Brokaw to Gore: Shouldn’t you be using less energy?
posted at 3:13 pm on July 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
Deceiver wonders why the rhetoric of “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself” slips so easily from the lips of celebrity eco-hypocrites. The Goracle’s defense here is that he’s doing his fair share, but if the problem’s as screamingly urgent as he claims, why not do everything he can? This is the old argument about taxes in another guise: If the left thinks tax rates are irresponsibly low, they can always voluntarily pay more than they owe to help solve the problem. If Gore thinks we’re on the precipice of global catastrophe, you’d think he’d be willing to sell the big house, buy something more modest, and plow the difference into credits to offset as much carbon use by other people as possible. If this is a genuine climate emergency, in other words, why is the goal of environmentalists to be carbon neutral instead of carbon negative? This is no idle gotcha, either. Greens (or rather fringe greens, but only for the moment) who want to float ideas like taxing reproduction to reduce the carbon load are going to have to explain why Joe Public should forego having another kid before Al Gore foregoes having his mansion.
Update: A follow-up point from Mike Warren — what’s the average middle-class family supposed to do with Gore’s?
I am more bothered by the fact that we are supposed to absolve Al Gore of his environmental sins because he has all this expensive technology that offsets all of the crap he’s putting into the air.
Where does that leave us normal Americans who can’t afford to “retrofit” our homes to be environmentally holy with “geothermal systems” and solar panels on our roofs? The point is that given the option between being environmentally conscious and having modern conveniences, we all have a tipping point toward the latter.
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Hypocrisy 101.
sondiehl on July 21, 2008 at 3:17 PM
While he has taken care of his excessively sized mansion, what about his vehicle entourage and his jet? He’s still a hypocrite.
jediwebdude on July 21, 2008 at 3:17 PM
“Sacrifice for thee, but not for me” – Albert Gore
…murmurings of the little harp-girl’s song in Heinrich Heine’s 1844 poem “A Winter’s Tale”
…the swine!
Entelechy on July 21, 2008 at 3:17 PM
IF this was such a huge problem as Gore claims is is, then he would contribute to the problem as little as he was humanly able to do.
IF this was such a huge problem as Gore claimed it was.
wise_man on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Do as I say, not as I do….
Gore’s Usage
Static on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Oh c’mon, we already know the answer to that: Al Gore is just better than the rest of us.
AZCoyote on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Al Gore is bloviating joke. Not a lot of insight here, I know, but I just had to say it.
Cicero43 on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
So we tax ourselves to have children (I have heard about this for a few years now).
So what do we do about the animals copulating? tax them? Eat them? Slaughter them? Tax people who have animals (Farmers, Dog and Cat owners, and do not forget those who use animals for items like Snakes for their venium)?
The Gorbacle.
upinak on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Call Jesse. We got a loose nut here.
bloggless on July 21, 2008 at 3:19 PM
I saw this yesterday. Al Gore is insufferable to watch. What about that 10,000 square foot home you have that sucks energy like an air conditioner in the middle of the desert? Oh, we buy CLEAN energy so it’s OK.
He doesn’t understand that people would listen to him more if he did live in a zero footprint house without relying on ‘buying clean energy’. He doesn’t care. It doesn’t matter. He loves to hear his own voice and he expects everyone else does to.
I wish he would go away. I can’t stand to see that ultimate loser.
ThackerAgency on July 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM
No Al, the issue is not carbon, it’s BS and it’s coming from your pie hole.
bloggless on July 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Poor old Brokaw is lucky that ManBearPig didn’t rend him limb from limb for that blasphemy.
GeneSmith on July 21, 2008 at 3:20 PM
upps:
I meant to say the Gorbacle should be tax via the small children he looks like he is eating. Is he related to Michael Moore by any chance?
upinak on July 21, 2008 at 3:21 PM
The thing that kept striking me during this interview was the continual reframing of Gore’s boogeyman. No longer is it “global warming,” or even “climate change,” it’s a “climate crisis.” What REALLY got me was how he equivocated “climate crisis” with the “energy crisis,” as though they are one in the same – as if the average American’s pocketbook pains will incline them more to the idea of doubling or tripling that expenditure to tilt at the windmill of the “climate crisis.” Paying $4.00/gallon for gas? Climate crisis!
If we are currently in a climate crisis, then I’m not too worried about it.
