NEWSFLASH: Al Gore Awarded MacArthur “Genius” Grant!
John Seery
Sat Oct 13, 8:56 PM ET
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named Al Gore a belated recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “Genius Grant.” A spokesperson for the Foundation explained, “We wanted to wait until after the Nobel Peace Prize was announced before we went public with Al Gore as a late addition to our Fellows Program.”
…Word on the street is that Al can beat Deep Fritz at chess, solve Rubik’s Cube in 9.26 seconds (blindfolded), and do 150 one-arm push-ups. An entire chapter of the Guinness Book of World Records is now devoted to his feats.
Here is the entire article.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Is this some sort of April Fool’s joke?
Gore is an idiot. The Nobel committee must awarded him the prize as a political gesture against Washington. They gave one to fmr. Pres. Carter (well…at least he was a real president) who, though has a big mouth, does some good. Gore? He is no scientist and didn’t even complete law school…but trots around the globe talking pseudo-science…and get a Nobel Prize for it.
Who knew the Nobel Committee had a fiction category?
Well, now he joins the ranks of other noteworthy prizewinners committed to peace, such as Yasser Arafat.
A disgrace for him to be awarded the Nobel prize.
Gore’s 11 lies
The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
I have nothing new to say since the comments before me have summed things up wonderfully well.
Anon 7:25, hilarious comment and completely spot-on, I am planning to quote you.
Anon 8:15, a brilliant systematic shredding machine for Gore’s book.
Let’s not forget that he also invented the internet
Just one opinion, I don’t think this chess blog should broach political topics like this.
But since you have, let me say that the prior comments are as ludicrous as the posting itself. I can see why anonymous 8:15 chooses to remain anonymous, with a patently false point-by-point diatribe. We could even find more truthful statements in Bush Administration press releases. Then again, maybe not.
“JSmith said…”
I chose to stay anonymous because it is not my research but I support it.
I agree, please keep the politics off here, it seems to bring out the worst in people.
Take a tip from Linus van Pelt: never discuss religion, politics, or the Great Pumpkin?
Hopefully not! In the US at least, we should be discussing the politics of the USCF.
I am never surprised to hear Americans denying the effects of global warming, the science they cling too is largely produced with help from huge oil company grants.
I would suggest that people look at the balance of evidence, not just picking the study that suits them.
Where I live in the South of England, the Government has suggested to us that they are unlikely to be able to defend our property from rising sea levels beyond 50 years from now. Now why would they be saying that if all this is false?
The intelligent thing to do is analyze ALL the evidence, not just the stuff you like the sound of.
Go on, just try it…
I agree with JSmith that this is a chess blog and we should talk about chess, but I feel a sudden urge to defend my nationality.
I am an American. I have been all of my life. And I don’t deny global warming. In fact I saw a nice exhibit at the Smithsonian talking about it and it even had the core samples showing the rise in CO2 and some other evidence.
Jared, I was not attacking your nationality.
My point was simply that with the amount of money spent in the US trying to counter the view of a substantial majority of the worlds scientists, Then it is never surprising that contrary views are more commonly held there than anywhere else.
al gore=snake oil salesman pure socialist ploy trying to control peoples lives. stop global scamming.
If Al Gore was the only person trying to get the message across, you would have a point.
Much has been made of the recent court case in the UK, one of the quotes above refers to it. If you cherry pick your information, you can make it say whatever you want. Maybe the summation by the Judge might make interesting reading for you?
Justice Barton said: “Al Gore’s presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film were broadly accurate.” The thesis that man is disastrously changing the climate by increasing greenhouse gas emissions is, he says, “supported by a vast quantity of research published in peer-reviewed journals worldwide and by the great majority of the world’s climate scientists.”
Now, that might not have made it onto Fox news, so there’s a pretty good chance you didn’t get to see it.