Proof that a college D student can "make the grade". 

Personally I haven't put much reputation in the Peace Prize since Arafat and Begin won it.

Gores grades were lower than Bush's grades.  Its one reason he hasn't released his transcripts to the public.  More to the point he also dropped out of divinity school for his masters program (after dropping out of other universities).  It a harsh reality, but its true.

I am not a big Al Gore fan, but then I wasn't a big Yassir Arafat fan I wasn't a big Begin fan, frankly most of the people in the recent past who have received the Nobel Peace Prize have impressed me. 

I suppose its a Swedish thing, I suppose Ahmed Abinijad will win the next one.

I can't fault you your support of Gore.  The environmental issue is important to you and pre eminent in your position.  And the grade thing is just that, a grade thing.  I don't hold it over Bush's head or Gore's.  What is important usually is what they do with their experience in life anyway.

I see issues with Gore in the manner in which he says one thing regarding global warming but does not adjust his own life, as either an example, or to show how he himself would reduce the impact, its one reason I admire Ed Begley, even if I do disagree with him.  Gore has an environmentally lavish lifestyle, I don't mean that he should not fly in a jet plane, and try to get to places himself instead of telecommuting.  I mean that in his own life, his own home, he is at odds with his philosophy.  If Mother Theresa had the Chippendales dancers at her home, I would also question her commitment too.

In Gore, I see a man looking for a cause, I don't see a man changed by a cause.

Maybe I am cynical.

I wonder, what if Gore said he was going to get rid of his hearst castle, or change it, or make it better or something.

But no change in the past six months, and certainly none since he made the film.

I can understand using energy to get the word out (hence I will not complain about him flying about).

As an aside to the Gore thing:

I don't see much in the way of immediately viable renewable energy.  Wind is next to nothing (and the Kennedy's won't buy into it).  Solar is still to inefficient (though one day).  I believe nuclear is the immediate answer.




Anyway, I don't see Gore as being as committed, or more to the point, as able to pull off influence beyond the choir he is already preaching to.  In other words, he is not really growing the influence into areas where his views are not popular.  In part because of who he is and what he does.

So I see the Nobel "Peace" Prize as being less than it once was, and not of consequence with Gore or any influence that Gore will wield in the future.

I assumed you were all about getting the word out, and convincing people to change.  Do you think his lifestyle will hurt or help convince people that global warming is real?

That is my point, especially if that is the key reason he got the Nobel Prize in the first place.

You don't care how he lives? He should practice what he preaches. Yet he lives a life of "Do as I say, not as I do".

Gore didn't deserve the Nobel. What the hell did he do? He made a fictional movie.

Gore's prize: A fraud on the people

From the sounds of it, the panel had a pretty tough time justfying it.


Looks like they had to use Milgrams "Six Degrees of Separation" to rationalize awarding him the Nobel.

Like Baldar said, the recent winners are less than impressive. The utter failure of Jimmy Carter, the murdering thug Yasser Arafat, the literary fraud Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel has become a joke.

Maybe Gore deserved it after all.