How Al Gore Celebrated Earth Hour
*Reprinted with permission from the Facebook profile of Drew Johnson, president of Tennessee Center for Policy Research. Adult language and content edited from the note due to the nature of MatthewHurtt.com*
As most of you know, just over two years ago, my organization, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, found that the knuckleheaded leader of the global warming alarmism movement, Al Gore, consumes 20 times more electricity in his home than the average American household.
Since Earth Hour was recognized today, Saturday, March 28 from 8:30-9:30pm, I thought I’d see how the hypocritical, fear-mongering former Veep was celebrating at his home.
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.
The picture above is an example of the floodlights that were burning through Earth Hour, which is supposedly “lights off” time for those who get their rocks off by telling children that they will be burned alive because of the use of ventilators, refrigerators and cars. (The “312” is his address – 312 Lynnwood Blvd.)
If you’re unfamiliar, Earth Hour is where socialists and patchouli-dabbing tree-hugging hippies unite to dismiss electricity, fossil fuels and the modern conveniences that allow for historically unrivaled prosperity, longevity, health and quality of life throughout the world.
Thankfully, most of the Kool-Aid drinkers that participated in Earth Hour undoubtedly spent the hour on their couch or on their porch reflecting how solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short life would be without electricity.
Feel free to comment and let me know what you think of this latest example of Al Gore’s hypocrisy. Or man up and tell me that I made you cry because I told you that Earth Day is for mouth-breathing douchetards.
Al Gore Update: Apparently Mr. Johnson’s assessment of Gore’s Earth Hour activities upset the former Vice President, and his spokeswoman issued a statement.
They aren’t perfect, no family is, but they do their best, year-round to try to make a difference at home and across the country to make a difference on the climate crisis.
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Go Republicans! Now that everyone knows Al Gore left his light on, they will immediately forget how we’ve ruined the country over the past 8 years! Whew… I was worried there for a second.
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If you wanted to find examples of hypocrisy from the Bush/Cheney administration, you wouldn’t have to drive anywhere, and you could spend a good chunk of time doing it!
I guess you bought Larry Craig’s version of events in the airport washroom!
This is awesome. Nice work. Classic Limousine liberal behavior. CLIMATE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN – YES WE CAN!
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Don’t worry about old Al. He can fly his jet as much as he wants, or keep his lights bright during earth hour because he has lots of money. He can buy the carbon credits to offset it all. On paper he has less environmental impact than papa smurf.
Hello “RepublicansRule”. Aren’t you just trying to change the subject yourself? We might forget about a movie that came out a couple yeas ago proclaiming that we will all be swimming with big white bears soon.
You are right, GW wasn’t the best thing for the environment or the country. I also blame me and you for the 8 year struggle to become more financially secure. I would say “rich” or “wealthy” but those are two bad words now. I mean trying to get rich would make us as greedy as Wall Street CEO’s. Did GW tell us all to keep trying to flip houses? It was the American dream to make money quickly and now it is to, well, make some money in a recession period. Since you think this country is ruined move somewhere else. No one is stopping you.
Now you are probably thinking “Yes we can”. Well I kind of get an uneasy feeling every time Obama doesn’t talk about his specific plans to fix the environment or the economy for that matter in his speeches. I went to whitehouse.gov to read the material copied from barackobama.com but still no specifics. I like to call it transparency.
Bookmark this page. Come back in a year or even two years and let’s see how much better me, you, and papa smurf really are. Is the earth getting cooler, and are CO2 gasses in the atmosphere dissipating?
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It’s fine to highlight the hypocrisy of Al Gore but then to be utterly foul-mouthed simply shows how far away from the real world and “policy research” some people should and ultimately will remain.
To belittle someone for their word choice, I think, illustrates a certain pettiness I often see with people who do not agree with someone else’s position – and who have little information to either effectively debate said opposing position or strengthen their own argument.
It would seem to me, Paul, that you have a chip on your shoulder concerning Mr. Johnson’s professional work. While I do not necessarily agree with his word choice, the TCPR has shed light on many important issues and crafted right-of-center policy for Tennessee and the greater community.
