An inconvenient hypocrite

[Cranky]

ABC news

2/27/07 - NASHVILLE, TN) - Back 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.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."

*sigh*

If ANYONE doesn't know by now that politicians and celebrates are full of self serving sh*t, then they should go live in caves.

BACK-UP.....

80. Lyn J, Al Gore wrong on 'global warming' / 12:37pm 11 Aug 2007 It's about time people woke up and realised that man made global warming is a blatant lie. Not content with trying to re-write history by ignoring the Earths climate history, the AGW lobby are now re-writing the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

The theory of CO2 induced greenhouse effect is contrary to the established laws of thermodynamics. In other words according to the laws of thermodynamics CO2 induced global warming is an impossibility.

This very basic fact appears to be ignored by many scientists, which is worrying because it suggests a level of corruption and deception which is detremental to us all.

The man made global warming issue has been turned in to a religion by the like's of AL Gore. The followers of this religion are prepared to tell any lie, slander any person and ignore any established facts which threaten thier faith.

With regard to Al Gore and misinformation, in his film " An inconvenient truth" he presents the following lies:-

· Gore, aiming to undermine the significance of previous warm periods such as that of the Middle Ages, promoted the flawed and debunked 1,000-year “hockey stick” temperature chart (McIntyre & McKitrick, 2005). Which the IPCC have removed from their report.

· Gore showed heart-rending pictures of the New Orleans floods and insisted on a link between increased hurricane frequency and global warming that has no basis in scientific fact (IPCC, 2001, 2007).

· Gore asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth while ignoring that Arctic temperatures in the 1930s and 1940s were as warm or warmer (Briffa et al., 2004).

· Gore did not explain that Arctic temperature changes are more closely correlated with changes in solar activity than with changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Soon, 2005).

· Gore did not explain that the Sun has been hotter, for longer, in the past 50 years than in any similar period in at least the past 11,400 years (Solanki et al., 2005).

· Gore said the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk of the continent has been cooling and gaining ice (Doran et al., 2004).

· Gore mentioned the breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf, but did not mention that the maximum ice shelf limit may date only from the Little Ice Age 300 years ago. (Pudsey & Evans, 2001, 2006; Vaughan et al., 2001).

· Gore hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of disappearing. In fact its thickness has been growing by 2 inches per year for a decade (Johannesen et al., 2005).

· Gore falsely claimed that global warming is melting Mt. Kilimanjaro’s icecap, actually caused by atmospheric dessication from local deforestation, and pre- 20th-century climate shifts (Cullen et al., 2006).

Report as unsuitable 81. Lyn J, Al Gore wrong on 'global warming' continued / 12:38pm 11 Aug 2007 · Gore said global sea levels would swamp Manhattan, Bangladesh, Shanghai and other coastal cities, and would rise 20ft by 2100, but the UN estimate is just 8in to 1ft 5in. (IPCC, 2007; Morner, 1995, 2004).

· Gore implied that a Peruvian glacier's retreat is due to global warming, failing to state that the region has been cooling since the 1930s and other South American glaciers are advancing (Polissar et al., 2006).

· Gore blamed global warming for water loss in Africa's Lake Chad, though NASA scientists had concluded that local water-use and grazing patterns are probably to blame (Foley & Coe, 2001).

· Gore inaccurately said polar bears are drowning due to melting ice when in fact 11 of the 13 main groups in Canada are thriving, and polar bear populations have more than doubled since 1940 (Taylor, 2006).

· Gore said the ocean absorbs heat from the Sun, when in fact the ocean takes nearly all of its heat from the atmosphere, without which the ocean would freeze over (Houghton, 2002).

[CentreHice]

And I wonder what Leo DiCaprio et al drive......

[Skilly]

Just keep them all away from the seals .... or give me permission to whack just one out of season, he seems to like being called David Aebischer.

[BadCompany]

Everybody is equal.

It's just that some people are more equal than others.

[jkr]

I saw a picture of it & it is a very large home so it will consume a lot of power.

Has this group done some sort of analysis, say power usage per square foot?

[CentreHice]

Al's country home outside of Carthage, TN. 50 miles E of Nashville.

Not too shabby.

