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Perhaps Beth will consider this from Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp

Her claim seems incorrect; I think $33,000 figure comes from 2007, not "last year." Since then, the Gore household has done this:

'. . .installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating [and] replace all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs.

'"Short of tearing it down and starting anew, I don't know how it could bave been rated any higher," said Kim Shimm of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.

'Gore's improvements cut the home's summer electrical consumption by 11 percent compared with a year ago, according to utility records reviewed by The Associated Press. Most Nashville home used 20 percent to 30 percent more electricity during the same period because of a record heat wave.' (Snopes page updated 28 September 2009.)

As to John Travolta and Prince Charles, I don't think either is "a leader" when it comes to addressing global warming. They may have made some pious statements about it, but talk is cheap.

The real leaders are the thousands of scientists who conduct research on the topic, working earnestly and with integrity, and those who work to communicate honestly what the reality facing us actually is.

But even the focus on "leaders" is probably a bit beside the point. The late great science-fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, famously advised focus on "the facts." There are two I'd like to focus on: 1) warming is real: January was the 4th-warmest January on record; 2009 was the second-warmest year on record according to the NASA GISS data; and the 2000s were the warmest decade on record according to ALL data. 2) Denialists are twisting words to tell you that "it has been cooling" since 1995 or since 1998 or since 2002, or insisting that the snowstorms of last month "prove" that global warming is a "scam." (If they know anything about geography, they know that the US comprises less than 2% of the Earth's surface; if they know anything about climate they know that one month does not a climate trend make.)

The single most important factor in convincing me that Global Warming is real are the personal life styles of its leaders.

I am willing to follow their lead absolutely, and have made a vow never to use more than 80% of the energy than the principal advocates of that philosophy.

For example, Al Gore's personal home in Tennessee used just over $33,000 in electricity last year for heating, lighting, cooling and appliances. That doesn't count any of his other properties or the energy he uses to travel. But, I am discounting that, because travel in a good cause is worth the energy. However, the personal expenditure as you can see is outrageous. There is no way that Al Gore believes his own message with that kind of carbon footprint. And, there isn't any way he has a moral right to tell my grandmother in her little 1100 square foot home to put on a sweater if she gets cold in the winter.

OK so Al is a hypocrite or a cheap showman. So what you say. There are other leaders that you can follow.

Indeed there are. John Travolta has made it his second life mission to save the planet by preaching Global Warming. Poor John's hobby is flying jets. He has five of them, none of which are necessary for his business or personal life.

Well you say, must be somebody else. How about Prince Charles, very big into Global Warming warnings and wild flowers. Well, sorry to say, Charlie is worse than the other two combined.

No, I feel very comfortable following the lead of the Global Warming leadership.

As a matter of fact, compared to them, I am an energy pauper.

We had the opportunity to ask Travolta about his energy use and Global Warming, and what he said in private was, "It's too late to save the planet. Time to fly."

I believe in environmental sustainability, and for that, I understand we cannot continue to fish or drop excrement into the oceans. But that's a far cry from what the Global Warming leaders are teaching with their personal lifestyles.

Oh, but you say, you are one of the masses, and they are not.

Doesn't matter to me. I follow a leader who believes in his own message. Otherwise it is all BS.

Just recently the latest scare regarding the Himalayan ice sheets melting was discredited, not by the study's critics, but by the scientists who did the study in the first place. They admitted under questioning at our college that the assumptions they made to predict the disappearance of the Himalayan sheets were just so huge they couldn't stand behind their conclusions scientifically.

And, that had nothing to do with meteorology. It had everything to do with the wrongheadedness of the science, and the behaviors of folks like Al Gore at Copenhagen.

Beth

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Nope.... The main reason that they keep mum.... Their job!!