TCPR is the only think tank in Nashville that operates in the way the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institute do at the federal level. How about you take a few minutes to see what they’re about and maybe develop a more informed opinion: http://www.tennesseepolicy.org
I’m not surprised at all. Al Gore is a total hypocrite. He’s telling the rest of us that we’re destroying the planet with our energy consumption, while he’s living in a house that’s bigger than what 99% of Americans have. And apparently he thinks a good use of electricity is lighting his trees and street numbers?
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Wait a minute. Didn’t the TCPR already report that he installed solar panels, a geothermal heating unit, compact fluorescent lighting, and other sustainable energy equipment, effectively reducing his on-grid power consumption? Seems that if he can power his lights without requiring a coal plant to generate the electricity, the man can do whatever he wants to with those lights.
T&C -
You seemed to have missed the point. The whole issue at hand, the goal of “Earth Hour” was to turn off your lights, period. It doesn’t matter what powered those lights.
@Matthew Let’s just assume for one moment that I did have a chip on my shoulder, Matthew; how does my attitude compare with that of Drew Johnson?
If progress in policy is made through balanced analysis then having a skewed & negative view of people who are only trying to make a positive difference doesn’t ring true with the TCPR being labelled non-partisan – there is an unsavoury slant to the opinion voiced that is best kept in check.
Saying that I’m also against any scaremongering that may be apparent in the other side of the argument, but if everyone sat down and took a deep breath we’d be in a better position to progress rather than this red team/blue team slandering.
I’d love to see the unedited original version of that note just as I’d like to see what proportion of Al Gore’s energy is self-generated. He could certainly have done a better job as I hope we all can.
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How is it that people who have no interest in participating in a symbolic event happily appoint themselves as the arbiters of purity for participants?
Al Gore has a fleet of SUVs!!!!
Paul -
Find a think tank that doesn’t have a rightward or leftward leaning political bias.
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while i agree that ol’ al is a hypocrite, his outdoor lighting may, in fact, be solar powered…there are lots of outdoor lighting rigs that are solar collectors and automatically turn on when it becomes dark outside or are motion activated…
Maybe all those lights and other appliances that were on were all potato powered during the earth hour. Potatoes = zero carbon emissions. =)
I’d say http://www.centrists.org/ except they seem to have been inactive for a few years.
Is there really “the left” in America or is that just a convenient label for anything that’s not “the right”?
So Gore is powering his lights with clean energy and people expect him to turn them off and use carbon-releasing candles instead?
That’s ok, here in Toronto we turned off the LED lights on the CN Tower and held an Earth Hour rock concert.
Reports from Toronto have us showing double the reduction in demand for hydro, and they’re calling it a win, an improvement over last year, but no one seems to have noticed that this year’s Earth Hour happened earlier in the year and half an hour later. Last year it wasn’t even dark enough to have indoor lights on for the first half hour of the event.
Earth Hour hurts the environment and I’d support a politician who realized that and kept his eye on the real solution: long term changes.
Those seem to be in short supply up here, though.
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I guess Gore’s stalker failed to notice those are solar powered landscape lights.
I’m pretty sure homeowners weren’t required to go out and remove the batteries in order to observe Earth Hour.
I made my kids turn off all the lights and we sat and played Monopoly by candlelight for the hour. We were pretty happy when we could turn them back on and we appreciated civilization.
A bit too much cynicism on this page. You people should go someplace where people have nothing. Of course, that is probably considered a weak ” liberal” sentiment. But really it is called being human.
Who the hell cares, let him light up whatever he wants. Atleast he’s attempting to better the world which is far and beyond anything you’ve done I’m sure.
kevin -
Your own ignorance and bi-partisan hackery has hindered you from being able to see through Gore’s alarmist religion. The whole point of ‘Earth Hour’ was to turn off your lights – and the embodiment of the movement, the very Christ figure of the environmentalist religion ignored Earth Hour?! Do you not see the hypocrisy? Do as I say, not as I do. Instead, you’d rather launch your anonymous ad hominem attacks on the blogger, rather than addressing the issue at hand. Thanks for your input.
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