I haven't seen the suburban home in Nashville....unless this is the one they're talking about.

[jkr]

centrehice said:

Al's country home outside of Carthage, TN. 50 miles E of Nashville.

Not too shabby.

I haven't seen the suburban home in Nashville....unless this is the one they're talking about.

the one they showed on NBC this morning looked different. To be fair I think they should compare his home on a "per capita" basis so to speak rather than throw this big number out there.

[MC Habber]

jkr said:

I saw a picture of it & it is a very large home so it will consume a lot of power.

Has this group done some sort of analysis, say power usage per square foot?

I don't really see that it matters. Bottom line is he's using 20 times as much energy as most people. Unless he's got 20 people living in those 20 rooms he should get a smaller house.

[jkr]

machabby said:

jkr said:

I saw a picture of it & it is a very large home so it will consume a lot of power.

Has this group done some sort of analysis, say power usage per square foot?

I don't really see that it matters. Bottom line is he's using 20 times as much energy as most people. Unless he's got 20 people living in those 20 rooms he should get a smaller house.

So no one should have a house that has more rooms than family members?

You can't tell people what type of house they live in. Gore is no different than a lot of people that may have more house than they really need.

However, people do have a responsibility to make the home energy efficient.

[Cranky]

What I think some are missing is the fact that at the end of this new religion, we are going to destroy our way of living. Meanwhile, the high and mighty priests and prophets are enjoying uber fat lifestyles while telling you and me that we are the cause of the planets total destruction.

The fact that there is NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF other then from the hypocritical priests of this new religion. But why should that make a difference?

"Does God exist?"

"Without a doubt" said the Rabbi, the priest and the cardinal.

[MC Habber]

jkr said:

machabby said:

I don't really see that it matters. Bottom line is he's using 20 times as much energy as most people. Unless he's got 20 people living in those 20 rooms he should get a smaller house.

So no one should have a house that has more rooms than family members?

You can't tell people what type of house they live in. Gore is no different than a lot of people that may have more house than they really need.

However, people do have a responsibility to make the home energy efficient.

You take me too literally. And no, Gore is no different than anyone who has "more house than they really need," he just a great deal more exra house than most. But Gore is basically saying that anyone with extra house should cut back (among other things), and yet he doesn't practice what he preaches.

[insomnius]

I had the same reservations after walking out on the film after 30 minutes - here is Al Gore in a fossil fuel wasting car. Talking about saving the planet. Here is Al Gore in a fossil fuel burning plane. Talking about saving the planet. Here is Al Gore on a fossil fuel burning bus. Talking about saving the planet.

And, while talking about the planet, here is Al Gore ALSO talking about.......






Al Gore.








The world is really in trouble if THIS is the person who carries the flame for the environmental "movement"....

[ropoflu]

habsaddict said:

What I think some are missing is the fact that at the end of this new religion, we are going to destroy our way of living. Meanwhile, the high and mighty priests and prophets are enjoying uber fat lifestyles while telling you and me that we are the cause of the planets total destruction.

The fact that there is NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF other then from the hypocritical priests of this new religion. But why should that make a difference?

"Does God exist?"

"Without a doubt" said the Rabbi, the priest and the cardinal.

Our way of living is for the most part unsustainable. It's gonna destroy itself with or without the gurus.

[franko]

ropoflu said:

habsaddict said:

What I think some are missing is the fact that at the end of this new religion, we are going to destroy our way of living. Meanwhile, the high and mighty priests and prophets are enjoying uber fat lifestyles while telling you and me that we are the cause of the planets total destruction.

The fact that there is NO CONCLUSIVE PROOF other then from the hypocritical priests of this new religion. But why should that make a difference?

"Does God exist?"

"Without a doubt" said the Rabbi, the priest and the cardinal.

Our way of living is for the most part unsustainable. It's gonna destroy itself with or without the gurus.

Is this not the evolutionary process holding form?

[ropoflu]

franko said:

ropoflu said:

Our way of living is for the most part unsustainable. It's gonna destroy itself with or without the gurus.

Is this not the evolutionary process holding form?

I sure hope it is.

[Cranky]

Follow the link below and in the end, you will have inescapable facts that Gore is a liar anda hypocryte.

