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Gore earns Nobel nomination for global warming work
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

"A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference," Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.

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Group nominates Rush Limbaugh for Nobel

A press release issued today by the Landmark Legal Foundation, which was first spotted by posters at DemocraticUnderground.com, announced that the group has nominated nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, are sent to about three thousand selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations. In the case of the Peace Prize, for example, any of the following people may be asked to make nominations:

• Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
• Members of international courts;
• University rectors;
• Professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology;
• Directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
• Peace Prize laureates and/or board members of organisations that have been awarded the Peace Prize;
• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee;
• Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than February 1 each year. Later nominations are included in the following year's discussions.

Unlike many other awards, the names of those nominated for a Nobel Prize are never publicly announced and they are never meant to learn that they were considered for the Prize. Nomination records are sealed for fifty years. In practice, some nominees become known, or are claimed by publicists, especially in literature where there is an economic incentive.

After the nomination deadline, a committee screens and filters the nominations to produce a list of around two hundred preliminary candidates. This list is then sent to selected experts in each nominee's field of work, from whose responses a shortlist of around fifteen is made. The committee then writes a report with recommendations and sends it to the relevant institution. As an example of these institution's sizes, the Assembly for the Prize for Medicine has fifty members. The members of the institution meet and select a winner or winners by vote.

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Originally posted by Starman

On NP nominations:

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Forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, are sent to about three thousand selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations. In the case of the Peace Prize, for example, any of the following people may be asked to make nominations:

• Members of national assemblies and governments of states;
• Members of international courts;
• University rectors;
• Professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology;
• Directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes;
• Peace Prize laureates and/or board members of organisations that have been awarded the Peace Prize;
• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee;
• Former advisers appointed by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee bases its assessment on nominations that must be postmarked no later than February 1 each year. Later nominations are included in the following year's discussions.

Unlike many other awards, the names of those nominated for a Nobel Prize are never publicly announced and they are never meant to learn that they were considered for the Prize. Nomination records are sealed for fifty years. In practice, some nominees become known, or are claimed by publicists, especially in literature where there is an economic incentive.

After the nomination deadline, a committee screens and filters the nominations to produce a list of around two hundred preliminary candidates. This list is then sent to selected experts in each nominee's field of work, from whose responses a shortlist of around fifteen is made. The committee then writes a report with recommendations and sends it to the relevant institution. As an example of these institution's sizes, the Assembly for the Prize for Medicine has fifty members. The members of the institution meet and select a winner or winners by vote.

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Originally posted by HalfMooner:
I don't know where these people get their common sense, but a well-functioning Deity can't be the source. Nominating Rush Limbaugh for a Nobel Peace Prize is the flip side of someone hypothetically suggesting that Cindy Sheehan should get the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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