Global Warming & The IPCC versus Irena Sendler

Liberal "Values" and Who Makes the Hero Cut

First, It might seem utterly mystifying and confusing that Irena Sendler lost to Al Gore, but you have to remember -- people who actually take it upon themselves to try to make the world a better place using their time, their effort, their money, their risk -- not yours -- are strangely invisible to those with high moral liberal sensibilities.

For example, you may recall a flap during the 2000 election campaign when the fact came out that Al Gore donated a smaller percentage of his income to charity than the national average. That was perfectly consistent with his liberalism and "Liberal Values" -- see Arthur C. Brooks' Who Really Cares.

(To see what constitutes a "hero" to someone with "Liberal Values," see this blog's previous post: Eliot Spitzer and the Tragedy of Liberal and Leftist Assumptions about Human Nature).

The Nobel Peace Prize: an Oxymoron

Second, the Irena Sendler diss underscores that the Nobel Peace Prize has become The Gong Show of global humanitarian awards.

Reason magazine came out with this after Al Gore won the prize: How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore did it--you can too!

The most interesting way to win is to Kill a lot of people, then stop:

In 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Kissinger's CV included the "secret" bombing of Cambodia and the "Christmas" bombing of North Vietnam; just a month before his prize was announced, he was complicit in the coup that installed a brutal dictatorship in Chile. So why did he win? Because he and Tho had reached a truce to end the Vietnam War.

Tho wasn't a particularly peaceful man either, but at least he had the common courtesy to refuse the award.

More recently, the prize went to Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, a man whose career to that point had been spent arranging terrorist assaults on civilians. He shared the award with Israel's Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin; the three of them, like Kissinger and Tho, had negotiated an end to a war. In this case the peace agreement didn't hold, and both the state of Israel and various Palestinian groups went on to produce many more corpses. So don't worry if you develop a taste for blood during the initial stage of your Peace Prize campaign: You're free to resume killing once Mr. Nobel's money is safely in your hands.

By this method, the prize could conceivably go next year to Dick Cheney, the Janjaweed, or anyone else in a position to bring a war to a temporary stop. That someone could be you

The Legacy (so far) of Global Warming Alarmists -- Shameful

Finally, the Irena Sendler diss is also another shameful outcome bought about by Global Warming Alarmists -- the worse (so far) being that bio-fuels have caused rising food prices, food riots (the first in our modern age), and increasing global hunger for the first time in 60 years. (Listen to Indur M. Goklany, author of The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet, discusss: "Rising Global Wealth (and Ethanol) Driving Higher Food Prices")

Leave it to those with "Liberal Values" to reverse a 60 year tread so that they can sleep more soundly and smugly at night assured that they're "saving the planet." (A good night's rest also assures that they can more vigorously genuflect at the alter of Al Gore).

The true heroes in this world are often unsung and rarely elevated to superstar status – Thank you, Irena Sendler . . .

. . . and to all the others who don't make the Liberal Hero cut:

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