Al Gore's Hypocrisy & Awards  by Roger King  

Table of Concerts

1. Introduction
2. Awards and Honors
3. Errors and Exaggerations
4. Hypocrisy
5. Refusal to Debate
6. Misc
7. Quotes
8. What Al Gore Should Have Said
9. Religion
10. Conclusion

Introduction

In this section we will take a look at various aspects of Al Gore and his life that isn't seen in the mainstream media.  I know that many see Al Gore as an environmental profit, so this section may be very difficult to read.  The media has shown you the positive aspects of the man but this section should give you something to think about and possibly see some of his motives besides saving the world. 

The first thing to realize is Al Gore is a politician and not a scientist.  We will look at his awards and honors but then we will look at his errors and exaggerations, hypocrisy, refusal to debate, his quotes and some things he should have also mentioned.   After reading this you should have least have a few troubling thoughts.  Should we blindly follow his path of spending trillions of dollars that will have a terrible impact on our economy and be especially difficult on the world's poor.  Al Gore would like everyone to take his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" as the gospel.  But first, lets look at one of his statements before continuing.

They call this a consensus?  by Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post  June 02, 2007  "Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."   So said Al Gore ... in 1992. Amazingly, he made his claims despite much evidence of their falsity. A Gallup poll at the time reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable.  

Al Gore, movie star, talks of his latest role by David Roberts on MSNBC May. 24, 2006  “Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” 

Al Gore would like us to believe almost every scientist backs his beliefs. the consensus is in.  Take a look at my section called  "Skeptics" to see how true this so called "consensus" really is.  Now he is pushing he agenda with a 3 year, $300 million dollar campaign.   So either there is really a hugh issue and he is our savior or we are about to get sucker punched for hugh tax increases and government in more parts of our life that we can believe. 

A Truly Endangered Species by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.  March 31, 2008  So Al Gore is launching a 3-year, $300 million ad campaign to frighten us all into doing what he says (not what he does) to counter global warming. It is a safe bet this spectacular propaganda endeavor will feature prominently polar bears who will be described as endangered species due to the impact of climate change on their ever-less icy habitat.  

Awards and Honors

Lets take a look at some of Al Gore's words and his honors.   This is the Al Gore that most of the world sees.  

Al Gore's Honors  Heralded as a savior of the planet, many have him on the highest of pedestals.

1. A Nobel Peace price that was shared with the IPCC
2. An Oscar and Emmy for "An Inconvenient Truth"
3. The Sierra Club’s highest award, named the John Muir Award, for his more than 30 years work educating the public regarding the dangers of Global Warming.
4. Al Gore will receive Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias award for International Cooperation for his efforts to combat climate change
5. Katie Couric called Gore a ‘Secular Saint‘ and praised his efforts to raise awareness and prompt action to combat global warming.
6. Oprah Winfrey has called former Vice President Al Gore the “Noah” of our time.
7. Al Gore received an honorary doctorate from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne Tuesday which honors the former US vice-president’s efforts to publicize the climate change issue.

8. Al Gore traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to pick up $1 million. That’s the amount he received for winning a Dan David Foundation award for his environmental work.

9. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore has won the 2009 GRAMMY Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

10. ... receive an honorary doctorate of laws and humane letters from the University of Tennessee for his work. Link

After viewing the awards given to Al Gore lets compare his statements, actions and the many scientific studies that dispute and in many cases disprove his claims, you will likely come away with an entirely different view of both Al Gore and the Global Warming movement.  In this section I have listed his hypocrisy,  quotes and his refusal to debate.

Errors and Exaggerations

Hypocrisy

In this section we will take a look at some of Al Gore's hypocritical statement's and actions.   With only one of these it can be argued that anyone makes mistakes or does things they shouldn't.  However, after the hypocritical actions start adding up, most people would tend to come away with more questions and broken allusions that they came into this discussion.

Which House Belongs To An Environmentalist   Link    Link
HOUSE # 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 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 anorthern or Midwestern "snow belt" either. It is in the South.

HOUSE # 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 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 the collected water 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 (and filmmaker) 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.

So whose house is gentler on the environment?

Yet another story you WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."

Al Gore actually has three mansions in two states that are not operated by wind power (that is available). 

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research  by Adam King  June 17, 2008    In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.   ...    Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.    

English Schools Required to List "An Inconvenient Truth's" Inaccuracies   

An Inconvenient Truth's dire predictions are almost entirely based on climate models.  Not only are they based on climate models but the climate model that predicts the most dramatic changes.   It should be noted that none of the existing climate models can accurately predict past climate changes, so how much faith should be put in their future predictions.

In order for “An Inconvenient Truth” to be shown to English Schools, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children.  The inaccuracies are: 

1. The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence global warming.  The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
2. The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years.  The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
3. The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that it was “not possible” to attribute one-off events to global warming.
4. The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming.  The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
5. The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice.  It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
6. The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
7. The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching.  The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
8. The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously.  The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
9. The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting, the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
10. The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
11. The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand.  The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.

