Former Vice President Al “Global Warming” Gore, has endorsed Democratic nominee Barack Obama for president. Gore served as Bill Clinton’s VP. You know what this means! Aly is getting added to the Clintons’ enemies list.
Michelle and Barack Obama
This endorsement adds to the many high profile nods Obama has racked up during this presidential campaign.
Yea, the Greenhouse Effect Is Worried About You Too
…After Starting A War That Is Making It Worse
April 16. 2008
George Bush: I can be Al Gore!
An Associated Press article this week stated George Bush is announcing his, “Goal for stopping greenhouse emissions.” He should be more concerned about stopping greenback emissions via that expensive war that is bleeding the Treasury dry.
You need to bring the soldiers back to their families. You are not going to redeem yourself as a president by leaving them there longer, after sending them to Iraq over a self-concocted lie. Too many people in the world are suffering because of you, here and abroad.
Furthermore, how are you going to be a spokesman for this issue, after commanding a war, with massive amounts of pollutants being emitted in Iraq via 140,000 soldiers using trucks, tankers, SUVs and massive weaponry and the foreign contingent firing back at them. Or did you not think of that.
Wow, Ike is showing all his teeth in that pic, isn’t he
That’s like Ike Turner being a spokesman against crack. You need to find a green member of Congress to front that campaign:
Bush to announce goal for stopping greenhouse emissions
By DEB RIECHMANN – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, stepping into the debate over global warming, plans to announce on Wednesday a national goal for stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades.
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Title: When the Levees Broke Year Of Release: 2006 Review Date: October 30, 2007 Rating: R Running time: 256 minutes Box Office Gross: N/A Recommendation: Great documentary. Contains some profanity and graphic scenes of suffering. |
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“When the Levees Broke” is an excellent documentary chronicling the struggles of hurricane Katrina victims. It made my eyes well up with tears that they were basically left to fend for themselves under terrible conditions.
Spike Lee captured their stories in a very poignant way. He should have won an Oscar for this film. Instead, Gore took home the statute for telling us the weather is bad, whereas Lee told us something we needed to know, all is not equal and FEMA has become ineffectual. While FEMA is a good idea, it is clearly a broken one.
Imagine having to flee to your attic or roof top in the summer heat, to save your life, watching bodies float by on your street that is now a river, then surviving that only to find out the government has left you stranded.
Natural disasters happen all over the world. They are a fact of life. However, it’s what you do afterwards that can cause even greater damage.
I didn’t see the film as anti-American. I saw it as anti-government failure. Inasmuch as many lost their homes, they lost something far more important, their belief that the government cared.
Madonna Is A Hypocrite
July 7. 2007
A little over a week ago on June 27, 2007, I did an article titled Hollywood Hypocrisy regarding Live Earth and its performers like Madonna hypocritically lecturing the world about climate change, when they are among the worst offenders. I wrote about the bad effects the concerts will have on the environment.
Since then several other articles have come out along those same lines about the hypocritical push that is Live Earth, which takes place today:
Madonna | Odds ‘n’ Ends
‘Green’ Means Money, Not Environmentalism to Madonna
Madonna had better clean up her business before she starts cleaning up the world.
The Material Mom is the headliner at tomorrow night’s Live Earth show from London’s Wembley Stadium. But guess what? For her, the word green means money, not the environment.
Madonna, who seems to be on top of all her many business endeavors, has actually invested about $2.7 million dollars in companies that are creating the destruction that Live Earth is trying to raise awareness about. She has invested in several companies named as the biggest corporate polluters in the world.
It’s a cruel irony that Madonna’s Ray of Light Foundation owns blocks of shares in companies that folks like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio would like to see punished and rehabilitated for their attitudes toward global warming, climate control and basic pollution.
The companies include Alcoa, Ingersoll Rand, Weyerhaeuser, and several others associated with oil exploration, digging, and refining including British Petroleum, Schlumberger (a chief competitor of Halliburton), Devon Energy, Peabody Energy, Emerson Electric, Kimberly Clark and Weatherford International.
In 2002, the University of Massachusetts’ Political Research Institute ranked Alcoa No. 9 on a list of all-time toxic American companies. And I don’t mean toxic as in toxic bachelor. This is toxic as in air pollution.
The same UMass PRI study ranked Ford Motor Company at No. 7 on the Toxic Top 10. Northrop Grumman was No. 17. Weyerhaeuser was No. 42. Emerson Electric was No. 56. 3M Corp was No. 70. Kimberly Clark was No. 96.
You get the picture. Madonna’s Ray of Light Foundation has stock in each of these companies. Her last published tax statement claims $4.2 million in corporate stock, and only $620,000 in donations to other charities including her pet project: the Kabbalah Center.
Madonna even has 175,000 shares of Ford Motor Company, which in 2005 — the last year for which Ray of Light Foundation’s tax form is available — had only one hybrid SUV in its fleet. Even now, but certainly then, Ford was/is not known as a green company. The only obvious thing Ford and Madonna have in common is Detroit — although it could be argued that only Ford has retained its Midwest accent.
