Climate Change = Peace?

I was having a good start to my day until I read the news today.

Al Gore and the United Nations Climate Change Panel are now the proud recipients of a Nobel Peace Prize 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". Apparently, anyone can win a peace prize nowadays.

I fail to see how their "achievement" has anything to do with peace. Did they find a resolution to the Darfur conflict? Perhaps they figured out how to solve the puzzle in Iraq? North Korea? Nope. Nada.

Why not give them a prize in the category of either physics or chemistry? Climate change is a science after all!

I just can't believe they gave Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize for a lousy film blaming people for creating greenhouse gases so insignificant they don't even hold a candle to the amount of greenhouse gases produced naturally in the environment.

His Eminence was quoted as saying, "we face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity." Moral and spiritual challenge? What?

This issue, and es has always sounded political to me. This week in the UK, a High Court judge ruled that all schools must provide a disclaimer when showing Gore's film to students. In his ruling, the judge listed nine inaccuracies and pointed to alarmism and exageration in his determination of the film to be political.

Hmph.