Posted by Jay on April 2, 2007, at 15:22:25
In reply to Re: Saw 'An Inconvenient Truth' today.., posted by saturn on April 2, 2007, at 13:38:34
> I don't know if the global warming theory is correct, but I do think that Al Gore is a hippocrite.
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> http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gWgs4InRE
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> He also spends a lot of time travelling around via his private gas-guzzling jet.
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>Yes, so he is supposed to live locked in his basement for the rest of his life? The problem is not individual use, it is oil companies. Bush's former State, Texas, while he was Governor, had the highest number of environmental violations of exceeded-limits of various dangerous pollutants ever issued, yet mostly none, if any where actually given a government warning, and none brought in front of a court. Bush and Cheny still profit from and make money in these business'. Bush fly's around in that nice little environmentally friendly "Air Force One"...so your logic about Al Gore needing a small jet to fly around in is absurd. And Bush continues to spend much of his spare time in Texas, the largest polluting state in the U.S.
Now, about this so-called "report" from snopes.com, and then, READ THE TRUTH below. (And the person who wrote below is NOT even a fan of Al Gore.)
from: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/28/155124/075
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The Tennessee Tax Dept. does not consider the "Tennessee Center for Policy Research," which roughly no one had heard of before this, a legitimate group. It's run by a long-time right-wing attack hack, and its only registered address is a P.O. box. Why is everyone in the media taking what it says about Gore's electricity use at face value?
Gore's electricity company has no record of being contacted about his bills.
The "average" home electricity use quoted by TCPR is a national average that includes apartments and mobile homes. In Gore's climatic zone, the East South Central (Dept. of Energy PDF), the average is much higher, thanks to hot, humid summers and cold winters. Within that zone, Gore's usage is three (not 20) times average, and his per-square-foot usage is squarely average. (More here.)
The Gores are not an average family. He's an ex-VP with special security arrangements, and has live-in security staff. He and his wife both work on their many business and charitable undertakings out of their house, so they have space for offices and office staff. All that would be tough to cram in an average size house.
Gore buys the maximum allowable green electricity from the program offered by his utility.
Most of the electricity in TN comes from hydro and nuclear, and so doesn't generate all that much CO2 anyway.
The larger point, which probably won't work well as a cable-show soundbite but is nonetheless true, is that Gore has done heroic work making global warming a top issue for governments the world over. He has prompted more individual and collective action on this issue than anyone else alive. The changes he has wrought outweigh his personal carbon emissions by many orders of magnitude.from: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/28/155124/075
So there it is, in black and white...the truth. Now, can we go on to solve this important problem, which your children and grandchildren will pay dearly for, called Global Warming?
Jay
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