Gore Gore Gore...

Since you asked for my opinion on this...

Most of you know by now that Al Gore won a Nobel Prize.

Woo hoo!! Now what?

I don't know the president of the Czech Republic very well - certainly not on a first name basis - but I think he makes sense:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus was surprised at the award because the relationship between Gore's work and world peace was "unclear and indistinct," his spokesman said.

Um, ya think? Great, you've spent the last number of years telling everyone that we're making the earth warmer. You've raised "awareness". What in the world does that have to do with peace? Remember, there are numerous Nobel Prizes. This one just happened to be for peace. Huh?!?

I'm not saying that raising awareness is fruitless. Plenty of people are raising awareness about breast cancer, but people are still dying of it. Does that mean we stop raising awareness? Of course not!

However, there is undeniable evidence that breast cancer causes death; there is NOT undeniable evidence that humans are causing global warming.

There is evidence that the world has been getting warmer for years (remember that whole Ice Age thing??). This was long before various emissions entered the picture.

I'm not saying that humans aren't causing the temperature to rise more than it ordinarily would be. There are a lot of us making a huge impact on this earth, and we need to be very careful about not destroying it. I believe we have an obligation to conserve what we have, to become less wasteful people.

But what I am saying is that without undeniable evidence that humans are destroying the earth due to their impact on its increasing temperature - some of which we know is natural to begin with - how can a Nobel Peace - PEACE!?! - prize be awarded because someone has spent the better part of the last 5 years telling everyone about it?

I think it's ridiculous.