Al Gore wins (or co-wins) the Nobel Peace Prize and somehow, Drudge isn’t making fun of him. That’ll last, like, five minutes or so.

The release from the Nobel committee, linked on Drudge, is interesting:

Indications of changes in the earth’s future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world’s most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Emphasis added.

As per yesterday: I believe we are already seeing war as a result of “greater competition for the earth’s resources.” That’s what Iraq is - and possibly the opening barrage, the shot across the bow for more of the same. Make not mistake - the coming war with Iran, at least in part, will be attributable to the same thing. And perhaps after those wars we, the United States, won’t need to wage many more - but other countries will. And of course we’ll be stuck with the consequences, many of them disastrous and unintended, of our wars for generations to come. Instability may be the rule - abroad and here at home, as well. As the ancient Chinese curse goes, “May you live in interesting times.”