For promoting false, pseudo-scientific theories that can be disproven by a careful analysis of the historical data.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

''I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,'' Gore said. ''We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.''

Gore's film ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

That would be the same film that was just ruled to be so highly inaccurate that it must be labeled with disclaimers before it can be shown in British schools.

Given that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to terrorists and liars in the past, I guess I should not be surprised or alarmed that it goes to a hypocritical fraud this year. The award has long since lost the credibility it has when it was given to truly heroic figures like Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.

To paraphrase another former Democrat Vice President, today's announcement proves that the Nobel Peace Prize isn't worth a bucket of warm piss.

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