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==The Environment==

==The Environment==

====The strange case of Al Gore====

===The strange case of Al Gore===

Former Vice President Al Gore seems to go to great lengths regarding his own "do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do" attitude regarding a clean environment.

Former Vice President Al Gore seems to go to great lengths regarding his own "do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do" attitude regarding a clean environment.

:''"There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of [[disinformation]] lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere."''

:''"There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of [[disinformation]] lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere."''

Sean Hannity reported on Fox News Channel's ''Hannity & Colmes'', February 18, 2007, that when Al Gore was running his campaign:  ''"On January 27th, 2000, Gore campaign in Concord and Manchester, New Hampshire, and on that very same day reimbursed the Thomas Lee Company $1,400 for the use of their corporate jet. That evening he left New Hampshire and flew back to Washington aboard Air Force Two, the vice president's official plane is a 757, which means that the flight from New Hampshire to Washington, well, the vice president emitted more than 22,000 pounds of CO2."'' <ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/10951</ref>

Sean Hannity reported on Fox News Channel's ''Hannity & Colmes'', February 18, 2007, that when Al Gore was running his campaign:  ''"On January 27th, 2000, Gore campaign in Concord and Manchester, New Hampshire, and on that very same day reimbursed the Thomas Lee Company $1,400 for the use of their corporate jet. That evening he left New Hampshire and flew back to Washington aboard Air Force Two, the vice president's official plane is a 757, which means that the flight from New Hampshire to Washington, well, the vice president emitted more than 22,000 pounds of CO2."'' <ref>http://newsbusters.org/node/10951</ref>

On March 29, 2009, Gore further compounded his global warming hypocrisy by keeping many of his lights on at his Belle Meade (Nashville), Tennessee home - including his floodlights - when they should have been off for the [[Earth Hour]] that he helped to promote. [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/03/29/report-gore-s-lights-left-media-hyped-earth-hour][http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/03/al-gore-takes-a-pass-on-earth-hour/][http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/352029.asp]

On March 29, 2009, Gore further compounded his global warming hypocrisy by keeping many of his lights on at his Belle Meade (Nashville), Tennessee home - including his floodlights - when they should have been off for the [[Earth Hour]] that he helped to promote.<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/03/29/report-gore-s-lights-left-media-hyped-earth-hour</ref><ref>http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/03/al-gore-takes-a-pass-on-earth-hour/</ref><ref>http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/352029.asp</ref>

On January 2, 2013 a deal was completed between Gore and the [[Qatar]]-owned [[Al Jazeera]], allowing the sale of [[Current TV]] to the Middle Eastern news organization infamous for being the mouthpiece of terrorists like [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Hamas]].  Being a green-energy man, Gore wouldn't allow advertising from oil companies on his network, yet he sold it to a country whose prime source of revenue is from oil.  "Al was always lecturing us about green," said one disgruntled staffer. "He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!"<ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/current_situation_XLE3W50v6I9Gbyqe6Z4pFP</ref><ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/01/06/inconvenient-truth-al-gores-al-jazeera-current-tv-deal/</ref>

On January 2, 2013 a deal was completed between Gore and the [[Qatar]]-owned [[Al Jazeera]], allowing the sale of [[Current TV]] to the Middle Eastern news organization infamous for being the mouthpiece of terrorists like [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Hamas]].  Being a green-energy man, Gore wouldn't allow advertising from oil companies on his network, yet he sold it to a country whose prime source of revenue is from oil.  "Al was always lecturing us about green," said one disgruntled staffer. "He kept his word about green all right—as in cold, hard cash!"<ref>http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/current_situation_XLE3W50v6I9Gbyqe6Z4pFP</ref><ref>http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/01/06/inconvenient-truth-al-gores-al-jazeera-current-tv-deal/</ref>

====More exhaust, less walking====

===More exhaust, less walking===

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a long-time "champion" of the environment, ended a small celebration in Hollywood, California involving a newly released video by British singer Paul McCartney, stepped into her car and went to dinner with her husband on April 18, 2012.  The restaurant was four doors down the street – ''0.06 of a mile'' – and took approximately 10 seconds, while several others who were at the same event and went to the same restaurant walked the distance in less than a couple minutes.  The car she was in – a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car – is a gas guzzler, getting 15 miles per gallon or less in the city.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2131511/Gwyneth-Paltrow-driven-0-06miles-video-launch-restaurant-doors-away.html</ref><ref>http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/environmentalist-gwyneth-paltrow-drives-10-seconds-to-restaurant/2012/04/19/</ref>

