Scripps Institution of Oceanography is awarding its first-even Roger Revelle Prize to former Vice President Al Gore.
Gore will be in La Jolla Friday evening to receive the award.
The award will be given out during a dinner marking the 100th birthday of the institution’s late former director.
UCSD said Gore was selected for his efforts to raise awareness of global warming.
Read the comments in the article, it appears that the idea is not well received locally.
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first-even or first-ever?
I don’t suppose anyone knows if this is a (formerly) reputable group?
Hrumph.
Making the rounds of the award circuit seems to be a better gig than the Vice Presidency ever was.
What climate-related award is he scheduled to get next month (and the following month, and the following…)?
Shame!
Go to their web pages, there are variety of e-mail addresses, I chose supportscripps@ucsd.edu
Umm, how often does it snow in La Jolla? If it does, perhaps Gore will deserve that Nobel Prize. Or an Ignoble prize.
From the Environmental Capital blog in the Wall Street Journal:
… The Nobel-prize winner declined to take any questions from reporters, but he did receive a couple of challenges from attendees, including Bjorn Lomborg.
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But he [Gore] was challenged by Mr. Lomborg, the Danish skeptical environmentalist who thinks the world would be better off spending more money on health and education issues than curbing carbon emissions.
“I don’t mean to corner you, or maybe I do mean to corner you, but would you be willing to have a debate with me on that point?” asked the polo-shirt wearing Dane.
“I want to be polite to you,” Mr. Gore responded. But, no.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/03/05/a-heated-exchange-al-gore-confronts-his-critics/
He actually deserves the Canute prize for oceanography not the Scripps.
But Revelle did not believe in catastrophic global warming, as much as Gore wishes us to believe he did.
First ever prize….hmmm….was this Institution and award created solely to give Al Gore a prize????
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The British have an expression, “The mind boggles”, meaning totally confused and signifying wonder at the bizarre behaviour of humankind.
That must be awesome, to have spent a career in a field, doing good, honest science, and then when an award is created to reward that hard work, it’s given to a bloated politician who has spent his recent years peddling a dangerous fiction. Bravo, Scripps.
Not well received is putting it mildly!
“it appears that the idea is not well received locally”
Worried about “The Gore Effect” probably!
Good way of Scripps (Whoever they are) to publicise themselves.
The good people at Scripps should look out their window when they get a chance: According to the U. of Colorado’s Sea Level website, Southern California is one of the many areas of the world where sea level has been dropping over the last 2-3 years.
With less ocean to get in the way, they now have more room for their party!
A terrible slap in the face for oceanographers from this once prestigious institution!
It may be worthwhile to review Roger Revelle’s complete contribution to the CO2 story…
The link in the article [click] shows the public’s perception of the Scripps oceanography prize.
Let them know what you think. You can make a comment below the article without registering. There is also the option of clicking yes/no below each comment, on whether you agree or disagree with the poster.
Not surprising, given that Al Gore has helped bring funding and awareness to their cause. People don’t normally bite the hand that feeds them.
I’m not sure if you all noticed this already, but Bjorn Lomborg challenged Gore to a debate at a fundraiser in California, and Gore declined to debate him.
The story is here:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/goracle-lashes-out-at-critics-refuses.html
Al used to look dapper and once wrote a very interesting book. But he’s got fatter and debauched-looking, gone downhill like our King Henry VIII did after doing away with half his wives and using his brownshirt minister Thomas Cromwell to close the monasteries with violence, to pocket their wealth.
“Debate Is Over” – sound familiar?
Until now, I had a lot of respect for Scripps.
And the comments on newspaper articles have been enlightening. Look at the comments in your nearest newspaper with a “liberal” reputation and observe how more of their commenters express conservative viewpoints. The papers’ staff seem disconnected from readers.
” UCSD said Gore was selected for his efforts to raise awareness of global warming”
I think one can interpret that as “Gore was selected for is valuable contribution to keeping the funding flowing”
The Revelle/Gore saga began at Harvard:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/gores_gruesome_new_prize_updat.html
We’re only asking for a two hour live televised debate with the Oceanographer of the Year Al Gore or anyone of his choosing but he’s saying there is no time left because the world is going to end in two hours and 1 second. Or some lame excuse like that.
Each day there are 16 waking hours. During those waking hours at least 14 can be freed for debate. We ask for only two.
My comment to KFMB TV on their announcement of the Scripps prize for Gore:
I am utterly aghast at the mendacity exhibited by this award. I believe history will judge Scripps harshly on this one. Can they possibly be unaware that global temperature peaked in 1998 and that sea level rise possibly (too soon to be sure) peaked in 2006? See http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
Al Gore is the best ambassador for non science there is, so I hereby propose he is given the first of what will be a much sought after annual prize;
“The WUWT services for sceptics award.”
TonyB