Hypocrisy among the authoritarians.

The authoritarian prophets of the global warming Armageddon seem to be, typical, preaching you *must* done one thing: but doing another themselves.

Al Gore was caught using 20x the typical energy consumption of the typical household in the U.S. at his mansion.
The consumption is actually up significantly while he is making himself famous and rich making a film about how the government must use force to stop "over consumption". The title of the film is 'An Inconvenient Truth'. I'll do no plays on the movie title with this story: too obvious. He is somehow better then the common folk and needs that heated pool and gas lanterns in the yard, him being a prophet and all; but wait. It is ok for his massive contribution to green house gases. It's not really pollution since he is buying "carbon offsets". Ok guess again, cause he is buying them from himself through a company he is part owner of. Even worse this company he has invested in is based on making money out of people's fears about global warming, so he gains from the fear he creates. How Cynical: capital intended.

Wait here is more to the story, this house is only one of several he owns. May take months to total how bad he is 'abusing' the environment. As for 'the truth', turns out his initial comments that the house was all powered by 'green energy', also turn out not to be supported by the facts. I promised above no plays on his recent movie's title, real hard to resist that is.

While down picking up the Oscar's in Hollywood he was no doubt visiting friend, and fellow activist for green house gas reductions, Barbara Streisand's house. Looks like her house could be using even more energy than him. Well that is the way it is with prophets, one rule for them and one for the plebs.

Bab's beach house, note all those green air conditioners.

Canada has it's own version of the story last week with Dr. Suzuki being caught throwing out unneeded green house gases with his cross country bus tour for 50: with only 8 people in it. In typical Canadian fashion our story is only one tenth the magnitude story in the U.S.. Perhaps there is a connection with Bab's though, she is known to take her motor home downtown so she does not have to use public washrooms. Not just one of those gas guzzling SUVs she complains about, a full size motor home!