1) Gore's family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology.
The guy uses energy saving bulbs and still uses that much power? Has Solar fucking panels and still uses that power? Consumers with Solar panels usuually end up with negative consumption from their Utility company.
100% green power? Green Power Switch? I'm going to have to reasearch these because they sound like rhetoric to me.
2) Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint
Carbon offsets? WTF? Lets see what this is all about......
Wiki..Carbon Offsets is a service that tries to reduce the net carbon emissions of individuals or organizations indirectly, through proxies who reduce their emissions and/or increase their absorption of greenhouse gases.[1] A wide variety of offset actions are available; tree planting is the most common. Renewable energy and energy conservation offsets are also popular, including emissions trading credits. and the big statement that makes this statement by Al Gore a crock of political shit is......
The intended goal of carbon offsets is to combat global warming.[2] The appeal of becoming "carbon neutral" has contributed to the growth of voluntary offsets, which often are a more cost-effective alternative to reducing one's own fossil-fuel consumption. However, the actual amount of carbon reduction (if any) from an offset project is difficult to measure, largely unregulated, and vulnerable to misrepresentation. So more cost effective than actually reducing and reusing. The programs are not measureable...while his energy consumption is. Not regualated, and misinterpreted.
Exactly. He plants a fucking tree.
