http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp
Let's compare the candidates:
Irena Sendler:
- Forged documents to get a job in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Helped remove roughly 2,500 children
- Got caught, was beaten within an inch of her life
- While in prison for her "crime", defied her German captors
- Survived a coin-toss-and-you're-executed scenario
- Reunited several families post-war
- Never made a dime
Al Gore:
- Made a lot of money off of a documentary
- Gives speeches about topics that smart people can't agree on (makes money off of them)
Obviously, Mr. Gore and his friends are much more deserving of this great honor.
Politics: Fucking truth in the ass since 15000 BC
Seriously - even I have to ask, what has Al Gore actually accomplished? He hasn't solved global warming. He didn't even discover it, or really even help get it mainstream attention. He made a movie about a subject that the rest of the world has known about since the 80s.
And it's not like anything we do makes one iota of difference at this point, anyway. Scientists have discovered that enough extra heat and CO2 has been stored in the oceans that even if we shut off all carbon emissions today, we're still gonna have a problem for the next 1,000 years anyway. So we really might as well just say to hell with it and keep polluting anyway. Seriously, screw it, man.
It's stuff like this that breaks my heart. And unfortunately, this has happened since the beginning of time. 😞
The Nobel prize is a scam. Just like whole weat bread.