Gore travels by private jet
Drudge reports that Al Gore has been snapped taking a private Gulfstream Jet. Remember changing our lifestyles to cope with climate change is only something the plebs should do, not the elite such as Gore, Madonna etc.
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Tags: International Politics
September 9th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Don’t they buy carbon credits to offset their lifestyles?
September 9th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Kiwifauxblog?.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:59 am
When I was a young lad I saw a well known greenie on an Air New Zealand flight, at the time thought “shouldn’t he be cycling or something?”
I’ve grown up a lot since then.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Sounds just like saying we are working toward being carbon neutral while we sell thousands of tonns of coal to China.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Groan! Gore’s got to live in a cave to have any credibility. The fact he travels by private jet does not alter the validity of his or other climate change realists’ arguments.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
“The fact he travels by private jet does not alter the validity of his or other climate change realists’ arguments.”
You should learn to read. This is a comment on the hypocrisy of the global warming pornographers, not a challenge to their “arguements”.
[DPF: Indeed. Well stated]
September 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
DDD
Ditto what David and RB said. Gore hypocrisy is the issue. If he wants to lecture the world about the virtues of public transport and bikes and rabbit on about gas guzzling SUVs then he needs to learn to practice what he preaches.
Interesting aside to this hypocrisy in a similar vein – Snopes confirmed all the detail in this comparison:
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 this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s 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 is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a 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 the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of
the “environmentalist,” Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
As the author states dryly, a rather “Inconvenient Truth”
September 9th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I own 1200 acres of virgin forest which I allow, in my goodness, to keep growing rather than chopping it down.
All my carbon is taken care of forever.
Next 4×4 is going to be a behemoth.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Oh and Gore’s mea culpa on these various excesses (his power hungry home and gas guzzling private jet travel)is the fact that he buys carbon credits. Turns out the company he buys the carbon credits from is partly owned by his interests so he paid a public penance for his environmental sins to himself! Now THAT is hyprocrisy.
September 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
I hear Milton Friedman once walked on a public footpath – I guess that disproves the entire doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism.
September 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
as i understand it,you can trade dogshit for carbon credits , thats why bush and gore use 747s and gulfstreams, as they are dogshit and are loved by dogshit,.Bright people drive toyotas and ACTUALLY think of the world not their arses , post by RN , ps i have 3 dogs, FREE DOGSHIT, go with the trend
September 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
“it’s about hypocrisy”
Oh, Red, I can read. What I read is a bunch of people who can’t win an argument (about AGW) on the basis of evidence or reason and so resort to a school boy debating trick of playing the man.
Hey guess what, you can’t be a vegan and take a bath or take antibiotics because you’re murdering billions and billions of tiny lives. Fucking clean and healthy vegans – what a bunch of hypocrites.
You can’t criticise art if you’ve never painted a Mona Lisa. What would critics know about art. Only artists have a valid view on art.
You can’t talk about rape f you’ve got a Y chromosome…
…blah, blah, blah.
Let’s face it, this stuff about Gore is only interesting if you’re looking to shoot the messenger. Well, have your fun. It doesn’t really add much to the global warming debate. Meanwhile, while we’re talking about whether Gore is carbon neutral, we’re still pouring polluting crap into the atmosphere – we’re are still experiencing worsening climatic conditions as we fall past the human forced tipping point on global temperatures.
And, for my money, it’s not like Gore’s alleged “hypocrisy” even gets close to the level of hypocrisy of a Church still talking about family issues while it even admits to having turned a wilful blind eye to its priests’ rape of thousands of young men (and even some young women too).
Or the public fascination with skanky hypocritical Macedonian Nun talking about poverty while accumulating billions in her bank account to fund the promotion of her own vainglory – or her talking about the need for better care while not spending her massive wealth on modern hospital facilities but choosing to get her health looked after by Geneva specialists. And now, as if that hypocrisy was not enough, it’s now revealed in her private letters that she had severe doubts about the truthfulness of the fairy story that drove her actions.
