculty at MIT, I certainly agree with them and respect them, especially Prof. Richard S. Lindzen of MIT's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Answer 3

Not really.

The Nobel Peace prize has been a joke for a while now. I mean if Carter and Arafat can win one, then why not Bin Laden? Kofi Annan won one and he was behind the "Oil for Food" scandal at the UN.

Also, the evidence keeps piling on that humans have little to do with any warming and the latest shows that the whole think is so exponentially exaggerated as to be ridiculous.

Only the very ignorant believe Al Gore's movie was factual. It's actually hard to find anything truthful in that silly movie. And the UN is the most corrupt organization in history, with the slaughters and rapes in the Sudan by their "peace keepers."

So the Nobel Peace prize is a joke, and so is the UN and Al Gore. Well, in that respect, I guess they deserve each other.

Answer 4

I could see your point about the U.S. being spurred into action if the prize fit the man, but unfortunately it does not. Mr. Gore has supposedly won the prize for peace, but how many lives has he saved?
When compared to the Red Cross, he pales big time.
Its said that you can tell a man by his actions and not his words. So far Mr. Gore has made millions, bought expensive mansions that use 20 times that of the average user… 2006 Tennessee. And has picked a president of the G.I.M which gives him control of funds from major corporations in America totaling in the potential billions over the years.
If the government takes action on this it will be from the democratic side giving him even more of and advantage to make even more money than he already has.

Answer 5

I hope this country has learned an inconvenient lesson. The one half of one percent of the people who control 99% of the money are afraid of losing some of it by controling the carbon footprint. It is too expensive to save the earth and I don't they know what its worth. (origional song lyric by me). If Gore would have been appointed president, we would be well on our way to a cleaner environment and the warming would be slowing down. He is the best man for the environment because of his influence and name recognition. I wish he would run and help the future generations have a place to live as it should be. The way it is now we have very little time to exsist if things stay the same. Change is necessary and we need to elect people who have their interest in saving the planet and not money.

Answer 6

No. But the next Presidential election will.

Answer 7

I doubt that it will change anything at all.