Al Gore: Nobel Laureate

Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize, together with the UN International Panel on Climate Change. The Nobel Committee said that Al Gore "is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted”

Climate change may be the issue that drives the modern conservative movement into total irrelevance. As time passes and the effects of climate change become more and more serious, the conservatives are going to have a hard time running away from their loyal support of the industries that have been doing the most to denigrate efforts to do something about climate change. They are going to look as foolish as the flacks for the cigarette companies and they should, for they used the same "the science is not proven" tactics.

I'm glad he won. This is going to be so much fun to watch the Wingnuts work into a full-blown froth of impotent rage.