Al Gore Leaves The Light On For Ya
From Nashvillepost.com
By Kleinheider
Even during Earth Hour. President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark:
I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.
In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)
The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.
I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.
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Here’s a look at Al Gores Nashville mansion:
Vice President Al Gore has purchased this home, in Nashville’s exclusive Belle Meade section, for a reported USD2.3 million. The deed for the Colonial-style home, which sits on 2.09 acres of some of the city’s most expensive land, was signed on June 17, 2002. Gore and his wife, Tipper, will keep other homes in Tennessee and Virginia. It was published February 28, 2007 that research group in Tennessee, where the former vice president lives, claims that Mr Gore’s 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville consumes more electricity in a month than the average American household uses in a year.
Photo and description Source: Daylife
You can see it here on Google Maps
From an aerial view looking south you can see what could be a handful of solar panels, though the orientation is puzzling if that is what they are. Update: in comments it it pointed out that they may also be skylights, which seems more probable. So it appears there are no solar panels on Mr. Gore’s home. Note the SUV fleet.
Here is a view looking east:
UPDATE: The photos above don’t show solar panels, however an alert commenter found this photo showing the placement on the one flat section of roofing shown in the aerial views above:
The 34 panels look to be between 200 and 250 watts each, for a total capacity at full sun of 6.8 to 8.5 kilowatts for the system.They will provide an offset, but will not fully replace energy consumption there. Given the 10,000 sq foot size and the pool, this is an undersized installation for the home. Some ground based panels would have helped.
– Anthony
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Hypocrisy is alive and well in the Gore household.
Earth hour involved switching off ALL the lights as I unfortunately experienced at a birthday dinner last night, by candlelight… everywhere! I pointed out to the greenies present that candles emit CO2 and stood confused for a minute and then they sort of just glanced at the light and said… “Oh but it emmits less!!”
Ah I must admit I wouldn’t miss “Cheaters” even for earth hour, if I was a greenie! 🙂
NOTE: After thinking about it I’ve decided to delete Peter Hearndon’s comments, and all subsequent related ones. His childish troll post was solely to influence the entire thread, and it worked. My mistake was not nipping it in the bud, and one I will not repeat.
– Anthony
* correction, THEY stood confused
[snip]
Fwiw, I happily switched off some lights last night. But, some snooper found that Al Gore had lights on. Big deal, it doesn’t change the science does it?
Welcome to your Gorey Bed, Procrustes*.
Simply a divine fit; or, we’ll hack off/stretch your legs to force you to fit.
…-
“Framework Convention of Climate Change
sixteen page PDF document outlining the ‘provisional agenda’ of the UN March 29 Conclave in Bonn, Germany.
[Memo obtained by FOX News]”
Link from here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217580/posts
…-
“”What an incredible planet in the universe this will be
when we will be one human family living in justice,
peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth,
with each other and with the heavens.”
– Robert Muller,
UN Assistant Secretary General”
http://green-agenda.com/
*”… “Procrustes” is based off of an ancient Greek mythological legend of the giant Procrustes, who waylaid travelers and then forced them to sleep in his bed. Being the hospitable type, Procrustes insisted that the bed fit the visitor. Being the callous and cruel type, Procrustes also insisted that the guest be the one who suffered the “adjustment.” Procrustes would either hack off a certain length of the guest’s legs, if too tall, or would stretch the guest on the rack, if too short.”
(stateofprotest)
listen carefully, you don’t get the picture!.
All the rules to curb CO2 and to save energy are directed at the common people.
The ruling elite who exploit the common people are exempt.
If you don’t get the picture, just read “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell.
In this book the principles of our new brave society are very well explained.
Well, of course he snubbed it, it’s not intended for him! People in charge need electricity to do stuff, how are they supposed to get it done otherwise?!
I’m sure he bought extra carbon offsets for the lighting and other electricity used during that hour, right?
Can we juxtapose the Catlin explorers freezing to death next to the thumbs up again? Oddly, it seems more appropriate here, since they turned their lights off for Earth Hour, which seems like such a small gesture for Gore to make. Yet he couldn’t.
Surely Lord Gore can’t be bothered with such a mundane and stupid thing as Earth Hour. This is a silly contrivance for the amusement of the peasants who’ve yet to learn their place in the greater scheme of things as we rush headlong into a new feudal society.
Peter, this is important because it shows that Al isn’t a true believer. If he practiced what he preached, that would indicate he really believes it. He doesn’t and that casts doubt on his “faith.”
