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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I also don't think that the nobel peace prize should have been given to him in this case, he hasn't made an irrefutable argument, outside of going from town to town and collecting speaking fee's he hasn't done anything extra-ordinary.
In otherwords I question his impact, especially when you have to pay to see his movie or earn it.
If there was a year that no peace prize was awarded, this would be it.
It seems like a popularity vote to me.
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I'll have to disagree. His name is synonymous with global warming. I think most people were aware of the two words, "global warming" before his activism and movie, but that's about it. They didn't really understand what it meant and the causes behind it. Is there another name that comes to mind when ones thinks of global warming? Not really.
But like you I don't really understand why he got
this Nobel Prize. And I recognize his impact as being very influential, but this sounds like a case of "we would like acknowledge Al Gore's achievement of awareness, but we don't exactly have a category for him."