Just curious: where did Gore study climatology, anyway? YouTube - Al Gore Debates Global Warming

N0help4u

Al Gore’s Personal Electricity Consumption Up 10% Despite “Energy-Efficient” Renovations
Energy guzzled by Al Gore’s home in past year could power 232 U.S. homes for a month

NASHVILLE – In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month – 1,638 kWh more energy per month than the year before the renovations. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration. The cost of Gore’s electric bills over the past year topped $16,533.

In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore’s film won an Oscar, and he won a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

Galveston1

The Nobel prize committee should be ashamed. They have turned what used to be an international honor into a bad joke!

progunr

Not only that, given our current situation and the "don't drill" democratic stand, even his own party is wishing now, that he didn't give that speech yesterday.

tomder55

The American Physical Society (APS), which represents 50,000 physicists, now proclaim that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.

APS Physics | FPS | Editor's Comments

They are sponsoring a public debate on the validity of the global warming science.Lord Monckton of Brenchley, fired the opening salvo with a paper which concludes that climate sensitivity ;the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause ;has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling.
APS Physics | FPS | Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered

David Hafemeister and Peter Schwartz from from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo make the counter point argument in favor of the IPCC conclusion .
APS Physics | FPS | A Tutorial on the Basic Physics of Climate Change

The point of this is that finally the idea of having "settled science" on climate change/global warming has been debunked. Perhaps now public policy can also be debated in a more rational manner

Back to the Goracle.... so what is the price tag of his latest proposal ?

James Pethokoukis of the' US News and World Report' says it would cost $5 TRILLION. That's slightly less than half of the total US GDP;10 % of the total world GDP.

Dissecting Al Gore's $5 Trillion Energy Plan - Capital Commerce (usnews.com)

excon

Hello again, tom:

It's like I said before.... When I was a kid, we used to throw our trash in the streets because we thought it didn't matter. However, we found out it DOES matter. When I was in the Navy, we used to throw our trash off the fantail of the ship because we thought it didn't matter. But, we found out it DOES matter.

Now, we're throwing tons of trash into our atmosphere every day and you don't think it matters????? Dude! Where you been??? I think you DRANK the koolaid!

excon

progunr

No one is "for" pollution, that's just crazy.

The evidence shows that as the temperature changes on earth, an equal change takes place on all the other planets as well.

Earth goes up by 2 degrees, so does Mars, Venus, Saturn........you get the idea.

Earth goes down by 2 degrees......same thing happens.

So, when the scientists can show how the fumes from my SUV, effect the temp on all theses other planets, then I would be more willing to take responsibility for causing Global Warming.

Until then, I have to believe it is just another way for the liberal environmentalists to control capitalism, which we all know they despise, and another way to try to make us feel guilty for actually enjoying our prosperity.

N0help4u

What really gets me is the fact that Al Gore can 'buy carbon credits' so he 'has a license to pollute' IF he was REALLY concerned about global warming he would cut back not make polluting a money making scheme where he is entitled to pollute and we are expected to ride bikes to work while he flies all over the world.
Pure hypocrisy, IF we want to stop so called man made global warming the carbon credits should be for future generations NOT Al Gore's benefit.

Credendovidis

To me that is an irrelevant question ... I don't care if there are question marks to his point of views.

What is important is that Al Gore was the one who - at least in the US - brought the climatic problems due to human pollution of this planet into a full active debate.

In Europe we already seriously started that debate in the 1970's after the EU report of the "Club of Rome" and followed that up with the 1997 Kyoto agreement.

The US failed to address their similar problems (they never even signed the Kyoto agreement) till Al Gore pushed it into the lime light.

Right or wrong on the CO2 argument : Al Gore was instrumental to the awareness people in the US have now of the pollution problem, the resulting global warming, and it's consequences ! That is relevant !!!



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Galveston1

I am VERY grateful that PRESIDENT Bush has (so far at least) refused to sign on to the KYOTO. We don't need that kind of economic disaster to satisfy some ignoramus' panic over something we have no control over.