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Gore Pushed to Run If He Wins Nobel

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 10:20 AM

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Newsweek reports this week that Democratic activists across the country are pressing Al Gore to enter the presidential race — and believe that if Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize this month — it may just trigger his entry.


NewsMax’s e-letter “Insider Report” first disclosed back on June 10 that the former vice president was considering entering the race if he won the Nobel prize. Winners are announced this October 12 in Oslo, Norway.


NewsMax reported, “Party insiders believe that a Gore campaign launched as late as October will still have enough time to raise money and challenge front-runners Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards.”


Gore has been nominated for the prize for his efforts to draw attention to the dangers of global warming. Speculation about a Gore run has been increasing as the date draws near.


Gore supporters believe a Nobel win “would burnish his reputation and remind Democrats that he’s been a leader fighting what voters consider the world’s premier environmental battle,” Newsweek reports. “Some Gore backers think he’s already decided to run, but speculate that he doesn’t want politics to interfere with his Nobel chances.”


The national DraftGore.com organization has gathered around 127,000 signatures to put Gore on primary ballots, and is planning to run an ad in The New York Times urging him to run.


The California 4 Gore group has volunteers circulating petitions in all 53 congressional districts. And a poll in Michigan by Detroit News/WXYZ-TV had Gore winning 36 percent of the vote, beating out Clinton with 32 percent.


So far Gore has given no clear indication that he’s leaning toward a run, although he has not ruled that out when given the opportunity.


But Roy Gayhart, an organizer of the California group, told Newsweek, “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize . . . then he can’t not run for president.”
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Go Al...Go Al...Go Al!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Traditionalists,Conservatives and the majority of the male population in general in America are hoping for Al Gore to assist in derailing the "Hillary Express". If he runs he had better watch his back very closely.

i will vote for him if he runs

I voted for him once, about 20 years ago.

I won't again.

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But Roy Gayhart, an organizer of the California group, told Newsweek, “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize . . . then he can’t not run for president.”

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Why? Perhaps then he could run for President of the UN.. or President of Switzerland or something a little more closely related...

I've been hoping Gore runs since 2005. I honestly don't think winning the Nobel will have any effect on whether he runs or not, but I can't imagine that he isn't at least still thinking about it since he still refuses to rule out running. Run Al, run!

Gore wins the nomination and the Republicans will retain the White House. There is way more footage out there now of Gore making an ass of himself. I think he is seriously unhinged...Trust me, I would know.

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...he still refuses to rule out running.

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He still refuses to rule out losing the 2000 election.

He'll steal a lot of Hillary votes if he decides to throw his hat in the ring.

Pay no attention to that man behind the Global Warming curtain!

Yeah, the whole global warming talk is all nonsense and fake science. It isn't really happening at all.

No, what our current leader has done is far more dangerous than make an ass out of himself .

While most...but not the vast majority...of scientists agree that global warming is happening the reason for it's occurrance is still in doubt.

Should we attempt to reduce our usage of greenhouse gases and be as clean in technology as we can reasonably be???- of course.

Can we reverse the nature of temperature cycles of the planet???? Only in Al Gore's mind/dreams. The planet controls itself and in a major sense we with it---not the other way around.

If Al Gore ran I'd vote for him if he was running against....

if he was running against....


hold on, I'll think of somebody...


Let me get back to you.

Who is Elmer Fudd's running mate?

Linky

(CNN) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work raising awareness about global warming.

The Nobel committee cited them "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

The IPCC and Gore will each receive a gold medal, a diploma and a share of $1.5 million. The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway.

"Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming," Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee, said in making the announcement.

"Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming."

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 Mjoes

Gore collected two Oscars earlier this year for his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," which followed him on a worldwide tour publicizing the 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, describes itself as a global television network that gives its viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.

Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former presidents Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

In 1973, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The Rev. Martin Luther King received the honor in 1964.

Gore served as Vice President for eight years under President Bill Clinton. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000 and ran against George W. Bush.

But he failed in his bid for the White House -- despite winning more votes than Bush -- when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his challenge over voting results in Florida, securing an electoral college majority for Bush.

In recent weeks Gore has been the target of a campaign to persuade him to enter the 2008 presidential race at the 11th hour

Gore has repeatedly denied that he has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grassroots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took out a full-page ad in the New York Times in a bid to change his mind. Video Watch more 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."

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 with 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.

This presents a tricky situation for Al Gore followers.
Al has in fact won the Nobel Peace Prize Gold Medal Award and judging by the standards explained did in fact deserve to win. This is where the tough part comes in.

