Those Hollywood Searchlights Around Gore's Home

[E-rock]

From Tuesday Morning Quarterback (the best football column in the universe)

 

Those Hollywood Searchlights Around Gore's Home Sure Eat Power:

Gore wasn't the first quack to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and history suggests he will not be the last. Gore spent eight years in the White House, and in that time took no meaningful action regarding greenhouse gases. The Clinton-Gore administration did not raise fuel economy standards for cars and trucks or propose domestic carbon trading. Though Clinton and Gore made a great show of praising the Kyoto Protocol, they refused even to submit the treaty to the Senate for consideration, let alone push for ratification. During his 2000 run for the presidency, Gore said little about climate change or binding global-warming reforms. In the White House and during his presidential campaign, Gore advocated no consequential action regarding greenhouse gases; then, there was a political cost attached. Once Gore was out of power and global-warming proposals no longer carried a political cost -- indeed, could be used for self-promotion -- suddenly Gore discovered his intense desire to demand that other leaders do what he had not! It is a triumph of postmodernism that Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for no specific accomplishment other than making a movie of self-praise. Gore caused no peace nor led any reconciliation of belligerent parties nor performed any service to the dispossessed, the achievements the Peace Prize was created to honor. All Gore did was promote himself from Hollywood, and for this, he gets a Nobel. Very postmodern.

 

An annoying complication of Gore's Nobel is that few realize the award was given jointly to him and to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an organization well worthy of distinction. The IPCC is a group of scientists who have spent two decades studying climate change in obscurity, and in many cases without pay. The IPCC's efforts have been selfless, motivated only by concern for society. Had the Nobel Peace Prize gone solely to the IPCC, it would have been a great day.

 

An astonishing measure of how out-of-touch the Norwegian Nobel Committee seems is that it gave a prize to Gore for hectoring others about energy consumption in the same year it was revealed that Gore, at his home, uses 20 times the national power average. Gore's extraordinary power waste equates to about 377,000 pounds of greenhouse gases annually, or about 20 Hummer Years worth of global warming pollution. (A Hummer Year, TMQ's metric of environmental hypocrisy, is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year of driving a Hummer.) When his utility bill made the news -- though apparently not in Oslo -- Gore responded by saying he buys carbon offsets. That takes you back to the offset problem: All offsets do is prevent greenhouse gas accumulation from increasing. If you really believe there will be a global calamity unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced 80 percent, as Gore told the Live Earth crowd, you would buy offsets and cut your own energy use. Instead, Gore flies around in fossil-fuel-intensive jet aircraft telling others: Do as I say, not as I do!

 

After news of Gore's personal energy consumption broke, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider told The Associated Press the utility bill was justified because "Al and Tipper both work out of their home." This raises the question -- what kind of work are they doing? Perhaps reanimating Frankenstein; in Frankenstein movies, there is always a lot of electricity crackling wastefully about. Here are other possible reasons the Gores' home requires so much energy:

 

• Gore is building a time machine to return to Palm Beach, Fla., in October 2000.

 

• The former vice president is doing everything he personally can to cause global warming, so he can claim is predictions came true.

 

• Gore is growing marijuana in his basement. [Note from the corporate legal department: This is strictly a joke, ESPN is not accusing Al Gore of growing marijuana. We stand by our allegation that he is a sinister kingpin of international rare-bird smuggling.]

 

• Members of Gore's species require high power levels to maintain human form.

 

• Al and Tipper don't just leave the lights on when they make out, they leave the lights on all over the house.

[pigchampion]

tell me something i dont know.

[Mal_Con]

And that has relevance to what?

[ClimbingPanther]

hey, at least he's not saying "Do as I do, not as I say"

[pigchampion]

And that has relevance to what?

 

 

you haven't figured out that al gore is a stupid honky.

[pigchampion]

hey, at least he's not saying "Do as I do, not as I say"

 

 

kinda like a cop busting you for weed while smoking a joint.....these liberals want to get re-elected and these scientist want grants. we all knew the truth before algore started his global warming campaign......it used to be called the greenhouse effect FFS.

 

al gore has done nothing but point out what was already pointed out.

[E-rock]

And that has relevance to what?

 

Yo dumb fuck, Male cunt, this is spray. Nothing has any relevance to anything here.

Edited November 13, 2007 by E-rock

[E-rock]

......it used to be called the greenhouse effect FFS.

 

 

NO IT DIDN'T DUMBASS. The greenhouse effect is the layman's term for the phenomenon that keeps the Earth warm and livable. The Earth's surface reflects short-wavelength (visible) light back towards space at longer wavelenghts (heat). We have an atmosphere which traps that infra-red radiation and keeps our planet comfortable. Hence, "the greenhouse effect". You learned this in grade-school.

