Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore practices what he preached
 

Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore practices what he preached in his film An Inconvenient Truth, driving home the need to reduce harmful carbon emissions in our homes, cars and businesses. The former vice president and his wife, Tipper, recently refurbished their 80-year-old home in Tennessee, making some simple adjustments to increase energy efficiency. Among other changes, they installed a geothermal heating system, solar panels and a rainwater collection system, and replaced their light bulbs with compact fluorescent and diode bulbs. The renovation helped them achieve an 11 percent drop in home energy consumption at a time (in the summer) when most neighboring homes increased energy consumption by 25-30 percent. Happy 60th birthday to environmental activist Al Gore.

A million of dollars worth of "simple adjustments', yielded...

I achieved a 50% drop in electricity consumption just by turning off my hot tub.

That's why you are head of the "cellar think tank un-il-limited".
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You're just jealous that you didn't come up with this scam. He convinced a bunch of geniuses to buy carbon credits from him and then used the money to remodel his already extravagant home so that even more people would buy his BS and buy more carbon credits. If only he'd been this smart in 2000, eh?

It's fun to attack the messenger when you don't like the message.

What the fuck are you talking about, shit-for-brains?

:rolleyes:

Al Gore's thing is to raise awareness about global warming. He wants people to reduce carbon emissions to reduce the threat of global warming. Reducing carbon emissions is painful and unpopular. Instead of talking about the message that Al Gore is delivering, and the best way to fight global warming, it's easier and more fun to mock Al Gore and talk about how he isn't a good role model for carbon reduction.

Or I could just say that I think Al Gore is a has been politician who'll do or say anything to say in the news. Global warming or not, I don't put much stock in Gore.

That's not an "or" to what glatt posted; that's a "for instance" to what he posted.

I find the term "awareness" to be baseline offensive at this point. People think it means "education" when it really means "knowing just enough to act politically about it and no more". I find those whose goal is to "increase awareness" care about appearances and political correctness and not much else. The easiest way to annoy somebody who cares about "awareness" would be to give them contradictory facts. It's educational, and a matter of critical thinking to consider all sides. But they don't want to know about that.

I also find that Gore's previous hypocracy is not magically solved now that he has cleaned up his own house for the last year. The thirty years previous? Not so critical.

Nor is it critical to hold a global warming summit in Bali and to have everybody fly across the world in their Gulfstream personal jets to attend. We communicate right here on the net without really contributing to G.W. But no, everybody has to fly to a south pacific resort destination to figure it out. And I'll tellya, if they actually believe it's the biggest problem on the planet and going to seriously harm our way of life, nobody is flying to Bali. Is there man-caused warming, yes, and these fuckers caused it.

Fair enough. My "or" was actually following on from my own earlier post which was meant as a tongue in cheek poke in the ribs not some deep statement.

But Al Gore is still a dork and an attention whore.

I like Al Gore. Inconvenient Truth was good. It was interesting to learn about his son, dad, and sister.

Stuff White People Like: Awareness

But Now Honestly......Before this "Savin the Earth" Shite Became Popular, How Much Did Gorey Boy ACTUALLY DO for this Planet...

If You Ask Me, then Thyself would say he Probably was a Fluid Energy Waster like the Rest of Us.....Al Gore, an Environmentalist, HA!!!!!!

And Does Anyone Else Know that Al Gore is Part Owner of the Carbon Credit Shit? So the More the Avid, Smart, Concerned Citizen Buys...the Better Ol' Ally Lives Off the Hard Workin, Bill Payin, Average Ol' American..

...Go Mr. Gore Go, Let's Just See How "Silly" the American Public Really Is...

Anyone who innovates or who tries to create change or who runs for political office to actually advance mankind is (by your definition) an attention whore. Therefore attention whores are very desireable. Therefore the world need more attention whores.

That is awesome, how about his other 10,000 sq foot home in Calif? How about all the fuel he wastes jeting around the world to tell us how we need to cut down on the emissions? Hypocrite extraordinaire.
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No, that's your definition. But Al Gore is not trying to advance mankind, he's trying to advance Al Gore. He's been successful at it, not because of the academy award, but because he hoodwinked the Nobel Prize Committee into believing junk science.

ask not what the planet can do for you. ask what you can do for the planet. from this moment forward.

Al Gore has the potential to do a lot of good for this cause--more than you or me.

I am all for the first part. Fuck Al Gore.

People CAN change for the better. Change forever. Even you!

You proof? I don't see any supporting facts or reasons in any of your posts? I hear Rush Limbaugh rhetoric. Is your knowledge only from Rush? Where is that long post with five supporting reasons why? There is a difference between us. I don't post emotions, then declare that as proof.

Conclusions justified by political agendas need no supporting facts. Posted is nothing but a political agenda - obviously - because the post is so pathetically short. A post that short is either a political lie or a good joke. Oh. A belated April Fool's joke. Sorry, Al. I did not realize it was you.

I don't need Rush Limbaugh or Al gore to mold my opinions. I do know enough about science to know a charlatan when I see one, and I've seen Al Gore say enough ignorant things in his bumbling career to know George W Bush is a genius compared to Gore.

Five supporting reasons for bogus man made global warming?
1. The carbon emissions of all of mankind's history are minimal compared to volcanos.
2. Carbon dioxide has been produced by living organisms since the beginning of life on earth. Some of the largest were dinosaurs, and they surely must have generated more greenhouse gases than a few million cows burping.
3. The sun controls our climate, and heating and cooling cycles are just that, cyclical.
4. It is ridiculous to think that man's bumbling could destroy a planet merely by living on it. It's just as foolish to think that people living without modern conveniences could save a planet. Granted, a massive nuclear war could seriously damage the environment, but destroying the American culture, and causing suffering throughout the world won't stop nuclear war. Nor will buying carbon credits from Al Gore.
5. 6 tenths pf a temperature increase in a century is not cause for panic. Nor is the melting of arctic ice. It has happened before, and there were no SUVs back then.

As for Gore putting energy saving products in one of his mansions, that didn't start until he got caught with his pants down wating resources.

That's why the dinosaurs are all dead.

Oooooo snap!

Not a bad thing. Maybe it's time for Mother Nature to start over and give this world the enema it so deserves.

Ya Know...We Do Need the Enema...
 

No Truthfully...........Not that That isn't Truthful, but this is more about the issue of Mother Nature, not the Devil Party that's Presently Making Me Cringe...

The truth is if the Democratic Party and the Republican Party don't get a "Groove On' to Come to a Cost Effective and More Importantly, a Way that Works to Solve this Problem we're Facing, There will be Extreme Problems that We, as Humans, Will be Facing... Only Time Will Tell Though...

I Hope for the Best...

Hey UG! I found you a new friend!

I don't care - I have no children and will run out of the option to have them in T-Minus 7 years (approx)

But in truth I was brought up by a post WWII UK generation to hate waste - even though their drive for the spangly and new and clean after living next to bombsites drove them to crave packaging and individually sealed items.

Sod whether Al Gore is right or perpetuating some bizarre lie - why wouldn't you do your best to preserve the planet's resources?

What would be everyone's response to Al Gore if he said that because man has caused global warming, we're going to take a lesson from the Chinese and limit your reproduction to one child per lifetime? With forced abortions, and prison or death for offenders? Would he still be saving the planet?

I am all for it.

How about we just kill off everyone between 14 and 21?

Or everybody over fifty?

Be ok with me. I am not 50.

If the world become so unstable that we needed to emplace extreme population control measures to avoid a major economic collapse then yes, he would be saving the planet.

economic collapse would destroy the planet? Shit! I better get rich, or I am contributing!