No doubt about it, global warming is a problem. And Al Gore is the man to address it. Mr. Bush, just so you and your 28%-bootlickers will know, THIS is what real leadership looks like!

Oh if only Florida’s Katherine Harris and the SCOTUS hadn’t fucked the country over in 2000…

Gore to U.S., China: Fix climate or else

Al Gore, left, and Rajendra Pachauri hold their awards at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony Monday.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or “stand accountable before history for their failure to act.”

“We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here,” Gore said in his acceptance speech.

Gore shared the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it. the U.N. panel was represented at the ceremony by its leader, Rajendra Pachauri.

“It is time to make peace with the planet,” Gore said at the gala ceremony in Oslo City Hall, in front of Norway’s royalty, leaders and invited guests. “We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.”

Exxon Mobil not happy this morning……..

Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today, along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change, for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to control it.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as “the single individual who has done most” to convince world governments and leaders that climate change is real, is caused by human activity, and poses a grave threat.

More at the Washington Post

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to … Al Gore?

He ‘has put climate change on the agenda,’ two Norwegian sponsors say
OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference,” Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.

Brende said he joined political opponent Heidi Soerensen of the Socialist Left Party to nominate Gore as well as Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier before the nomination deadline expired Thursday.

“Al Gore, like no other, has put climate change on the agenda. Gore uses his position to get politicians to understand, while Sheila works from the ground up,” Brende said.

“I think climate change is the biggest challenge we face in this century,” Brende said.

During eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including the Kyoto Treaty. Since leaving office in 2001 he has campaigned worldwide, including with his Oscar-nominated documentary on climate change called “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Source: MSNBC.com

Al Gore certainly deserves this recognition. But not everyone thinks so. Take a look at this image grab from MSNBC’s Live Vote on the subject:

Are there any doubts that this unbelieving twenty’six percent intertwine with that thirty’something percent crowd that still faithfully stand behind Bush and all things Jesus? Why oh why can’t there be a separate place, (complete with a separate atmosphere), for these folks to live?!