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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How sad for Scripps, a once prestigious research institute… [self snipped…]
1) Another scientific institution fatally “Gored.”
2) Does the Pope debate every heretic that comes along?
3) One must be polite to “nuncios.”
Or, all 3.
Can you just imagine how would things be if Galileo would have said; I am telling you people that the earth is round and that it revolves around the sun. Now this is not opened to debate and you can’t ask me questions about it. Listen, the science is settled and anyone against this idea should be excommunicated.
Just imagine…
Speed (04:50:30) :
Did they screw up that video? I tried playing it on 3 different browsers and it always stops and crash the browsers!!!
I guess they don’t want the critiques to see that video… that would be inconvenient.
I would like to hereby nominate Mr. Al Gore for this award:
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20090305/NEIGHBORHOODS01/903050335/-1/GetPublished
From what I understand, he is a shoe-in…
The University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) under the impulse of its outgoing president gave Al Gore a Honoris Causa doctorate a year or two ago… If this continues, Al Gore official portraits will have to extend his left shoulder to include all medals -just like Brezhnev’s-…
I think it is no coincidence that Scripps was first the research center given the task of developing the “GoreSat”, Gore’s idea during the Clinton administration to have a satellite that did nothing other than to sit out in space and take pictures of the front side of the earth from the perspective of the sun. What a waste of money that would have been. Yet it gave a whole lot of money to Scripps. Of course, this boondoggle was killed by the Bush administration. Maybe Scripps thinks they will cash in big again now that the Obama administration is in charge and this is their way of ingratiating themselves with it.
The PARADE OF FOOLS continues. What a cosmic JOKE!
More anecdotal evidence of what will go down as the most egregious BREACH OF SCIENTIFIC TRUST since the days of the Spanish Inquisition.
Perhaps the current extraordinarily INACTIVE SUN is contributing to DIMMER INDIVIDUALS who lack the correct judgement to do the right thing.
It used to only permeate individuals. Now it corrupts whole institutions.
I ask the good people out there…WHICH of the following…is the worse of the two??
The individual who could, with a straight face, give that prize to Gore…or the fact that Gore had the audacity to accept??
rm3 – Justin Lancaster disputes Fred Singer’s version of how Revelle’s name came to be on the Cosmos article, including an affadavit from Revelle’s secretary stating the Revelle did not in fact work on the piece, being in recovery from major surgery at the time of the alleged collaboration (in Singer’s version they go out for cocktails) and concluding This shameful manipulation and exploitation of the life and teaching of a great scientist and humanitarian cannot stand. For my friend and colleague, for all those who have been misled by this Cosmos myth, and for the honor of a courageous and committed politician and journalist, it is important that I hereby fully rescind and repudiate my 1994 retraction and make available the evidence that supports my statements.
Revelle was a fine scientist, and here in his own words, are his views on climate change, published posthumously.
Something about a long walk off a short pier springs to mind.
“Gore was selected for his efforts to raise awareness”
This award is not for scientific achievement. It’s for raising ‘awareness’. But since it’s from the ‘Scripps Institution of Oceanography’ it has the air that it is for science.
Parody video of Al Gore’s trophy room, scroll down a little at the link :
http://nerdnirvana.org/2007/11/29/a-visit-with-al-gore-in-gores-trophy-room/
I cry for my Alma Mater
I did watch the video some of you are talking about it this thread, “A Heated Exchange: Al Gore Confronts His Critic(s)”. There is no heated exchange in it. It’s just Al Gore talking and T. Boone Pickens asks a question. Their Q & A seems (IMO) to have been rehearsed.
In the video Al Gore talks about the Civil Rights movement and how people had fire hoses turned on them sometimes. He does not realize that it is he who is now turning a fire hose, a verbal fire hose, on the people who know the real science of climate by calling them deniers, and flat earthers.
He is the one holding the fire hose now.
As a 10 year old boy, my father took me down to Scripps to
meet a real oceanographer. My eyes were wide open and
I reveled in every word he spoke. That experience guided me
into science, and finally research engineering. I’m watching
one of the foundational pillars of my life crumble right in
front of me. This is truly a sad day for Scripps and all the people
there who still believe in the purity of science. Science itself
is being hijacked by half-wits!
Hopefully this will inspire thousands of children to not do well in the sciences, to drop out of college or make mediocre grades, and to become politicians and lobbyists, rather than wasting time with research, as that is clearly the best way to become a world-renowned and universally-respected scientist.
If the only way to get money for research is to politicize science, lots of scientific whores will sleep with the bitch that has the money.
I understand the dismay of those who have ties to Scripps.
As for the rest of us, please do not worry so.
Scripps has not hurt me with this award, nor have they hurt you.
They have only hurt themselves.
No sensible person will take them seriously now, Post Scripps.
Why is it that when someone loses a debate against George ‘Simple Jack’ Bush they suddenly think they are an eminent scientist? Will John Kerry be the next to win an Oscar, Nobel Prize and Oceanographer of the Year Award?
Perhaps whoever made the decision to give the award to Al gets to spend weekends in the latter’s SF waterside luxury retreat.
How sad it is to see Scripps leave it’s objectivity behind and move wholesale into advocacy with both the award and the person it was awarded to.
The political environment vis a vis CO2 as the driver on warming is pretty much akin to the McCarthy era – which Revelle stood against. How far they have moved from those days. At least Revelle didn’t rail aginst the “trains of death” and was fairly dispassionate in some of his printed works, including the possibility that he was wrong.
So Al Gore gets a prize named after the person he defamed? It’s worrying to me that I’m getting desensitized to this sort of insanity.
I cry for my Alma Mater
Jim Hansen is headquartered at mine.
Vaguely related due to the doomster nature, the frequent flyer and climate activist Prince Charles is reported in the London Telegraph as claiming there are 100 months to save the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/4952918/Prince-Charles-we-have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html
March 2009: “In Thursday’s speech, the Prince will warn that a failure to act in the next eight years will have catastrophic effects for the planet. ”
The page includes links to related stories and this one caught my eye.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/1961719/Prince-Charles-Eighteen-months-to-stop-climate-change-disaster.html
May 2008: “The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests. ”
An adjustment from 18 months to 100 months in less than a year. An element of caution being introduced into the rhetoric?
“Prince Charles is reported in the London Telegraph as claiming there are 100 months to save the world”.
The next US elections are in 20 months, but who’s counting.
“evanmjones (16:57:55) :
I cry for my Alma Mater
Jim Hansen is headquartered at mine.”
This James Hansen?
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_4ruQ7t4zrFA/SarUZIsBVBI/AAAAAAAABus/mINCuq9RUWY/the-day-tomorrow-hansen.jpg