Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize

When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer declared "It was at that moment that satire died". If that was so then now it has been well and truly buried. I read that "Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee said they had been chosen for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change"." This is the same Al Gore within whose campaigning film "An inconvenient truth" a UK High Court judge identified nine significant errors.
"Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration”. You can read the rest here.

I note that the aforementioned BBC report does not mention the recent court case, probably an accidental omission! You can add your comments about Mr Gore's Nobel Peace Prize here.