I find out that they have awarded the Peace Nobel Prize to Al Gore. In my opinion, this is blatant proof that this prize is completely worthless and they give it to almost anyone.
Former winners of this prize are, among others, Henry Kissinger (puppet master of Latin American dictators), or Yassir Arafat, Menahem Begin or Shimon Peres, presumably for bringing peace to Middle East. You can take a look over there to see the peace they brought.
In Gore's case, he is just a rich boy who wanted to be president and lost (or rather, was robbed), and now dedicates his time to tell us gloomy tales about global warming. To do that, he gives inspirational speeches at $100,000 a pop, and produces commercial documentaries to cash in on people who are environmentally concerned.
I'm not saying that he is not doing anything interesting for the environment, he is, but he is not an altruist, and I believe the Nobel Prize should go to someone who has a longer history of fighting for humanity, and not to someone who a few years ago was just a politician. Had he won the election he would not have done anything for the environment (what did he do when he was vice president?)
Precisely the opposite to the Nobels in literature, physics, chemistry or medicine, which are quite impressive and really significant, the Peace one is weak. There's so few people fighting for peace that if one of them all but moves a pinkie, they give him the Nobel.
By the way, check out the contract for Gore's talk in San Diego, at the link above to The Smoking Gun. Airfare for Gore and a partner, $12,200. I will defend the climate, but I fly first class...
And while we are at it, mathematicians' legend has it that Nobel didn't make a mathematics Nobel prize because his wife cheated him with (or left him for) a mathematician, named Mittag-Leffler. Although it seems the legend is false.