Yet, on one level, I agree with you — who cares what a non-scientist thinks about AGW. Al Gore could be a hypocrite or a liar or a clown or whatever and still be on the right side in all this. We’ll just have to wait and see who’s right.
However, if Gore turns out to be wrong, this stuff will be a footnote.
Al Gore is a fortunate man to live in such a fine house. I admire him for it. Could one say I was Green With Envy?
Peter Hearnden
Suggest you find a blog more suited to your tastes and opinions, and spare us hearing yours on a constant whining basis. Do you not think it might have occurred to Al that someone may have come around to have a look at his house during Earth Hour? As it obviously either didn’t occur to him, or he couldn’t care less, what does that say about him do you think?
And what science would that be?
Enlighten us. How’s that AGW theory working out for ya?
Do you have a chart for the last 100 years where CO2 increase leads temperature increase without exception?
I’ll wait for your answer……..
I won’t share my opinion of Mr. Gore since it might be viewed as “insulting” him.
Peter Hearnden @13:04:18
Al Gore is a post-modern Elmer Gantry. Read the book; watch the movie. It is the perfect description of this charlataine.
Peter Hearnden;
Compared to the derision heaped on “skeptics” on alarmist blogs (cough, realclimate, cough), I would think Mr. Gore can take a little heat here. As well, blaming Mr. Watts for what we as readers post on his blog is a little silly. And further more, as Mr. Gore is the posterboy for AGW, people have the right, and duty, to point out his hypocrisy.
Guess Peter Hearnden forgot that its the AGWers that resort to Ad Hominem…Sorry to disappoint…
Oh and btw of what science do you speak? The one that says that the earth is getting cooler?
G
Peter Hearnden (13:13:41) :
Fwiw, I happily switched off some lights last night. But, some snooper found that Al Gore had lights on. Big deal, it doesn’t change the science does it?
Which is presumably while yours were off Al’s were on?
Peter Hearnden,
You say:
“Fwiw, I happily switched off some lights last night. But, some snooper found that Al Gore had lights on. Big deal, it doesn’t change the science does it?”
May I conclude from your words that hypocricy is not a big deal to you?
Does your contribution to this forum change the science?
No doubt those flood lights are essential to the personal protection plan needed to ensure his Goreship is not harmed by denialist peasants.
“Big deal, it doesn’t change the science does it?”
No, Peter, you’re right. It doesn’t change the science one iota.
What science precisely? I have been waiting for the warm-mongers to provide me with some science for months. The only science I get is from here or Milloy’s ‘Junk Science’ site.
For all I know what I read here and there is a load of cr*p but it comes with some sensible, logical, plausible and politely worded arguments which look to me to make more sense than the evermore alarmist pronouncements that the Arctic is going to be ice-free in two years or five or ten and that this will cause sea level to rise by 5 metres (or 10 or 20 or 40) perhaps over the next 10 years (or 20 or 50); that CO2 (an essential gas for the maintenance of life on earth and which has in the past been at considerably higher levels than at present) is a dangerous pollutant.
And none of this comes with scientific proof and almost invariably comes with ad hominem attacks from people who patently have no more knowledge of the science than I have but (unlike me) appear to have no desire to learn, presumably because they are scared witless that the “facts” might just not be quite what they would like them to be.
(Though why they want to believe the doom and gloom that is all Hansen, Gore et al have to offer beats me.)
“Earth Hour” is to make the canaille feel good about themselves for “protecting” the earth. The people who thought up the fraud and are benefitting financially from it don’t have to participate.
The problem is not Al Gore…it is the media refusing to highlight his double standards.
The AGW’s could not have got this far if it were not for a compliant media.
The same could be said of 9/11.
Today I received an email today from 9/11 Truth regarding an apparent breach of U.S. Law.
It appears that as and when special emergency powers are invoked they have to be re-submitted to Congress every 6-12 months (not sure which).
This was evidently put in after Watergate and Cheney hated it.
Looks as if Bush road roughshod over it in the end and when the Democrats were reminded of their right to call for a review and vote they did nothing.
There is now a campaign starting to lobby politicians to ensure this does not happen again.
However just like climate issues the media choose to ignore.
They are the problem…and it is a great concern for many of us in the Uk as well as we have the same issues as you.
Sort out the media and you will sort out the politicians.
Nice house. A bit too big for my tastes but whatever. It’s ironic that those such as Gore stridently lecturing middle class Americans that OUR specific lifestyles and largesse are endangering the planet live like kings oblivious to their own excessive big fat carbon footprints.
If those are actually solar panels on the north facing roof, this post would not only confirm my assessment of Algore’s hypocrisy, but also my assessment of his intelligence.