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October 12, 2007
Bravo Al Gore!
By awarding the 2007 Noble Peace Prize to former US vice president Al Gore for his work on bringing the word on climate change to the average person's attention, the Noble Foundation itself serves to focus attention on this serious problem.
Gore shares the prize with the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a top scientific authority on global warming and its impact made up of some 3,000 atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ice specialists, economists and other experts.
Needless to say, troglodytes from the Far Right denounced the award, partly one supposes due to aversion to Gore himself and the Democratic Party, and partly because many of them remain firmly convinced that the changes in the global climate currently underway are due to natural causes.
At least they are now admitting that changes are underway!
Happily most thinking people have come to terms with our own role in the changes and our responsibility to do something about it. Certainly, billions of dollars are now being spent worldwide on research into the problem, most especially all the work on alternative fuels in the transportation industry. And we are all changing our lifestyles in one way or another.
To be sure, the issues are incredibly complex, but that is why Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," which was essentially a celluloid version of a lecture he has been giving for years, caught the public's attention with its clear presentation of the facts.
The call is now out for Gore to enter the race for President. Indeed, a full-page ad in the New York Times earlier this week urged him to enter the Democratic race. But it remains to be seen whether he is interested.
The irony is that whether he runs or not, history may vindicate his controversial loss to President George Bush in 2000. For while Gore now has an Academy Award and a Noble Peace Prize under his belt, Bush is heading for the distinction of going down as one of the worst presidents ever.
- Peter C.T. Elsworth
Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth 
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Mr.Elsworth, here's the problem. Half the worlds scientists disagree with the premise of Mr. Gore's documentary. What is disturbing about your commentary, is that you seem convinced that only enlightened people as yourself, can see this. Anyone else is obviously not that bright, or are simply troglodytes. It must be comforting to know that you are virtually always correct, as long as you follow the party line. You and your ilk on either side, who blindly follow and consider the other side uninformed and obviously uneducated no matter which side that may be, are dangerous. I would wish that as a fellow citizen you may some day understand that dogma espoused by either side has only resulted in regimes of either side, that had no place for the other. Not a good way to go to consider the other side, as simply moron's.
Sincerely
Peter Carrier
Posted by: peter carrier on October 15, 2007 8:28 PM
Please be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published.
