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Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter
New Republic ^ | August 7, 2017 | Emily Atkin

Posted on 08/07/2017 7:14:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Al Gore is back in the spotlight with his new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel, making him a top target again of the right-wing counter-intel complex. On Thursday, the conservative National Center for Public Policy Research released a report, “Al Gore’s Inconvenient Reality,” that paints the former vice president as a hypocritical climate advocate. In near-creepy detail, NCPPR author Drew Johnson maps Gore’s home in Nashville, Tennessee, down to the number of windows, and concludes that “Gore’s own home electricity use has hypocritically increased to more than 21 times the national average this past year with no sign of slowing down.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: algore; globalwarming; igor
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Rich people like Gore and DiCaprio and Obama won’t be affected by climate change. If rising seas threaten their vacation properties, they can just move. And they will always be able to afford air conditioning, no matter how high electricity rates climb


The author proves the point of the environ-celbrity critics. The sea level is not rising but energy prices in places such as California due to cap and trade are. The common man is getting slammed while the limousine liberals hardly feel the economic effect.

1 posted on 08/07/2017 7:14:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

No. Of course not. Some animals are more equal than others.


2 posted on 08/07/2017 7:16:55 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: artichokegrower

If Gore’s carbon footprint doesn’t matter, nobody’s carbon footprint matters. Carbon footprint doesn’t matter.Period.


3 posted on 08/07/2017 7:17:26 AM PDT by Greensea
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To: artichokegrower

LOL! Of course not. THEY are trying to save muvver erf and if they have to sacrifice by flying on private jets and stuff, well, it’s just what’s gotta be done. So, manbearpig’s house uses 30+ x times the energy of the “average” home but his place isn’t 30+ x times as big. So, power for the uber secret underground lair? Just sayin’.


4 posted on 08/07/2017 7:18:47 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: artichokegrower

The ruling elite makes laws for other people, and doesn’t follow them, while living high on the hog off other peoples’ money, and scorning those people.


5 posted on 08/07/2017 7:19:36 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: I want the USA back

You’ve just explained very succinctly why Trump was elected.

And why the people are about done with elections if he fails or gets removed.


6 posted on 08/07/2017 7:22:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: artichokegrower

It doesn’t matter because this “carbon footprint” idea is a con and is BS.

What matters is that traitors to the Republic continue to walk free.


7 posted on 08/07/2017 7:23:59 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: artichokegrower
The author, in effect, tries to defend what amounts to the indulgent, parochial and sanctimonious denizens of fictional capital of Panem from the Hunger Games novel trilogy. Read the first novel, "The Hunger Games," and you'll immediately know want I mean.
8 posted on 08/07/2017 7:25:19 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: WKUHilltopper

You might want to go over and read the full report in detail.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA679.html

After you read the enhancements that he made to the property, adding the solar panels, and split-out of the power between the house and the pool.....I’ve come to a different conclusion from the rest of you.

That much power consumption in the house (separate from the pool)? I think it has to be a marijuana garden in the basement or garage. That’s the only way to explain that much consumption. If he had ten AC units and ran them throughout the whole year....I don’t think it’d add up to that much consumption.


9 posted on 08/07/2017 7:29:38 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: artichokegrower

Do you hear that folks? Emily Atkin says it doesn’t matter that Al Gore is a hypocrite.

So I guess we all just can go home and obey Al Gore now.


10 posted on 08/07/2017 7:37:17 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: pepsionice

You need to re-read my comment. It doesn’t matter because this “carbon footprint” idea is a con and is BS.


11 posted on 08/07/2017 7:38:34 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Texas Eagle

Right...(err Left!) the owners of the plantation never work the fields! But if only Hillary had won... we would be on our way to Utopia! (sigh!)

More at link:
https://redneckoblogger.blogspot.com/2017/05/had-hillary-only-been-elected-sigh.html


12 posted on 08/07/2017 7:39:12 AM PDT by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: artichokegrower

Do as I say not as I do


13 posted on 08/07/2017 7:39:19 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower
... climate change advocates who don’t live a carbon-neutral lifestyle aren’t hypocrites because, for the most part, they’re not asking you to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle.

Correct. Climate change advocates aren't ASKING us to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle. They're asking the government to COMPEL us to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle.

14 posted on 08/07/2017 7:41:22 AM PDT by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. Jefferson)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


15 posted on 08/07/2017 7:42:39 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: I want the USA back

A great description of the Washington DC Swamp if there ever was one! The elites do indeed have scorn for the “little people”.

Some people seem to think the elected elites fear them but nothing could be further from the truth. The elites are confident they can lie their way to another term.

Anyone who has worked there (I have) knows just how accurate your description is.


16 posted on 08/07/2017 7:44:43 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: rktman

This reminds me of the “explanations” for leading CPSU Party members having lavish private dachas. They “need those luxuries because of the sacrifices that they make for the proletariat, comrades!”


17 posted on 08/07/2017 7:44:48 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: artichokegrower

What Ms. Atkin fail to consider is the effect of excess CO2 production on Algore’s credibility.

Algore asks us to believe him when he says excess CO2 production by individual Americans is endangering the planet. But is Algore really believed that, wouldn’t he alter his lifestyle?

It is reasonable to look at such things when evaluating somebody’s credibility. Algore’s carbon-rich lifestyle indicates that he doesn’t believe a word he says. So Algore’s Carbon Footprint does matter. It matters very much.


18 posted on 08/07/2017 7:45:46 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: artichokegrower

Some ManBearPigs are more equal than others.


19 posted on 08/07/2017 7:48:31 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: artichokegrower

Al Gore has selflessly dedicated his life to raising awareness about global warming. He has earned a lifetime supply of carbon credits.

#sarcasm


20 posted on 08/07/2017 7:48:59 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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