Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern “snow belt” area. It’s in the South.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of the “environmentalist” Al Gore.

House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university.

This house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American Southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

GW’s House

You’re right that volcanic eruptions can enhance global warming by adding CO2 to the atmosphere. However, this is still nothing compared to the amount of CO2 contributed by humans. T.M. Gerlach from the American Geophysical Union says, (and I know you love your science) “human-made CO2 dwarfed the estimated global release of C02 from volcanoes by at least 150 times.” The truth is, while many volcanoes do release CO2, many of the large eruptions actually have a cooling influence, which offsets the eruption generated greenhouse gases.

Check out the cooling influence of such eruptions as El Chichon (1982) and Mt. Pinatubo (1991). There have been others throughout the last few hundred years….such as Laki (1783), Tambora (1815), Krakatau (1883).

The earth has it’s way of regulating itself. It will continue to do so long after we’ve made this planet unable to support human life. Back to the drawing board, eh?

Up to 800 people were killed and 100,000 became homeless following the eruptions, which climaxed with nine hours of eruption on June 15, 1991. On June 15, millions of tons of sulfur dioxide were discharged into the atmosphere, resulting in a decrease in the temperature worldwide over the next few years.

Therefore, by that factoid, one could say that we should outlaw the darn volcanoes as they are causing global warming.

You said: “…there is a lot of talking and political positioning about global warming, but no one is doing anything significant to actually combat it.”

I totally agree.

You said: “Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.”

You’re right. I read that too. Factory farms and other forms of industrial meat production need to go just as much as car culture. Gore’s family used to own a Black Angus farm.

I’m very tired of the Earth’s cycles argument. It doesn’t hold up. There has never, in the history of the known world, been as much carbon in the air as there is now. Even 50 years ago, this was not the case.

There is a lot more, besides global warming, that is hammering the planet.

He just wants to get more pussy!

As an average Joe, I have more important things to do than spend hour upon hour doing all the necessary research to be informed enough to come to my own well-reasoned scientific conclusions. Sorry folks. I have a real life to worry about. Instead I’m going to just do make a prediction.

The whole hoopla over global warming will be forgotten in ten years. It is nothing more than over hyped bunk.

I say this because there is a lot of talking and political positioning about global warming, but no one is doing anything significant to actually combat it. If it really is true and completely agreed upon and the debate is truly over, as some people in high positions claim (I’m looking in your direction Al Gore.), then the only next step is to take the measures needed to stop CO2 emissions or prepare for the inevitable.

Rarely is there any representation of the true left in the corporate-owned media and I’m certainly not going to look for it some Democrat debate on CNN.

I’m not sure what your comment has to do with Al Gore and his carbon footprint though. If all you wanted to do was bash democrats, you’ll hear no complaints from me.