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So bear with me until next week if you notice some errors or something (of course, continue to report them to me if you encounter any).

John

“Pees on Himself” Elmo

ROFL!!! That’s funny! And yeah – the W with the Nobel? You trying to make me ill before I’ve had lunch, John? :P

Oh, and hey – this post left me signed in – guess it’s fixed! ;)

ETA: Hey guys – I’m editing – ain’t it cool? :) Anyhoo, yeah, just wanted to say – DANG!!! Does Al look old or what? Very strange, it’s almost like he aged overnight!

And – blockquoting in a comment? Where else but OneMan’sBlog??? :D

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By the way, due to my leadership tonight, the sun will rise tomorrow. :D

That aside, I agree that Mr. Gore deserves the prize for his single-minded pursuit of solutions for global warming.

I think many people are stuck in that same mindset, although it is patently false. Here is a direct excerpt from Snopes on the subject:

The “Al Gore said he ‘invented’ the Internet” put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “Late Edition” program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Clearly, although Gore’s phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he “invented” the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet.

It is sad that an Urban Legend like this can destroy a person’s reputation. If this had happened in any arena other than politics, there would have been a massive defamation of character lawsuit.

John

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I’m going to guess that the main reason Gore would receive the award, even though he is not the scientist doing the research, is that he was almost single handedly responsible for raising the level of debate to stratospheric heights.

It is not always about being the first person to have information. It is sometimes about how effectively you are able to act on it.

John

In any case I’ve always wondered a little bit about who they award Nobel Prizes to. They sometimes seem a bit off to me.

And with that said, I do believe, and always have believed, that humans are playing a significant role in changing the climate of our planet and I am grateful to Al Gore for using his status to bring it to the average Joe.

And with *that* said, I invite you to view the ‘Nine Errors’ in Gore’s movie: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7037671.stm We gotta have a balanced debate, right? :)