The head of Greenpeace in Norway inexplicably said of the prize:

We believe that the Nobel Committee has shown great courage by so clearly connecting the climate problems with peace.

Well, great. Except they did no such thing. The Committee itself says it's awarding it:

for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

Once again, the Nobel Committee has proclaimed an award of the Nobel "Peace" Prize without using the word "peace."

Last year, the Prize was awarded to two economists for "their efforts to create economic and social development from below."

In the past, nearly all recipients were awarded with a proclamation that included the word "peace" or some variation thereof, or at least "war" or some obvious substitute, except in cases where even the half-literate could figure out the connection (like when the prize went to Nelson Mandela and Willem DeKlerk)

Say what you want about Yasser Arafat, but at least he got the prize (jointly with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin) for attempting to bring peace to the Middle East (and we all know how well that turned out.)

And, despite the fact that he's a useful idiot for all things socialist, at least Jimmy Carter ostensibly does work on his notion of peaceful solutions.

But, really--global warming is peace?

So they're going to give a millionaire another million and a half dollars (think of all the carbon credits he can buy!) and a fancy medal. And I'm sure he needed the attendant publicity, given that no one has heard of this movie (except the people who watched the Academy Awards, and the millions of kids in public schools who have been forced to watch it under the umbrella of "science.")

The Nobel Prize Committee is currently in competition with the US Congress for the title of "most useless group of people."