Al Gore's Tennessee Home Wasting Electricity

[ImWithStupid]

We all remember when Al Gore's movie was popular and they released the information that his Tennessee home used 20 times as much electricity as the average American home.

 

He defended this by saying it was 4 times the size of most homes and was old and he was going to convert it over to being more "green".

 

Well it seems he did some of the renovations to the home, that he pushes Americans to do to their homes. Despite this that home is now using more electricity than it did before...

 

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

 

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

 

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

 

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

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Leonardo Decaprio narrates a good commercial about making a environmentally sound community from the tornado ridden Greensburg Kansas.

 

 

On the ruins left by the tornado, Greensburg's residents now aim to build a model town for environmentalists across the globe. 'We are talking about a model green community for the world. And we want the world to visit. We could end up having ecotourism here,' said Daniel Wallach, a local businessman who formed the Greensburg GreenTown organisation to co-ordinate the effort

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/09/usa

 

What an excelent idea.

[ImWithStupid]

More Al Gore hypocrity...

 

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[phreakwars]

Al Gore is a hypocrite, lets do something about it and destroy our planet some more, that'll show him !!

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[ImWithStupid]

Al Gore is a hypocrite, lets do something about it and destroy our planet some more, that'll show him !!

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Nothing we do will destroy the planet. We may not be able to live on it any more, but the planet will still be here.

[RoyalOrleans]

Big Al is still licking his wounds from the re-re-recount. His pride broken! Ego shattered!

 

So now, he uses this global warming bullsheet to gain some sort of clout. He uses it gain some sort of leverage to feed his massive ego.

 

He's a washed up has-been with no more clout than Jesse Jackson.

[eddo]

Leonardo Decaprio narrates a good commercial about making a environmentally sound community from the tornado ridden Greensburg Kansas.

 

 

 

 

Kansas town to become green city after 2007 tornado | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

What an excelent idea.

 

Ya know, there is a reason why it is called " tornado ridden Greensburg Kansas."...

[RoyalOrleans]

Ya know, there is a reason why it is called " tornado ridden Greensburg Kansas."...

 

They call it that to keep douchebags like Al Gore and his minions out or I bet it was their intention.

[ImWithStupid]

Al Gore is a hypocrite, lets do something about it and destroy our planet some more, that'll show him !!

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The point being, don't tell me what to do if you aren't willing to do the same.

 

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This jackass is just trying to secure his new paycheck. Why else would he and other "greenies" be against the machine invented by a Columbia University scientist that eliminates 1 ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per day? I'll tell you why, If we can offset our fossile fuel use until other technology arrives, Al Gore won't have a job, Nobel Peace Prize (at the expense of a women who saved thousands of Jewish children by the way), a grammy or an oscar. He doesn't care about the environment, he just saw it as his next means to fame and fortune.

[phreakwars]

That dude totally sounded like Elmer Fudd.

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[hugo]

The one thing I respect about Ralph Nader is he actually walks the walk.

[wez]

The one thing I respect about Ralph Nader is he actually walks the walk.

 

I like Nader.. He's done a lot of good.. Woulda made a pretty good prez I thought.. Better than anyone since Kennedy.. dat for damn sure.

[RoyalOrleans]

I like Nader.. He's done a lot of good.. Woulda made a pretty good prez I thought.. Better than anyone since Kennedy.. dat for damn sure.

 

Why is it the good Kennedys were killed and that buffoon Teddy was allowed to live?

[Old Salt]

Why is it the good Kennedys were killed and that buffoon Teddy was allowed to live?

You'll notice that he didn't run for president. Talk at the time was that his family (mother) talked him out of running because they didn't want him dead, too.

[wez]

Why is it the good Kennedys were killed and that buffoon Teddy was allowed to live?

 

 

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[RoyalOrleans]

You'll notice that he didn't run for president. Talk at the time was that his family (mother) talked him out of running because they didn't want him dead, too.

 

Well... sore luck caught up with him.

[Anna Perenna]

Al Gore is a hypocrite, lets do something about it and destroy our planet some more, that'll show him !!

