This is mind blowing ignorance on the part of Al Gore. Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy, champion of slide show science, can’t even get the temperature of earth’s mantle right, claiming “several million degrees” at “2 kilometers or so down”. Oh, and the “crust of the earth is hot” too.
Temperature of the sun’s corona: 1–2 million kelvin
Temperature of the sun’s photosphere: 6,000 kelvin
Temperature of the Earths mantle, more than “2 kilometers or so down”: between 500 °C to 900 °C (773 to 1173 kelvin)
Watching Gore make a complete scientific idiot of himself on national TV: priceless
Don’t believe me? Watch the video from NBC below:
For a faster presentation, without a pre-viewing commercial, here is the same video on YouTube
Oh…and here is a graph of the vertical temperature profile with drilling depth:
And here is the temperature profile of the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core:
Source: Electropaedia (Mpower UK) page on geothermal energy
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He sure looks that way, but as a con man and a son of a con man, he knows how to work the marks.
And if you’ve bought into AGW, you’re a mark.
Say, I have this ocean front property in Arizona, if any of you Leftards are interested…
This stuff is hilarious. Even if we were to build geothermal power stations (forgetting Gore’s incredible million degree ignorance) it would only be a short time before geo-cooling alarmists would come out of the woodwork telling us of the dire calamities awaiting us for sucking the heat out the the poor bosom of mother earth.
I keep telling people, this isn’t about science, it’s not about climate and it’s not about energy. It’s about controlling every aspect of your personal lives under the guise of “taking care of you.”
After inventing the internet, Al has now discovered the actual source
of global warming; vertical heat flow from the ‘million’ degree
source at 2 km depth. My feet are getting warmer.
How much carbon reduction is needed to reduce the temperature to the UN target?
Answer: A minimum of 80 years without electricity and without fuel (no heat, no cooking, no cars, no trucks, no tractors, no planes).
Follow the money….
“The carbon market in the US is expected to be trillions of dollars by 2015, and the technology we are offering is as little as 10% to half of that number”. Earning only 10% of a trillion represents an income of 100 billions a year, which is twice the total wealth of Bill Gates. Guess who is behind this corporation, to become a trillionaire?
You also have to watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuifVNofEtk
Like a hungry baby grabbing at his mother’s nipple…so many writers here grab on to Gore’s error and use it to expound their own rigid beliefs. Both sides of the Climate debate cloud the truth…
Perhaps David, you would care to give us an example of any sceptic deliberately “clouding the truth” as much as Gore has done repeatedly. Or 1/10th as much. Or 1/100th as much.
Thought not.