While Al Gore has received his Nobel Peace Prize due to his work in spreading the word about global warming, Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute is crying foul.

"Al Gore should probably get a prize for most travel in a private jet, but not the Peace Prize," says Myron Ebell, director of Global Warming Policy at the CEI. "The energy-rationing policies he espouses would perpetuate the poverty and human misery associated with political instability and conflict."

Gore recently wrote and starred in the film An Inconvenient Truth, which the CEI accuses of factual inaccuracies, exaggerations and misleading statements. Fueling the controversy around Gore's award is the debatable nature of the facts, as well as Gore's recent rise in popularity due to the documentary and his subsequent winning of an Academy Award.

The CEI says rewarding Gore with the Nobel Prize sends a bad message, since his values stated in the film and elsewhere espouse an ideology that is incompatible with modern civilization.

CEI senior fellow Marlo Lewis says, "An Inconvenient Truth purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common sense. In reality, it is a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global-warming alarmism and energy rationing. It is an accusation hurled at modern industrial civilization."



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