Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today. He joins such great historical figures as Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King.
I, for one, am incensed.
Gore was awarded the prize largely for his work on An Inconvenient Truth, a visually appealing movie filled with distortions and lies. It is a piece of irresponsible, fear-mongering propaganda masquerading as science.
Is this what science has been reduced to? For that matter, is the Nobel Peace Prize now so cheap and easily given on political merits?