It’s not the level of hypocrisy of a President who claims to be a righteous man and whose actions have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children and it was all predicated on deceipt and contrivance.
It’s not even like the hypocrisy of a New Zealand political party being outraged about electoral fund abuses while happily accepting millions in donations from sources unwilling to disclose their identities.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
The whole concept of carbon credits “off-setting” pollution is flawed unless it is in a compulsory regime with ever reducing limits.
People need to reduce their carbon usage full-stop, not fob it off onto someone else who gets paid money so a polluter can actually increase the amount of CO2 emissions they are allowed to producer.
It just means that everyone will maximise their carbon usage, when a huge majority of the world already uses far less than their “quota” already. Why wouldn’t they take the money?
Sure, people aren’t infallible – and maybe Mr. Gore needs to more personally, but that doesn’t imply that global warming is a fallible argument, just that is it very difficult – but again something that needs to be tackled. This whole attitude – worry about now now, worry about later later is a typical selfish attitude portended by individualists, who might scream about their own freedoms, yet have no qualms impinging on those of others.
So whose really the hypocrites?
September 9th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
And to give Helen Clark a smidgen of credit where credit’s due, she somehow managed to get to APEC on a scheduled commercial flight with no difficulties.
And thanks for the weapon of mass distraction, DDD. I know Al Gore is a secular holy man who should never be questioned, let alone asked why his rhetoric doesn’t match up to his own behaviour.
September 9th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
DDD
You talking about playing the man as being a school boy debating trick is priceless.
September 9th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
“Let’s face it, ”
Yeah, lets face it.. Every issue in every paragraph is predicated upon lies and propaganda. Its also very similar to Bin Laden’s latest ramble. Don’t write for him do you? Twisted. Utterly and completely twisted.
September 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Don’t they buy carbon credits to offset their lifestyles?
Yes, he buy them from a company he part owns
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2007/03/more_bad_news_for_al_gore.html
The man is a fraudelent scumbag only interested in boosting his own ego and wallet, I doubt he even believe half of his own propaganda
September 9th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Craig: “weapon of mass distraction”.
That’s brilliant. You’re too smart to be a conservative.
September 9th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Operations normal at moonbat central…..
Gore’s life is a lie, but it bespeaks a truth.
September 9th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Without defending either AGW or Gore, he might argue that his high carbon output pays for itself by improving the transmission of his message. If his private jet translates to more lectures and appearances and that translates to reductions elsewhere, overall carbon output is reduced.
Unquestionably, however, the force of Gore’s appeal to morality in getting people to change their behaviour is undermined by not following his own rules.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Agreed ben, I have similar implied offsets, driving my 7.1 litre tc 4×4 keeps a lot of kids off trailbikes, instead they come fishing……now I’m really getting the hang of this “overall output reduced” stuff.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
And ben injects some sense into an otherwise doomed thread.
September 9th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
good point well put ben.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
“Good point well put ben”
WTF????
September 9th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
emmess, I followed your link as far back as I could, and only found an unsourced statement saying that “Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets.” Which isn’t buying carbon credits from that company. I can’t even find a way to buy carbon credits from Generation Investment Management.
September 9th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Sorry RabidBleater, for your benefit I’ll try not to use such long words in future
September 9th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Forget how Gore travels…not important
http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2944401.ece
September 9th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Let’s hope he has’nt bought the credits from this place
http://www.climatecare.org/
I found this part especially interesting
http://www.climatecare.org/projects/technologies/human-energy/
And I see that a heartless, selfish Tory is leading the way
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3788/
Oh well. He was just going overseas for a holiday – not working hard to improve the planet. Still, from the perspective of many a greenie there is no difference between US Democrats and Britsh Tories.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Redbaiter
Global Warming Pornography?
Just because you disagree with a hotly debated issue doesn’t mean you have to sink to words like that.
Calling it pornography doesn’t make it wrong.
I have observed name calling like that as a trait of the far left, which I though to be particularly low and mindless. I suggest you rise above this and set a standard.
Right = logical debate… left = mindless name calling