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bills_tennessee_research_center
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the
> Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and
> electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool
> house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20
> times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
>
> "If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills,
> I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew
> Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not
> following his own rules."
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > That's the same kinda BS that happened when a previously unheard
> of organization
> > posted info about Al Gore living in a mansion that consumed high
> amounts of resources.
> > Nobody checked the source of the report, yet it still made the
> rounds, in fact the report
> > was one of the things that placed the term "carbon footprint" into
> the vocabulary of
> > people who'd never even heard the term.
> > It turned out that Gore's home is a great example of taking an
> energy hungry old building
> > and turn it into a great example of renovation. All of his power
> comes from green sources.
> > But unfortunately, in our culture of fast news from less then
> reliable sources, people
> > believe whatever they see on TV or the internet. Some refer to
> people like this as "sheep".
> > For me, i'd rather consider the possibility that there may be a
> problem, and prepare for it
> > accordingly. What's the downside? A cleaner environment, less
> waste and a healthier
> > world. How can people complain about that? The only people who
> probably can complain
> > are companies like Exxon. I say screw Exxon. They've made absurd
> amounts of money.
> > I'm also fed up with this subject being debated on political
> terms. The truth is, most of the
> > rest of the world is already doing things to improve the
> environment. Germany and
> > Holland are global leaders in this effort, and they could care
> less about dems and
> > republicans. I'd rather follow the rest of the worlds lead and
> actively speak out against our
> > countries inaction rather then be one of the sheep.
> > I'd love to hear somebody like Tommy convince me that changes made
> because of the
> > possibility of global warming can somehow be a bad thing.
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jersey Shore John
> <jerseyshorejohn@> wrote:
> > >
> > > "A Dec. 21 WorldNetDaily article by Bob Unruh breathelssly
> began: "A
> > > new U.S. Senate report documents hundreds of prominent
> scientists
> > > experts in dozens of fields of study worldwide who say global
> > > warming and cooling is a cycle of nature and cannot legitimately
> be
> > > connected to man's activities."
> > >
> > > But it's not a "U.S. Senate report"; as Unruh himself states in
> a
> > > curiously vaguely fashion later in the article, "The new report
> comes
> > > from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's office
> of
> > > the GOP ranking member." But who is that mysterious "GOP
> ranking
> > > member"? Unruh doesn't say. (It's Sen. James Inhofe, whom Unruh
> cites
> > > later in the article but doesn't identify as the committee's
> GOP
> > > ranking member.
> > >
> > > Since it comes from the "GOP ranking member" and not from the
> entire
> > > committee, as Unruh falsely implied in the lead, it's a
> partisan
> > > report -- but Unruh never explicitly states that, either.
> > >
> > > Unruh also reflects the bias of the report, and his own biased
> brand
> > > of "journalism," by uncritically repeating its unverified
> claims --
> > > such as, in Unruh's words, "there probably would be many more
> > > scientists making such statements, were it not for the fear of
> > > retaliation from those aboard the global-warming-is-caused-by-
> SUVs
> > > bandwagon" -- and making no attempt to gather reaction to it
> from any
> > > of the global warming scientists whose "consensus" the report
> is
> > > trying to debunk.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, it comes as no surprise that Noel Sheppard touts the
> > > report in a Dec. 20 NewsBusters post. Since Sheppard has his
> own
> > > biased history on the subject, he similarly ignores the
> partisan
> > > nature of the report, stating only that it was "just published
> at the
> > > United States Senate Committee on Environment & Public works
> website"
> > > but not that it was published only by the Republicans on the
> committee.
> > >
> > > Sheppard also states that "readers are strongly encouraged to
> review
> > > this entire document to learn the truth about what real
> scientists -
> > > those not receiving Oscars, Emmys, and Nobel Peace Prizes -
> think
> > > about this controversial issue," even though the report ignores
> what
> > > "real scientists" have said that contradict the claims in the
> report."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:25 PM, justifiedright wrote:
> > >
> > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple"
> <asburycouple@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Choose a bit
> > > > > more wisely next time.
> > > >
> > > > Oh one more thing: The report with the 400+ scientists
> disputing the
> > > > Global Warming claims, it came from:
> > > >
> > > > The United State's Senate.
> > > >
> > > > No wonder the New York Times didn't cover it and the
> Washington Times
> > > > did.
> > > >
> > > > The NYT aren't very up to date on politics.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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