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, a long-time "champion" of the environment, ended a small celebration in Hollywood, California involving a newly released video by British singer Paul McCartney, stepped into her car and went to dinner with her husband on April 18, 2012.  The restaurant was four doors down the street – ''0.06 of a mile'' – and took approximately 10 seconds, while several others who were at the same event and went to the same restaurant walked the distance in less than a couple minutes.  The car she was in – a chauffeured Lincoln Town Car – is a gas guzzler, getting 15 miles per gallon or less in the city.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2131511/Gwyneth-Paltrow-driven-0-06miles-video-launch-restaurant-doors-away.html</ref><ref>http://www.tribute.ca/news/index.php/environmentalist-gwyneth-paltrow-drives-10-seconds-to-restaurant/2012/04/19/</ref>

====Liberals are trashy====

===Liberals are trashy===

As with the inauguration of President Obama on January 20, 2009, liberals have demonstrated in mass numbers their own disdain for taking care of the environment; the earth is a trash can to them.  On October 2, 2010, thousands of liberals who expressed desires of socialism and big government descended on Washington D.C., in part to counter the Glen Beck "Restoring Honor" rally a few weeks before.  Thousands of pounds of signs, trash, and garbage was strewn upon the grounds of the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Washington Monument;<ref>http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2010/10/one-nation-what-if-they-gave-a-rally-and-only-unions-and-commies-showed-up/</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jsG3RbfBug</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Hn-fDLk58&feature=related</ref> by comparison, Beck's rally – which had tens of thousands more people – had no litter problem whatsoever.<ref>http://www.breitbart.tv/national-mall-left-spotless-after-beck-rally/</ref>

As with the inauguration of President Obama on January 20, 2009, liberals have demonstrated in mass numbers their own disdain for taking care of the environment; the earth is a trash can to them.  On October 2, 2010, thousands of liberals who expressed desires of socialism and big government descended on Washington D.C., in part to counter the Glen Beck "Restoring Honor" rally a few weeks before.  Thousands of pounds of signs, trash, and garbage was strewn upon the grounds of the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, and the Washington Monument;<ref>http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2010/10/one-nation-what-if-they-gave-a-rally-and-only-unions-and-commies-showed-up/</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jsG3RbfBug</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Hn-fDLk58&feature=related</ref> by comparison, Beck's rally – which had tens of thousands more people – had no litter problem whatsoever.<ref>http://www.breitbart.tv/national-mall-left-spotless-after-beck-rally/</ref>

Spain, a member of the [[Kyoto]] accords, refused to permit a stricken oil tanker, SS ''Prestige'' into a safe harbor; the reason given was to prevent pollution in Spanish waters.  On November 19, 2002, the ''Prestige'' sank, spilling more than 77,000 tons of fuel oil – which could have been pumped out of the ship while docked - into the open ocean, which washed ashore within days onto much of the Atlantic coastal areas of Spain, Portugal, and France.<ref>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0311/S00074.htm</ref>

Spain, a member of the [[Kyoto]] accords, refused to permit a stricken oil tanker, SS ''Prestige'' into a safe harbor; the reason given was to prevent pollution in Spanish waters.  On November 19, 2002, the ''Prestige'' sank, spilling more than 77,000 tons of fuel oil – which could have been pumped out of the ship while docked - into the open ocean, which washed ashore within days onto much of the Atlantic coastal areas of Spain, Portugal, and France.<ref>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0311/S00074.htm</ref>

====The ''New York Times'' on waste====

===The ''New York Times'' on waste===

In an article published in the ''New York Times'' on February 25, 2009, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council, stated emphatically that “No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper.”  The writer of the article, Leslie Kaufmann, called her piece "What Mr. Whipple Didn't Say: Softer Paper Is Costly to Forests," seemingly lecturing Americans on wastefulness via the subject of toilet paper, and emphasizing how countries other than America use more recycled content in creating toilet paper than in the U.S. (20% vs. 2% respectively).<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/02/26/dead-tree-hypocrisy-nyt-massive-paper-user-lectures-toilet-paper</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html?_r=1</ref>

In an article published in the ''New York Times'' on February 25, 2009, Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resource Defense Council, stated emphatically that “No forest of any kind should be used to make toilet paper.”  The writer of the article, Leslie Kaufmann, called her piece "What Mr. Whipple Didn't Say: Softer Paper Is Costly to Forests," seemingly lecturing Americans on wastefulness via the subject of toilet paper, and emphasizing how countries other than America use more recycled content in creating toilet paper than in the U.S. (20% vs. 2% respectively).<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2009/02/26/dead-tree-hypocrisy-nyt-massive-paper-user-lectures-toilet-paper</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html?_r=1</ref>