 

Global Warming/Climate change is a phenomenon where the Greenhouse effect, coupled with other heat producing/trapping mechanisms are caught in a dynamic feedback loop.

 

This article says nothing about whether or not global warming is actually occuring, it merely points out the hypocrisy of one type of politician on one END of the politcal spectrum. However, it only proves how myopic and short-sighted people like you are when you start pointing fingers at LIBERALS and their LIES about the ENVIRONMENT. Capiche?

[olyclimber]

Hi2U

[No. 13 Baby]

People who don't realize rush limbaugh is a comedian are an endless source of entertainment.

[foraker]

As I recall, Clinton didn't bother submitting the treaty for ratification to a Republican controlled Congress because they were basically telling him 'We won't ratify this'. So now it's his fault for picking battles he could win instead of ones he couldn't? Gotta love the logic in that.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

As I recall, Clinton didn't bother submitting the treaty for ratification to a Republican controlled Congress because they were basically telling him 'We won't ratify this'. So now it's his fault for picking battles he could win instead of ones he couldn't? Gotta love the logic in that.

 

he had 2 years with a Dem-controlled congress - what did he "accomplish" with them?

 

 

[E-rock]

As I understand, the gist of the editorial is that GORE didn't even make climate change a campaign issue. Not that Clinton wouldn't send it to congress (though he should have since he was in his second term and the weight would have been left squarely on Congress' shoulders)

[joblo7]

well, bushwacker did run on a platform of security. since then we renovated with planes and spend a trillion on wars.we feel more threatened than ever in our history........plus we're about to get the next wave of fake home terrorism so we put adolf gelly-anus in tha casablanca. cooool.

 

politician talk during election is the flavor of the year.falla tha money.!

[KaskadskyjKozak]

we feel more threatened than ever in our history........

 

"we"? quit including yourself in "we", punk.

 

as for "me" I don't feel more threatened than I did during the Cold War, and I'm sure "we" have felt more threatened at many times in our history, including during the Cuban missile crisis, WII, and when the Brits burned down the white house.

 

the histrionics and hyperbole make you look the assclown rather than make your (pathetic) point

 

[G-spotter]

when the Brits burned down the white house.

 

Those Brits were Canadians

[joblo7]

we think you over-react as a matter of principle.

we think you will vote for gelly-anus.

we hope you avoid the suitcases.

 

[minx]

stoopid canadians. playing with matches isn't safe. quit burning things. some canuck probably started the california fires.

[joblo7]

easy there ......you dont want to lose an ally in the war "with" terror.

[G-spotter]

stoopid canadians. playing with matches isn't safe. quit burning things. some canuck probably started the california fires.

 

our white houses are igloos. igloos are fireproof.

[foraker]

As I recall, Clinton didn't bother submitting the treaty for ratification to a Republican controlled Congress because they were basically telling him 'We won't ratify this'. So now it's his fault for picking battles he could win instead of ones he couldn't? Gotta love the logic in that.

 

he had 2 years with a Dem-controlled congress - what did he "accomplish" with them?

 

 

considering that the Kyoto Accords came out in 1997 and the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995-1997, i'm not sure of the point you're trying to make, but it can't be a good one.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

As I recall, Clinton didn't bother submitting the treaty for ratification to a Republican controlled Congress because they were basically telling him 'We won't ratify this'. So now it's his fault for picking battles he could win instead of ones he couldn't? Gotta love the logic in that.

 

he had 2 years with a Dem-controlled congress - what did he "accomplish" with them?

 

 

considering that the Kyoto Accords came out in 1997 and the Republicans took control of Congress in 1995-1997, i'm not sure of the point you're trying to make, but it can't be a good one.

 

Al Gore didn't do much as VP to further this "cause" of his - before or after Kyoto. Not until his ass was kicked in the election and he needed to find a new "cause" to ameliorate his hurt ego and find some way to justify his existence and satisfy is immense ego.

 

[foraker]

I'll agree that Clinton/Gore didn't have a great environmental track record, but that's beside the point I was trying to make that they couldn't have done much anyway, particularly with regard to the KP, given that for most of their time in office that had to deal with an openly hostile Congress.

 

Now, if all you want to do is to play the angry histrionics card, well, have fun. Maybe kevbone wants to play.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

I'll agree that Clinton/Gore didn't have a great environmental track record, but that's beside the point I was trying to make that they couldn't have done much anyway, particularly with regard to the KP, given that for most of their time in office that had to deal with an openly hostile Congress.

 

it's always so easy to make excuses for and rationalize about the failures of your "own" while being openly hostile and critical towards "others" as if there is some huge difference, now isn't it?

 

this thread is about Al Gore's hypocrisy and my comments are on point. the guy is full of shit.

 

[Off_White]

Naw, Al's worth the price of admission, if for no other reason than that fact that he makes the tighty-righties blow a gasket.