Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'

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Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:27 ET

For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is.

Last Thursday, NBC "Tonight Show" viewers got a perfect example of how the Nobel Laureate basically makes things up, and that his poor grades in college were quite an indicator of just how little he understands about science.

So egregious was his departure from reality that the following clip should be mandatory viewing for all his fans in the media who seem to be just as scientifically-challenged (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, h/t Hot Air):

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CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST: Now, what about ... you talk in the book about geothermal energy...

AL GORE, NOBEL LAUREATE: Yeah, yeah.

O'BRIEN: ...and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth ...
GORE: Yeah.
O'BRIEN: ...to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
GORE: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot ...

On Tuesday, National Review's John Derbyshire noted:

The geothermal gradient is usually quoted as 25-50 degrees Celsius per mile of depth in normal terrain (not, e.g., in the crater of Kilauea). Two kilometers down, therefore, (that's a mile and a quarter if you're not as science-y as Al) you'll have an average gain of 30-60 degrees - exploitable for things like home heating, though not hot enough to make a nice pot of tea. The temperature at the earth's core, 4,000 miles down, is usually quoted as 5,000 degrees Celsius, though these guys claim it's much less, while some contrarian geophysicists have posted claims up to 9,000 degrees. The temperature at the surface of the Sun is around 6,000 degrees Celsius, while at the center, where nuclear fusion is going on bigtime, things get up over 10 million degrees.
If the temperature anywhere inside the earth was "several million degrees," we'd be a star.

The physics and astronomy website Physlink also contests Gore's absurd claim:

It is approximately 4000°C at the centre of the Earth. To put this in context:
1. The centre of the Sun is approximately 15 million°C
2. The surface of the Sun is 5500°C
3. Iron melts at 1535°C (when at atmospheric pressure)
4. Water boils at 100°C (when at atmospheric pressure)
5. Human skin is comfortable with temperatures up to about 60°C
6. The highest temperature recorded on the Earth's surface is 58°C (Libya 1922)
It is not possible to directly measure the temperature at the centre of the Earth and four thousand degrees is nothing more than our most well-established piece of guesswork to date. Most modern calculations rely on the fact that we believe the inner core to be made up of iron and nickel that is just about at melting point. It is under a lot of pressure, which prevents it from melting, even at such high temperatures. There is also a lot of evidence regarding how the outer core of the Earth convects and that helps to establish the temperature. However, recently British scientists have suggested that the temperature of the Earth's core may in fact be as high as the surface of the Sun, so the question is still open.

As such, whether it's 4,000 or 6,000 degrees, Gore's claim of "several million" is absurdly preposterous and not based on ANY scientific fact.

As Ed Morrissey observed Wednesday:

[A]nyone who followed the controversy over Gore's piece of cinematic fantasy An Inconvenient Truth knows that Gore tells a lot of very convenient untruths in his quest to create a market for his carbon-trading company. However, this is just flat-out ignorance that with any other person in any other context would destroy their credibility. This is worse than Tom Cruise telling Matt Lauer that he can debunk the entire psychiatric field because he's read a few books. If Gore can't get this rather basic fact right, why should he be believed on anything else in the energy field?

This raises an obvious question: in a world where media fact-check a comedy skit and a book written by a former governor, shouldn't they equally scrutinize statements being made by a man who's actively pushing for the passage of economically impactful legislation currently before Congress?

Or is that asking too much from so-called journalists?

Consider that if Gore was a Republican, his numerous departures from fact would have so discredited him years ago that he would now be considered a total joke.

By contrast, because he's a Democrat who preaches liberal gospel, he can say whatever he wants without any regard for its accuracy and not only receive media's praise for his inexcusable errance, but an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize to boot.

As the Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff was famous for saying years ago, America -- what a country!

*****Update: NewsBusters reader Eric Peterkofsky pointed out at Facebook that Newsweek recently called Gore "The Thinking Man's Thinking Man."

Yep -- a guy with THIS report card, who thinks the Earth's interior temperature is "several million degrees," is the thinking man's thinking man!

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I'm surprised he didn't say...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:31 ET by nolotrippen

"billions and billions of degrees."

Hmm, could this be why he won't debate anybody?

“It is almost impossible to distinguish a politician from a gangster.” (Will Durant, 1931)

I predicted tea parties would return. Now I'm predicting dueling will return.