In light of the unfortunate flaps surrounding the Invention of the Internet, the case he made for Tipper and himself being the model for the "Love Story" movie, the Buddhist monk fiasco..........................................................
will he be believed 10 years from now concerning the Nobel Prize???

I hope this catapults Gore into the 2008 Presidential race running alongside Obama and against Hillary.....God this may get good afterall.

What exactly are those "standards"?

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The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway.

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I just heard the forcast...-10`F and heavy snow.
It happens every time Gore tries to talk about MMGW.
I think Somebody's trying to tell him something.

But didn't you know ... Heavy rain, snow, wind, hot days, cold nights, and clouds are all caused by MMGW. And here this whole time I just thought they called it "weather".

You know, now that i think about it, Gore's guy's must be doing something right. The US hasn't been hit by a major hurricane for two years now.

I just have to ask .....

Since Gore and the UN won ..... does tht mean that the UN will be Gore's Vice President?

Al Gore's Convenient Untruths
Thursday , October 11, 2007


A High Court judge in London has turned film critic, highlighting "nine scientific errors" in Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The judge said some of the errors had arisen in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration" to support the former US vice-president's thesis on global warming.

The Government's decision to show the film in secondary schools had come under attack from father-of-two Stewart Dimmock, a Kent school governor and a member of political group The New Party, who accused the Government of "brainwashing" children with propaganda.

Justice Burton ruled at London's High Court that the film, much acclaimed by environmentalists, could be shown in schools as part of a climate change resource pack, but only if it was accompanied by new guidance notes to balance Gore's "one-sided" views.

The judge set out nine alleged errors in the film in which statements were made that were not supported by the current mainstream scientific consensus.

ERROR: Gore asserted that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland "in the near future". The judge said: "This is distinctly alarmist and part of Gore's "wake-up call". It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - "but only after, and over, millennia." The judge added that "the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus."

ERROR: The film had also asserted that low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls "are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming" - but there was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

ERROR: The documentary had also spoken of global warming "shutting down the Ocean Conveyor" - the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe. The judge said that, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it was "very unlikely" that the Ocean Conveyor, also known as the Meridional Overturning Circulation, would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.

ERROR: Gore had also asserted - by ridiculing the opposite view - that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed "an exact fit". The judge said that, although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, "the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts".

ERROR: Gore had asserted that the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was expressly attributable to global warming. The judge said this had "specifically impressed" the Environment Secretary David Miliband. But the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.

ERROR: The drying up of Lake Chad was used in the film as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming, said the judge. "However, it is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. "It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability."

ERROR: Gore ascribes Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans to global warming, but there was "insufficient evidence to show that."

ERROR: Gore had also referred to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears were being found that had actually drowned "swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice". The judge said: "The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm."

That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued - "but it plainly does not support Mr Gore's description."

ERROR: Gore said in the film that coral reefs all over the world were bleaching because of global warming and other factors. Separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.

The UK Press Association contributed to this story.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301071,00.html

That what cracks me up about the Global Warming theory. They all talk like waters are going to rise 20-30 feet and all coastal states will be under water, everyone will have to move to the mid-west, and that a major drought will be in effect that we won't be able to grow food, and the temperature will rise 10-20 degrees, so we all will be burning up.

They talk about all this like it will happen in the next 5-10 years, when in truth they are talking hundreds, if not thousands of years from now.

Granted we should take measures to clean up the pollution we cause, and clean up our environement. But global warming is going to happen whether we like it or not, and just like throughout the rest of mankind existence, we will adapt.

Who knows, maybe one day the world will be covered by water, and some people will develop gills. (ie: waterworld)

While we know that the sun is becoming more active recently some prefer to ignore that the same sun is warming other planets as well as ours...didn't realize that the others had gas powered engines or dirty filthy capitalists.

I can't believe he won... I'm lost a lot of respect for the 'Nobel Prize'

Just clicking

Its more on an environment concern, nobody can justify polluting the airs such as a good thing.

Wow, that's kind of a joke for the Nobel Prize.

Considering the names of the other people who won it, now you go down the list you have names like Teddy Roosevelt, Ellie Weisel, Mother Teresa, MLK jr., and then you have Gore????????????

You also have names like Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan.
Its been a joke for some time now.

When Annan won it he won with because he was the secretary general of the UN and they were given the award JOINTLY.

Carter got it for his humanitarism and for his promotion of peace.

Say what you want about Gore, but he's brought a lot of awareness to cutting down pollution and whatever you think of Global warming, cutting down on pollution can't be a bad thing.