This post could have also been called: Global Hysteria is Man-Made – Part Two [Dr. Inconvenience House ReMiX]
Again, this post could have also been called: Al Gore Finally Won Something
And even before you read any further you should think about checking out Planet Gore.
Last night at the Democratic National Conven- err… I mean at the Academy Awards, Al Gore’s well-made yet scientifically shady documentary called An Inconvenient Truth won for best documentary (or something like that). I have trouble believing a guy who parades around the world on private jets to persuade people to “use less fuel”. While I’m at it why doesn’t Rosanne Barr invite me to Old Country Buffet to pitch me a low calorie diet.
Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’? — $30,000 utility bill
ABC NewsBack home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore’s environmental hypocrisy.
Armed with Gore’s utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
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Gore is not the only environmentalist associated with “An Inconvenient Truth” who has come under fire for personal habits — and not all the criticism has come from the Right.
Writing in The Atlantic Monthly in 2004, liberal writer Eric Alterman criticized producer Laurie David for her use of private Gulfstream jets. David, he wrote “reviles the owners of SUVs as terrorist enablers, yet gives herself a pass when it comes to chartering one of the most wasteful uses of fossil-based fuels imaginable.” New Republic writer Gregg Easterbrook followed up, computing that “one cross-country flight in a Gulfstream is the same, in terms of Persian-Gulf dependence and greenhouse-gas emissions, as if she drove a Hummer for an entire year.” [...]
So why is it that über-wealthy jabber-jaws can get away with such insane hypocrisy? Why can Rosie O’Donnell say that no “normal” citizen has any reason to own a gun, yet she hires personal bodyguards who carry concealed firearms to protect her? Why can the president of Virgin Airways be stroked alongside Al Gore at environmental symposiums when his industry is “supposedly” the problem? It’s because none of this is about truth… it’s about image and agenda. Surprise, surprise.
Governments in rich nations are spending billions of dollars to buy a clearer conscience over climate change. Are they getting their money’s worth?
Enlightened individuals, those who stay awake at nights wondering what they can do to prevent the polar caps from melting, at least have a growing menu of choices.
Sydney-based Easy Being Green says it will mitigate your cat’s flatulent contribution to global warming for $8. The same company could also make your granny “carbon-neutral” at $10 a year, according to a report in the Australian newspaper last weekend. [...]
~ China, India Smile as West Overpays for Climate, by Andy Mukherjee
You can’t make this stuff up. In lieu of the “findings” that a huge portion of global-warming comes from bovine flatulence, the normal pet owner can now buy credits to offset their pet’s flatulent contribution to greenhouse gases. This is more like a sick dystopic sci-fi novel than reality… but inconvenient truth is stranger than inconvenient fiction, I guess. However, I did find an article that I think deserves serious attention – The Onion reports that the temperature of coffee is expected to rise nine degrees by the end of the 21st century! 
Anyways, I’ll leave you with a little inconvenient truth about Al Gore’s personal conservation efforts:
POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
www.drudgereport.comThe Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
For Further Information, Contact:
Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431
editor@tennesseepolicy.org
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
I believe that Gore’s home is equipped with solar panels and other energy-saving equipment. That explains the increase in his bill.
Darlene :: Umm… aren’t solar panels and other energy-saving equipment supposed to *lower* your bill? So that wouldn’t explain the crazy-high electric bill.
And even if someone is buying “carbon credits” I think that would undermine their credibility for conservation… because that’s just paying out big bucks so that you *don’t* have to conserve.
I think a good rule of thumb is to never ask anyone else to do something more than you’re doing yourself. If Al Gore wants to be credible and non-hypocritical he’d need to stick to lecturing only people who use more energy in their mansions than he uses in his mansions.
Why put all the energy into discrediting Al Gore? The man is obviously passionate about his topic, or he wouldn’t have put all the time into it. As usual, the press spends their time blowing smoke and mirrors instead of addressing a topic that is likely legitimate. Don’t blame the messenger, as it were.