Who needs facts when you're

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:44 ET by notonmywatch

Who needs facts when you're simply pushing a false religion?

Millions, billions, trillions, yada yada, whatever the fools will swallow, right al?

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And on the other hand

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:48 ET by jdlybrand

The AP assigns eleven staffers to fact check Palin's new book!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Palin, good for the economy

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:11 ET by CarlosS

November's employment figures should look VERY good with all the fact checkers the Lapdog Media are hiring to fact check Governor Palin's book

Channelling Everett

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:44 ET by motherbelt

Channelling Everett Dirksen: few million degrees, here, a few million degrees there, pretty soon you're talking about real heat!

You people are sooo picky. ;-)

In a word

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:51 ET by red_dragon311

In a word ...yes

God help you if you try to be civil and give and FYI about grammar or spelling on this site...the backlash could kill you

Al's science is like government budget math

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 19:29 ET by UndercoverConservative

thousnads, millions, whatever. it's all just zeroes to government types, especially when it's other people's money (whether tax or cap 'n trade)

Now suggest he lose the number of zeroes from his recent ill gotten political manipulation schemes from his personal assets and I bet he'll get accurate real fast.

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"Sarah's not retreating, she's reloading."

Do people let Al get away

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:41 ET by mattm

Do people let Al get away with his lies because they agree with those lies or because they're afraid of something?

How can Al Gore not be a complete laughing stock unless people are basically stupid or because those who have the position and opportunity to call him on his lies are actually in on it with him?

It's so frustrating that liberals have so much power and influence even though every single solitary one of their positions has either been put in to serious doubt or completely disproven.

I think they are just so

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:48 ET by motherbelt

I think they are just so "wowed" by Al's reputation as the Climate Guru and Dispenser of All Knowledge on Scientific Matters of Weather that they just blindly accept whatever he says.

They don't even care what he says! He's saying we are (well, you guys, not me) destroying the earth and that's all that matters to them. They just nod dumbly (in both meanings).

Most people have recieved

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:54 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

Most people have recieved their education from the public indoctrination system.

If you feel that people who follow algore a bit too closely, THANK A TEACHER!

The teachers drank the koolaid and pushed it on the children in their classes because their union told them to follow the mantra or suffer.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

I don't think people are

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:56 ET by Meredith1966

I don't think people are stupid, but too many of them are sheep willing to be led. Combine that with those who could call him on his lies but don't and you have the makings of a demagogue and/or charlatan. People need to listen politely and then check for themselves, whether you agree with him or not. God gave us brains for a reason, people--use 'em!

"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge

Sadly it is because they do not understand

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:24 ET by richb313

Sadly it is because they do not understand themselves. I have watched over the last 30 years the complete dumbing down of America. Science is really no longer taught but what passes for science now is all about political correctness. The scientific method is not really taught because if it was Al Gore would be laughed off every stage. Even todays top scientists are more concerned about how they are percieved than the accuracy of thier work.

Everyone with a high school education should know that Millions of Degrees at the earths core is impossible. Fusion takes place at those temperatures.

Some village is America is

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:42 ET by ricklail

Some village is America is missing its idiot. Owl Gore please go home.

Semper suprene nitens

There is no point dwelling on all the foolish mistakes we have made in our lives. For one thing, it can be very time-consuming. Dr. Thomas Sowell

Heat houses with Geothermal Engery

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:43 ET by wingnut55

Maybe Mr. Gore should talk to President George W. Bush who heats his house in Texas with Geothermal heat.

Yes, that's opposed to Mr.

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:51 ET by motherbelt

Yes, that's opposed to Mr. Gore's energy-gobbling mansion in Tennessee.

Speaking of geo-thermal, we have geothermal heat and cooling in our home and I love it! No gas bill, no oil bill, just the electricity to run the furnace and the blowers.

When my daughter lived on

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:11 ET by ricklail

When my daughter lived on base at Corry Station, FL they used geothermal to heat and cool.

Semper suprene nitens

There is no point dwelling on all the foolish mistakes we have made in our lives. For one thing, it can be very time-consuming. Dr. Thomas Sowell

Bwahahahaha

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:44 ET by jdlybrand

And the interior of Al Gore's head is extremely dense.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

I'm kind of surprised, actually

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:46 ET by Blonde

...that Gore didn't go for "billions and billions" in a Carl Sagan voice.

