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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Robert Wood (13:33:25) sez: “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?”
I think it’s really those lit up trees you covet, Robert. Sounds like greenness envy, to me.
The Holy Global Warming Gospel from two Holier-than-Thou evangelists (Al Gore on his nonpolitical (!) carbon credit, cap, & trade moral and spiritual imperative at the end):
http://www.mail-archive.com/osx-nutters@tit-wank.com/msg03022.html
“The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.”
Now here’s a man who is deeply concerned about saving the world from global warming.
Not really. That’s just my sarcasm at work.
You see, the truth is, because he is so deeply concerned with saving the world from global warming he was actually keeping a watchful eye on the trees at night. The caring eye of Al Gore was saving the trees.
No wait, that’s my sarcasm working too.
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
“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.”
This is wrong. That glow in the windows is actually spotlights highlighting Al Gore’s several awards, which he likes to see in that soft light at night. They’re never unseen.
video of Al Gore’s trophy room, scroll down a little at the link to see the video :
http://nerdnirvana.org/2007/11/29/a-visit-with-al-gore-in-gores-trophy-room/
Scroll down a little at the link to see the video.
Some cutting edge science going on here….
hereticfringe said: I beg to differ… Al Gore is a post-modern Elmer Fudd.
That gem of a one liner must surely be a contender for the next Quote of the Week thingy. 😀
I visited the Nobel Museum in Stockholm last year (stop off during Baltic cruise) and was appalled to learn that Al Gore had been fast tracked to the Nobel prize (Peace) that year; most people have to wait 30 years. During the tour the guide and speaker stated that over the years after due consideration, some laureates were considered in retrospect to be unworthy of the prize. I ventured that this would most certainly be the case with Al Gore. At this point my wife stepped in to save me by saying that I was an engineer and did not believe in global warming (AGW).
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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.
Disappointing to see this myth recycled, long after its sell-by date. The facts are that The Tennessee Tax Dept. does not consider the “Tennessee Center for Policy Research,” a legitimate group and its only registered address is a P.O. box (is that really a link to facebook above?). Gore’s electricity company had no record of being contacted about his bills. Comparisons with the national ‘average home’, which includes apartments and mobile homes are hardly justified, as the address is also used as an office by both Al and Tipper Gore, and they must also maintain a live-in security staff. Compared with homes in the same area, the Gore house used about three times as much as the average, but on a per square foot basis it was spot on the average. The word was is apposite here because at the time Gore was undertaking extensive improvements…
“Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher,” said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design. Gore’s improvements cut the home’s summer electrical consumption by 11 percent compared with a year ago, according to utility records reviewed by The Associated Press. Most Nashville homes used 20 percent to 30 percent more electricity during the same period because of a record heat wave.
Shinn said Gore’s renovations are impressive because his home, which is more than 80 years old, had to meet the same rigorous standards as new construction. … Gore has said the criticism was unfair because the 10,000-square-foot mansion was undergoing extensive remodeling. He said this week that “global warming denier” groups were trying to discredit him because they don’t like the attention he has given to climate change.
“You’re going to have people try to attack the messenger in order to get at the message. They have not been able to succeed,” Gore told CNN from Norway, where he picked up the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work. “The only way to solve this crisis is for individuals to make changes in their own lives,” he said.
The Green Building Council’s certification program has four levels, with platinum being the highest followed by gold. Gore’s home was one of 14 to earn gold status and the only Tennessee home to earn any certification.
From those Green fanatics at Fox News.
Morning radio pointed out this morning that on Sat. at 8:48pm, Al Gore’s Nashville mansion was lit up very nicely. Driveway lights on, floodlights were lighting up the trees, all the usual. Seems that Mr. Gore paid little to no attention to “Earth Hour”.
The above link goes to a new YouTube video we made today overseas that talks intelligently, and without an agenda, about climate change and global warming, and goes to the heart of the matter: it’s a virtual graduation speech to the class of 2099 at universities around the world some 90 years from now. Reax both pro and con, welcome, of course.
James Griffin
You are of course correct in your observation that the Media have a duty to the common man to analyse proposals that seek to alter the status quo, and to rigorously research the people advocating such changes and their motives for so doing.
Sadly, here in the UK, the press are fighting declining readership, and a steep fall in advertising revenue compounded by the recession, and are no longer able to accommodate within their pages or editorials, contrarian viewpoints to those of their major contributors.
These are the Government and self serving Quangos such as The Carbon Commission both of which also advertise heavily for their own ends on Commercial Television and in so doing effectively gain control of that medium, thus traducing it’s editorial independence.
This leaves us with the BBC. Set up in the early 20th century by men of great integrity who determined that it’s funding should be independent under the law, and with a Board of Governors beholden to neither Governments nor transient factions, we might expect that for the not inconsiderable imposte of £140 p.a. our common interests would be well served.
Sadly this is not the case. The organisation persues it’s own agenda, and despite it’s best efforts at sublimation, takes a measurably left of centre stance on all issues. In the case of AGW the science is settled and so no contrarian views come to air, as regular readers of this site have discovered.
All people are equal, but some are more equal than others.
It’s amazing that some people can’t muster enough common sense to make the connection between increased solar activity and increased temperatures on ALL planets in our SOLAR system. “Global Warming” (henceforth called “Climate Change” because the Earth has started cooling again) is nothing more than a scam for people, like Algore, who line their pockets by selling carbon offsets. This may come as a surprise to global warming (ooops), I mean climate change alarmists, but the polar ice caps on Mars melt too. Lest global war… climate change alarmists think that migratory Earth pollution is the cause and start a “Save Mars” campaign, after Algore starts selling Martian carbon offsets, please rest assured that changes in the Sun’s climate are responsible. If people like Gore were unable to profit from the hysteria they cause about global warming (dang I just keep forgetting to use the newspeak word for “global warming”) the problem of “climate change” would vanish tomorrow.