Take Weyerhaeuser Corporation, a “forest products” company that is basically in the business of killing trees for paper and wood for housing. In 2005, Madonna owed roughly 1,100 shares valued at an average price of $63. Since then, the share price is up to around $80. If her number of shares remained constant, she’s made a nice profit over the last two years.
But Weyerhaeuser is no friend of the green community. A story posted on the Rainforest Action Network details Weyerhaeuser’s ongoing fight with environmental activists who call the Seattle-based corporation “a bad investment” and “one of America’s worst environmental performers.”
Even if more than half the Network’s characterizations of Weyerhaeuser are hyperbolic, one has to wonder why Madonna has put even a penny into the company if she has any feeling for environmental causes. But that’s an inconvenient question for the material girl as she prepares to close the Live Earth show live from London.
Worse — public relations-wise — than Weyerhaeuser is Madonna’s investment in Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. Alcoa is under fire all over the world, especially in Iceland, for building aluminum smelters that some feel threaten the environment.
The Ray of Light Foundation’s Schedule of Realized Gains and Losses is revealing in many ways. It shows that Madonna, while eager to espouse politically correct beliefs, simply does not put her money where her mouth is. The Ray of Light Foundation, for example, has only a few hundred shares of one media company: Viacom. Madonna didn’t even carry an investment in Warner Music Group, the company that releases her music. - Fox News
Madonna’s not perceived as very green
Madonna is perceived to be the least green artist on the bill at Live Earth, according to a survey.
And James Blunt, the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Black Eyed Peas don’t strike the public as particularly environmentally friendly either.
The concert at Wembley is one of several taking place around the world on July 7 to highlight the need to stop global warming.
David Kuo, head of personal finance at fool.co.uk, which carried out the survey of 674 people, said: “Although none of us really know for sure how green celebrities really are, public perception plays an important part.
“Live Earth will go some way to help, but caring for the environment goes beyond exercising vocal chords, rapping and crooning. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if all the artists turned up to Live Earth on their bicycles?”
The Live Earth celebrities people believe to be the least green are:
:: Solo Artist
1. Madonna
2. James Blunt
3. Paolo Nutini
:: Group
1. Beastie Boys
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Black Eyed Peas
From the Virgin Media web site
Live Aid is promoting green to save the planet - what planet are they on?
Last updated at 10:51am on 7th July 2007 - Watching the veteran star lap up the adoration, her entourage could, however, be forgiven for exchanging slightly jaded glances - having witnessed her jet in for the concert from New York.
For her 2006 World Tour, she flew by private jet, transporting a team of up to 100 technicians and dancers around the globe. Waiting in the garage at home, she has a Mercedes Maybach, two Range Rovers, an Audi A8 and a Mini Cooper S.
Hypocrisy: Madonna will strut on stage today preaching at her viewers to save the planet - yet she herself produces more than 100 times the average amount of waste produced by Britons in a year
Indeed, Madonna’s carbon footprint is dwarfed only by her ego - she has vowed that she will ’speak to the planet’ at Wembley. In fact, an apology might be in order - for the superstar’s energy consumption is only the tip of the iceberg in this epic vanity-fest.
The Live Earth event is, in the words of one commentator: “a massive, hypocritical fraud”.
For while the organisers’ commitment to save the planet is genuine, the very process of putting on such a vast event, with more than 150 performers jetting around the world to appear in concerts from Tokyo to Hamburg, is surely an exercise in hypocrisy on a grand scale.
Matt Bellamy, front man of the rock band Muse, has dubbed it ‘private jets for climate change’.
A Daily Mail investigation has revealed that far from saving the planet, the extravaganza will generate a huge fuel bill, acres of garbage, thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, and a mileage total equal to the movement of an army.
The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.
The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists’ and spectators’ travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations.
Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year.
The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums - much of which will go directly into landfill sites.
Moreover, the pop stars headlining the concerts are the absolute antithesis of the message they promote - with Madonna leading the pack of the worst individual rock star polluters in the world.
Sepermodel Kate Moss, another profligate polluter through her use of private jets, is producing a T-shirt for the event. Yet, Gore is touting the concerts as ‘carbon neutral’. So how can that be?
Let us start with some facts. Worldwide, an audience of around 1,268,500 is expected to attend the concerts - making it one of the largest global events in history.
Dr Andrea Collins, an expert in sustainability from Cardiff University, has researched the impact of such mass gatherings on the environment.
“An event of this size at Wembley - which holds 65,000 at a rock concert, will generate around 59 tonnes of waste,” she says. “That is largely composed of the rubbish from food and drink consumption.”
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Jul 4 10:57 PM US/Eastern - Rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.
“It’s a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world,” said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore’s charity concerts.
“Especially when we’re using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It’d be a bit hypocritical,” he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.
Bass player Nick O’Malley chimes in: “And we’re always jetting off on aeroplanes!”
Large parts of the band’s hometown of Sheffield were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed.
But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change.
“Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it’s like ‘who cares what we think about what’s happening’?” added Helders.