Beo on July 21, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Has anyone seen the picture from Time a year or two ago of Gore at his Macintosh in his home office? Three 30″ LCD displays, and he doesn’t do anything graphics / video / audio related. Who needs 3 x 30″ of display for standard web browsing, writing, etc?
Mibrilane on July 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM
“the issue is carbon…the issue is carbon”
the lie so nice he said it twice.
Dr. Manhattan on July 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Do as I say, not as I do.
Proof
Static on July 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM
He is not perfect yet his knowledge of the future climate is perfect.
BL@KBIRD on July 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM
sry for the double post, proxy got the better of me.
Static on July 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Imagine if he’d won in 2000 – we’d have had to watch this bore/dullard, preach at us in all his glorious haughtiness, for potentially 8 years. I’d be dead by now.
Entelechy on July 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Is Al Gore unable to convince Al Gore that we are in the middle of a Global Warming EMEGENCY?
EJDolbow on July 21, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Another way to look at it, when Jimmy Swaggart was caught with a prostitute, and said “I have sinned!”, the anti-religion (mre specifically) anti-christian liberals jumped for joy at the fact that Swaggart was a hypocrite – because he taught living by the words of the bible. Many anti-religion people despise being told that they are going to hell for sinning and delight in any and every failing connected to the church.
And Al Gore is the leader of the Church of the Holy Carbon Credit, and yet they are more brainwashed by this false prophet than what they claim christians ever are.
wise_man on July 21, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Swaggert had to first consort with hookers to learn the true meaning of sin, just like Gore has to first spew carbon dioxide to learn the true meaning of being green.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Cicero43 on July 21, 2008 at 3:30 PM
in all the team sports that i played on, our best leaders were the guys who led by example. in business, i’ve learned to follow and emulate those who acted instead of ran their mouths.
al gore is the guy in the stands telling the players what they should have done. a classic dweeb.
DrW on July 21, 2008 at 3:30 PM
idiots! the entire eco movement are a bunch of idiots, stupid idiots and flaming mush in the skull idiots.
enough said
unseen on July 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Those Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me, fatso. I don’t care where you get your energy, you still have a 10,000 sq. ft. home that uses a lot of energy and you, basically, buy the energy from yourself. I am one sheep who will not have the wool pulled over my eyes. Did I mention that he is fat? He is emitting more carbon because of his girth. My Al should get on Nutrasystem?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Big Al saw that question coming a mile away, this is the media playing right into his hands.
This issue is not carbon, this issue the that global warming is fraud and Al Gore should be in jail, not flying around pushing his propaganda and being treated like a rock star.
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Roger that, except, he’s not exactly being discreet about it is he?
Maquis on July 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Vapors and methane from the Goracle.
RobCon on July 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Wow. Al Gore doesn’t “claim to be perfect.” That is news!
morganfrost on July 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Blasphemy!!!
Off with Brokaw’s head!!!
Al Gore has rape offsets! I mean he has child molestation offsets!
I mean he has carbon offsets!
LEAVE AL ALONE! HE IS
AN ALIEN SPECIESA HUMAN BEING!MB4 on July 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM
As mentioned on our loveable RedEye, Gore is like a child molester who gives $100 to boys town. He thinks he can buy off his bad deeds.
Rbastid on July 21, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I thought we finally saw the last of the nightly news anchorman with a speech impediment.
Tom must hate Global Warming, it’s pronunciation is a tongue twister for him.
fogw on July 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM
While the following is my reply to the Gore Gas Guzzling entourage post, I believe the tangent I drift in to can’t be repeated enough (and I’m too lazy to type it in to every Gore thread):
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/19/video-gores-gas-guzzling-entourage/comment-page-1/#comment-1249651
RightWinged on July 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Note to Congress: Cut the budget for global warming “research” NOW !
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Carbon neutral?! He said “caron neutral”, right? Unless he’s totally off the grid, he ain’t carbon neutral. A 90% reduction in his natural gas usage…BFD. Now, he uses NG at levels similar to modest sized homes. It still ain’t carbon netural. It took natural resources and manufactured products to build that house, right? Well, that ain’t carbon neutral either. I’m sure his alabaster stair case banister and Sicilian tile floors were all hand cut by peasants too…I’m super serial!
Wyznowski on July 21, 2008 at 3:40 PM
From that front photo, it looks as though the issue is methane.
baldilocks on July 21, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Look over the descriptions of the following 2 houses and see if you can tell which belongs to “The one who calls himself an environmentalist.”
