[Vision2020] Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize With U.N. panel

Fri Oct 12 20:59:52 PDT 2007

Pat et. al.

Ed Iverson made implications, in an op-ed in the Moscow/Pullman Daily news
the past year, that the IPCC was politically slanted in presenting the
science regarding human impacts on global warming.  He thus has invited
comment on his opinion on this subject.

I will forward to the list my op-ed that also appeared in the Daily News
that answered Iverson.

Now that the IPCC has received a Nobel Prize, along with Al Gore, for their
work educating the public about the human induced global warming crisis, I
find it timely to again visit Iverson's unscientific take on global warming
that slammed the IPCC, along with the Christian fundamentalist anti-science
movement in general, that has a shocking number of people following along.

Ted Moffett

On 10/12/07, pkraut at moscow.com <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> How would you be able to go on living if Wison, NSA et al left town and
> you didn't have them to attack with anything and everything??
>
>
>
>
> > Tom et. al.
> >
> > Oh, you mean Gore shares the prize with the IPCC, that group of
> "European
> > Socialists," according to New Saint Andrews librarian Ed Iverson,
> writing
> i> n
> > the Daily News about global warming?
> >
> > And labeling a group of scientists working to address global warming
> > "socialists" means that Christ Church has no "political" agenda,
> correct?
> > As they and millions of other "evangelical" Christians engage in a
> medieval
> > denial of the validity of the scientific method and findings related to
> > human impacts on climate change, similar in some respects to the attacks
> on
> > the science relating to evolution?  Of course, voting for President W.
> Bush
> > because of his born again Christian aura is not a political act either,
> is
> > it?  Nor the arrogant spiritual superiority expressed by many
> evangelical
> > Christians towards those of the Muslim faith, in part connected to the
> US
> > hubris involved in the policy that the US could remake Iraq society via
> > military intervention?
> >
> >
>
> http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070614/27971_Southern_Baptists_Take_
> > on_Global_Warming.htm
> >
> > SAN ANTONIOBy
> > Eric Gorski
> > AP Religion Writer
> > Thu, Jun. 14 2007 03:02 AM ET
> >
> > , Texas (AP) - Southern Baptists approved a resolution on global
> >
> warming<
> http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070614/27971_Southern_Baptis
> > ts_Take_on_Global_Warming.htm#>Wednesday
> > that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are
> > largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased
> regulatio> n
> > of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor.
> > -------
> > Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
> >
> > On 10/12/07, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  From CNN –
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. panel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "An Inconvenient Truth," a 2006 documentary featuring Al Gore, won two
> > > Academy Awards this year.
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/25lu9e
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > (CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'sIntergovernmental
> > > Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for
> thei> r
> > > work to raise awareness about global warming.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a statement, Gore said he was "deeply honored," adding that "the
> > > climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual
> > > challenge to all of humanity."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The former vice president said he would donate his half of the $1.5
> > > million prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a U.S.
> organization
> > > he founded that aims to persuade people to cut emissions and reduce
> globa> l
> > > warming.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The White House offered an initial reaction to the Nobel win by
> President
> > > Bush's 2000 opponent. "Of course, we're happy that Vice President Gore
> an> d
> > > the IPCC are receiving this recognition," said deputy press secretary
> Ton> y
> > > Fratto.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > During its announcement, the Nobel committee cited the winners "for
> their
> > > efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made
> clim> ate
> > > change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to
> > > counteract such change."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway.  Watch
> why
> > > Gore won the Nobel prize »
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In recent weeks, Gore has been the target of a campaign to persuade
> him
> t> o
> > > enter the 2008 presidential race.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he
> > > definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to
> ru> n
> > > for president.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine
> > > assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton. If the senator from New York had
> falte> red
> > > at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the
> source
> > > said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according
> to
> t> he
> > > source.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gore repeatedly denied he has any plans to run again, but this week a
> > > group of grass-roots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took
> out a
> > > full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change his mind. Watch
> mor> e
> > > on the movement to draft Gore
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Your country needs you now, as do your party, and the planet you are
> > > fighting so hard to save," the group said in an open letter.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "America and the Earth need a hero right now, someone who will
> transcend
> > > politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and to the
> world."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Nobel committee praised Gore as being "one of the world's leading
> > > environmentalist politicians."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create
> greater
> > > worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said
> Ol> e
> > > Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In making the announcement, Mjoes said, "Through the scientific
> reports
> i> t
> > > has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an
> ever-broade> r
> > > informed consensus about the connection between human activities and
> glob> al
> > > warming.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have
> > > collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the
> warming.> "
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988
> to
> > > study climate change information. The group doesn't do independent
> resear> ch
> > > but instead reviews scientific literature from around the world.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The U.N.-sanctioned group was formed by the World Meteorological
> > > Organization and U.N. Environment Program.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "delighted" with the
> news
> > > that Gore and the IPCC will share in prize.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A spokeswoman for the IPCC, which draws on the work of 2,000
> scientists,
> > > said the panel was surprised that it had been chosen to share the
> award
> w> ith
> > > Gore and praised his contribution to environmental campaigning.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it
> is
> > a
> > > recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola
> Traverso
> > > Saibante said, The Associated Press reported.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Nobel caps a series of prestigious awards associated with Gore,
> > > including two Oscars this year for the 2006 documentary film, "An
> > > Inconvenient Truth," which followed him on a worldwide tour
> publicizing
> t> he
> > > dangers of climate change.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Last month, he also picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in U.S.
> > > television -- for "Current TV." The show, which Gore co-created,
> describe> s
> > > itself as a global television network giving viewers the opportunity
> to
> > > create and influence its programming.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former
> Presidents
> > > Carter in 2002, Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with
> North
> > > Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the
> honor
> > in
> > > 1964.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Gore was vice president for eight years under President Clinton. He
> won
> > > the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000 and ran against Bush.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > But he failed in his bid for the White House -- despite winning more
> > > popular votes than Bush -- when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his
> > > challenge over voting results in Florida, securing an Electoral
> College
> > > majority for Bush.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >
> > > "Don't tell me why I can't.
> > > Show me how I can."
> > >
> > > - Author Unknown
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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