“There’s more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we’re in a band?”
The group, whose first record was the fastest-selling debut album in British history, will clock up thousands of air miles — in normal airliners not private jets, they say — during their tour to Asia and Australia in the next few months.
They are not the only stars to take a cynical view of Live Earth, which aims to raise awareness about global warming but which will require many longhaul flights and thousands of car journeys to and from the music venues.
Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials — the car-loving rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year — and there are doubts about the ability of pop stars to galvanise the world into action.
Bob Geldof, the architect of Live Aid and Live 8, the two biggest awareness-raising concerts in history, had a public spat with Al Gore about the need for the event.
“Why is he (Gore) actually organising them?” Geldof said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper in May, adding that everyone was already aware of global warming and the event needed firm commitments from politicians and polluters.
Roger Daltrey, singer from 1970s British rock band The Who, told British newspaper The Sun in May that “the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert.”
And the singer from 80s pop sensations The Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role-models.
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Live Earth Weed - when he said he was green he meant it - marijuana green
Al Gore jr was heard singing “Pass the dutchie on the left hand side…” while speeding down the road
While most of us were smoking barbecue chicken and ribs for the Fourth of July, Al Gore’s son was smoking weed and speeding in a Prius (smoking weed in a Prius? LOL).
Side Toke Bar: Who smokes weed in a Prius? Wait, I said that already didn’t I.
Side Toke Bar 2: Is there anyone in the Clinton Administration that didn’t inhale?
Gore’s dad has been lecturing people to plant trees to combat global warming and his son is smoking them (LOL).
Al Gore: he did what?
In addition to marijuana, the police found Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall - all with no prescription, on Al Gore jr. You been hanging out with Britney?
Reportedly, so upset was Al over little Al Ganja Gore’s conduct in being busted by a California sheriff that he cancelled several Live Earth interviews according to the Drudge Report
Al Gore: Was it Sheriff Baca?
Seriously, he has a dependency. There’s no way under the sun he should be on all those prescription drugs at once, nor should he be smoking marijuana.
Getting treatment for substance abuse would definitely be helpful and according to reports since the arrest, he is going to enroll.
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Live Earth Hypocrisy
June 27. 2007
The Live Earth concerts are coming up, which in my humble opinion is just one big self-congratulatory, ego stroking publicity stunt. See dictionary for the word hypocrisy.
I wrote about global warming two years ago in my Sound Off Column. It’s something that has been written about for several years by many. Live Earth and co. are treating it as a new discovery that they are letting the rest of us in on, which is bizarre.
Al Gore, who won an Oscar for his recycled global warming documentary, while Spike Lee got nothing for his outstanding piece on Hurricane Katrina, is in no position to be lecturing anyone on climate change.
As reported by several credible outlets a few months ago, Al Gore’s electric bill in his huge mansion reveals he uses “20 times” as much electricity as the “average household” and “electricity consumption increased” after he put out his documentary about global warming.
Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail
The Live Earth headliner, perpetual thief and pervert, Madonna, just boasted to the press via fax and email about buying another home in London, which will consume even more electricity/fuel. Can you say dumb move before headlining a show about global warming. Not to mention, she stole the song and video she donated to Live Earth. Talk about low life scum.
Many of the stars on the Live Earth bill travel by private jet, rather than commercial airliner, have multiple homes and cars in different countries polluting the air and guzzling gas…and are now holding a concert that thousands of people will have to use even more gas to get to and receive tens of thousands of pieces of paper made from trees, to confirm and furnish them with tickets for admittance to global rock concerts.
You lot are in no position to lecture anyone about global warming, when you do more to contribute to the problem than the average citizen.
Once again, in my humble opinion, this is a government and science problem, not an airhead sociopath pop star or drugged out rock star problem.
The governments of the world need to collectively come up with solutions for cleaner air, water, food and fuel use.
Stating the obvious: governments need to work with science to come up with fuel alternatives. Stick with it until progress is made. Nothing is impossible.
What is also needed is better legislation to implement better standards at corporations and multi-national companies whose products are widely disseminated in mass quantities, but is helping to destroy the environment in how they are produced, what they are made of and how they are delivered. There are alternatives to some of these issues that will help cut back on the problem.
“POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
Nashville Electric Service/Gore House
2006
High 22619 kWh Aug – Sept
Low 12541 kWh Jan - Feb
Average: 18,414 kWh per month
2005
High 20532 Sept - October
Low 12955 Feb - March
Average: 16,200 kWh per month
Bill amounts
2006 – $895.60 (low) $1738.52 (high) $1359 (average)
2005 – $853.91 (low) $1461 (high)
Nashville Gas Company
Main House
2006 – $990(high) $170 (low) $536 (average)
2005 – $1080 (high) $200 (low) $640 (average)
Guest House/Pool House
2006 – $820 (high) $70 (low) $544 (average)
2005 – $1025 (high) $25 (low) $525 (average)
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.” Drudge Report
For Further Information, Contact: Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431editor@tennesseepolicy.org
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