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Here are a few other facts to consider about Al Gore, his energy consumption and his "Inconvenient Truth".

Al Gore has had plans to upgrade his home to green power and energy efficiency for a long time, but couldn't until now. Riiiiiiiiight! The translation is that Gore wasn't smart enough to anticipate critics researching his own energy consumption and had to come up with a backpedal explanation to cover his obvious hypocrisy (Do what I say, not what I do). Gore has been "passionate" about global warming since college, so why did he not build an energy efficient mansion to begin with? Why didn't he set the trend waaaay back when he became Governer of TN?

BTW, GWB's mansion back in TX was using green energy, water capture systems and all the other measures Al Gore is implementing now - only he was doing it before Gore made his "shockumentary" film.

As for the purchasing of carbon offsets, that is the biggest frikken scam I've heard of recently. Why? Because the owner of the company that sells these "carbon offsets" is....dum da da duummm...Al Gore! (at least a controlling interest). In other words, Al says "Everyone must start using less energy. But if you don't use less energy (like me), you should at least buy carbon offsets (which happen to be sold by a company I helped found)." Talk about your double-dipping.

As for having an office in his home to "save energy", that's bullocks. This is a BS explanation to justify his own exorbitant energy usage. It was originally intended as a justification for his higher energy bills, but we can assume he would still be running the air conditioning and other appliances whether staff was there or not, so the office staff usage was just a smokescreen. The same applies to the energy that is being "saved" by NOT having them in a separate office building. Since that office space is likely being used by some other company, not having his staff there is not "saving" ANY energy consumption. It just prevents the consumption from being traced back to him. However, since his home is out in the suburbs, what should be factored in is the effect of gasoline used by all those staff members to drive out to his mansion rather than to an office downtown. And I doubt all the staff members drive a hybrid vehicle.

And as for his "shockumentary", an English judge last year ruled the film contained at least 9 serious flaws and/or outright lies regarding the danger and effect of global warming. This was done in response to schools wishing to show the film in classrooms across England. The veracity of the information was called into question and the matter was taken to England court system. After hearing expert testimony from different sources, the judge concluded the film contained a minimum of 9 flaws and/or outright lies regarding the urgency and effect of global warming. He ruled the film could be shown in English classrooms only if it was prefaced with a disclaimer listing these refuted assertions made by the film.

Al Gore is brilliant, in a sense. He is a brilliant salesman. He created a film containing half-truths and exaggerated claims of global disaster and received a Nobel Prize for his work of fiction. If nothing else, you gotta tip your hat to the shell game he pulled off.