Funny thing about press reports is, even though reporters are supposed to be arbitrary, they are often terribly one-sided. Why don’t you go ask Al Gore what efforts he’s making to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in his life? I bet you could listen all day…
And after re-reading your post title, I am now thinking, why not rename the post to ‘Every man, woman, and child on the planet is a hypocrite…’
Or, are you not guilty?
The professa!(aka jimmy fingers) exposes the truth
www crooksandliars com/Media/Download/14796/2/Colbert-Gore-Garbage.mov
Tennesse Center for Policy Research is NON-PARTISAN
lex :: The link in your comment redirected so I deactivated it.
Aaron ::
Your points are partly true but skip my basic premise. Al Gore is a hypocrite. I could say that I’m a hypocrite (and indeed everybody is a hypocrite in something) but the intellectual elites get away with a magnitude of hypocrisy the average person couldn’t. If Al Gore was as passionate as you say he wouldn’t be trotting around in private jets and living in multiple mansions, would he?
Al Gore is the most flagrant hypocrite of all. I have often wondered what efforts he is making in order to reduce carbon emissions. I think the hot air he pumps out of his mouth would be the most serious global warming issue we have, because since he started his efforts to use his hobby/study for profit (books and movies) no one takes the issue seriously anymore. It is just constantly “if Al Gore is pushing it, then it must be another one of his neurosis of the month. I guess that remark about inventing the internet was the death knell for him to ever be taken as a rational and truthful individual.
ok so someone is out there doin something to raise awareness…. are we affected by tall poppy syndrome….. and isnt it better to have some respect for the planet anyway regardless of global warming???? i mean , do we have the same amount of forest left in the world as we did 20 years ago?, let alone 50 or 100?? how bout we stop belching so much pollution out there that is destroying natural habitats etc… we in Australia have just been awarded the pleasure of having one of the 10 sickest rivers in the world…. all due to mismanagement and corporate greed…. The ‘Murray Darling’ river for anyone interested… Even the farmers who have been using it for irrigation purposes agree that the river is f****d… so how about some respect for the planet guys…. tread lightly as there is no need to consume every last bit of resource in the next 50 years…
Politics are not what they used to be. No politician is afraid of lying or being a hypocrite because the majority still follows blindly. Gore could Tell the world that he cured cancer (or invented the internet) and even though we all would no it was false nobody would care (at least not CNN and the millions of people who watch that s###) well… that’s it… later.
-BOB
You are missing the point. Yeah, he might be a hypocrite- but if you keep putting your heads in the sand and pretending that there is not a problem with global warming you are irresponsibly turning your back on the future of your children and grand children because you are either too selfish or too stupid (like being diverted from the real issue by hype about Gore’s compound that is probably 20x the size of any of our homes and has more people living in it than a small apartment complex) to pay attention. Ex vice president’s have secret service details that live on premise- how many people do you suppose that is? How many other staff do you think may also live there? Give me a break and quit being so eager to show how obviously ignorant and foolish you are.
Oh, Skot. Oh, Skot, Skot, Skot…
I remember posts like this when I was a teenager on IRC. There was also some Troll out there just looking to start a fight. You were good, but not great. Your spelling was a little too good. And you should try to sound more hostile.
Sarcasm aside, I think we have some serious issues with your facts.
1. Al Gore’e house has the same number of people as a small apartment complex? I THINK this is the most ridiculous point you made. First, I’ve never seen any documentation that refers to his “compound.” Only his 10,000 square foot house. That’s only four times larger than a normal house. So I am going to find it hard to believe there are 30, much less hundreds of people living there. Secret service details are generally not very large. Even still, if the place was packed to the gills, at some point, all those people in a single home are going to start overlapping energy needs. Everyone can’t turn on their own light, their own TV, etc. It just doesn’t scale that way unless you have a lot of separate units. And who are all these other people living there? I’d be shocked if there were ten people who lived in that house.
