Comments on: Nobel Prize for Peace 2007 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nobel-prize-for-peace-2007.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nobel-prize-for-peace-2007.html/comment-page-1#comment-156843 David Bradley Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:54:09 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nobel-prize-for-peace-2007.html#comment-156843 Adam, thanks for your comment. There usually is a timelag before the impact of pioneering work is felt, but I get your point. As to Al Gore...well....even the IPCC said in its report earlier this year that they were only 90% certain. That's a one in ten chance of it not being anthropogenic, isn't it? There are people I know who would bet their life savings on a horse with longer odds than that. Today, I heard that there is renewed effort to ban Gore's movie in schools in the UK unless it's showing is accompanied by a balanced debate or some other way of showing that science is not unanimous when it comes to climate change. 90% is not a dead cert, for sure, no matter what those who would increase taxes and fight oil wars tell the gullible media. Adam, thanks for your comment. There usually is a timelag before the impact of pioneering work is felt, but I get your point. As to Al Gore…well….even the IPCC said in its report earlier this year that they were only 90% certain. That’s a one in ten chance of it not being anthropogenic, isn’t it? There are people I know who would bet their life savings on a horse with longer odds than that. Today, I heard that there is renewed effort to ban Gore’s movie in schools in the UK unless it’s showing is accompanied by a balanced debate or some other way of showing that science is not unanimous when it comes to climate change. 90% is not a dead cert, for sure, no matter what those who would increase taxes and fight oil wars tell the gullible media.

]]> By: Adam http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nobel-prize-for-peace-2007.html/comment-page-1#comment-156807 Adam Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:27:01 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/nobel-prize-for-peace-2007.html#comment-156807 I am unimpressed. Nobel prize in medicine was for work pioneered in the 80s. Chemistry was from the 60s. Physics from 1988. All of these are established, tested, probed, and perfected discoveries with tangible impacts decades later. The jury is in no way unanimous on anthropogenic global warming, and there are no tangible effects conclusively pinned to anthropogenic global warming as the sole cause. That Gore won the Oscar and the Emmy was essentially guaranteed because Hollywood rewards sensationalism. But sensationalism should have been left out of the Nobel Committee. I am unimpressed.

Nobel prize in medicine was for work pioneered in the 80s. Chemistry was from the 60s. Physics from 1988.

All of these are established, tested, probed, and perfected discoveries with tangible impacts decades later.

The jury is in no way unanimous on anthropogenic global warming, and there are no tangible effects conclusively pinned to anthropogenic global warming as the sole cause.

That Gore won the Oscar and the Emmy was essentially guaranteed because Hollywood rewards sensationalism. But sensationalism should have been left out of the Nobel Committee.

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