How much does algore cost?
July 14th, 2007 at 6:41 pm . by el nuko
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From The Buffalo News…
Ever wonder what it takes to bring a former vice president of the United States to your event?
You’ll have to provide a generous lecture fee and meet a lengthy list of contractual requirements, as the University at Buffalo learned this spring.
Former veep and current environmentalist Al Gore spoke at UB in late April, and this prompted a few questions.
How much does Gore cost? Does he have to be picked up from the airport in a hybrid limousine? Does he insist on a hotel that runs on solar power?
UB gave the answers in response to a Freedom of Information Law request.
First, he doesn’t come cheap. Gore received a $100,000 fee.
The contract stipulated that UB pay for first-class airfare, a car service, accommodations and meals for Gore and an adviser.
Gore also approved in advance any related events, promotional material and “backdrops, banners, scenery, logos, settings, etc.”
It even spelled out the time Gore spent signing posters for sponsors — 10 minutes — and his need for 30 minutes of downtime before talking.
No hybrids or solar power specified, so UB was able to meet every requirement except one: Gore’s request for “absolute confidentiality” for the contract’s terms and conditions.
The article didn’t say if UB had to remove all of the brown M&M’s
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Comment posted by nuke
at 7/15/2007 4:07:02 PM
must get that cow flatulence under control
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/15/2007 4:01:21 PM
He apparently has no problem with hundreds of thousands of people starving if agriculture and the economy are crippled (because a lot of people around the world survive by building products that we purchase and importing food that we grow).
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/15/2007 3:58:52 PM
Yep. Al Gore was a big fan of hers.
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/15/2007 3:58:01 PM
you know swamps, the global warming folks are the same folks who managed to kill hundreds of thousands in africa and asia from malaria by managing to get ddt banned. rachel carson (pbuh)
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/15/2007 3:53:00 PM
You got it selvar. Plus, if he wants to buy carbon credits, he buys them from a company that he owns. It’s a pretty slick racket.
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/15/2007 3:44:41 PM
If in the late 600 million years, only the middle to late Carboniferous age and the Quarternary age have seen CO2 ppm below 400, wouldn’t that indicate that CO2 levels are naturally higher and will rise (and fall) again over time? And since there have been ice ages with CO2 levels much higher than today, wouldn’t that seem to indicate that CO2 levels really have *nothing* to do with warming?
The global warming people remind me of the folks that coined the term “malaria” and decided that bad air was responsible for the mosquito-borne disease.
Comment posted by Selvar
at 7/15/2007 3:36:50 PM
wow, thats basically like “You have to give me $$$ for me to spread my message” thats pretty messed up!
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/15/2007 3:28:43 PM
Oddly enough, I have not noticed Florida getting any warmer. Shouldn’t it be warming even more here due to global warming™?
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/15/2007 1:38:02 PM
yeah, the other part of the meme goes, “don’t shoot the messenger”
The guy ain’t worth shootin, and he ain’t worthy of the liberal worship either
Comment posted by Mick
at 7/15/2007 1:33:18 PM
Liberal bloggers keep telling me to stop bringing up Al Gore, “he’s not a scientist.” Right, he is just a second rate politician also ran. He flunked out of divinity school.
But that’s OK. What will he do with his money? At least it is not going to the Hillary/Obama machine.
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Comment posted by nuke
at 7/16/2007 4:42:27 PM
the rules don’t apply to the gores
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/16/2007 4:38:06 PM
Heh. Via Tim Blare is this little blurb about the wedding of Al Gore’s daughter and the rehearsal dinner featuring Chilean Sea Bass. Guess those endangered fish aren’t part of their ecological awareness.
Pass on sea bass
Pirate fishing fleets that disregard fishing limits are illegally catching this fish from Antarctica. Unless people stop eating Chilean sea bass, it may be commercially extinct within five years. So remember, however deliciously you prepare it, pirates probably poached it first.
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at 7/16/2007 11:08:33 AM
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Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/16/2007 9:59:18 AM
One would assume, however, that no-name anthropology professor would actually be an expert in their field, have led excavations, and could contribute to our field of knowledge about the past and the climate that existed during their excavations. Al Gore, to anybody that knows about the glaciers that used to cover a significant amount of Canada and parts of North America, is a very silly man. The only way there could be any such thing as “climate change” would be if climate were static, which it definitely is not.
If human CO2 levels are driving the engine of climate change, what melted the glaciers? And finally:
The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today– 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming.
Al Gore is a one-trick pony, and his trick doesn’t have much relevance except enriching himself.
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/16/2007 9:53:26 AM
You’re right Ed. Carson’s book didn’t kill. The mosquitos did, or more precisely, the malaria did. Carson’s misrepresentations in her pseudo-science manifesto, and the hysteria driven campaign led by EDF against DDT had nothing at all to do with it. /sarc
Thirty years later, WHO has lifted the ban on DDT to re-join the battle against malaria.
An algore supporter ranting about facts is truly rich, indeed.
Comment posted by M. Frederick Voorhees
at 7/16/2007 5:06:15 AM
As for the $100,000 price tags: I know it seems like a lot, but relatively speaking, it really isn’t. No-name anthropology professors get over $20,000 to give college talks.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/16/2007 3:59:34 AM
Nuke, looks like you got the obligatory response from a representative from the EDF, and a devotee of the Prophet Profiteer algoreia.
A fact based rep at that.
Comment posted by Ed Darrell
at 7/16/2007 12:10:34 AM
Nobody in Africa died for a lack of DDT due to Carson’s book. If DDT didn’t get sprayed, it was because the local government couldn’t get it done.
In any case, the overuse of DDT made it ineffective for most malaria control by the middle 1960s, 5 to 7 years before the U.S. acted against DDT.
But since the rest of the rants here are fact free, you’re right in line.
Al Gore at $100,000? You could use such a clue. It would be a bargain.
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/15/2007 8:29:33 PM
I’m convinced.
all hail the goracle
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