Al Gore's Climate Change Hypocrisy Is As Big As His Energy-Sucking Mansion

Inconvenient Truth: In a recent interview, Al Gore claimed that he lives a "carbon free lifestyle." The electricity bills for his home in Tennessee say otherwise.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Gore to respond to charges that he's a climate hypocrite. "This is a criticism we hear from conservatives all the time when talking about people like you or Elon Musk or Leonardo DiCaprio," Tapper said, "that you, yourself, have a large carbon footprint."

Gore's response was "Well, I don't have a private jet. And what carbon emissions come from my trips on Southwest Airlines are offset. I live a carbon-free lifestyle, to the maximum extent possible."

The maximum extent possible? Really? Then how does Gore explain the rather large amounts of electricity he uses to power his 10,000-plus-square-f00t home.

A new analysis by the National Center for Public Policy Research found that Gore's Tennessee home "guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years."

In one month last year, the report found, Gore's home consumed more electricity than the average family uses in 34 months.

The electricity used just to heat Gore's swimming pool would power six homesfor a year.

And this is after Gore spent tens of thousands of dollars installing "green" upgrades, which he was embarrassed into doing when his energy-hogging home first came to light a decade ago.

In fact, according to the NCPPR report, Gore's home used more electricity last year than it did in 2007, before he installed all those energy-reducing features.

So where does his "carbon free" boast come from?

Gore says he buys "carbon offsets" to account for all the CO2 his home and lifestyle produce. For example, he pays $432 a month into a "Green Power Switch" program that helps fund renewable energy projects in Tennessee.

But buying offsets is a highly controversial way to assuage climate guilt.

Over the years, a number of "climate offset" groups have sprung up, claiming that people can erase their carbon footprints simply by writing a check for a few hundred dollars.

While some groups are on the up and up, there are a lot of scammers out there, as the Atlantic discovered when it investigated. "International law enforcement authorities and environmental advocates say that the carbon markets are extremely vulnerable to financial fraudsters," the in-depth article explained. "Their shell games can also be hard to spot."

Beyond that, it's not entirely clear that legitimate "offset" programs are actually offsetting whatever Al Gore is producing.

In an article published by the journal Nature a few years ago, Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester, argued that offsets were "worse than doing nothing." http://www.investors.com/politics/e...risy-is-as-big-as-his-energy-sucking-mansion/ Al Gore the sore loser was wrong about most of.his predictions in his stupid movie inconvenient truth. More like convenient lies on his part. Global warming is a great hoax.

 

And....the attacks on Gore from the fossil fuel Deniers begin again...

 

And well they should. Gore is a hypocrite. He is a typical left winger that says-------------------do as I say not as I do. He thinks he is privileged and above the rest of us. The fool lost all credibility when he said he invented the internet.

 

Al Gore is a hypocrite. He says one thing and does another. Reminds me of the man currently occupying the Oval Office.

 

The inconvenient truth is that mr Gore couldn't care less about "saving" anything. It's about making money, specifically, for himself. Enriching his bank account is his only aim. After recognizing a number of years ago, mr Gore installed ~60K in solar panels at his Belle Meade estate. Of course, the capacity of his installation is less than 6% of his total usage. But for the faithful, this demonstrated his bone fides as an ardent supporter of the faith. Laughable.

 

Isn't electricity a cleaner form of fuel?

Now of course, if you produce it with carbon fossils...

 

Just shows that Gore is a fraud. Anybody who truly believed in AGW would be living in a modest sized house (say 2,000 sq. feet, not close to 10,000 sq. feet), and wouldn't be playing the environmental game of offsetting his carbon credits. He knows that really doesn't do a thing to reduce carbon.

 

One of the other homes he bought near the ocean is in the path of where he once predicted the seas would rise to. Who would do that if they really believed in what they were saying?

 

There are no greater hypocrites on earth, than liberals like Al Gore. I remember an interview once with Barbara Streisand who advocated people putting their laundry outside to dry on sunny days, instead of in the dryer. When she was asked if she practiced that herself, she said "Oh no, that's for the little people!" In a liberals mind, who are the little people?

 

Where he bought his home proves that even he doesnt believe the BS he is spewing.

 

Since there is just the two of them, why does Gore and his wife Tipsy need a 10,000 sq foot home any way, let alone 3. What was the carbon foot print just to build them???????????