Global Warming, Al Gore... Peace Prize.

Or, as Basil Fawlty once asked, "Is this a PIECE of your brain?"

Here is the story, from All Headline News:

Al Gore Nominated For Nobel Prize

February 1, 2007 12:30 p.m. EST

Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer
Oslo, Norway (AHN) - After receiving wide-spread acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for his 2005 film documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," on the dangers of global warming, former Vice President and 2000 Presidential candidate Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work bringing attention to the oft-overlooked topic....

FOR MORE: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006328178

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How to Think Sensibly about Global Warming
By Steven F. Hayward
Posted: Monday, June 12, 2006

ON THE ISSUES
AEI Online
Publication Date: June 12, 2006

This essay is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.

A version of this article appeared in the May 22, 2006, issue of National Review.

The campaign to fight global warming--often based on exaggerations and conjecture rather than science--obscures effective steps that could be taken to address the issue.

The crusade to fight global warming with tough reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions has entered its war-room phase. Already we are seeing the fruits of a multimillion dollar public relations campaign: lavish cover stories in Time (“Be Worried, Be Very Worried”), Vanity Fair, and Wired; multiple global-warming scare specials on PBS, HBO, and the network news; and, finally, the release of Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Soon the Ad Council will begin airing television spots pulling on the usual heartstrings: we have to stop global warming for the children! One of these ads--featuring a montage of kids counting down “tick, tick, tick”--is reminiscent of the infamous 1964 anti-Goldwater ad.

Unfortunately, the green warriors substitute propaganda for persuasion, insist that there is no debate about the science of climate change, and demonize any scientist who dares dissent from their views. They advocate putting the United States and the world on an energy starvation diet, to the exclusion of a wider and more moderate range of precautions that might be taken against global warming....

The Full Text can be found here: http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24545/pub_detail.asp

The Cato Institute has more: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6633

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