Not everybody seems happy with Al's gig...

I've been watching the news, talkshows and the like over a number of European networks and on the Internet these last 24 hours. There's been quite some criticism about this year's Peace Nobel award; not that much about Gore himself... he's what he is; critics are not even politically colored... This moaning comes from scientists and people of some recognized value who have nothing to achieve or lose by critisizing either Gore or the award. They are simply not happy with the Academy's choice, for some valid reasons, it turns out.

There was a guy who said that this whole climate thing is a hoax... the price is huge to pay and reach a subminimal effect in, say, three generations from now. Some other guy hated the windmill parks providing alternative energy. Funny to say, he complained about windmill parks in Holland, that dude! Pinch me! Windmills in Holland? What are you talking about? Never heard of that before...

Another one also said that we seem to be breaking our ass about a few degrees higher temperatures and the melting of the ice in the North Pole, but in 5000 years from now there will be another Ice Age and what are we gonna do about this...bla...bla...bla... making the point that, what Gore and the rest of them climate evangelists are trying to do will have a tiny little effect only for just our great-grandchildren generation but it's gonna be probably useless in the broader scheme of things.

Someone also said that Gore had a unique opportunity to run for President and actually do what he preaches but he chooses to stay on the sideline and play the critic instead. One big achievement, my ass, he said. The guy who made this comment was a Dutchman on a talkshow in the Netherlands... he kinda looked like he suffered from chronic constipation.

I don't know what to think. I expected the media to react in a different manner. They didn't...So maybe, not all people like Gore or what he does...

On the contrary, my favorite company, Apple Inc, seems to honor big Al big time. For those of you who are not aware, Al Gore is sitting on the BOD of Apple Inc, along with the likes of Oracle's Larry Elisson and Google's Eric Schmidt. In Apple's home page iPods and iMacs have offered their honorable spot to a statement about Al's achievement next to his photograph (a part of which I screen captured for this post). El Jobso acts in class, as we are used of him, again.