How interesting it is that 'Goring Gore' is primarily an activity of
American Neo-Cons - not something on one would expect in a forum like
this.
See 'Going After Gore'/Vanity Fair/10/07
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/gore200710
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Subject: Re: Gore's Nobel Peace Prize
Now, come on - when it comes to limited track record - Kissinger? Peres?
de
Klerk? Begin?
Gerry Kearns
On Oct 15 2007, David Storey wrote:
>Don't worry - you are not alone!
>
>The impression seems to have been created that Gore 'discovered'
climate
>change and is running a one-person awareness-raising campaign.
>
>Dave
>
>
>Is anyone apart from me bothered that Gore got this in place of
>thousands of other environmental activists with long years of
>campaigning/action/service behind them?
>
>Has there been any other Nobel awarded to a person with such a limited
>past track record? Most prizes have been awarded to recognise a
lifetime
>of achievement, for example the Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to
>those who first started their scientific journey in 1963? The peace
>prize award usually appears to be a political act, to a greater or
>lesser extent, compared to other Nobel prizes..
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>Jeremy W. Crampton wrote:
>> The geography blogs are picking up on the Nobel award to Al Gore/IPCC
>> this
> morning. Frank at VerySpatial makes a good point and I wonder if the
AAG
> will be putting out a press release or notice about this?
>>
>> "I think this is one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes awarded for an
area
> that is dominated by physical geography. Wangari Muta Maathai won in
2004
> for her work in sustainable development, which is the other prize
> focusing on physical geographic issues. I find it interesting the
Nobel
> people are turning more and more to areas beyond human conflict when
> recognizing impacts on world peace. The Nobel Institute gives out
several
> prizes in a range of disciplines, but I think the peace prize is the
most
> recognized. It's also the only slot in which geography fits nicely
> (although you can make a strong case for Economics). Hopefully this
prize
> might help raise geographic awareness around the world."
>>
>> (http://veryspatial.com/?p=1797)
>>
>>
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>> Jeremy W. Crampton
>> Editor, Cartographica
>> Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Geography
>> Department of Geosciences
>> PO Box 4105
>> Georgia State University
>> Atlanta
>> GA 30302
>> (404) 413-5771 <-- NOTE NEW NUMBER
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