#1. A 20-room mansion(not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas, add on a pool(and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone(which the last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.
#2. Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet(4 bedrooms) and is nestled on an arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Waste water from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern, then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist-AL GORE!
HOUSE #2. (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
- wolf2012 on Debbie Schussel
MB4 on July 21, 2008 at 3:42 PM
At least Brokaw had the courage to ask Gore the question. Probably due to pressure from the blogosphere.
Next step: give him a bicycle, and tell him to pedal back to Tennessee.
Steve Z on July 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM
For this they give a Nobel prize?
Oy.
That’s not the Al Gore I knew.
drjohn on July 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM
He’s killing my children, and their children too.
Riposte on July 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM
A “PABi” and a “POS”!
Someone tell me what those stand for??
Dale in Atlanta on July 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM
someone should tell gore that fat people use more CO2 then skinny people and a man of excessive food usage should not be lecturing anyone on conservation.
unseen on July 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM
The entire ‘interview’ is obviously staged. Look at how Gore answers the questions with perfectly prepared statements – he didn’t have to stop to even think – he knew in advance what the questions were going to be and what his answers were going to be.
Besides he buys ‘carbon credits’ from himself. And what about his private gulfstream lifestyle?
CrazyFool on July 21, 2008 at 3:47 PM
Dale in Atlanta on July 21, 2008 at 3:45 PM
POs is piece of sh*t
and
PABI Passenger Air Bag Igniter ????
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PABI
unseen on July 21, 2008 at 3:47 PM
If anyone wants to live the Al Gore lifestyle, I’m now selling carbon credits. And cheap!
Cicero43 on July 21, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Look for the rotund Goracle to spew more heavily. He needs to keep pushing his crap before the earth cools. Well, it already has because of decreased solar activity. The leftists and Marxists are going to push this heavily so they can pass legislation for more government control of our lives. I, for one, will be smoking a cigar this evening in protest.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 21, 2008 at 3:49 PM
unseen on July 21, 2008 at 3:47 PM
man, you are QUICK!
Kudos on the first…
Second is “Punk A$% B……”
The rest is obvious, both fit Goreacle!
Dale in Atlanta on July 21, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Al GHore has done nothing.
Griz on July 21, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Maybe he thinks that exercise would produce too much CO2 /snark
baldilocks on July 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I see that HA no likee the subscript tags.
baldilocks on July 21, 2008 at 3:51 PM
“I don’t claim to be perfect.”
Yeah, I don’t get how they get away with it. Could Larry Craig have used that as his defense? What about the pastor and his prostitute?
Yet on such an issue as this, where the sky is supposedly literally falling before our eyes, the eco-hypocrites are forgiven, because at least they’re warning us.
Esthier on July 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM
And the High Goracle spoke all these words, saying: I am the Goracle your Oracle.
ONE: You shall have no other Oracles before Me.
TWO: You shall not make for yourself any carbon images–any likeness of anything carbon that is in heaven above, or of anything carbon that is in the earth beneath, or anything carbon that is in the water under the earth.
THREE: You shall not ever take the name of the Goracle your Oracle in vain.
FOUR: Remember my birthday, and keep it carbon free unless you have credits that you bought from me.
FIVE: Honor me instead of your father and your mother especially if they don’t believe in global warming.
SIX: You shall not ever malign me or else you be apostates.
SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery with my wife, but I can with your wife and your daughters.
EIGHT: You shall not ever steal my carbon credits.
NINE: You shall not raise any challenges to the most holy doctrine of global warming.
TEN: You shall not covet any of my mansions; you shall not covet my private jets, nor my SUV’s, nor my pizza, nor my Krispe Kreame donuts, nor my Biggie Fries, nor my hot fudge sundaes.
MB4 on July 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Dale in Atlanta on July 21, 2008 at 3:49 PM
all three fit al Gore. He makes me want to throw up.
But your’s fits better.
unseen on July 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM
I’m guessing it can only support the tags in the buttons.
Esthier on July 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Able to guzzle more energy than dozens of normal men! Producing more hot air than a locomotive! Able to pile up carbon credits higher than a tall building in a single bound!!!
Look UP in the sky! It’s ChickenLittle! It’s FlyingSnakeOilSalesman! It’s the Sultan of Hanging Chads! It’s the Ayatollah of Heat! No, it’s CarbonMan in a private jet painted green! And now following in the tradition of other great men such as Jimmy Carter and Yasir Arafat, he is the proud recipient of a Nobel Prize!!!