2. It’s nice that you’re firmly convinced that human activity is the cause for all weather now. But the problem is, there’s still a lot of debate on this matter. Even if I agreed (which I don’t) that most experts on climatology (experts on whales, petroleum, Star Wars, fashion, etc don’t count) believed in this, the problem is that consensus doesn’t make something true. Once upon a time, nearly everyone thought the world was flat. And they were all wrong. And let’s just talk about our scientific knowledge in the last 50 years. Many things we thought we knew have changed radically. And don’t get me started on our ability to predict future weather…
3. Whether Al Gore’s ultimate aims are good or not, he’s turning out to be a poor messenger. You already drank the Kool-Aid so it’s not surprising you don’t have a problem with it. For people who aren’t convinced, listening to somebody who travels around in giant SUVs and has a house that costs tens of thousands of dollars to heat is going to cause some skepticism. It’s just human nature. It’s like having a random fat guy tell me to go on a diet because I look too heavy.
@ John :: Great response! I don’t know what more I can say?
@ scot :: Oh boy… I was expecting you to start calling me “poopy-head” any moment. Your comment is a textbook example of emotion overcoming scientific facts. The number of dissenting scientists being published in the media is growing… although I would say that the number has always been high, but it’s the few alarmists who get the news time (which is why they do it).
I laughed out loud when I read how Al Gore’s mansion has more people living in it than a small apartment complex. Wouldn’t that make a great sitcom?! It would be Al, Tipper, and a random hoard of people… Ha!
The major point is whether global-warming is man-made… and whether or not man can “reverse” global warming. I answer both as NO. I don’t think man is causing the little warming we see… and that being the case we cannot counter-act it in any discernible way. I say the natural cycles of the sun are causing the changes (and have been for millions of years).
How do I know that man is not causing global warming? Oh geez, where to begin? How about this… Mars is warming along with Earth. Have the “failed policies of this administration” now attained interplanetary ramifications? Does the methane from cows’ arses on Earth travel to other planets?
Some light reading:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=edae9952-3c3e-47ba-913f-7359a5c7f723&k=0
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36049
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070404203258.5klhwqs4&show_article=1
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-age_031208.html
Thanks to waraxe & john…two guys with their heads on mostly straight (aren’t we all a little lopsided?). Al Gore is great isn’t he? Here’s a guy that had an 8 year soap box and a psycho NIMBY wife for a voice.
In this enlightened age of gluttony and over indulgence, where Forbes’ list of extravagantly rich people are all BILLIONAIRES, Al gore is just another bored rich guy trying hard to sell us on the latest wave of hysteria. Kind of like Michael Jackson selling us on the advantages of being a white pedophile…
Here is another good article about Mr Gore for the unbelievers,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm
In the meantime, I have some farting to do.
More of these phonie eco-freaks pretending to show concern and while AL GORE tries to ask us to do with less he himself uses lots and then gets a undeserved oscar for a fruadelent movie what a fruad and frankly im not going to spend a single penny on AL GORES ego trip to wacko land
Their latest rip off the LIVE EARTH concerts yeah and how much gose to AL GORE how much goses to the others? its no different then those rediclous SAVE THE RAINFORESTS concerts they held back in the 1990s more fruads and lies
Went to the Live Earth show in E.R., NJ on Saturday.
Music was great, fun crowd. Chuckled when I saw the plane circling the stadium w/the demanddebate.com banner.
Unfortunately, most of the show was smoke and mirrors covering up the absolutely self-righteous ignorance of the Gore worshippers. Al Gore preaching from his pulpit of lies and hypocrisy infuriates me.
Here is why I feel this way…Celebrities flew in private jets to perform and preach about “consumption”, while there were 2 dozen CO2 tanks behind the stage in plain view used to assist powering the lights, equipment and speakers, etc.
There were paper towels in the air conditioned restrooms. There are concession stands, loud speakers, outdoor lighting,etc., all powered by standard electricity derived from FOSSIL FUEL!
Advertisers in the stadium include TOYOTA, Hess & GEICO car insurance!!! Who are they kidding?