IOW, a Googleplex.

The largest number that has a commonly-known specific name is a "googleplex", which is a 1 followed by a googol zeros, where a "googol" is (a 1 followed by 100 zeros).

I hope he fails, too.

I'm still waiting...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:47 ET by Meredith1966

...for the guys over at AP and CNN to finish fact-checking Sarah Palin so they can jump right on this. Waiting...waiting...waiting...

"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge

I remember learning the

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:50 ET by G. May

I remember learning the Earth's core temperature sometime around 5th grade or so.

Sad that the Nobel Committee lauds a man for his pseudo-scientific contributions when his knowledge of science wouldn't get him very far on "Are you Smarter Than A 5th Grader?"

And the left media...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:28 ET by CCsteelcity

Wants to talk about W's college grades... HAHAHA! I guess when you're spoonfed lies, you tend to start believing them.

I think Gore needs to sit down and have a debate with Lord Monckton and we will just see who can debate the whole issue of the supposed "Global warming"!!

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

G. May---

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:49 ET by matthewdean

Why, I'll bet even Wolfie Blitzer could outdo Algore on a quiz show.

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Lol...You got that right

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:51 ET by bigtimer

Lol...You got that right md...that's saying a lot!

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

Well, if albore keeps

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:50 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

Well, if albore keeps going, soon his IQ will be able to give an 'On location" report of the actual temperature of the Earths core.

I had to reset the bar a lot deeper this morning.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

Eviro-Religion

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:51 ET by JerseyJ

We need to take this guy to court and get the radical US court system to declare AGW (or environmentalism) a religion. Then we can use the whiney liberal rallying cry "separation of church and state" and shut down this entire sham.

Save the rainforest ... emit more CO2

You mean like this squirrel?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 16:47 ET by CO2Maker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfABnAS5i9Q

You conservatives are always

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:57 ET by eugeneromero

You conservatives are always relying on facts and stuff. How about doing nice things for people and the world. Who cares if he was wrong. His intentions are good.

That's my liberal impression. You like it?

critique

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:43 ET by Mike76

I like it, but I suggest you use the words "bigots" and/or "racists" when you refer to conservatives. I think it'd make your liberal impression a bit more authentic, eugeneromero.

Oh, and when referring to anything conservatives say about Al Gore, I think that saying that "conservatives want to destroy the planet" would work. That way, you can ignore hard facts and just move straight to rhetorical attack mode.

Here's a fine example of what I mean.

I think you'd be so authentic, you'd probably be invited to blog at Daily Kos.

I'm just here to help :-)

You can power a small Texas

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 11:59 ET by eugeneromero

You can power a small Texas town on the hot air that comes from Gore's pie hole.

Can we get a little

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:00 ET by BuffNBone

Can we get a little traction for a news story about 5th grader who won't say the Pledge of Allegiance until Mr. Gore shuts his yap?

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

AL GORE - BRILLIANTIST

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:04 ET by Sgthulka

He is so smart.

Im thankful just to be alive within 1237 miles of him.

if this is ever brought up

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:12 ET by dr2b

if this is ever brought up in msm i assume someone will run to his defense and make up some new unit of temperature and claim he never said it was millions of degrees in Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin

How about

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:52 ET by BuffNBone

How about Gorebulls?

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

Trillions, that is why The Obama is President and Gore is not.

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:18 ET by meester

If geothermal energy is available and will advance whatever cause it is that The Obama is after you can be sure that the earth's core temperature will be trillions. Millions? ha! Gore what a piker.

Gore supporting immediate warming of the atmosphere!

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:23 ET by Gary Hall

O'Brian: .. and then figuring out someway to transfer that heat from down there to up here.

Gore: Yea..

What a great idea - making the atmosphere warmer yet!

PS : Gore: "..and it's a relatively new one" [the concept of using geothermal energy]

Really? . "Archeological evidence shows that the first human use of geothermal resources in North America occurred more than 10,000 years ago with the settlement of Paleo-Indians around hot springs." Source: A History of Geothermal Power

OK. New compared to your tired old ideas, Mr. Gore.

