I hate to sound like a sore loser on this Al Gore Nobel prize issue, so for balance…

Paul Krugman writes on the Gore Derangement Syndrome in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?em&ex=1192593600&en=da7b1a47329aacb0&ei=5087%0A

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.

The Gore accolades are amplifed by Thomas Friedman also in the Times (some shock huh?):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14friedman.html?em&ex=1192680000&en=85814a3003ab7c98&ei=5087%0A

“No matter what happens, sooner or later character in leadership is revealed,” said David Rothkopf, author of the upcoming “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making.” “Gore lost the election and had to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. He took the initiative to get the country and the world to focus on a common threat — climate change. Bush won the election and for the first year really didn’t know what to do with it. When, on 9/11, we and the world were suddenly faced with a common threat — terrorism and Al Qaeda — the whole world was ready to line up behind him, but time and again he just divided us at home and abroad.”

from hko
or perhaps it is just the difference between being a darling of the media verses being selected as its anti christ

from Mark Steyn in the Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22584694-7583,00.html

One can forgive youthful indiscretions, like his 1988 presidential candidacy, when he became the first and only politician in US history to hire a herd of cows for the launch of his campaign, positioning them attractively around him for the photo op at the supposed Gore “family farm”. The contribution to global warming from increased methane from bovine flatulence in the Gore neighbourhood was no doubt “offset” by reduced flatulent emissions from whichever farm he’d hired the cows from: it was, in that sense, a “carbon-neutral” event.

As for the climate, you could take every dollar spent on “global warming” and blow it on internet porn, and the Earth’s climate in 2050 will be pretty much what it would be anyway. Meanwhile, Gore is now being urged to jump into the presidential race and save Democrats from the allegedly too-hawkish Hillary Clinton. I doubt he will.

But you’ll know he’s considering it if he starts slimming down faster than the Antarctic shelf. When Al Gore starts getting carb-neutral, we’re really in trouble.

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