Being aware of our consumption is a good thing. Being wasteful is not a good thing.
Unfortunately, Live Earth failed getting their message across because their own abuse of the Earth’s resources counter-effect their cause.
Nice try, though.
al gore,babs streisand and the rest of the hollywood hypocrites and you know
who you are.get down on your knee’s before you go to sleep at night and thank
the GOD almighty that you live here in the good old USA.
A lot of his message is good. HIS speaking of the message cheapens it. He exists at the sympathy of the left and hatred of the right.
Surely the Liberals can find a spokesperson with integrity on this subject who can lead by example instead of just make money doing speeches?
But for some, the message is not the point. Propping up a fellow Dem is.
So how much CO2 dose AL GORE produce just how big is his carbon footprint? I mean he has a over inflated ego and a big fat flapping piehole i wouldnt waste my money on watching his junk science film ever
We used to have one of those eco-freak groups in our town they were always filing those stupid lawsuits to stop logging and he lived in a log house and had another house with a wood burning waterheater and their HQ was made of wood with a goofy fish shaped sign made of wood AND HOW MANY TREES WERE CHOPPED DOWN TO PROVIDE THE CELULOUS FOR THAT STUPID ECO-WACKO FILM TREE-SIT and everytime these eco-wackos sit in trees they have 2 x 4s and plywood in their platforms there was even a picture in TIME a few years ago where some eco-hypotcrit was sitting in a tre in a plywood platform with STUMPS SUCK spray-painted on the bottom STUPID GRANOLA MUNCHING TREE HUGGER IM GETTING A TASTE FOR GREEN FREAKS SQUAWK SQUAWK FORGIVE ME HURCULES IM LOSING MY TEMPER
Q.How many tree huggers dose it take to mess up the enviroment? A.Just one to attract a whole bunch copy cat green nuts
FACT RACHEAL CARSON LIED BIG TIME IN HER BOOK SILENT SPRING BECUASE DDT WASNT HARMING THE BIRDS THERE ARE NATREAL FACTORS THAT EFFECT A BIRDS EGGS
People that are part of the Elite, inbred psychopaths usually, don’t regard those below them as anything more than footstools becaue they are usually psychopathic and almost certainly are social darwinists who believe that just because they have risen above all of us they are better and therefore must keep rising above us by all means necessary. We are the children you don’t tell the actual “Inconvenient Truth” and instead fabricate a “Conventien Lie.” Global warming is this lie and Al Gore is the chosen Jesus figure for this lie as they push us into the age of austerity where the environment is the religion and scientists are the priests. Stalin said repeat slogans. Hitler said make they lie a big lie. They have done both and, being the domesticated, most adaptable and studied beings on this planet it works once again.
Hypocrite Al Gore or not, but the climate on our planet is changing
For one thing the internet has been around since the 70s though most people were not aware of it.
Living in Paradise California in the late 80s Dad was one of 1500 people to be on the internet even though I was too little to understand what was going on.
The Commodore 64 had online capabilities thru Q-Link (which in the 90s became AOL) long before most people had PC’s in their homes.
Apple gave away their computers to schools for free which is why you saw a lot of Apple Inc computers throughout most of the 90s. They made special deals with schools and other educational institutions.
HOWEVER
Bill Gates starting with Win 95 second version and Windows 98 gave away HIS internet browser (Internet Explorer) included for FREE in order to put other companies (AOL) (Netscape).etc out of business which worked.
Everyone got HIS model and he gave away windows for a very low price then once the other companies were gone he jacked up the price sky high and became a monopoly which should be illegal.
What I don’t understand however is why doesn’t Al Gore install solar panels in a visible way so people he will be taken seriously.
With all the money he is getting he can clearly afford the expensive options of covering his whole house in panels and installing low-flush toilets in his 20 something bathrooms and still have enough money to go to Hawaii every year.
Yet he makes everyone else do that.
When the EMP decided to go off I wonder what Mr Al Gore will be saying when he no longer has electricity in his mansions and riots in his hometown.
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