(;`>/ gary

You are pathetic

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:28 ET by tarunkjuyal

So, Al Gore made a gaffe, what else is new? Does that mean global warming is a hoax that he invented? Your attempt at discreditation is just pathetic.

it means that he's an

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:32 ET by dr2b

it means that he's an uneducated idiot concerning science and is pushing an agenda for personal gain by preying on the fears of people too dumb to think for themselves, read the literature, or learn of all the "gaffes" hes made concerning the topic

Actually

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:37 ET by jdlybrand

He discredits himself more than we ever could!

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

What's the "gaffe"?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:37 ET by SickofLibs

The earth's interior is not extremely hot?

Your idol makes an awful

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:38 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

Your idol makes an awful lot of 'gaffes' to be anything other than completely uneducated on hhis subject.

40 years ago it was global cooling and an encroaching Ice Age.

That changed to global warming with the encroaching threat of warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, balmier seasons in higher latitudes, etc.

But the last 10 years has caused the shift to "Climate Change" as if the climate has never changed in the history of the planet.

Last night on the History Channel they were concerned with the coming Ice Age 'harming' the Great Lakes.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

Oh, Look!

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:47 ET by KJ_sez

Another libtard troll who doesn't understand polysyllabic words or scientific concepts - just like Algore! How... common.

→ Junkintrunk!

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:01 ET by Cool Arrow

Junkintrunk, maybe you should start a GoreBall warming website and wait for visitors.

Oh, I'm sorry. You already have a devotional to Al Gore going.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Bingo

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:02 ET by dbo

Does that mean global warming is a hoax that he invented?

Actually, along with a few friends, yes!

Nah---

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 16:17 ET by matthewdean

Algore did not invent global warming.

He invented the Internet.

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Hey, Fat Al, I have an idea

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:34 ET by R D Helm

Given that the global temperatures aren't currently cooperating with your AGW pocket-lining scam, if the center of the Earth really is a hot as you say, then get together with some of your fellow scam artists, grab some shovels and start digging.

I mean, all you have to do is get down about three or four thousand miles, and the heat released should start pegging thermometers all over the planet.

-Dave

Our elected representatives have failed us.

Al Gore - 21st Century Snake Oil Salesman

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:35 ET by jimrunner

Yep, AlGore's up to his huckster trickery. It's one thing that he does not have an iota of science to back up his mendaciousness, but to state the earth's core temperature, which he was off by several factors of 10, he's just a buffoon who has gotten very rich because so many stupid people believe him.

fautly science

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:41 ET by jon_torlin

This reminds me of some of those old science fiction shows where they were calling black holes "black sun" or "black star" that had scientifically incorrect properties that were laughable. Even that movie by Disney "The Black Hole," oh lordy that was bad! Anyone remember that one? That was the first PG movie done by Disney.

Yeah, Goracle, millions of degrees in our core, I believe it......NOT!

-Jon

Jon, are you certain on the

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:10 ET by Willis_Leon_Johnson

Jon, are you certain on the "Black Hole" being a Disney movie?

I thought it was a well documented and factually accurate medical documentary on the contents of algores brain matter.

"no matter how low you set the bar, liberals can never quite measure up." -Me

http://gjresult.com

Disney connections

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:42 ET by jon_torlin

Well, you know how Disney's been doing their "Friends for Change" which is part of the global warming....I mean climate change...I mean...wait, what are they calling it today? Anyway, you get the idea....let's not tell him, but it might give him the idea that he created the Black Hole....

-Jon

Geothermal is a good idea in limited applications only

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:42 ET by richb313

Geothermal is a good idea in limited applications only. I agree that a lot of supposed cheap energy is available from geothermal sources but what if we as a world changed to Geothermal for an energy source? What would be the unintended consequences. How much extra heat would be vented? How would the extraction of large amounts of heat effect plate tectonics? There are a lot of unanswered questions. I can see a host of problems that can occur. Taking advantage of heat sources that are already venting is good but creating new heat sources through deep drilling should be very carefully evealuated before wholesale application.

What's the difference...million, thousand, whatever.

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:43 ET by c5then

The point is that we can drill down and take advantage off all this heat to help us avoid global warming, don't you see?

We can drill down a few hundred miles and run pipe down there with water in it and the earth will heat up the water and produce steam and then we can use that steam to run all sorts of machines and stuff.

Q: Can we drill and get access to all the oil that's down there too?