I can't help but laugh out loud how much damage Gore is doing to the new religion. They deserve each other.

billhobbs.com/2007/02/more_on_gore.html

[Cranky]

Here is proof that Gore is VERY WILL PAID for his LIES and DECEPTIONS.

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Valley Forward, ASU student government foot pricey bill for Gore speech
The Business Journal of Phoenix - March 5, 2007by Mike SunnucksThe Business Journal
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The environmentally oriented Valley Forward business group and Arizona State University student government are footing the steep bill to bring former Vice President Al Gore to Tempe next month.

Gore will talk about global warming and climate change at an April 2 event at ASU. Gore charges as much as $175,000 per speech plus first class travel and other expenses, according to a source familiar with his fees.


ASU student government organizations are putting $20,000 toward the Gore speech, said spokesman James Quinn. Private donors and ticket charges for the event will help cover additional costs, he said. Quinn said he could not disclose any specifics of the speech contract with Gore but said Valley Forward was one the event's private sponsors.

Valley Forward Association members include businesses, law firms, utilities and city governments from Intel Corp., Arizona Public Service and Honeywell to Wells Fargo Bank and DMB Associates. It supports more transit services and land-use planning for the Phoenix region.

Gore warns that increased global warming threatens polar ice caps and the environmental balance. He won an Oscar for his climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and favors increased regulations on cars and industrial emissions and greater use of cleaner energies to reverse the warming trend.

Some Arizona Democrats and environmentalists want to see Gore make another run for president -- a contest that also features Arizona Sen. John McCain.

McCain has been one of the friendlier Republican voices toward the climate issue favoring caps on emissions and working with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman on the issue.

Skeptics say Gore and environmentalists are overblowing the climate change issue and such regulations would hamstring U.S. commerce and business activity. They also fault Gore for sometimes using private jets to fly to his appearances.

[Cranky]

Hollywood boy is gettting exposed........

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The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore


Written By: Joseph Bast
Published In: Heartlander
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: The Heartland Institute


Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say “we are all entitled to our own opinions, but not to our own facts.” It is a fitting retort to Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

A friend invited me to attend a screening of “An Inconvenient Truth” when it first arrived in Chicago a few weeks ago. The event was sponsored by an environmental advocacy group and the theater was filled with Gore fans. They seemed to love it. I found it disturbing.


The Real Al Gore?

The film is one part Al Gore biopic and one part pseudo-documentary about global warming. The parts about Gore portray him to be deeply thoughtful, committed to family and the pursuit of the truth--even unpopular truths--and still upset about losing the 2000 presidential election.

During the biographical parts we hear Gore talking softly about important moments in his life, lessons he learned, and values he holds dear. We hear about his son nearly dying in an accident, his sister dying of lung cancer, and his lost election. We watch as he walks through airports, onto stages before cheering crowds, and around the family farm, or sits in shadows, apparently deep in thought.

For those who already admire him, these parts of the movie are likely to build a deeper bond of trust and confidence in Gore as a man of good character. Even those who don’t like him may find him less wooden and doctrinaire than he appeared during the presidential campaign.


Credible on Climate?

Few people would want to watch a movie about Al Gore’s life, but substantially more are interested in global warming, the coming global calamity that could cause, or perhaps already is causing, droughts and floods, scorching hot summers and fierce winter storms, rising sea levels, hurricanes, species extinctions, deformed frogs, and a long list of other terrible things. At least, that’s what Gore thinks, and what newspapers serve up on an almost-daily basis.

I have difficulty taking Gore seriously on environmental issues ever since it was reported that Ted Kaczynski, the murderous “Unabomber,” kept a heavily marked-up copy of Gore’s book, Earth in the Balance, in his tar-paper shack and liberally borrowed from it when writing his anti-humanity treatise. There’s even a Web site (http://www.crm114.com/algore/quiz.html) that offers a quiz to see if you can tell Gore’s words from Kaczynski’s. I bet you can’t.

Was that a cheap shot? Maybe, but no more so than Gore’s repeated assertion that only oil company stooges dissent from his alarmist views on climate change. At one point he compares scientists who disagree with him with apologists for the tobacco industry.