Al Gore Refuses to Pledge to Reduce Energy Consumption Like He Asks Everyone To Take

Al Gore's Hypocrisy a High Cost for Taxpayers by Amanda B. Carpenter Human Events 03/22/2007   On March 21 Gore testified to both the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee about the “true planetary emergency” of global warming.   Link    In his question and answer period Ranking Member of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee Sen. James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) asked Gore to take a pledge that said: “I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by March 21, 2008.”   Inhofe said by taking the pledge Gore must reduce his consumption, not merely pay money to “offset” his energy levels. He intoned that Gore should show support for families who could not afford offsets by reducing his energy level to the average families’ energy consumption level.  “The offsets and credits are used by the wealthy so they do not have to change their lifestyle,” Inhofe told him.  Gore would not pledge to live by energy limits set by the average American household and said he would continue to purchase offsets....   Inhofe cut Gore off and said Gore could answer “yes” or “no” to the pledge. Gore did neither.  At the end of his question and answer period, Inhofe returned to his first question by asking Gore about his film, An Inconvenient Truth. Inhofe said, “In the last frame of your film, you’re asking ‘Are you ready to change your way of life, are you ready to change the way you live?’ I would have to ask you the same question.”  Gore would not pledge to reduce his energy consumption. “We [his family] live a carbon neutral life. We buy green energy. We pay more for clean energy,” he said. “We are in the middle of installing solar panels.”

Is the Global Warming Alarm Founded on Fact? by Richard S. Lindzen    in the early 1990s Ted Koppel announced on Nightline that Vice President Al Gore had asked him to find connections between unsavory interests and scientists questioning global warming alarm. After editorializing on the inappropriateness of the request, Koppel proceeded to present a balanced exposure of the debate.    

Al Gore's Zinc Mine

Whose Ox Is Gored?  at the Wall Street Journal  March 19, 2007  The Tennessean reported yesterday that Mr. Gore received $570,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm. The mines, which closed in 2003 but are scheduled to reopen under a new operator later this year, "emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal."  “Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider claims the terms of the 30-year Occidental lease agreement gave the Gores "no legal recourse" to get out of it. She said the Gores never thought about selling the land and would not comment on whether they ever tried to void the lease.”   “The Gore mines were no small operations. In 2002, the year before they shut down, they ranked 22nd among all metal-mining operations in the U.S., with total toxic releases of 4.1 million pounds.”

Gore and “Green” Goonies    by Peter W. Tilton   November 05, 2007   Many Americans would naturally assume Gore follows the green lifestyle he widely promotes, and they would be wrong. … These celebrities and politicians justify their unnecessary consumption by purchasing carbon credits, which many of the nouveau-conscious acquire in order to offset their excessive energy usage.    ...      When celebrities today buy these credits, they are allowing themselves to continue their disproportionate consumption while somewhere else in the world carbon emissions are reduced by other societies to make up for American excess.   While these superficial efforts by stars to offset their consumption are admirable, they are not a lasting solution. The average American household would have to buy $276,000 a year in carbon credits to counteract their carbon emissions, a price tag few Americans would be able to afford. Moreover, even if every American household could afford carbon credits, the result would be that Third World countries would bear the burden of our excessive lifestyles.     

Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300-per-minute green speech   by Nathan Kay Last updated at 15:45pm on 10th December 2007  Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr. Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.   …  "Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn't actually inform the audience.   "He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press. "He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.   

Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate  by Investor's Business Daily October 5, 2007   Huntley notes that earlier this year (2007) Gore "canceled an interview with Denmark's largest newspaper when he learned it would include questions from Bjorn Lomborg, respected author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist.' "     

Media Ignore Al Gore’s Financial Ties to Global Warming  by Noel Sheppard   March 2, 2007  Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe… Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn’t buy “carbon offsets” through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.  ...

Conservatives Really Are More Compassionate  by George Will in Townhall   March 27, 2008   In 2000, brows were furrowed in perplexity because Vice President Al Gore's charitable contributions, as a percentage of his income, were below the national average: He gave 0.2 percent of his family income, one-seventh of the average for donating households.

Tobacco Hypocrisy At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gave a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.   What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.   Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."   Gore himself smoked during college. "Peer pressure played a factor," he said, "stress in college." We should have guessed that the guy who said "Tobacco addiction ... is just as powerful of an addiction as heroin or crack addiction" was an ex-smoker.     

Conflicting Theories of  "Global Warming" by Geoff Metcalf March 17, 2008  The researchers who created the Gore model used the wrong time scale to establish the mean temperature to compare with recorded temperatures of the last century; because the mean temperature was low, the recent temperature rise seemed unusual and dramatic.