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2009-11-25 Science & Technology

Oil sands threaten our survival, Al Gore warns

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 It definitely threatens the billions that he's planning to make of "green tech". (not to mention all the ~~bribes~~ grants, consultation fees, lobbyist salaries, etc... that US elites receiving from Soodies.)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-25 04:54|| 2009-11-25 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't buy oil from those nasty Canadians, buy it from Al's good buddies in Saudi Arabia (wonder how much the Saudi's paid him).

Posted by DMFD 2009-11-25 06:49|| 2009-11-25 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Al....go away.

Posted by Angleton9 2009-11-25 08:31|| 2009-11-25 08:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Time is short, he warns, and political will in the United States and elsewhere is lagging far behind what's needed.

Especially since a bunch of documents were hacked and revealed it all to be a Hoax - just like Mr. Gore.

The mask is torn.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-25 08:34|| 2009-11-25 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Al's still pretending that Anthropogenic Global Warming exists?

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

Posted by Parabellum 2009-11-25 08:35|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-11-25 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 This from a man who couldn't even be bothered to turn off his outdoor flood lights during Earth Hour.
The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gores mansion.

It's not like coal is used to generate 60% of Tennessee's electricity or that his mansion uses 20X the electricity of the average Tennessee family. Oops, it is and he does.

Posted by ed 2009-11-25 08:40|| 2009-11-25 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Free translation service

"Our Survival" means "my rent-seeking investments".

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-25 09:00|| 2009-11-25 09:00|| Front Page Top

#8 "Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer"

Actually the Prius' polluting nature is more attributable to the manufacture and 'recycling' of the car's batteries than whatever petrofuel it uses from whatever source. In short, the Hummer is healthier for the environment overall (plus you can carry more 'stuff' in one trip - again saving fuel).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-11-25 09:41|| 2009-11-25 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Anthropogenic Global Warming exists. What is unknown is how significant it is: could be tiny, could be huge, but we're not allowed to look. What is known is that none of the proposals will have any effect on it except to transfer money from one set of pockets to another.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-25 09:53|| 2009-11-25 09:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Antpogenic Global Warming ought to exist too. Ants eat stuff and exhale CO2, and bacteria eat the ant pooh and give off methane. And there are a LOT of ants! We need to act now! (Get your Orthene here, 20% off, if you call by midnight. Death Panels for ants - hmmmm.)

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-25 09:58|| 2009-11-25 09:58|| Front Page Top

#11 That's not very earth friendly Glenmore. It's got chemicals you can't even pronounce. So, Ima thinkin of opening a giant magnifying glass company to eradicate this latest threat to Mother Earth.

Posted by ed 2009-11-25 10:02|| 2009-11-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

#12 ZOMG! The Riddle of the Oil Sands is sure to be a best seller.

Posted by Perry Stanford White 2009-11-25 10:17|| 2009-11-25 10:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Further to comment #8, I seem to recall a study that claimed that when one takes the 'envoronmental' cost from dust back to dust for a Prius and a Hummer, and keeping in mind that Hummers last longer, a Prius has ~3X the environmental impact per kilometer driven of that of the evil Hummer.

Posted by Chemist 2009-11-25 11:23|| 2009-11-25 11:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Al should be taken to the public square, stripped and flogged with a porcupine.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-25 11:28|| 2009-11-25 11:28|| Front Page Top

#15 But Frank, think of the poor guy swinging the porcupine! What did he do to deserve such punishment?

Posted by Glenmore 2009-11-25 11:48|| 2009-11-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Mankind will never be safe until we eliminate that deadly poison, CO2, from our atmosphere. Of course, green plants will be unhappy with this, but what have they ever done for us?

Posted by SteveS 2009-11-25 12:42|| 2009-11-25 12:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Al should be taken to the public square, stripped and flogged with a porcupine.

Jeez, Frank. It will take weeks to get the scuz off the poor porcupine. Some "Friend of Wildlife" you are.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-11-25 12:43|| 2009-11-25 12:43|| Front Page Top

#18 You are correct, Mullah Richard & chemist, but Hummers don't produce enough "smug" to make the driver feel good when pulling into Whole Paycheck.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-25 16:07|| 2009-11-25 16:07|| Front Page Top

#19 The problem with the Prius is the batteries. The nickel ore is mined in Sudbury, oh, about 200 miles north of where Gore was speaking. The ore gets shipped to Europe, where it is refined into nickel hydrate. The hydrate is shipped to China, where it is fabricated into batteries. (Ya thinks anyone else would deal with the heavy metal pollution? Me neither.) The batteries are sent to Japan, where the car is assembled. It is then shipped back to North America.

That is the footprint.

Posted by Skunky Glins****">Skunky Glins**** 2009-11-25 21:33|| 2009-11-25 21:33|| Front Page Top

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