CarbonMan, strange visitor from an alternate reality who came to Earth with claims and scary predictions far beyond those of mortal men, disguised as Fat Albert, and now joined by other members of the Royal GreenLeague such as BioFuelHummerMan and EcoCleaningWoman, they all fight a never ending battle for Science-fiction, hypocrisy and the Hollywood way!
MB4 on July 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM
The future Secretary General of the U.N. will make you all pay for your unkind words.
Limerick on July 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
That’s the can answer they always use: I’m not perfect. Well, you’re a lot less than not perfect. What jackasses!
Blake on July 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
It looks like Chicken Little’s put on a few pounds, mighty strange for a person that’s worried-sick about the planet dying.
Hey Al… Obesity contributes to global warming
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 4:03 PM
My only questions are concerning Gore’s sanity and how does he lie and have so many believers. Why does he refuse to debate global warming?
volsense on July 21, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Only in my dreams, baby.
Only in my dreams.
Bob's Kid on July 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Great. Al has made his humongous house green. Can he spare another $20,000 per American household to make our places green. Or do we just get to shiver while the rich have solar panels.
fleiter on July 21, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Greenpeace Sued Over False Global Warming Claims
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 4:06 PM
It’s hard to say who is more insufferable, Gore or Brokaw.
I already know Gore is a mentally ill, lying demagogue who personally profits from his phony carbon credit scheme, but when people like Brokaw buy into the idiotic premise that we should keep the square footage on our homes down to save energy (and thus the planet) we’re dealing with an absolute fool in the tradition of Useful Idiots.
The idea that the more technilogically advanced we become the more we’re supposed to live like 6th century Afghans is very scary stuff.
Buy Danish on July 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Gore is a scam artist. Why doesn’t anyone ask him about his enormous windfall as a result of
global warmingerrr, “climate change”? Follow the money. What a crook.marklmail on July 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Another example of why the symbol for his party is a jackass.
ThePrez on July 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Make that [technologically]
Buy Danish on July 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Today he tried to equate offshore drilling with the invasion of Iraq (Link is on Drudge). Gore is as apathetic to the real needs of the people as the other traitorcrats in congress because he will have no trouble heating his football field sized mansion this winter.
The rest of us will be paying a big chunk of our earnings and will need to choose between eating and staying warm. Everyone around here is mad as hell about it. Congress is about to get bitch slapped for it too, because they announce their indifference EVERY DAY.
dogsoldier on July 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Question:
if I had been planning on buying a 1979 Cadillac Coupe deVille and driving it to Peru, with lots of quick starts and stops, but then decided to forget the whole thing, would my current lifestyle actually be considered carbon negative?
landshark on July 21, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Gore’s butt seems to be really conserving energy.
How many bushels of corn does it take to feed the world’s greatest environmentalist?
NoDonkey on July 21, 2008 at 4:21 PM
No we wouldn’t – we’d be living in caves with no electricity, transportation or any other type of technology. Oh yeah, we’d also be Muslims following the surrender to AQ on 9/12/01.
Rick on July 21, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Landshark..
Only if you are a democrat..
If only Ted Haggard said, ‘Hey, we all make mistakes. Mine just happened to be getting a full release from a male masseuse..” then he would have been just fine..
Right?
DaveC on July 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM
My husband and I joke that AlGore looks like he puts away a porterhouse and two bottles of cabernet every night.
BigD on July 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM
More like every meal.
Rick on July 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Depends on your party affiliation.
fogw on July 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM
The oceans are rising !!
The Arctic is melting !!
The polar bears are drowning !!
The penguins are freezing !!
BUT I CAN SAVE YOU…. SEND MONEY NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
/AlGore=off
Maxx on July 21, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Al Gore so what you buy wind and Solr energy, but you are still USING it.. IF you but the energy that means that someone else CANT you moron! You are still consuming to much energy(IF you want to be the Earth messiah for conservation and Global Warming), just like you are eating to much food..
Chakra Hammer on July 21, 2008 at 4:28 PM
If he hadn’t invented the internet then I wouldn’t be watching this now…? I did plant some arugula earlier, so everything is okay.
d1carter on July 21, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Can I buy the rights to you not driving to Peru so I can run my mulcher guilt free?
