Kyoto Advocates are Frauds and Hypocrites

[jbg]

Ever notice that many of the so-called enviros talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. Back in 1979, John Denver, environmental advocate and singer, had a huge private gasoline supply during that summer's shortages. And more recently, according to this article in the New York Sun (link, excerpts below) his life style is hardly "green". Excerpts from article below:

A research group in Tennessee, where the former vice president lives, claims that Mr. Gore's 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville consumes more electricity in a month than the average American household uses in a year.

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research said Mr. Gore's house in the Belle Meade area of the city last year consumed nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity — more than 20 times the national average.

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"What Mr. Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible," a spokesman said.

"Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gores do, to bring their footprint down to zero."

Supporters of Mr. Gore said the criticism was politically motivated and that the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, despite claims of being independent and nonpartisan, was "a strongly-leaning Republican organization."

(go to link for picture) Vice President Gore's home,

in Nashville's exclusive Belle Meade

section, bought for a reported $2.3

million, is shown in 2002. A research

group claims that Mr. Gore's 20-room,

eight-bathroom home consumes more

electricity in a month than the average

American household uses in a year.

And, cowardice and hypcrisy from David Suzuki, a leading enviro advocate from north of the Border (link, excerpts below):

Eco-icon not so green

By TOM BRODBECK

Political activist David Suzuki -- on a cross-country tour urging Canadians and politicians to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- may want to look in his own backyard before lecturing Canadians on how they're destroying the Earth.

With all the alternative-energy modes of transportation out there, Suzuki and his entourage are crossing Canada in a sprawling, "rock-star-style" diesel-burning tour bus, emitting more greenhouse gases during his 30-day tour than many of us do in a year.

That's right. Mr. Kyoto isn't so green after all.

"It's diesel," Jason Curan, a media staff member on the Suzuki tour told Sun Media yesterday. "It's a tour bus -- kind of like a rock-star tour bus."

You know, one of those big-ass, diesel-guzzling, carbon-spewing beasts?

The kind that emits tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and supposedly contributes to some future catastrophic climate event.

A polar-bear killer on wheels.

"It's kind of too fancy for our needs," admitted Curan. "But it does the job."

I bet it does.

How are we supposed to take a guy like Suzuki seriously when he drives across Canada in one of the most polluting modes of transportation available?

I don't see a lot of leadership there.

[jdobbin]

Ever notice that many of the so-called enviros talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. Back in 1979, John Denver, environmental advocate and singer, had a huge private gasoline supply during that summer's shortages. And more recently, according to this article in the New York Sun (link, excerpts below) his life style is hardly "green". Excerpts from article below:

I'm sure you can find hypocrisy anywhere you look.

I can remember how people used to go after Ralph Nader. When they found he lived a spartan life, they just called him a wacko.

Tear down people. It is what the world has come down to.