So what are we to make of (in alphabetical order) Dr. Tim Ball at the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Robert Balling at Arizona State University, Dr. Bob Carter at James Cook University in Australia, Dr. Randall Cerveny at Arizona State University, Dr. John Christy at the University of Alabama, Dr. Robert Davis at the University of Virginia, Dr. Christopher Essex at the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Oliver Frauenfeld at the University of Colorado, Dr. Wibjörn Karlèn at Stockholm University, and Dr. Christopher Landsea at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?

And what about Dr. David Legates at the University of Delaware, Dr. Henry Linden at IIT, Dr. Richard Lindzen at MIT, Dr. Ross McKitrick at the University of Guelph, Dr. Patrick Michaels at the University of Virginia, Dr. Dick Morgan at the University of Exeter, Dr. Tim Peterson at Carleton University, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. at the University of Colorado, Dr. Eric Posmentier at Dartmouth College, Dr. Willie Soon at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama, and Dr. Boris Winterhalter at the University of Helsinki? All are respected authorities on climatology, working at respected universities, who appear regularly in peer-reviewed science journals ... and they all dispute Gore’s alarmist claims.

So who are you going to believe, politician Al Gore or real scientists?


Slick Propaganda

Gore’s movie substitutes vivid images of the alleged effects of global warming for an accurate account of the scientific debate. We see glaciers calving into the sea, giant storms sweeping through resort areas, burning deserts, and even a cartoon polar bear swimming aimlessly, searching for a place to rest.

Problem: All of the events pictured in this movie have been occurring since before human activities could possibly have caused them. Glaciers have calved into seas for millions of years, storms obviously predate modern civilization and our emissions, and real-life polar bears know better than to head out into open water during the Arctic summer. At any given time in Earth’s history, some glaciers have been expanding while others have been shrinking. (We have accurate information on only 42 of the approximately 160,000 glaciers presently in existence.)

Early in the movie, Gore shows us images of the disappearing snow cap atop Mount Kilimanjaro and blames the loss on global warming. Wrong. Scientists know temperatures at the top of Kilimanjaro have been falling, not rising, and the disappearing snow is due to changes in land use at the bottom of the mountain, causing drier air to rise up the mountain’s side.

Later we see ice melting in the Arctic, Greenland, and the Antarctic. More evidence of global warming? Not necessarily. Scientists say temperatures in the Arctic were higher during the 1930s and the current melting is probably part of a natural cycle caused by ocean currents, not greenhouse gases. And only small parts of Greenland and the Antarctic are melting: Snow and ice are accumulating as rapidly in other parts, for a net loss of around zero.


More Deceptions

Two of the worst deceptions in “An Inconvenient Truth” involve the global temperature record and rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Gore walks across the stage as red lines plot temperature and CO2 concentrations, showing a close correlation across many years and a rapid increase in the past century. It is a triumph of data manipulation.

Viewers can’t tell from the film whether temperature increases follow or precede rises in CO2. If they precede, then Gore’s entire thesis is disproved. In fact, the historical record shows temperature increases often have preceded increases in CO2. No mention of that inconvenient fact in this movie.

Viewers also can’t see the scales Gore is using for his graph. Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased over time, but by only 87 parts per million since 1870 (according to the United Nations Environment Programme). If the vertical scale of Gore’s graph started at zero, the increase would have been too small for viewers to see.

The temperature record Gore uses is the so-called “hockeystick” graph produced by Dr. Michael Mann, now at Pennsylvania State University. Mann’s methodology has been attacked in peer-reviewed journals, forcing him to issue a partial withdrawal of his findings. Other, more accurate, reconstructions of the historic temperature record show substantially more variation in the past, revealing that today’s temperatures are not unprecedented.


The Debate Is Not Over

There are plenty of other errors and exaggerations in Gore’s movie, which people more expert than I are documenting and exposing. Suffice it to say, “An Inconvenient Truth” contains very little truth, and a big helping of propaganda.

Does Al Gore himself really believe the hype he tries to sell in this movie? Those who have watched him give his PowerPoint presentation and have discussed it with him say he does.

