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You, I, nor that joke tennesse group have any clue exactly how much sacrifice Al Gore makes. But just reading his electricity bill doesn't give you any context or information that can gives you the qualifiers to judge whether Al Gore's house is too big. It's funny how you can make these attacks when you barely, barely know what you are talking about. You've only seen his electricity bill. Let's get the electricity bills of all other houses of the same size or people of the same wealth and then you can actually make a fair comparison to see if Al Gore sacrifices enough for you by your sudden environmental standards.
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It's like me deducing from a picture of you that you must be a lazy fat dumb fuck. But I could be wrong, you might have a medical condition and not lazy at all, it might have been a bad picture -- the point is I need more information in order to make it a fair judgement that you're a lazy. fat. dumb. fuck. Last edited by Debaser : 02-28-2007 at 09:01 PM. |
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02-28-2007, 09:21 PM | #38 | |
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I was glad this was seemingly too stupid to be debated on here, but looks like the bar is lowering.
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------- 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. --- I dont know Corgy, that looks like leading by example to me. |
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02-28-2007, 09:22 PM | #39 |
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defending Al Gore's consumption is treading on thin ice. He's a democratic politician which is akin to being a demogogue.
regardless...it's not tough to see the hypocrisy: he lives in a Mansion, drives in big SUV's, jets around all over the world and goes on about emissions being cataclysmic for the environment. to me it's no different than Rush Limbaugh claiming he's the paragon of virtue, holds a philosophy that all drug addicts should be locked up and the key thrown away, then gets exposed as a drug addict himself. both men have their useful idiots defending thier rather indefensible positions. i dont understand why people take it personal when a politico they may agree with gets exposed for being a hypocrite. ... Turalyon, what's there to believe? Global Warming is a theory. Global Warming due to human consumption is yet another theory. Whether we can do anything about it is conjecture and even if we can, it's likely some other event will wipe us all out before the theory of Global Warming gets proven to be correct or incorrect. it's typical for Liberal politico's to pray on people emotions and it's clear that Environmentalism has become the religion of the left to undermine American capitalism. |
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02-28-2007, 09:31 PM | #40 |
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Is there anything short of him living in a hut, growing his own food, wearing suits made by Tipper that would be acceptable to you guys?
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02-28-2007, 09:59 PM | #41 |
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it's not just Al Gore, it's the Hollywood clan of enviro's in their stretch limo's and all preaching the G.W. gospel as well.
it doesnt show good form, reaks of arrogance and that it's o.k. for them to be hypocrites on this issue. |
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02-28-2007, 10:24 PM | #43 | |
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You may have had a point if he did nothing other than simply buy offsets for their use, but that isnt the case. It seems they have done everything they can to conserve, and pay the offset on whats left. So its ridiculous to say he isnt leading by example. I dont know, maybe solar panels come standard on every mansion. |
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02-28-2007, 10:26 PM | #44 |
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Omega concern, I suggest you balance some of your time looking up reputable science sources instead of indulging so much in the lunatic rightwing fringe punditry.
Michael Crichton's State of Confusion: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74 That's a site contributed by real climate scientists that, after ripping apart Crichton's misleading pseudo-science, are fair enough to even point out the factual errors in Gore's movie: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=299 |
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02-28-2007, 10:39 PM | #45 | |
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Look at it this way: If Gore had a smaller house, his own carbon footprint would be smaller, meaning he'd be able to offset it for less money. In addition, he wouldn't have to spend as much on energy. So in theory, he could spend the same amount of money per month that he's spending now, and have more of it go to carbon offsetting, right? So if we're heading for a global warming catastrophe, then why would he not do that instead of living in a huge mansion? No one's saying the guy can't live in a nice big house, but come on, him living in a 20 room mansion with a guest house doesn't say to me that there's much urgency to this whole thing. |
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'real' climate scientist? right-wing punditry?
Gallileo went against the grain during the inquisition and was almost exucuted for it, despite the fact he was right. do you mean the political scientist who are "90% certain" their findings on human's causing global warming are correct? those ones? do you have any idea how feeble that scientific claim is on the surface of it? Quote:
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Anyway, that was more directed toward Omega and Nimrod (to some extent). I mean, he might have some difficulty spreading the word if he rode a bicycle city to city, and had to sail around the world. |
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i don't care he lives in a Mansion and uses a bunch of electricity.
it's that he does so while claiming that lifestyle will cause a cataclysm is the problem. and 'sreading the word'...spare me, it is like a religion to ya...y'all a bunch of sheep. |
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You got a better way of condensing what he does into 3 words? How about spreading the message, hows that?
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Hey guys Gore needs as much room as he can get to fight the manbearpig.
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Do you ever step back and realize your views are built from right wing punditry that are not climate experts or scientists? That the overall vast majority of scientist say climate change is real, humankind is the most likely cause in the last few decades, and that the small insignificant amount of scientist that dispute this are most likely highly paid mouthpieces of right wing think tanks or oil industry lobby organizations? Last edited by Debaser : 03-01-2007 at 11:30 AM. |
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