Al Gore's Science Illiteracy
"...'cause The Interior of the Earth is Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees..."
Al Gore was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien recently and was attempting to explain the utility of geothermal energy, which taps the Earth's heat to generate energy. In so doing, former Vice President Gore proved to be an ignoramus.
According to the transcript, as quoted by Hot Air's Ed Morrissey:
"It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees aces there are these incredibly hot rocks, , and the crust of the earth is hot ..."
The problem is that Al Gore got the temperature of the interior of the Earth wrong by several orders of magnitude. The actual temperature of the Earth's interior is upwards to six thousand degrees Celsius. "Several million degrees" would describe the temperature of the interior of the Sun.
In other words, if Al Gore were right, the Earth would not be a planet but a star.
Usually when a public figure makes the kind of public mistake Al Gore is prone to he is laughed off the public stage by the media and is never seen or heard from again. After all, Dan Quayle, said to be an intelligent person, was ruined because he publicly misspelled "potato."
Instead Al Gore is actually taken serious in certain public policy circles. His books on the environment, filled with falsehoods and questionable assertions, are best sellers. Al Gore is a favorite guest on certain TV talk shows (the ones where they don't ask tough questions) and before Congressional hearings. Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Al Gore has rather arrogantly announced that "the science is settled" concerning global warming. This is news to actual scientists, who have ridiculed Al Gore's pronouncements as being false and misleading.
Oh, Al Gore has gotten very rich as a purveyor of global warming hysteria, being involved in a number of environmental businesses that rely on belief in environmental crisis to make money.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2404974/al_gores_science_i...
Al Gore was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien recently and was attempting to explain the utility of geothermal energy, which taps the Earth's heat to generate energy. In so doing, former Vice President Gore proved to be an ignoramus.
According to the transcript, as quoted by Hot Air's Ed Morrissey:
"It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees aces there are these incredibly hot rocks, , and the crust of the earth is hot ..."
The problem is that Al Gore got the temperature of the interior of the Earth wrong by several orders of magnitude. The actual temperature of the Earth's interior is upwards to six thousand degrees Celsius. "Several million degrees" would describe the temperature of the interior of the Sun.
In other words, if Al Gore were right, the Earth would not be a planet but a star.
Usually when a public figure makes the kind of public mistake Al Gore is prone to he is laughed off the public stage by the media and is never seen or heard from again. After all, Dan Quayle, said to be an intelligent person, was ruined because he publicly misspelled "potato."
Instead Al Gore is actually taken serious in certain public policy circles. His books on the environment, filled with falsehoods and questionable assertions, are best sellers. Al Gore is a favorite guest on certain TV talk shows (the ones where they don't ask tough questions) and before Congressional hearings. Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Al Gore has rather arrogantly announced that "the science is settled" concerning global warming. This is news to actual scientists, who have ridiculed Al Gore's pronouncements as being false and misleading.
Oh, Al Gore has gotten very rich as a purveyor of global warming hysteria, being involved in a number of environmental businesses that rely on belief in environmental crisis to make money.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2404974/al_gores_science_i...
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