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The question I asked first when I heard the news that Al Gore and the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) had won the Nobel Peace Prize was just what kind of dimwits could do such a thing.

After all, hadn’t the IPCC trashed, distorted and politicised the science surrounding the question of human influence on the climate? Hadn’t it twisted the scientific results by using the “Summary for Policy Makers”, which media organisation use for their headlines, to come to conclusions that the raw scientific data didn’t allow?

Yes, it did.
And hadn’t Al Gore, in his zealous arrogance to prove a point, used plain lies to back up his power crazed theories. Yes, he did. And if you don’t believe me, ask the British High Court judge, who last week found nine substantial errors in Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”. This is what the judge found, when he made a judgement after a local councillor sought to either ban using the film in schools, or make sure educational authorities at least offer a counter argument to Britain’s children –

The nine alleged errors in the film (thanks to the Daily Telegraph)
• Mr Gore claims that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland "in the near future". The judge said: "This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore's "wake-up call". He agreed that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - "but only after, and over, millennia". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus."

• The film claims that low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls "are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming" but the judge ruled there was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.

• The documentary speaks of global warming "shutting down the Ocean Conveyor" - the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe. Citing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the judge said that it was "very unlikely" that the Ocean Conveyor, also known as the Meridional Overturning Circulation, would shut down in the future, though it might slow down.

• Mr Gore claims that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed "an exact fit". The judge said that, although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, "the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts".

• Mr Gore says the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was directly attributable to global warming, but the judge ruled that it scientists have not established that the recession of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro is primarily attributable to human-induced climate change.

• The film contends that the drying up of Lake Chad is a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming but the judge said there was insufficient evidence, and that "it is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability."

• Mr Gore blames Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans on global warming, but the judge ruled there was "insufficient evidence to show that".

• Mr Gore cites a scientific study that shows, for the first time, that polar bears were being found after drowning from "swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice" The judge said: "The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm. "That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued - "but it plainly does not support Mr Gore's description".

• Mr Gore said that coral reefs all over the world were being bleached because of global warming and other factors. Again citing the IPCC, the judge agreed that, if temperatures were to rise by 1-3 degrees centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and mortality, unless the coral could adapt. However, he ruled that separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.

Despite this evidence of the malignancy of Gore’s film, the Norwegians went ahead anyway. But these people have form. Just look at the list below. This committee of Norwegian dingbats (the Peace Prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee; all the others are Swedish) has honoured Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter God help us. It has also nominated Wanagari Maathai, Oscar Arias Sanchez, and Elie Wiesel, worthies of whom I’ve never heard. The other Noble prize committees award prizes for magnificent achievements in literature, economics and medicine and have to be hard earned, fantastic achievements. But not the devalued Peace Prize.

The Peace Prize still retains an aura of importance, but you only have to look at the list of former winners to realise that this award mainly goes to right-on lefties, hand wringing apologists, and the odd phsycopathic killer.

- 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
· 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
· 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
· 2004 - Wangari Maathai
· 2003 - Shirin Ebadi
· 2002 - Jimmy Carter
· 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
· 2000 - Kim Dae-jung
· 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
· 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
· 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
· 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
· 1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
· 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
· 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
· 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
· 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
· 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
· 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
· 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
· 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez
· 1986 - Elie Wiesel
· 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
· 1984 - Desmond Tutu
· 1983 - Lech Walesa
· 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
· 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
· 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
· 1979 - Mother Teresa
· 1978 - Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
· 1977 - Amnesty International
· 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
· 1975 - Andrei Sakharov
· 1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
· 1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
· 1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
· 1971 - Willy Brandt
· 1970 - Norman Borlaug
· 1969 - International Labour Organization
· 1968 - René Cassin

And the makeup of the committee?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee Members 2006-2008

MJØS, Ole Danbolt, b. 1939.
Professor Dr.med, University of Tromsø. President of University of Tromsø, 1989-95. Various political offices, Christian People's Party. Member of the Committee since 2003. Chairman since 2003.
FURRE, Berge Ragnar, b. 1937.
Historian, Professor of Theology, University of Oslo. Parliamentary leader of Socialist Left Party (SV), 1975-76. Party Chairman of SV, 1976-83. Member of the Storting, 1973-77. Member of the Committee since 2003, Deputy Chairman since 2003.
RØNBECK, Sissel Marie, b. 1950.
Deputy Director, Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren). Chairman Social Democratic Youth (AUF) 1975-1977. Member of the Storting 1977-1993. Cabinet Minister 1979-81, 1986-89 and 1996-97. Member of the Committee since 1994.
YTTERHORN, Inger-Marie, b. 1941.
Senior political adviser to the Progress Party's parliamentary group. Member of the Storting, 1989-93. Member of the Election Law Ad hoc committee 1998-2001. Member of the Committee since 2000.
FIVE, Kaci Kullmann, b. 1951.
Self employed Advisor Public Affairs. Chairman of the Young Conservatives, 1977-79. Member of the Storting, 1981-97. Cabinet Minister for Trade, Shipping and European Affairs, 1989-90. Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1991-94. Member of the Committee since 2003.

So really it’s as if Hackney Council, plus a couple of lecturers from the local Poly, were doing the job. But the mainstream media always talks of this award as it was being handed down by the Gods.