A: NO WAY!! we can not drill for any more oil because we are already too dependant on foreign oil. What we need is to start using all the alternative energy sources, like the million degree core at the earth's center to generate our energy.

You see???!!! All the heat at the Earth's core can help us cool the atmosphere back to the place where we want it to be.

Throw 'da bums out!!!

Before it's too late.

www.loyaltoliberty.com

Hilarious on two

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:49 ET by celator

Hilarious on two levels:

1. Gore proves conclusively (once again) that he is a science illiterate, and has a world concept anchored in the age of the Druids.

2. Accomplishes #1 with not the slightest self awareness that he is making a fool of himself before a national audience. (once again)

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

Strong El Nino This Year

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:55 ET by dbo

No, Al Gore is right. 5000 degrees Celsius multiplied by secret James Hansen computer code equals an adjusted temperature of several million degrees. Why all the fuss?

→ Several Million

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:59 ET by Cool Arrow

More like several million degrees of separation between AlGore and reality.

Several million degrees of frying Kevin Bacon?

Al! Are you determined to retake Joe Biden's perch?

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

question

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:04 ET by owlpellets

Should that be the case, I wonder what the core temp of a golf ball is Al?

Don't blame me....I voted for Palin...

About the same temperature

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:24 ET by Blonde

as Gore's IQ.....room temperature at best.

I hope he fails, too.

Something in the Democratic Water

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:08 ET by dbo

When it comes to ridiculous exaggerations and ignorance, Al Gore and John Kerry seem to be reading from the same script.

You can't blame Gore for mistaking thousands for millions...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:14 ET by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Just look at the budget deficit.

Hey O, what number comes after a trillion?

He's a Dummy!!

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:14 ET by slickwillie2001

Al Gore flunked out of two different bible colleges; he's a very stupid, stupid man. Why anyone pays him any mind is beyond me. He can't debate anyone because he would end up in a fetal position mumbling jibberish on the stage.

... as opposed to what he

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:27 ET by KJ_sez

... as opposed to what he does now - stand semi-upright mumbling gibberish on stage?

in a fetal position mumbling jibberish on the stage...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:03 ET by CCsteelcity

whilst sticking his thumb in his mouth and calling for his mommy!!

or was his thumb somewhere else... hmmm! one has to wonder.

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

Okay, it's a million degrees

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:22 ET by CO2Maker

For one thing, they're Fahrenheit degrees, which are smaller. But fortunately, we're lucky that the Earth's surface is cooled by the few icebergs, glaciers, and polar ice caps that remain, because they're about 5 degrees Clavin.

Al Gore...And this yutz...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:25 ET by PrairieSky

came this close to being our president?

"...but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees..."

Wow...There are "incredibly hot rocks" under the Earth's crust? Who'da thunk it?? I never knew that...Thanks Al!

Elementary school kids know this, you idiot...They also know that the temperature of the interior of the Earth is not several million degrees...Several thousand degrees yes, but not several million...

Where are all the AP fact checkers on Gore's stream of ignorant, uninformed BS? Oh, wait...I know...They're all tied up picking apart Sarah Palin's book...Well, that explains it...

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

What's a few zeroes, a few orders of magnitude, among friends?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:36 ET by CO2Maker

No, seriously. A mere year ago, $100 Billion was a f***ing lot of money--way, way beyond Everett Dirksen's famous quip. Now, it's pocket lint compared to $1 trillion-with-a-T appropriations bills (that will pay for themselves >wink wink<). The Federal Gummint can't account for $94 Billion from the TARPulus bills, and that disparity is written of as a rounding error.

CO2...Yep...Why confuse the issues...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 13:56 ET by PrairieSky

with silly little things like the facts??

Garbage like the BS that Gore pushes and that you mentioned just infuriate me no end. Other examples are the bogus "facts and figures" that Obama and Co., have invented and posted at Recovery.gov. What a load of trash that nonsense is.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

with silly little things like the facts??

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:09 ET by CCsteelcity

And please don't forget the FACTS that the govt. continually downplays the actual unemployment rate... oh, we are at a 10.2% when actually we won't tell you that we didn't account for 2 more ratios into the figures and that really we are at a 22.1% unemployment... but we don't need to tell everyone that bit of info.

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

CCsteel...Great point...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:23 ET by PrairieSky

Many have said that if the unemployment rate included those that have given up looking for a job, the number would be closer to 20%...

