Al Gore's Climate Change Hypocrisy Is As Big As His Energy-Sucking Mansion
A new analysis by the National Center for Public Policy Research found that Gore's Tennessee home "guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years."
In one month last year, the report found, Gore's home consumed more electricity than the average family uses in 34 months.
The electricity used just to heat Gore's swimming pool would power six homes for a year.
And this is after Gore spent tens of thousands of dollars installing "green" upgrades, which he was embarrassed into doing when his energy-hogging home first came to light a decade ago.
In fact, according to the NCPPR report, Gore's home used more electricity last year than it did in 2007, before he installed all those energy-reducing features.
So where does his "carbon free" boast come from?
Gore says he buys "carbon offsets" to account for all the CO2 his home and lifestyle produce. For example, he pays $432 a month into a "Green Power Switch" program that helps fund renewable energy projects in Tennessee.
A 2015 analysis by the Stockholm Environmental Institute of about 75% of the offset programs used by countries to trade CO2 credits as part of the Kyoto Protocol "are unlikely to represent additional emissions reductions." In fact, the offset program may have resulted in an additional 600 million tons of CO2 emitted than would have occurred without them.
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