I have just read an article in our Sunday newspaper, taken from a report in 'The Tennessean', Al Gores home state newspaper.
(Quote,) 'Whilst Al Gore was receiving an Oscar for his movie, An Inconvenient Truth,he should have won an Oscar for hypocrisy.
Billing records of the Nashville Electric Service revealed the Gore mansion, a 20 room, eight bathroom behemoth with a well lit heated pool, used more electricity every month than the average American household used in a year. He burned up 221,000 kilowatt hours of electricity last year, more than 20 times the national household average. This does not include the power used in his other two homes, and does not include his endless flights in private jets to promote his film. In retaliation, his PR company said that Gore buys his power from a green power source, which is an add-on to National Energy Service's main source of base-load power :- gassy coal-fired power plants.
He buys his offsets through Generation Offset Management, whose chairman is....Al Gore.
The fallacy of Global Warming is a faith whose prophets demand we close coal mines, but they won't turn off their pool lights. They demand the masses abandon their cars, whilst they keep their 'planes.
Whilst Gore's lights burn brightly, for you and me the darkness is coming.' (End of quote)

I would be interested to know if our American friends, especially in Tennessee,have seen this article, and, if the truth is out there.

I see it as a cynical publicity stunt to make up for his lost presidential career, and politics dressed up as documentary. At last someone has dared to give the opposing view in the live media and anyone in the UK can see the opposing views by very well qualified scientists on Thursday on Channel 4 at 9pm in The great global warming swindle. If even one viewer changes their mind it will have done a service. Anyone who thinks I'm flying in the face of science I have pages of science on my own website which tells a very different story from the official one, and nuclear power plays a huge part in it as well as one of the ways they want to persuade us to accept it. Hopefully it will all be revealed on Thursday, I've waited a long time for this moment and I'd like to see Al Gore on the programme replying to all the new evidence.

Al Gore is a participant in the green power program which makes use of non-carbon, renewable energy sources. He uses solar power and such. Part of the reason his bill is so high is because he pays extra to be able to do this. He does practice what he preaches.
Here's a link to one article about it, there are others.


Gore power article

I don't think there's any hypocracy at all. Al Gore is first and foremost an environmentalist, and secondly a politician. If he'd been elected as U.S. President, when he did in fact get the majority of the popular vote, then U.S. environmental policy today would probably be very different. In fairness to George Bush though, he's never denied that global warming is a very serious problem, and is on record as stating that it is one of the greatest problems facing us. Bush's view is that technology can deal with the problem, and that all nations must share in its solution, not just the so-called 'developed' nations.
The shrinking of ice caps in the Arctic, Antarctica, and Greenland is colossal, and the retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas and other mountain ranges within recent years is very obvious. Similarly permafrost melt in Siberia is creating forest destruction, and adding far more fresh water to the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans than does meltwater from the Arctic and Greenland.
Scientific opinion is divided on the cause of these phenomena, be they natural, man made or a combination of both, but there is little division on the fact that global warming is occurring at an accelerating rate.