A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE

MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national
average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide.
The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds
geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools
it in summer. The system uses no fossil
fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling
system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into
underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area
blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker), darling of the liberal communist Hollywood actors, Al ?I invented the Internet? Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Jesus! Does it totally escape you that this is just what Gore and others are calling for? Why can’t you stand up for that against the oil industry shills in your own party and stop wasting your time trying to “gotcha” Teh eevul Algore?

If you anti-science fruitcakes don’t want to belive in teh glowball waremening, fine, just get behind the changes that we all believe have to happen.

The Earth, on the other hand, has a temperature that is constantly rising and falling in cycles lasting hundreds and even thousands of years. How do you know we’re now going outside the normal range? What is “normal”? And how does the fact the temperature is higher today than it was 30 years ago (while still being several degrees below the NON-man made high during the Medieval warm period) mean that drastic action is needed RIGHT NOW?

Like Pedro said, I believe we should all do what we can to eliminate pollution and reduce energy use. I’ve already noted in previous posts the steps that I personally take in an effort to do my part (i.e. low emission car, reduced electricity usage, vanpool, etc). I also think this country needs to start a “Manhattan Project” type program to develop viable alternative energy sources and end our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. Not only would this benefit us economically as well as environmentally, it would also help to begin marginalizing the impact that the continual problems in the Middle East have on the rest of the world.

But since I decline to jump on the increasingly intolerant global warming hysteria bandwagon, that apparently makes me an evil “denier”.

I think I can live with that.

At this rate, the hymn’s lyrics will have to be changed to “From Greenland’s Rocky Mountains” because they won’t be icy much longer. Of course, when all that melted ice flows into the Atlantic, there’s a good chance it will disrupt the thermohyaline layer that keeps the Gulf Stream pumping – and the British Isles and northern France will have a climate reminiscent of Newfoundland or Labrador.

But we’ll still be able to drive our H3s and eat fast food, so it’s copacetic, right?

Please provide a link..just one… to a credible person who is suggesting this. Please. I can’t wait.
Who in their right mind would suggest that we turn back the clock and live like Luddites?

I personally liked how Inhofe got spanked by Barbara Boxer.

I don’t believe that it is caused by humans.

You don’t believe human activity contributes at all to the effect?

I don’t believe we should immediately give up all our modern conveniences.

Straw man: who has said said that we should immediately give up all our modern conveniences? Not Gore. Not me. Not Oliver.

…are you trying to say that the Goracle is wasting energy just to prove a point to the rest of us?

No, I’m trying to say that most of those who criticise the size of Gore’s mansion don’t really care about the environment, they just have their own selfish economic and political reasons for doing so.

I’m an agnostic too, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking that Judas was an asshole (if the story’s true) and that Jesus really did care about the poor even if he didn’t sell the nard and scatter the coins around the leper colony.

LOL. This is really the best you could get as a “victory” for you and the Freeper/RedState crowd?

Inhofe asked Gore to pledge to “use the same energy as the average American home,” which is of course impossible because by default Gore’s home is much larger than the average American home. Gore often uses the facility for business and other events, a concept your kind refute by… whining a lot.

When Gore tried to explain the fallacies in Inhofe’s trick question, he threw a tantrum, causing Boxer to smack him down, much to the amusement (and applause) of the audience. Even John Podhoretz at NRO, not exactly the bastion of climate change awareness, was embarrassed by that lunatic’s performance.

Seriously, sport. At least get a credible, sane GOP Senator to be your idol for global warming denial. Quoting Inhofe on his insight is like quoting the crazy homeless dude outside the bus station.

Why are you guys obsessed with “gotchas” and claims of hypocrisy, anyway? They get in the way of all the relevant facts you actually provide to support your- oh… right.

I believe we should do what we can to decrease pollution and energy use. I don’t believe we should immediately give up all our modern conveniences.

My point is, even the Goracle doesn’t believe his own argument and his own “facts”. If we were as desperate as he claims, how can he continue to use 100x the energy use of an average greedy american?

I am also an agnostic, so biblical passages have very little influence on argument….but are you trying to say that the Goracle is wasting energy just to prove a point to the rest of us?

Why won’t Al take the pledge? Is he better than the average American? Hhe’s not even close to being a scientist, and now he’s not even a moral leader. Turn that AC up! Let the peons conserve electricity, I’ll send one of my gophers out to buy more carbon offset. And if we run out of power, I’ll burn some of those offsets!

Why won’t AlGore take the pledge?

Dugger,Global Cooling Denier

(sorry, premature postaculation).

John 12:
Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

Al Gore could be the biggest hypocrite in the world

If their past track record is any indication, this will most likely be the turn of events.

Listen, I sure hope you guys are right. I really do. But you’re almost certainly wrong, which could mean disastrous consequences for everyone. Alternatively, if you’re right and global warming is all a big hoax… you can all laugh in our stupid eco-freak bleeding hear liberal faces. Which, for you, is probably just as great in magnitude in the positive direction as “worldwide catastrophe” is in the negative.

So yeah, I see where you’re coming from.

And yet you continue to whine about “teh global warming conspiricy”. Like I said, missing the point entirely.

And I wasn’t aware “Jonathan” was a nickname for “Zython”, but to each his own, or something.

I mean, if the “guru” of human-produced global warming won’t give up his enormous mansion and private jet, how in the hell can anyone take his cataclysmic predictions seriously. He apparently doesn’t believe his own rhetoric