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Drew263
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Follow the money..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528
THE HEAT IS ON
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns
Critics say justification for energy-rich lifestyle serves as way for former VP to profit
Posted: March 2, 2007
4:13 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Al Gore's Nashville mansion (PajamasMedia.com)
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
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Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"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," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.
The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54528
THE HEAT IS ON
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns
Critics say justification for energy-rich lifestyle serves as way for former VP to profit
Posted: March 2, 2007
4:13 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Al Gore's Nashville mansion (PajamasMedia.com)
Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
(Story continues below)
Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"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," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service.
The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.
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Follow the money....
Being environmentally sound is great, but it's just as much big business as anything else.
It doesn't do much change for the bigger problem that is global warming.
if you don't like al gore...then listen to the 1000's of scientists who do climate research for a living!
or watch a video of a polar ice cap the size of california melting into the sea.
-Big Fish
my favourite line ... i wonder who these "mainstream" scientists are?
anyhoo - anything to distract people even further ...
When is being intelligent a negative?
What exactly should he be doing with his money?
I guess the question is this: Do you think Gore is personally running around the world blatantly lying to everyone on purpose just to spin a profit?
Hmm...I know someone who probably is though.
I think Gore could find (many) other ways to make a quick buck with far less effort...if you know what I mean
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I mean I guess that's what they do?
how can you say investing in renewable energy projects or buying tracts of forests that would otherwise be cut down for soya beans not productive?
Want a zero carbon foorprint? Go back to colonial times and live like a quaker.
Maintain the smallest farmland environment possible to sustain your hunger with zero technology.
No TV, no news of any kind, other than word of mouth, and certainly no electricity or industrially manufactured possessions.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
Gore uses Green Energy in his 22,000 sqft 220,000 kWh mansion. He pays more than any of you whiney bitches do in order to have that Green Energy. But you will sit back guzzling your oil and calling him a hypocrite.
Gore has never said its not ok to be rich, and he's never condemned owning a big house or using lots of energy. He simply suggests ways of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases, and the steps he recommends are steps he has taken himself. The only thing hypocritical are these republican think tanks that waste energy running their Al Gore smear campaigns and the dumbasses that believe every bit of propaganda they publish.
I really don't care about Al Gore. But I do care about the environment. All this bullshit is to make Gore the figurehead for Environmentalism, so to discredit Gore is to discredit the theory of Global Warming. It's pure bullshit and any rational person who wasn't an oil-sucking addict could see the political motives.
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
In a thread where very few posts make an ounce of sense, Ahnimus finally comes through for the side of logic and reason. Thank God. Ahnimus 2008.
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
True. You'd have to be a raw food vegetarian Quaker, and in a warm climate.
I think it's pretty much undeniable at this point that the human species is overpopulating and the effects are becoming amplified and noticeable.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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We've never had fewer people as a percentage suffering from malnutrition or dieing of disease at young ages. People seem to be doing okay. We are working on long term solutions to what we see as coming problems. We adapt to change at a ferocious rate.
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
It may very well be that Gore's solutions aren't optimal. However, none of these think tanks are providing alternative solutions. A success tip I picked up from Covey, was to never create problems, but to provide solutions. In other words if you discover a problem, develope a solution, or prove with data that Global Warming does not exist.
But Gore is not being hypocritical. If he was selling bottled water and water filters and encouraging people to drink water while buying his own water. Would that make him a hypocrite? No. If he had a glass of wine over dinner, would that make him a hypocrite? No.
I'm sure you've heard about the birds and the bees and what happens to make babies.
When farm waste contaminates drinking waters and people get sick that's a problem. When animlas have to be raised in cramped conditions that defy the laws of nature...that's a problem.
When the creatures of the lakes and oceans are considered toxic and 90% of the big fish in the oceans are no longer alive here because we ate and/or killed them all... that's a problem.
I think some reading on your behalf might be required for a better understanding of man's impact on the planet. It's pretty obvious and it's exponential.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I'd say if animals (a part of nature) can be raised presumeably by people (a part of nature) in ways that are outside the laws of nature then we do not know what the laws of nature are. And at that point we should shut up about these laws as we don't know what we are talking about.
Every species lives off the dead in one form or another. Some people find fault when humans do this. I'm not interested in trying to make us the one species that doesn't. I'm much more interested in finding ways to sustain our population even if it's a growing population.
And as far as reading up on man's impact on the environment I work in a field that is dedicated to being part of the solution. Looking for ways to be more efficient and use less resources in producing an alternative to the automobile. So far I've (and full kudos to the people I work with and the company I work for) provided some very tangible and well documented results. But I'm sorry, what's your line of work? And how is it helping the environmental challenges we are facing?
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
Nope not me, never will be.
You seem very angry and uptight about something. I hope you can figure out what is causing it and de-stress.
I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of living in cramped quarters and what that does to longevity, disease, stress hormones, hostility and the quality of life.
When certain things like this are no longer in balance, problems arise both internally and externally. We haven't "out evolved" this reality yet.
Depends what one considers normal I suppose.
Declining/decimated fish stocks. Deforestation. Depletion of soil mineral quality from extensive over farming. Overcrowding in cities. Suburbia.
Is there any traffic where you live?
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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lol...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I occassionally get frustrated for a moment or two by people who know next to nothing, who feel that blathering on about what they don't know is being actively part of the solution. I occassionally find it tiresome to be questioned about my understanding or commitment to the environment when I have very well documented and implemented solutions for helping with the environmental challenges we face. But ignorance is to be expected on a chat site so I've learned to minimize it's adverse affect on me.
Usually any stress accumulated during the day is completely undone during by bike ride home. There's something about riding down streets along the waterway, nodding a hello to the Great Blue Herons, Ducks and Bald Eagles I see along the way. But I'm sure an enviro-friendly guy like you know all about this type of thing.
But you did forget to mention your line of work? And how it's helping with the environmental challenges we face?
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
You know what? I just dismissed you altogether as a cool person worth communicating with. It has nothing to do specifically with me (or you) and shows your lack of character to not be able to talk about the topic instead of just comparing dick size.
ciao....perhaps try again some other time when you're not so distasteful to be around.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
Thank you for this most gracious opportunity you have provided me. I feel blessed. I don't know what I'd do otherwise to communicate and express myself on an internet forum.
Again...I don't really feel like pulling out my cock right now...maybe if you had tits I'd entertain it a few more rounds.
lol...thanks anyways. I'm sure the intentions were good.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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