re: #104 darthstar

He’s a rich guy. He’s got a big house. So the hell what? I live in a small (1200 sq ft) house in the Santa Cruz mountains…single pane glass, non-insulated walls, but a gorgeous view. I probably use more propane and wood keeping my place warm in the winter than most mcmansions down in the valley do. If I had Al’s money, I’d probably have another three or four thousand square feet…and I’d go solar, insulated, etc. to keep the costs and the footprint as small as possible.

People act like Al Gore should live in a yurt.

So, it’s OK for the rich to be profligate?

Isn’t working against that attitude pretty much the whole point of the Kyoto Protocols, and the proposed solutions to be presented at Copenhagen?

Face facts here, please: Al Gore is a self-promoting moron who wouldn’t know science if it walked up and bit him in his well-fed ass. His distortions, alarmist rhetoric and misstatements on climate are an embarrassment to those working in the field of climate science, and there is little doubt that he has been one of the major reasons for continued opposition to AGW given that his assertions are so easily shot down, staining everything he comes in contact with.

And yes, his actions in his personal life are blatantly hypocritical when held up against what he espouses others should do. And that he’s able to “solve” some of his more outstanding hypocrisies by throwing huge wads of discretionary income at them - a solution unavailable to the majority of the country - is hardly praise-worthy.

Color me entirely unimpressed with Gore. He’s a loud-mouthed detriment to every AGW researcher on the planet.