The Unabomber also was absolutely sincere in his belief that technological progress was an evil that had to be stopped, with violence if necessary. Fortunately, Kaczynski didn’t have access to the incredible powers of the Presidency of the United States. Unfortunately, Al Gore still aspires to that post.

[Skilly]

I have the opportunity this Wednesday to sit in on a slideshow presentation of "An Inconvenient Truth" presented by Peter Corbyn, P.Eng. The bio attached to the email says Corbyn is a "Global Warming Messenger trained by Al Gore".

Anybody have any questions for me to ask ?

[CentreHice]

skilly said:

I have the opportunity this Wednesday to sit in on a slideshow presentation of "An Inconvenient Truth" presented by Peter Corbyn, P.Eng. The bio attached to the email says Corbyn is a "Global Warming Messenger trained by Al Gore".

Anybody have any questions for me to ask ?

"Mr. Corbyn, will the Habs make the playoffs? Cause that would warm up my world."

[Cranky]

skilly said:

I have the opportunity this Wednesday to sit in on a slide show presentation of "An Inconvenient Truth" presented by Peter Corbyn, P.Eng. The bio attached to the email says Corbyn is a "Global Warming Messenger trained by Al Gore".

Anybody have any questions for me to ask ?

I trained a gerbil to fetch my slippers...it doesn't mean I listen to it's gerblings....

FACT....

Atmospheric CO2 has been increasing at roughly 0.5 - 2 ppm for the last 47 years (from Mauna Loa observatory data. In 1959 it was 315 ppm. In 2006 it was 380 ppm. From 1959 to 1979 (20 of the 47 years) we saw moderate cooling with scientist screaming that we are in the midst of the next ice age caused by CARBON DIOXIDE. . For the last 27 years we have seen warming and and now presented with the SAME carbon emissions as the cause for global warming.

FACT....

Why did Gore show his infamous temperature and carbon dioxide graph rising almost in parallel when in fact the carbon dioxide levels rise AFTER global temperature increases. In FACT, from the Vostok ice cores, scientist concluded that temperature rose a couple of centuries in ADVANCE of increases in carbon dioxide. Yet now we are lied to that WE are the cause of carbon dioxide increases. (the sea and the earth itself hold thousands of times more CO2 then the air and they release it with rising temperatures.) The fact of life is that if you take out their CO2 foundation, you take out their ENTIRE argument.

FACT.....

Why is the Milankovitch cycles is completely ignored by alarmist when in fact it is a well established that the earth temperatures is CONTROLLED by it's earth's long term cycling through the sun?

(here is the link to what a Milankovitch Cycle is.....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles )

Finally.....

Accuse global warming alarmist that they are profiting from their scare tactics. If he denies it, just ask him how much Gore gets for EACH appearance. ($140,000 to $175,000 PLUS expenses.) And then ask HIM how much he is charging for his appearance.

If all else fails...bring him here. I'll use my best Gordie Howe persuasion techniques.....

[seventeen]

Fact: While most people think of themselves as caring for the environment very few actually are willing to 'pay' or have their standard of living reduced, to improve the environment.

Rather than buying more fuel efficient cars, we complain about the price of gas.

How many of us actually have homes that are energy efficient?

I could probably come up with more examples if I gave it more thought, but really, most of us, myself included, like to be environmentally friendly as long as it really doesn't cost us in convenience, or money. I just freely admit it.

[franko]

Exactly. "Save the environment; just do it without me".

I'm on a "green committee" here. Make a feeble attempt at "doing what is right" while I drive a mini-van to the meetings. Excuses galore to keep the thing. Just a little inconsistent, I guess.

[Cranky]

seventeen said:

Fact: While most people think of themselves as caring for the environment very few actually are willing to 'pay' or have their standard of living reduced, to improve the environment.

Rather than buying more fuel efficient cars, we complain about the price of gas.

How many of us actually have homes that are energy efficient?

I could probably come up with more examples if I gave it more thought, but really, most of us, myself included, like to be environmentally friendly as long as it really doesn't cost us in convenience, or money. I just freely admit it.

Umm..I did.

I changed my furnace to one that is 93% efficient and have added insulation to the the roof. If the freaken house market stabilize or drops, I intend to build a house that is uber efficient (including solar heating and thermal pumps). I drive a diesel and I am buying two electric motorcycles to commute to work. I am doing this because of my INCREADABLE concern for my carbon footprint....you believe that don't you?

