These are two of the guys blogs that I love to check out talking about Al Gore.
The first is Justin's blog about Gore.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research checks into his utility bills.
Here’s some highlights:
- U.S. average yearly household electricity consumption — 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year
- Al Gore’s yearly energy consumption — nearly 221,000 kWh
- Al Gore’s Natural Gas bill per month — an average of 1,080 dollars PER MONTH!
Yep, that’s right global warming alarmist, and former Vice President Al Gore uses 2 times the national yearly average kWh’s per month.
Great job by Justin.
The next is Jason Kearny's blog about Gore.
Al Gore couldn't get elected president, but now he has what even George W. Bush does not have: an Oscar. He won for the film An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary about global warming. In his acceptance speech, he called on all Americans to wake up and heed the call to change. Here is a portion of his acceptance speech: "People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue; it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started, with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource -- let's renew it. " In the film, one of the ways he says the average person can help deal with global warming is to cut back on their household energy usage.Gore should have no problem finding a place to put his Oscar. He has plenty of room in his 10,000 square foot, 20 room mansion with eight bathrooms, in the exclusive Belle Meade neighborhood in Nashville.
For the complete version of Jason's blog use the link above.
Great job guys. Hope you don't mind me posting it here. This has been something that bothered me ever since it came out. I don't remember Gore doing much about this when he had power. In fact several of the years he points out as the worst in global warming were years he was the vice president.
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Interesting stuff. If those stats are accurate, there's no denying Gore's hypocrisy. I hate it when people claim to be environmentalists and they drive gas guzzling SUVs.
While Gore may not be the best champion for the cause, I think the issue is an important one. I think we do need to take seriously our charge to be good stewards of what God has entrusted to us.
Gore didn't do anything about environmental issues when he was VP? Are you kidding me? I was a rabid republican in those days and I always viewed Gore as beyond green.
Responding to Drudge’s attack, Vice President Gore’s office told ThinkProgress:
1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology.
2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family’s carbon footprint — a concept the right-wing fails to understand. Gore’s office explains:
What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible. Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gore’s do, to bring their footprint down to zero.
Scott: If Gore was such an advocate of enviromentalism (which is not at the top of my priorities, but is an important issue), why are the years he points out in his documentary as the worst years, the years he was in office. Perhaps it was just coincedence, but I would think not.
I'm glad that Gore won an Oscar; now he has an actual accomplishment and won't have to take credit for things like the creation of the Internet.
Seriously, I get real tired of Global Warming talk.
As a Christian, I absolutely believe that I should be a good steward of what God has given me. That includes the environment.
As a Christian, I also absolutely believe that this God is in control, not pollution (or anything else). The lifespan of this planet is dependent on how long God wants it to be here, not on our carbon emission levels.
Let's take care of the planet God gave us. But let's pay more attention to what God promised in Genesis 8.22 than the voices of the global warming doomsday crowd.
Luke: Well said.
I don't think any Christians who are convinced of human-caused climate change doubt that God is in control. But like any other area of our lives, just because he's in control does not excuse inaction on our part. If we can affect change for the good in the world - whether relieving suffering, feeding the hungry, or helping to prevent further climate change - we should do it, should we not?
Whether global warming is human caused or not is unclear to me, but I'm not willing to dismiss it just because "God is in control."
Thanks for the link, Kenny. I got home from the office, checked my stats, and thought, "hmmm...I wonder why I had ten times the number of hits I normally have on my blog today?" Now I know why.
I appreciate it!
Greg,
Just to clarify, I dismiss the idea that global warming is the end of the world, or that it is somehow the most pressing in the world today.
I don't dismiss our duty as Christians to go about doing good in all aspects of life, including being good stewards of the planet that God gaves us.
If I gave the impression that I don't care about the environment, I didn't mean to.
Greg: You are correct in saying we ought to be good stewards of what has been given us. But that does not mean this issue is up there with world hunger.
Of course the issue is up there with world hunger. If global warming is true, and the majority of the research says that it is, then the majority of the impact will be upon the poor. That is the number 1 reason why I stepped out and signed the Evangelical Climate Initiative. To wit:
* Agricultural output in many poorer countries could be significantly reduced. An additional 80-90 million poor people could be at risk of hunger and malnutrition in this century.
* Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that even in the U.S. the poor are the most vulnerable to extreme weather events. Poorer countries are much less able to withstand the devastation caused by extreme weather events, and climate change is likely to increase such events. For example, global warming could increase the number of people impacted by flooding by 20-50 million.
* Hundreds of millions of people will be at increased risk of malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis, and other infectious diseases because of global warming.
* Each of these stressors increases the likelihood of environmental refugees and violent conflicts.
* A heat wave in Europe in 2003 due primarily to global warming killed at least 20,000, mainly the poor and elderly. Such summers are projected to be the average by the middle of this century.
* Although the U.S. will likely have the resources to adapt to the impacts of global warming, the poor in the U.S. will also suffer disproportionately. For example, large cities in the U.S. may experience, on average, several hundred extra deaths per summer.
* In addition to impacts on human beings, up to 37% of God's land-based species could be committed to extinction by 2050, making global warming the largest single threat to biodiversity.
And this is no longer a liberal/conservative divide. After a year of balking the National Association of Evangelicals admitted that global warming, and its impact on the least of these, is a grave concern that we must pro-actively combat.
If there is a possibility, however miniscule some might think it to be, if our irresponsible environmental actions will have their most direct impact on the poor then we need to step back and take a long hard look at our environmental footprint.
Thanks for bringing attention to this.
Scott: obviously you have done your research on this subject. I agree that it is an issue of importance, just not at the top of my list. I'll give up hairspray or something if that is what is needed.
My problem is not with taking care of our environment...it is with the spokesman for it being one who is one of the bigger problems.
Also, I don't see how the poor were the only ones hit in Katrina. Many were harmed by it, rich and poor. The poor had as good a chance to get out as the rich did with evacuation warnings before it hit...but I'd rather keep this discussion to Gore.
The poor did not have the same opportunity to get out of Katrina's path as the rich. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some of those folks had no means of transportation. It wasn't a matter of getting a bus ticket either - they are poor, they don't just have extra money lying around. And usually when there's an event like this, providers of these services up their prices. I've seen it happen too many times.
Global warming is a real threat. Will it happen in our lifetime? Probably not. But our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will pay the price, along with the giant deficit we now face.
Also, there have been other facts come out disputing the stuff on Gore. Seems the Utilities Dept. in Nashville was never contacted so who knows where these "facts" come from.
Thanks, Kenny. Your blog is a fountain of valuable information. I had no idea that careful scientific research had revealed that "several hundred extra deaths per summer" would occur right here in U.S. cities! I am ashamed to admit that I don't even know the appropriate number of deaths per summer. I will attempt to look it up on Al's internet.
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