Chuck Schick on July 21, 2008 at 4:36 PM
You’ve got it, buddy. I’ve also decided against having an in-ground swimming pool installed and keeping it filled and heated all winter. You know, in case you have other demon machinery that you’d like to keep using.
landshark on July 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM
To give credit where it is do I am paraphrasing from an old Rush segment.
Enviornmentalism has all the elements of a religion are here. There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, There’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution, a judgment day, we are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe. It has its saints, its prophets, commandments, religious rituals (be sure to recycle that bottle), a large gallery of sins, mortal and otherwise, and an even larger horde of devils.
diogenes on July 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Damn Speculators – thank God the Democratically led Congress is coming after you…
Rick on July 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Sorry if you guys have seen this posted here. But very related is a video of Al Gore and his supporters getting busted on “saving energy” in any way here.
Rightwingsparkle on July 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Aren’t his kids off to college?
If so, Al and Tipper should be able to get by on a Japanese sized condo for two (about 450 sq ft) with maybe four wall outlets.
Preach the lifestyle, live the lifestyle. It’s that simple.
thirtypundit on July 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Gore is either a P.A.B. or a B.A.B. I can’t decide.
Gore living high on the energy hog and his deluded followers reminds me of the poor ol’ Penticostal that can barely afford to feed his family and pay the rent on his trailer donating half his income to his crooked ass preacher that wears a $20,000 watch and drives a cadillac.
There is no difference at all!
Gore and the preacher aint stupid, they are just shaddy hucksters.
There is a sucker born every minute.
TheSitRep on July 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
I am gonna send my lefty neice a Christmas card that says I donated 1000 carbon credits in lue of a gift.
That will make her real happy, Save me money and do as much for the invironment as algore does all in one fell swoop.
TheSitRep on July 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
No, he isn’t. He’s impertinent about it.
He’s better than you.
Entelechy on July 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM
How can any life form higher than slimemold take this guy seriously? I mean c’mon, really!
Al is one first class hypocrite a-hole.
G-man on July 21, 2008 at 5:29 PM
He still did not answer the direct question of why he needs a 10,000 square foot home. I grew up in a family of 7. Our home maybe had 1200 square feet and we lived just fine. He won’t answer it.
Glynn on July 21, 2008 at 5:38 PM
He and Tipper probably both have large offices in the house. The house might be on a scale that enables them to host large gatherings. There may be bedrooms for guests who stay for a few days, for live-in help, or for the children and grandkids when they visit.
He could get by with less (most people do), but there’s a good chance that he gets use out of the 10,000 sq ft.
To the extent that Gore preaches that we should all make personal sacrifices to help the environment he’s a hypocrite but to the extent that he is trying to effect structural change to the world infrastructure (for better or worse) then his personal use of jets or limousines isn’t of much relevance.
dedalus on July 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker both fell from their lofty positions and became targets of ridicule because of their blatant hypocrisy.
Yet Al Gore still gives his sermons from the mount…
ynot4tony2 on July 21, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Let’s assume that the U.S. goes completely carbon neutral in 5 years…but India, China and the rest of the developing world don’t.
Would Al Gore and the greeniancs then be willing to go to war to prevent the destruction of the planet? And if not, why should we change now?
WisCon on July 21, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Gore’s answer is absolutely unacceptable. He’s not “walking the walk” at all. Environmentalism isn’t just about carbon emissions–regardless of whether there are greenhouse issues or not. If environmental groups were serious about their goals, they would throw this clown under the bus. Sadly the environmental groups like the Sierra Club would rather have picnics with labor unions and fundamentalist religious leaders rather than attack consumption and human population growth.
thuja on July 21, 2008 at 6:29 PM
It cut off early – What Gore finished with was, “…we’re walking the walk, granted we’re walking that walk down our long hallway that has a monorail to make it easier and faster to get the front of the house from the back…but that’s run off of 95% clean energy.”
ApartforHaShem on July 21, 2008 at 6:44 PM
There’s another part of the interview where this fool claims ‘Some scientists believe the entire Arctic Ice cap will be gone in 5 years‘!!!
He’s really trying to push up the panic because either he’s worried that his scam is gonna hit the skids real soon or he wants to still be young and fit(snicker) enough to enjoy the fortune.
BigWyo on July 21, 2008 at 6:56 PM
hey Gore, turn your AC off you fat ass
custer on July 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Why? What’s wrong with energy?
freevillage on July 21, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Yeah, cause your fundamentalism is so superior to theirs.
Buy Danish on July 21, 2008 at 7:28 PM
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