I foresee governments reacting to the eco-Nazis and criminalizing our way of life. The politicians did not need many excuses to fleece us but now they have a self serving MORAL EXCUSE to rip our guts out in taxation. Just wait and see.....

[seventeen]

Ok, I confess, my new house has geothermal, radiant in floor heat. I doubt I'll ever recover the cost (unless natural gas prices skyrocket), but at least I'm not adding more carbon dioxide to the air.

PS. There were absolutely no government incentives for geothermal heat. Believe me, I looked. At least in Canada. I think some states may have incentives.

[Toronthab]

seventeen said:

Fact: While most people think of themselves as caring for the environment very few actually are willing to 'pay' or have their standard of living reduced, to improve the environment.

Rather than buying more fuel efficient cars, we complain about the price of gas.

How many of us actually have homes that are energy efficient?

I could probably come up with more examples if I gave it more thought, but really, most of us, myself included, like to be environmentally friendly as long as it really doesn't cost us in convenience, or money. I just freely admit it.

Mea culpa.

[PTH]

Al and Tipper Gore's home, a 1915 antebellum-style mansion in the wealthy Belle Meade section of Nashville, is laid out a bit like Gore himself: a gracious and formal Southern façade; slightly stuffy rooms when you walk in the door; and startlingly modern, relaxed, informal living spaces to the rear. The Gores bought the old place five years ago and are still retrofitting it, making it energy efficient with new windows, new heating and cooling units, solar panels on the roof. (The anti-Gore crowd zinged him recently because his electricity bill last August was 10 times the local average. The Gores pay extra to get 100% of their power from renewable sources, and their zealous retrofitting will no doubt bring their costs down. But it stung.)

www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622009,00.html


Also interesting:
www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622015,00.html



If I were an American, he'd have my vote. I like the idea of voting for someone who's life ambition hasn't been solely to be president.

[habmeister]

i have those compact flourescent lightbulbs and let me tell you they never die and aren't much more than one of those crappy old type ones. i don't even remember what they're called.

other than that, i recycle, and know that cities with a lot of cars and bad air makes my allergies go into overdrive. but we all need to do more, i no longer leave my computer monitor on throughout the night, but turning it off at night for the 5 minute re-boot the next day is the next step.

[Cranky]

I watched the inconvinient BS and even though it was full of holes, the MOST IMPORTANT thing that I learned is that Al Gore is selling himself as the next messiah. Look at the end of the film and you will notice that Gore stand as a dark, messiah figure in front of the universe. I kid you not. He keeps talking about the "new thinking" the "new way" and low and behold the dark brooding Messiah of the universe. "I am the way, I am the truth. I am Al Gore."

Here is a youtube and Our Messiah acting....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_21b7mdJz2M&mode=related&search=

As for voting for him? I rather SPIT on him.

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Gore As Religious Figure

This post was written by Warner Todd Huston on 9 May, 2007 (12:12) | All News, Country News, Regional News, North American News, Science News, Celebrity News, US News, Environmental News

I can understand the appeal of the global Warming religion, I really can. For those who have disavowed conventional religion and have decided that man is the ultimate power — by which they mean themselves in particular, not just humanity

in general — the thought that they alone can save the planet is heady stuff, indeed.
Who needs a god when they have placed themselves at that pinnacle? But merely accepting the fact and moving on with life is a dull proposition. There is no fun in that, for sure. It’s a dull, boring existence without some transcendent thing in which to believe, without some crusade to which they can flock to satisfy the need to congregate, proselytize for, and sacrifice for.

Enviroists have been gestating their religious fervor for a decade or more but it lacked a central, savior-like figure who they could all worship together. I think it is safe to say, though, that they have found their Christ redux.

For Al Gore has come.

The former vice president of one of the most scandal ridden presidencies since the Grant administration, Gore has come to his new role via the power of film. His transformation from a wooden, robotic, wonkish bore to the global warming guru cum “rock star” is complete if the reception he has gotten since his film was released is any indication.

