Why bother if most of the world will be under water in the next couple three years?

Here ya' go on some stats.

What does Al Gore drive?

Global warming continues to be the hottest (excuse me) topic in letters to the editor at the Idaho Statesman. Richard Renstrom of Caldwell wrote this one published in today's paper:

I live in a 1,500-square-foot home. Al Gore lives in a 10,000-square-foot home. My electric bill is $26 per month. Al Gore's bill is $1,200. My electricity comes from non-carbon hydro power. Gore's comes from a coal-fired power plant. I drive a 40 mpg Toyota Camry. Gore drives a 10 mpg Ford Expedition.

I do not own a swimming pool. Al Gore spends $500 a month on natural gas to heat his swimming pool.

I haven't been on an airplane in 40 years. Gore regularly flies on a plane that consumes 10,000 gallons of fossil fuel to get him from coast to coast. I walk 1,500 miles each year. From the looks of Gore's waistline, he doesn't walk at all.

Gore gets an Oscar for his film on global warming. Hollywood is truly the land of phony people. I think I will vomit.

Images1_4 Hmmm. Well, first of all, Richard, you definitely are doing your part to combat global warming, and that's great. Living in a small home, driving a 40 mpg car, and walking 1,500 miles a year are all admirable traits. I'm not so sure I applaud your not having been on an airplane in 40 years. There's a lot of world to see beyond Caldwell.

According to the great rumor-control site Snopes.com, it sadly turns out that the Gores' house does use way more energy than most American homes (but that they are working to reduce its energy footprint). But I seriously wonder where Renstrom got his claim that Gore drives a Ford Expedition. Here's what he told CNN's Larry King last year:

I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

One more note: the memo about the Gores' home energy use, widely circulated on the Internet, was released a couple weeks after Gore's Oscar victory - by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. The TCPR describes itself as "an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions." Emphasis mine, because those last four words are telling. It looks like the national smear campaign against Gore is less about global warming or even the Gores' hypocrisy and more about Club for Growth-style politics in which no tax is a good tax and businesses should be entirely free of government regulation.

Another infamous THINKTANK of so-called scientists and politicians, offering the whole world their holier than thou PERSONAL OPINIONS.

'... The EUROPEAN FOUNDATION, an international think tank comprised of European scientists and politicians, has issued a dossier specifying 100 reasons why Climate Change is natural and not manmade...'

You cannot oppose an overwhelming body of 'defended' and 'converging' scientific papers with PERSONAL OPINIONS.
The fact that one might be a 'scientist' or 'politician' does not make one's personal opinion any more credible, unless it is founded on pertinent scientific data and analyses, which the scientist is then willing to defend in front of scientific peers.

My personal '100 reasons' carry the EXACT SAME WEIGHT as the think-tank mentioned above: NONE!!!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp

This belongs here as well;

Al Gored by his own scientist.

At the Copenhagen climate circle jerk, Al Gore, who's ripped off millions, from millions of liberals, says this "These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."

So, of course, DR. Maslowski was asked about this and replied: "It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at, I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."

Gore's office later admitted that the 75 percent figure was one used by Dr. Maslowski as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with Gore. So much for "fresh figures" huh ?

Several, as in at least three years ago means the icecap only has two to three more years to be melted.

Wut a bunch of dumb-a$$ gore believers. Can't even add or subtract.slaphead
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The attitude of all these backyard climate sceptics is explained in many of my threads over the last day or so, but never more so in the one titled, "It's All A Conspiracy"!

http://mingle2.com/topic/show/259357

Impressive string of threads my friend!

And this bullet from "It's All A Conspiracy!", cannot be repeated often enough:

'... If you believe that tens of thousands of scientists (97,5%) are colluding in a massive conspiracy, nothing anyone can say is likely to dissuade you ...'

Carbon tax is a'comin. Facts don't matter to them

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I can't think of 1 rich pig that hasn't lived better than me . Let alone 10 . I plan to live as high as I can til I catch up with the pigs that caused this recession . and if I can get a young girl I't going to creatate 25 more kids .