Tycoon Donald Trump, citing the East Coast's massive snowstorms, says former vice president Al Gore should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize, according to the New York Post.

The paper reports that the billionaire told about 500 members of his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, N.Y.:

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore. Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally non-competitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity.

Trump did not mention Vancouver's lack of snow, which has prompted truckloads of snow to be carried to Olympic skiing and snowboarding venues.

As a prior post reports, global warming skeptics, including GOP Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, have used snowmageddon to taunt Gore, who has warned of the dangers of climate change. Scientists say global warming is actually contributing to new extreme weather patterns.

The wrangling has prompted political comedian Stephen Colbert to have some fun of his own, mocking Fox News for mocking climate change.

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