I am constantly fascinated and amazed by the never ending parade of bizarre world events, but specifically the recent misplaced honoring of Al Gore with a Nobel Peace Prize. The world has been on the cusp of insanity for some time, but the level of said insanity to which we have attained is now legendary. We have transcended the anecdotal and have now canonized Al Gore with the Nobel.What has Al Gore truly accomplished? He took the current “hot” topic, claimed it as his own, then sensationalized it ad nauseam! Voila, one Nobel Peace Prize in the bag! I am surprised that Mr. Gore did not win the Nobel for his self proclaimed invention of the Internet. Maybe the committee missed that one.
So what’s wrong with Mr. Gore’s prize? Everything! He has done literally nothing, with the exception of hanging precariously from the stained shirt tail of quasi-science while gaining fame and fortune through his sky is falling rhetoric! It is easy to identify global problem areas but the real trick is creating solutions to those problems. Has Mr. Gore delivered practical solutions to “global warming?” No! He has championed a cause that uses hazy science at best to conclude that mankind can reverse global warming through the implementation of "carbon credits." Typical answer from someone that does not live in the real world. Make people pay to pollute!
Science changes its tack at the whim of whoever yells the loudest. As Mr. Gore desires to make us all pay for global warming through the purchase and trading of “carbon credits” (a scheme to fix global warming?) one must think of who that will really benefit. Will “carbon credits” fix the problem? Ludicrous, ridiculous, unimaginably beyond common sense and just plain dumb! Will Mr. Gore’s carbon credits get 1,000,000,000 Chinese to stop driving?I have to hand it to Mr. Al Gore for his ability to spin a tapestry of B.S. so artfully that it jerks him from the kids table and sits him down with the grown ups. Some of the deserving grown ups include; 1903’s Maria Sklodowska-Curie discoverer of radioactivity, 1954’s Linus Pauling for his hybridized orbital theory and nuclear test-ban treaty activism, 1956’s William Shockley co-inventor of the transistor and 1958’s Frederick Sanger for his work with the insulin molecule and virus nucleotide
sequencing.
So where does a sensationalist like Al Gore fit in with real achievement? He doesn’t! End of story.
