Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe

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Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

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Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/edito...ore-green_x.htm

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Limo liberals, no suprise

a fiver says someone comes in here with an example of how a particular conservative is worse, thus ignoring the message

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hehehe...Richard, you're trying to keep my mind occupied so I won't go nuts, right?

FYI.... (dig deeper my friend)

Gore Cracks the Conservative's Lies

The Conservative blogoshpere continues to rampantly spread the distorted and misleading lies of Peter Schweizer and his USA Today editorial Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe. In that piece, Mr. Schweizer, an employee of the ExxonMobil funded Hoover Institution, attempts to divert attention away from global warming and discredit Al Gore through a poorly crafted series of lies:

Lie #1: "Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property."

Gore receives no royalties from this mine, which was shut down in 2003. A correction has already run in the USA Today.

Lie #2: "So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock."

Al Gore has never owned stock in Occidental. However, his late father did, all of which was sold nearly 6 years ago. His mother also had a small number of shares which were also disposed by the trustee of her estate. Mr. Gore is not the trustee.

Lie #3: "Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist."

Al Gore has signed up for every green power option made available by his utility suppliers and had already begun adding photovoltaic solar panels to his home before Schweizer's baseless attack.

Lie #4: "And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)"

False again. The Gore's achieve their personal offsets independently through their own means, while the makers of An Inconvenient Truth provide leadership in neutralizing the carbon impact of the film.

In addition to these lies, the article utterly ignores the front line leadership demonstrated by both Mr. Gore and his business partners. An Inconvenient Truth, in both its film and book format, are the world's first carbon neutral projects in their respective genres. Gore's independent media company Current TV is committed to going carbon neutral, and the Gore co-founded Generation Investment Management offsets the carbon impact of their business operations and the travel and domestic emissions of all employees.

If there was ever a leader in climate and environmental issues it is Al Gore. Schweizer's piece, and the unquestioning support of it by conservative pundits, nakedly demonstrates their shared agenda - to mislead the public about global warming and vandalize the reputation of anyone who demonstrates the courage and integrity to speak the truth about climate change. This time they won't succeed.

http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2006/08...es-lies_20.html

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We can all make small changes in our lives. Those aren't going to be the ones to save us from the dangers of global warming. We need industry to change and laws to change. What do you think Gore's motivation in making the film was? Certainly not the profit at this point in his life.

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We can all make small changes in our lives. Those aren't going to be the ones to save us from the dangers of global warming. We need industry to change and laws to change. What do you think Gore's motivation in making the film was? Certainly not the profit at this point in his life.

Exactly. This is nothing but a distraction from focusing on real solutions. It's not about Al Gore nor should it be.

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Yes Steven!!! She'll be here before you know it!!

I signed up for green power back in 1998. Did any of you?

Edited February 27, 2007 by LuckyStrike

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In addition to these lies, the article utterly ignores the front line leadership demonstrated by both Mr. Gore and his business partners. An Inconvenient Truth, in both its film and book format, are the world's first carbon neutral projects in their respective genres. Gore's independent media company Current TV is committed to going carbon neutral, and the Gore co-founded Generation Investment Management offsets the carbon impact of their business operations and the travel and domestic emissions of all employees.

too bad his homes aren't, lol

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Yes Steven!!! She'll be here before you know it!!

I signed up for green power back in 1998. Did any of you?

Yes and yes!!! Back in '99 when I bought my first home - somebody at work told me that I could sign up for electricity produced from geo-thermal energy. Southern California Edison still managed my account, but they would 'buy' whatever energy I used from the green supplier. In 2002 I sold my home and when I tried to get the same service I was told that utility customers could no longer choose an outside supplier - no thanks to the lobbying of power companies.

In addition to these lies, the article utterly ignores the front line leadership demonstrated by both Mr. Gore and his business partners. An Inconvenient Truth, in both its film and book format, are the world's first carbon neutral projects in their respective genres. Gore's independent media company Current TV is committed to going carbon neutral, and the Gore co-founded Generation Investment Management offsets the carbon impact of their business operations and the travel and domestic emissions of all employees.

too bad his homes aren't, lol

Unless somebody can come up with a reliable source, this is just pointless.

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Unless somebody can come up with a reliable source, this is just pointless.

A reliable source for what? energy? or are you doubting the news source?

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Al Gore is politician first and environmentalist second. Love him or hate him you have (should) to admit that.

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Unless somebody can come up with a reliable source, this is just pointless.

A reliable source for what? energy? or are you doubting the news source?

Find a reliable source that states Gore is not committed to reducing his own use of carbon producing energy?

Discrediting Gore is important, because of course, the whole issue of Global Warming was invented by Al Gore.

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Al Gore is politician first and environmentalist second. Love him or hate him you have (should) to admit that.

Actually, LS: BoreGore is politician FIRST AND ONLY!

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Al Gore is politician first and environmentalist second. Love him or hate him you have (should) to admit that.

Do you honestly think his whole schpiel on Global Warming is a PR campaign for his own political gain?

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Unless somebody can come up with a reliable source, this is just pointless.

A reliable source for what? energy? or are you doubting the news source?

Find a reliable source that states Gore is not committed to reducing his own use of carbon producing energy?

Discrediting Gore is important, because of course, the whole issue of Global Warming was invented by Al Gore.

I discredit a socalled 'environmentalist' who tells everyone what they should do, runs around with a chicken little attitude concerning the environment, then spends 20 times what the average family does.

'Committed' would be for him to have signed up for wind energy in TN. Solar panels are all well and good, but when you're also consuming enough electric for 20 families, erm, it gets a lil silly.

Bottom line is, I'm not saying people should do this that or the other...but if you're going to take a public stand as a champion of a cause, don't be caught bein a hypocritical holier than thou 'do as I say not as I do' guy. It's embarrassing. And surely he should have learned from the 'I created the internet' debacle that people will use what's said and done as fodder.

At the end of the day, talk is cheap. His actions say everything. Now the funny thing would be....if this were a conservative, you'd be crucifying him/her right now. This is not a conservative/liberal angle...this is a you're a hypocrite angle. If you can't see past blind partisanship, then that's sad.

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Al Gore is politician first and environmentalist second. Love him or hate him you have (should) to admit that.

Actually, LS: BoreGore is politician FIRST AND ONLY!

touche'

Al Gore is politician first and environmentalist second. Love him or hate him you have (should) to admit that.

Do you honestly think his whole schpiel on Global Warming is a PR campaign for his own political gain?

Global warming is a religion to the left. I'm not saying it's just for his personal gain but for his party's gain.