Al Gore wins Nobel Prize

[Irock]

if only because people are rarely granted the award for work they've been doing largely over the course of eight years. People often (usually?) wait decades; NPR told me the timing of the award sometimes even has to do with who's gonna die soonest, since it can't be granted posthumously...U-S-A! U-S-A!

Ahem... Martin Luther King, Jr. Only 35 years old when he won the Peace Prize. They couldn't have known he would die 3 years later.

Toni Morrison - I'm not sure how old she was when she got it, but it was about 15 years ago, and I think she's been going pretty strong ever since. On the other hand, this year's literary winner Doris Lessing is 88 years old and she deserved it about 30 years ago. To be perfectly honest, I was surprised to see that she's still kicking.

Just saying.

Sybil

Ahem... I said sometimes.

[sam]

You could say that the destructive affects of climate change can have a destabilizing affect on governments. Will there be a major war over water at some point?

[aquaphase]

Will there be a major war over water at some point?

Too late, already been done. Don't make me post my paper on Middle East hydropolitics.

[lennon]

Twenty bucks say he throws his hat into the presidential ring at the last moment. Sorry to be so horribly cynical, but this just seems like an endorsement and initial campaign contribution.

He's so popular on a worldwide scale at the moment, why would he want to tie himself down to being the US President?

HMMM??? Lets see, I think its called 'pride' and 'arrogance'. Oh ya, me thinks, He thinks its his birthright.

also, am i the only one who has heard that his home in Tennessee uses more electricity in a month than i will use my entire life?

[Irock]

Pride, arrogance, and a sense of entitlement are prerequisites to anyone going into national politics.

And I hadn't heard about his energy use, but a quick search indicates that him using "more in a month than you'll use in your lifetime" is a weeeee bit exagerated. This article (from a right wing web site) says it's about 20 times the average household, though I wonder how they got a hold of his electric bills.

[roach]

watching last nights daily show to get my daily roundup of the fox newsies was a fun fun time concerning this.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_ ... ndex.jhtml

the top two videos "gore and peace" and "nobel odds"


ro"mother teresa, fuck her!"ach

[Dogatron]

Will there be a major war over water at some point?

Too late, already been done. Don't make me post my paper on Middle East hydropolitics.

please do

[James]

also, am i the only one who has heard that his home in Tennessee uses more electricity in a month than i will use my entire life?

Yes, but I think he has his own windmill and solar panels, so it's off the grid.

[ifihadahifi]

Yes, but I think he has his own windmill and solar panels, so it's off the grid.

Gore is still plugged in.He has installed solar panels and is installing a geothermal system to bring it closer to being that way. He also participates in a program called the Green Power Switch that supplies power from renewable sources. Of course, this all happened after his documentary was released. Bad timing, but at least he's doing something.

[aquaphase]

Will there be a major war over water at some point?

Too late, already been done. Don't make me post my paper on Middle East hydropolitics.

please do

shits. now I have to dig it up.

[Tracy]

How about US hydropolitics? Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner - read during my husband's Edward Abbey phase when we lived in CA and NV.