Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Powerline asks the question, "When did the Nobel Peace Prize go off the tracks?" and supplies this reminder of past recipients (HT: Hugh Hewitt):
2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.2004
WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world.2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have
respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.
1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. He was a a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatmalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu.1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.UPDATE: Reader Michale Slade thinks we need to extend the list a bit further back in time to include Betty Williams ’76, whom he deems "deserving of a place for her remarks about killing President Bush."
Michelle Malkin chimes in. Czeck presidentVaclav Klaus expresses surprise.
In a newspaper interview earlier this year, Klaus said that only Al Gore, and not a sane person, would say that mankind is ruining the planet.
National Review Online posts a list of articles. It prefaces them with the injunction, "Oh, Cool It Already."
STEVEN F. HAYWARD: In 20 years Gore or his climate alarmist successors will be lucky to appear on cable access TV, and Gore’s Peace Prize will take its place alongside Le Duc Tho’s 1973 award as a Nobel embarrassment. “Environmental Gore” 10/12 11:29 AM
TOM GROSS: Gore joins Carter and Arafat. “Planet Gore” 10/12 5:16 AM
JAY RICHARDS: Gore admits it has nothing to do with science. “Planet Gore” 10/12 6:38 AM
MONA CHAREN: Read Lomborg, not Gore. “Cold Water on Consensus” 10/12 12:00 AM