Roger F. Gay
Norway Should Apologize for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

Last December, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a group of government appointees, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore, “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”

It was like openly declaring that the Nobel prize for peace had become the Nobel prize for lying.

The Norwegians jealously control the peace prize, based on no particular reason. It is not up to me to decide who receives it, but when its influence is used to foster ignorance, poverty, and war, the world should pay attention and respond. The climate change propaganda that has floated on the efforts of Al Gore and the IPCC poses such a threat.

What has been promoted is the replacement of scientific conclusions through scientific method with blind faith in the preachings of a profiteering former politician. In place of the scientific method, the Norwegians have told us to let political committees decide scientific beliefs. This has been tried before, from the mystics of emperors to Soviet agricultural and political “science”. It is the path to superstition. It is the path to ignorance. It is the path to oppression and poverty. It is the path to failure.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I know that. But the influence of The Prize bolstered efforts to force political indoctrination in schools in several countries. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” threatens death to children and all around them if they do not immediately join the cult. Al Gore says trust no-one who doubts the message, thwarting parents who would try to console and de-program their own affected children. This particularly sinister psychological violence against the most innocent deserves a peace prize? The world deserves an apology.

According to Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

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2 Comments »

  1. amfortas said,

    Gore will have to join the queue. There is Yasser Arafat ahead of him by a few years, in fact a host of people who have greased the palm of the Committee and oiled the wheels of infamy. Some have even achieved secular Sainthood, like Nelson Mandela.

    Where do you think all the prize money comes from? It’s the dynamite. It takes a lot of explosives sales and only the top conflict salesmen get honoured.

    July 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm

  2. Roger F. Gay said,

    People keep pointing out that the Norwegian committee has made bone-headed choices in the past. I hope most recognize that this article is focused on the last one, rather than being an historical overview of peace prize awards. I try to stay focused when I write, without much digression - but I suppose one line acknowledging “this isn’t the first time” wouldn’t have hurt.

    July 20, 2008 at 1:50 am

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