From the American Thinker:

The environmental impact of Al Gore is growing faster than his waistline. The warmist con game has been very lucrative for the king of carbon credits. He and Tipper have just added to their collection of energy-gobbling homes with a nearly 9 million dollar 5 bedroom, 9 bath Italian-style villa in the celebrity-studded coastal enclave of Montecito, California, home to Oprah Winfry and many other celebrities. Al certainly likes living large. The home comes complete with 6 fireplaces. How are Al and Tip going to use them without generating carbon dioxide?

See also:
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Gore was seated in the first row, along with his six fellow board members, in Apple’s Town Hall auditorium as several stockholders took turns either bashing or praising his high-profile views on climate change.

At the first opportunity for audience participation just several minutes into the proceeding, a longtime and well-known Apple shareholder–some would say gadfly–who introduced himself as Sheldon, stood at the microphone and urged against Gore’s re-election to the board. Gore “has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted,” Sheldon said, referring to Gore’s views on global warming. “If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn’t need to be re-elected.”

Via JammieWearingFool.

Walter Russell Mead had an interesting photograph from Al Gore’s Nobel prize ceremony in his column, “The Death of Global Warming.” I don’t see too good. What’s that on Al Gore’s prize?…

I was a skeptic until I watched this video.

But seriously, as MikeM points out, it looks like polar bears have bigger problems than carbon emissions.

Via The Daily Telegraph (Australia).

This is really not a “gotcha” moment by any means. Al Gore can just go out and buy methane credits (which I believe do exist). He’ll never stop eating beef, chicken, ManBearPig, etc.

Exorbitantly wealthy liberal elites never have to behave according to the principles they express publicly– there’s always a company (which probably counts Al Gore among its owners) from whom they can purchase absolution. This is a secular religion, and credits/offsets are the indulgences.

I'm thuper cereal-- these ThuperFreakonomic solutions are too easy on humans!

But perhaps [SuperFreakonomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's] biggest sin, which is also the central point of the chapter, is pointing out that seemingly insurmountable problems often have cheap and simple solutions. Hence world hunger was largely conquered not by a massive effort at population control, but by the development of new and sturdier strains of wheat and rice. Hence infection and mortality rates in hospitals declined dramatically as doctors began to appreciate the need to wash their hands.