This leaves us with the BBC. Set up in the early 20th century by men of great integrity who determined that it’s funding should be independent under the law, and with a Board of Governors beholden to neither Governments nor transient factions, we might expect that for the not inconsiderable imposte of £140 p.a. our common interests would be well served.
Sadly this is not the case. The organisation persues it’s own agenda, and despite it’s best efforts at sublimation, takes a measurably left of centre stance on all issues. In the case of AGW the science is settled and so no contrarian views come to air, as regular readers of this site have discovered.
The BBC is also committing treason. 🙂
http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees
Ever notice how the evangelists and nuncios of a cult eat well, fly in jets, and generally get “passes” for their sins? Or, in the vernacular, as one of my many mental-giant-heroes, Frank Zappa once said, “The lead guitarist always gets the __________” (you fill in the blank… I don’t want to get crude here).
Mr. Gore is exempt from Earth Hour since he is the father of Global Warming. It doesn’t matter if everyone else sees him as a hypocrite, his followers will give him a free pass. Does anyone know he made a D- in Earth Science?
bobzorunkle (16:03:26) : On March 29, 2009, [RealClimate] highlighted an article in EOS, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, about a study of about 10,000 “Earth Scientists on two questions. … The Of the over 10,000 Earth Scientists who were sent the questions, about 30% replied.
You should have just stopped reading at this point. The study authors started off playing a game that John Brignell calls Trojan Numbers. The actual number useful for statistical study is about 3000. Since the quoted study unabashedly tells us that the real number is 70% less than advertised I wouldn’t even trust them about the “3000” which makes the rest of it equivalent to garbage.
FWIW: this puffery appears to be common practice in the soft sciences.
Allan:
“Don’t bother about Al Gore – Al and all this global warming lunacy will soon be just another example of “popular delusions and the madness of crowds”.
I would think twice about this if I were you. Obama is sending a team to the coming IPCC meeting with instructions to fall in line. The only thing that can prevent a disaster is congress; a slim reed indeed.
Earth Hour is a bogus scheme to let people who abuse the environment everyday feel good about themselves and be able to tell people they care about the environment for a day.
http://twobigboobs.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/earth-hour-is-a-bogus-waste-of-time/
Wow…what’s up with Watt.
“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.”
The big electricity guzzling spotlights were off, but lights inside the house were on. Were those lights incandescent or compact florescents? Surely that stalker could have found out.
“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.”
Wha? He’s not allowed to do work? Criminy you people are idiots.
“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.”
Ah yes, the electricity bill. The electricity bill meme was pushed by a group with strong denier links. Hardly a impartial source.
You putz’s won’t be happy unless he’s living in a cave with only a loin cloth.
REPLY: We’d just be happy if he makes an effort that matches what is expected of others. No complaints then from you about the lack of solar panels on the home or the 3 SUV’s in the driveway? Or, are such complaints reserved only for us “idiots”? Keep smiling friend. – Anthony
John Philip (04:23:25) :
“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.”
Not only that, they claim that despite Al’s Gold LEED reno, he STILL uses enough electric to power 232 average American homes for a month! A 10% increase in energy usage since his reno!! Eeek.
“In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month. The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.”
More perplexing is Al’s spokesperson Kalee Kreider’s response: “the Gores live in a Gold LEED certified home, powered by geothermal power. They have undergone renovations to put solar panels on the roof and participate in all of the renewable power programs offered by their local utility.”
Two questions: If the house is powered by geothermal – why the PV panels? And if it uses PV and geothermal – why 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) from the grid?
To be fair, Al did say he was going to use the geothermal to heat… his pool. Everyone in!
John Philip (04:23:25) :
“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.”
Not only that, they claim that despite Al’s Gold LEED reno, he STILL uses enough electric to power 232 average American homes for a month! A 10% increase in energy usage since his reno!! Eeek.
“In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month. The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.”
More perplexing is Al’s spokesperson Kalee Kreider’s response: “the Gores live in a Gold LEED certified home, powered by geothermal power. They have undergone renovations to put solar panels on the roof and participate in all of the renewable power programs offered by their local utility.”
Two questions: If the house is powered by geothermal – why the PV panels? And if it uses PV and geothermal – why 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) from the grid?
To be fair, Al did say he was going to use the geothermal to heat… his pool. Everyone in!
So what.
Earth Hour is nothing more than a good idea which has been taken over by over-zealous Greens drunk on a sense of their own oneupmanship. Al Gore has already proved his intentions by trying to change policy: I think we can agree that he’s been doing Good Things too.
I was there at the first Earth Hour, after all, and that one didn’t work either:
http://www.24hourtrading.co.uk/blog/sydney-turns-out-the-lights-for-earth-hour-237/
Doesn’t mean it isn’t worth trying, but I simply fail to see how one mans (remote) house makes the slightest bit of difference. Until, of course, someone makes a point of travelling there hoping for Gore to be misbehaving: what would you have done had there not been one or two (probably automatic) lights left on? Sung his praises? Doesn’t make for quite such an effective blog post, does it.
robscott2007
To the ~snip~, Al Gore is the most recognisable and famous face trying to fight Global Warming. And he’s a Democrat (read Lefty to the ~snip~ here). Therefore they will stop at nothing to tear him down.
Including making mountains out of very small mole hills, and what appears to be stalking.