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While we're at it let's completely deny, without sound reason or any facts to back us up, all the mounting scientific evidence proving the existence of global warming and the need for all citizens of first world countries to simply reduce their carbon footprints.

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While we're at it let's completely deny, without sound reason or any facts to back us up, all the mounting scientific evidence proving the existence of global warming and the need for all citizens of first world countries to simply reduce their carbon footprints.

 

I'm sitting here today watching how the world was conceived some 400 billion years ago. Global warming is what created us. We were one cell organisms ting out rock. If it were not for a total ice age (the first ice age) and when the continents where one, then broke apart by the heat of the earths core, we would not be here. It would take the entire world to go green for hundreds of years to even think about reversing mans rain upon this planet. And even then we are in a cycle that is the inevitable. Al Gore has a good idea when it comes to health standards but he and his whole tree hugging friends aren't' gonna stop global warming.

[Anna Perenna]

It would take the entire world to go green for hundreds of years to even think about reversing mans rain upon this planet. And even then we are in a cycle that is the inevitable.

 

What were you watching?

 

Nobody is denying the history of the planet, but it's well documented that human emissions of CO2 have resulted in atmospheric levels higher than in any period over the last 20 million years.

 

Leading experts in this country think that the severe effects of climate change we're going to experience if we don't reduce emissions can be significantly ameliorated with simple changes in personal lifestyles.

 

Would it kill you to plant a tree and ride a bike instead of driving?

 

The future is either going to be green or not at all - Johnathan Porritt

[ImWithStupid]

Nobody is denying the history of the planet, but it's well documented that human emissions of CO2 have resulted in atmospheric levels higher than in any period over the last 20 million years.

 

Allegedly.

[Anna Perenna]

Allegedly.

 

By leading scientists and other climate change experts.

 

Denied predominantly by armchair pundits in Yokeltown, USA.

[ImWithStupid]

By leading scientists and other climate change experts.

 

Denied predominantly by armchair pundits in Yokeltown, USA.

 

Keep drinking the Kool-aid if you think anything we do will make a significant difference.

 

Look at this closely...

 

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What Al Gore wants the ignorant not to notice is that it appears that temperatures peak and then CO2 rises as a result.

 

Vikings were growing grapes in Greenland 600 years ago. Must have been those high carbon emitting SUV's they were driving around.

 

Also, the whole claim that "leading scientist agree" and "all the science is in" is also a bunch of crap. There are many credible climatologists that don't agree, and strangely enough, they keep getting uninvited to the major media conferences on the climate.

 

Remember these days?

 

“A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”

 

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

 

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras — and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average.

 

Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 — years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

 

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

 

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases — all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

 

Newsweek’s 1975 Article About Coming Ice Age | Sweetness & Light

 

I do.

 

I remember reading all about the coming "ice age" in magazines and seeing it on the news in the 70's so pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical of the rise of temperatures of 1 degreee over the last 100 years and no rise and even a bit of a drop in the past 10 years. These supposed "leading scientists" that predict this catastrophic global warming also said that we have done so much damage that the Earth won't be able to adjust on it's own, but when temps were down the past few years they say that the Earth is making a minor adjustment.

 

Then again either I'm just a dumb ass from Yokeltown USA or I'm not a mindless leming who can read more than one side of an issue and formulate my own opinion.

[Anna Perenna]

You keep mentioning Al Gore like I'm some kind of mindless fan of his, but not once have I mentioned him.

 

I'm taking my lead from climate change experts in Australia like Professors Andy Pitman and Matthew England who are actually out there, doing the research, much like they have been for years.

 

Why are you so desperate to discount climate change severity anyway - wouldn't it be wiser to err on the side of caution?

[Anna Perenna]

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You got to be kidding me right? That flick is an hour long. Snoze.........

 

I think there is global warming. We see it right here in Alaska. They say in about 4 years Newtok AK will be gone. It's on a course that no one can stop. It's called evolution. We can' t win a battle with mother nature. And Al Gore (who's name is in the title of the thread, thats why IWS was bringing him up) can kiss my oil burning ass.

 

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