Personally, I think Gore getting the Peace prize is just stupid. He hasn't done anything to deserve it. Consider what has happened in the world since "An Inconvenient Truth" came out: nothing. War still rages in Iraq and Afghanistan. Burma is killing monks. The only move towards peace was Kim Jong-Ill signing an agreement with South Korea that he will stop pursuing nuclear weapons. News flash for the Nobel Organization: THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH AL GORE'S MOVIE!
"The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts, and arms control. (direct quote from the Nobel website)" Missing the point on how making a movie fulfills that criteria. Take a look at the list of Peace Prize laureates. You find Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, the men who started the International Red Cross and the Geneva Convention to name a very few. How on earth does making a movie equate to leading the civil rights movement in America? Or dedicating you life to helping the poor and needy? I don't get it. I mean honestly, congrats to him. It's a great honor to be recognized by the Nobel organization. And in no way is this something that Al Gore is responsible for. He's just the beneficiary. It's seriously upsetting me.
There's only two things I can deduce from this outcome: a) The Nobel organization is more interested in jumping on the "Global Warming" bandwagon than they are about upholding the integrity of their organization or b) there was no one better out there and they wanted to give the award to somebody. The latter I would say is the saddest if it's true.
I'm gonna shut up now before I get seriously pissed.