Al Gore Wins Peace Prize

Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for disseminating greater knowledge about man-made climate change.

In my opinion it was a deserved award. In the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (buy), Gore presented the science behind man-made climate change with both eloquence and transparency.

The documentary is a necessary education and - perhaps it shouldn't be so - great entertainment: My wife and I were compelled to watch the DVD from beginning to end without pause for break (we seldom get through a feature-length without respite).

I know from reading various subscriptions that there are those who will never accept the man-made catastrophe of climate change as reality - that it is merely scaremongering, but whether you believe Gore's claims or not, it is undeniable that there is more rubbish on the street, increasingly diminished bio-diversity, more animals on the brink of extinction (such as the polar bears, pictured), more factories coughing toxic fumes into the atmosphere, dirtier rivers and seas, so-on-and-so-on-and-so-on.

If these are facts, then even he who disagrees with the overall system of man-made climate change, cannot oppose these facts. That is, the yay-sayer and the nay-sayer can merely have views of the same thing:

The former sees the pieces of the puzzle all fitted together and the latter sees - not the complete puzzle, but - it's fragments. Either way it is not a pretty picture.