On Saturday, May 5th, Gore spoke the words that sent him from advocate to religious figure. Speaking to an Architect’s convention in San Antonio, Gore likened his quest to a “spiritual crisis” and placed himself and his followers into the role of savior of the planet.

The former vice president referred continually to a “new way of thinking” that is emerging in the country and offered hope in the battle to control the effects global warming will have on the planet.

“It’s in part a spiritual crisis,” Gore told the crowd in the Convention Center at the American Institute of Architects national convention. “It’s a crisis of our own self-definition — who we are. Are we creatures destined to destroy our own species? Clearly not.”

Gore is no longer trying to advance a scientific theory and solution. He thinks of himself in messianic terms and views his followers as the last hope of the planet. At this point it is impossible to imagine that Gore can consider his detractors as honest opponents but must consider them a particular kind of evil akin to that of a fallen Lucifer.

I would suggest that it won’t be long before Al Gore turns the next corner taking him past fooling others and into the realm of fooling himself… if he hasn’t already gotten to that place.

He has already garnered followers who are considering Gore as so important to the world that he should not be allowed to hide his light under a bushel. They consider him the property of the world and feel he can no longer claim any such human need as privacy or any such incidental need of generating an income.

Consider the column written by one of Gore’s smitten believers after his savior spoke at the convention previously mentioned. Gore spoke as a paid speaker to the convention that was not open to the press. He got paid handsomely for his message, of course.

But, Bob Richter found pique with his savior for his mistake of not coming down from the mountain with his message to address the press.

Richter reports that his paper’s news editor, Robert Rivard, decided that Gore was too important to allow him to only address his paying customers. So he ordered one of his reporters to crash the venue.

“Al Gore and his crusade to raise awareness about global warming and climate change are issues of great public interest, and while he has the right to address the visiting architects behind closed doors, we have an obligation to make every effort to report on his speech to a wider audience.

“We take climate issues seriously at our newspaper and, frankly, it’s odd that he is adamant about shutting out the press.”

Richter agreed with his editor saying, “It is odd.” He went on to recount just how important Gore is and how he must become more a man for the people and not just one who speaks “only to elite groups who pay him well to hear it”.

No, Richter thinks Gore is “too important” to get so “muddled” as to try to make a buck. One can hear Bobbie wondering “what would Jesus do”. So, Richter thinks Gore is too important to be concerned about mere cash and scolds his savior for his desire to stay exclusive to those who hired him to speak.

Capitalism is so gauche in a savior, isn’t it?

Funny thing is, what more does Gore need to say that he hasn’t said in dozens of other papers, TV shows and movies? It is no longer the message that people like Bob Richter and his cohorts at the San Antonio Express-News need to hear. They yearn just to be close to their second coming. They are dying to prostrate themselves before Al Gore, to touch the hem of his robes.

They are long past the message. Now they have become the apostles of the new savior and they cannot stand to be separated from him. Even for him to make a buck.
Gore is no longer merely a failed candidate and past second banana to a corrupt president he is a “spiritual” leader who’s past life is overshadowed by the faith and love bestowed upon him by his followers.

Global warming is now a full-blown religion and Al Gore is their messiah.

[Cranky]

Talking about doing more....to reduce POLLUTION.....not the carbon BS.

I cut my electrical energy consumption in the factory by half yet I pay MORE for my electricity? How did that happen?

My main mode of transportation is a diesel car.

We live 8 minutes from work.

We bicycle to work in the summer.

I want to buy the wife the Smart car (70 mpg diesel) for her shopping and errands and for local use for me.

We do not have ANYTHING but flourescents in the factory or home.

We have a 93% furnace at home (set at 68F) and 15 SEER airconditioner that is set at 75 F.

We have a 90% efficient boiler at work.

People shut of the light if they are not working in the area. We have motion sensors in the bathrooms and lunch room that turn the lights on and off.

All our machines have high efficiency and optimal sized motors for the work they do.

What else can I do? Live in a cave? Should I fire everybody and shut down? What?

But Al Gore has sucks up electricity like a whale in his MANY houses, flies first class and in private jets, uses limo's like I use toilet paper after a bad dose of Chinese food and yet, he is the MESSIAH. The Jesus Of Climate Change, The Saviour of Our Planet.