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What must one do in order to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Step 1: Develop a zealot-like devotion to a popular cause and parade around beating it like a dead horse until you have people following like mindless zombies.
Step 2: Make a boring-ass movie about said cause. Pass off your opinions as science, because nobody can argue with science. Extra points for making people believe you out of fear alone.
What I'm talking about of course is Al Gore's recent Nobel Peace Prize award. What a joke. Never mind for a second that the peace prize has lost all credibility long ago (Hitler was once a nominee for fucks sake). The problem here is that the idiotic general public has even more reason to follow Gore like he's some kind of new-age saint. Interestingly enough, saint may be an appropriate title for the shitbag because the conclusions he draws in that crappy film of his are based more on faith and beliefs than actual science.
For those fortunate enough to have not been exposed to Gore's movie, here's a quick synopsis: An Hour and a half of Al's wonderful monotone voice droning on and on whilst he shows his PowerPoint presentation. He presents lots of pretty charts and facts and then goes on to draw his own fearful conclusions based on the data. And this is some scary shit! For weeks I couldn't sleep because of the fear that Global Warming was hiding under my bed with the intent to kill me in my sleep.
Nobody is arguing that the world isn't getting hotter. It has been measured. The general trend over the last century or so is that the earth is getting warmer. The nutty professor goes on to explain how humans are the cause of the climate change and how we're sowing the seeds of our own apocalypse. Apparently he doesn't understand the scientific mantra that correlation does not imply causation. Has human activity had an impact on the environment? Probably. However the problem where most of these envirotards go wrong is that they take it to the next step and imply that we somehow control the long term global climate trends by way of carbon emission.
You’ve got to be either real naïve or real stupid to think that humans can currently control the earth’s climate using carbon emission as some sort of world thermostat. The inconvenient truth here is that we can’t control jack shit. We make up only a small piece of the pie, and there are a bunch of other driving factors out there at similar and greater orders of magnitude.
By far the worst of the mindless drivel that is being spewed forth from tree huggers everywhere is the constant fear mongering and doomsday tales that global warming will kill our children. By trying to stop global warming aren’t we automatically making the assumption that the current temperature is the optimal one? Who says that warmer won’t be better? Who cares if the ocean rises 23 inches, or if the polar bears die? Fuck polar bears. That’s what we have zoos for. On the bright side, we may be able to once again farm on Greenland. You know, start producing grains with which to make some beer. At which point we’ll be able to kick back, have a drink and maybe finally be able to shut the fuck up about global warming. Get off of your high horse and shove that peace prize up your ass.