This administration plays fast and loose with so many things (virtually everything), that it's hard to believe anything that we are told...Governments in general tend to do this, but "O" and Co., have raised this to a fine art...I'm at a point where I don't believe anything they say anymore. If Obama came out and said the grass was green, I think I'd go out and check.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

Thinking alike?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:23 ET by ricklail

There is a dangerous thought. I sent this letter to the editor of our local paper on Monday.

The Associated Press sent 11 reporters to fact check Sarah Palin's book, Going Rouge. If they had done that to Al Gore's book there would not be this global warming hoax. Somewhere in America a village is missing its idiot. Al Gore please go home they miss you.

Semper suprene nitens

There is no point dwelling on all the foolish mistakes we have made in our lives. For one thing, it can be very time-consuming. Dr. Thomas Sowell

rick...Excellent...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:18 ET by PrairieSky

Let's see if your letter will be printed...I hope it is, but who knows. Depends which way the editor and his board lean politically and ideologically.

Hope it's printed.

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan

I don't remember the AP sending any reporters to fact-check

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 17:04 ET by CO2Maker

The Stimulus Bill, or OMG-care, or Cap-and-Trade before they were passed.

Oh, wait a minnit. I remember:

1. AP didn't do it.

2. But even if they wanted, Nanny Pelosi hadn't posted it on the House Web of Transparency until the vote.

Ack... it's an honest

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:29 ET by Captain Betty

Ack... it's an honest mistake.

Gore must have been thinking about the millions of dollars he's making off of this global warming hoax.

Ha!

millions of dollars... er,

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:33 ET by CCsteelcity

millions of dollars... er, millions of degrees... sorry! Freudian slip there.

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

Give Al a Break

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:36 ET by AmmoMan

Maybe he's got some first-hand knowledge about this. The horns, the tail, the pitchfork....

Hooray!

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 14:37 ET by Corny_McPoo

"mendaciousness"

My new favorite word!

Signed, Corny McPoo

Do Something Amazing!

"mendaciousness"---

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 16:29 ET by matthewdean

Corny:

Far better to have it as your favorite word, than to be afflicted with it, as the current posprez and administration demonstrate on a much too regular basis.

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

→ Hot Tin Roof

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 16:33 ET by Cool Arrow

Burl Ives and Tennessee Williams would call it "mendacity.

But whaddaya do with good old boys like me - Don Williams.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Drill bits that can handle millions of degrees.How about cities?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:20 ET by upcountrywater

Along with used carbon, algore is now selling unobtanium alloy.

Iranians want to heat as many American cities as it can...100 million degrees, for a few micro seconds. Another day passes and another pound of Uranium, add a neutron and vola Plutomium. There is no recovery after an attack, none, zip, zero...Unless camping is your thing, forever.

LA LA LA, it's another old and non-competive technology.
Geothermal power generation has been around for 100 years,

Now if gov bans drilling, re fueling nuk power plants, then sure it works. Just like in the movie ROAD WARRIOR

→ Unobtanium?

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:29 ET by Cool Arrow

I believe the commercial name for the alloy is Vibranium, found only in the African kingdom ruled by T'Challa, secret identity of The Black Panther, of Marvel Comics fame.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Scholars and intellectuals

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:55 ET by seven

The leftists offer their best science scholar as Algore

They offer their best economist as B Hussein Obama.

I offer the American education is dysfunctional if that is what we produced.

I'm just Wilde about Al

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 15:59 ET by Jack Bauer

Al Gore's "The Thinking Man's Thinking Man."??

I think they mean Gore is the 'Drinking Man's Thinking Man'

As Oscar Wilde quipped: "Work is the curse of the drinking man"

The state controlled leftist media are just a bunch of DOUCHE BAGGERS (D-BAGGERS)

A million degrees here ...

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 16:00 ET by EricTheRed

You know what they say: A million degrees here, a million degrees there, and pretty soon you're talking about real climate change!

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You people need to stop nit

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 17:30 ET by Snappy

You people need to stop nit picking, this planet is past the emergency recovery point and we are living on borrowed time, we hav already past a number of 10 year deadlines. So if the Goreacle says is a million degrees.....Its a Million Degrees!.......The science is settled, and the the debate is OVER.

Now please file out camly their will be snacks and plenty of Kool Aid in the foyer for your refreshment.