British newspaper the Telegraph reports that former Vice President Al Gore is on track to becoming the world’s first ‘green’ billionaire.
Last year Mr Gore’s venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.
The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.
The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.
It took us Europeans a while, but we’re finally waking up to the fact that Gore and other climate change cultists may not have had our interests in mind, when they advocated we should use “green energy.” Experts like the British Lord Monckton and the Dutchman Hans Labohm have tried to educate the Old Continent about this matter for years; it appears as if they are finally making some progress.
The above doesn’t mean that the majority of Europeans have become global warming critics. European media and most politicians continue to pretend that this is the main challenge facing “our generation.” They have become experts in scaremongering and their efforts to scare voters into agreeing to policies that are harmful to them, continue to pay off. Still, the more headlines my fellow Europeans read about how Gore et al. are enriching themselves, the likelier it is they’ll become just as cynical as Americans. And that should give us all hope, because has historically been Europe that pushes for global warming treaties that’ll ruin Western economies.
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16 comments:
Why not just thank him? He has done more to educate not just this nation but the world on the impending global warming crisis than anyone. Face it, tha man could have been elected President easily in either 2004 or 2008 but instead focused on a higher calling. He is a man to be admired. Nuff said.
9:38 First its not called Global Warming no more. We now call it "Climate Change"...Climate Change has been happening for millions of years and we have NO control over it. Its people like you (no common sense) who are making him rich. He keeps getting paid so he keeps feeding you the garbage. I cant blame the guy. Nothing like getting rich on the stupidity of people who believe anything they are told. What caused global warming during the ice age? There was no cars. Maybe it was Woolly Mammoth farts?
When I first meet my girl friend she loved Al Gore. After educating her about him she thinks he is pathetic.
Captialism baby! That is awesome
Al Gore makes billions trying to make people conserve and be more aware of their carbon footprint. Yet he lives very lavishly and uses much more than his share of energy. Practice what you preach is another golden rule!
9:56,
Seems to me like your girlfriend is a follower, I am sure exactly how you like them. Yes there have been climate changes for millions of years, but we do have control over some of it. But if you can't accept that the greenhouse gases we have put into the atmosphere with deforestation, industrialization, and pollution are trapping heat closer to earths surface and thus speeding up and affecting us, you have your head in a hole. Your argument is saying people are going to die anyway, so why not smoke, drink and harm our body. That argument is idiotic at its core. I believe that you are the one without common sense and keeping Beck paid. I'm sure your girlfriend will believe you though.
9:56..it's the pace of change that is alarming. Rapid pace, something your brain function has shut off.
10:59..Me and my wife are both well educated and have college degrees. When I first meet her she was uninformed and believed anything she heard just like you. With a little help with me and watching the news (I also watch CNN and not just fox) she was able to put 2 and 2 together.
Who said people are going to die? I'm saying the earths climate is constantly going to change and there is nothing we can do to stop it. If you actually think that we can change the climate of the earth you have your head in Al Gores hole... While your sitting there in the dark and driving to work in your hybrid, Al Gore is living an extravagant life with a very large carbon footprint. But then he buys carbon credits and he is saving the earth. Idiots.
10:59,
Your wrong. The professor at MIT has disproved your theory with actual results and not predictions.
We are not in a warming period, it is a cooling period. Your idiotic at your core. You have no idea what the atmosphere is doing.
Remember about 10 years ago coastal cities were going to paint lines to show where the water level would be in 2005? 2010?? They said parts of San Francisco, NY and most of Southern Florida would be under water! Al Gore sold me pants with the legs hemmed up really short. He got me.
Al Whore!
The man who invented the internet! hahahahahahahahaa!
enough said!
11:54,
So that one guy trumps the other 3,146 scientist surveyed that vastly agreed that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures. Hey, I would love it if they were all wrong, but somehow I doubt it.
11:53,
I agree there is nothing we can do to stop the cycle that happens. What I am saying is that what we are putting out there is speeding it up, and that is fact. I actually have researched it, have you or do you get your information from TV alone, thus saying that you believe everything you hear. Your wife now believes with a little help from you, because you are some sort of super genius that knows all. I actually feel sorry for her.
2:52 Sorry, I didn't realize you were a climatologist who performs scientific research? or does your research included watching An Inconvenient Truth with the fake icebergs? Let me ask you a question? If you were a scientist and your paid by grants provided by the government for "global warming" research. Would you ever come out and say global warming is not caused by humans, thus decreasing your chances at obtaining more grants for global warming research and not getting paid? These scientist are paid to say global warming is caused by us.
3:54,
That is exactly how scientist work. They don't actually believe in any of their work. Maybe you are so shallow and easily bought, but other people have higher morals than you I guess. Yes, as a scientist, no matter who pays me they are going to get the truth.
4:32 I wasn't referring to all scientist and sorry but yes, there are unethical people out there. It works both ways as well. Both scientist supporting global warming and not supporting it. I guess you think our politicians are angels too. Look everyone has a right to believe want they want. If you want to drive a hybrid and make Gore rich to save the world from "Climate Change", that is fine with me. But don't try and push your beliefs on me, like cap-in-trade. That's all I ask
he's making millions off dumb asses willing to buy into his propaganda with zero experience or education in what he speaks about....keep praising him while he flies in private jets all over the country or sits in his mega mansion in tenn.
you think he has wind turbines on his property! you people are nothing but sheep...bahhhhhhh!
The number one creator of CO2? The sun and the ocean, how much are THEY paying Gore in carbon credits? The whole thing is ridiculous and you sheeple blindly follow and allow your government to waste valuable money in the meantime... One day you will wake up...
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