Gore's partial Nobel

There is a great deal irony in Gore getting a Nobel Prize. Even better it is a different irony than the Nobel Peace Prize alone.
For those who don't know the Nobel Prize was funded at least originally by the money Alfred Nobel made from his invention of safe Dynamite. I admire Nobel, so don't misunderstand. But safe explosives helped bring about the age of modern warfare, and made large scale civil projects, and resource utilization possible. This is why I find the selection process ironic, that they gave an award for championing the environment. However, that irony is not my point.

The irony I enjoy most is that Gore and the others will get a large medal made of gold. To produce that medal created literally tons of CO2 plus put sulfur and nitrogen oxides into the air while putting various heavy metals and HCN into the water. I didn't see the medal, but unless Gore's medal is made of recycled newspaper, there is irony.
I also doubt that he'll take a bicycle or even a hybrid car to get the medal, that private jet Gore tools around in produces tons more CO2 and worse water vapor at high altitudes. (To be honest I am writing this at ~33K feet, so I am not exactly part of the solution, but they are over a hundred other people sharing my plane.)
However, I will give him a credit for wearing recycled fibers in his clothes. Sure silk is recycled caterpillar cocoons. Ok, so it's not recycled...

Now if Gore accepts the medal by WebEx or on Second Life, and they make the medal out of locally sourced recycled glass with a corn plastic binder, then most of the irony is gone. But until then...

Now from fact to opinion:
I doubt Gore will make a serious run for President, but he'll stir the pot, so he remains relevant, but to actually run would require returning to a past I imagine he’d rather forget.
Plus, it’s only fun to throw stones, it isn’t fun to have them thrown at you.

I would like to see Gore run for President of Second Life, since that is the greenest technology I can think of. (The Matrix metaphor is not lost on me.)