I’d like to see the books please!
Gore joins major venture capital firm – USATODAY.com — This should mean Gore will be all over the valley in the years to come. They should run him for President although 2012 beckons.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore announced Monday hes joining Silicon Valleys most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, an environmental activist who won an Academy Award for his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms headquartered in Silicon Valley expand beyond software, computer hardware, the Internet and biotechnology to so-called “clean-tech” investments worldwide.
Gore is expected to be a high-profile, active partner at Kleiner Perkins. Hes already a senior adviser to Google and a member of the board at Apple. Alliance for Climate Protection, the advocacy group he co-founded, is based in Palo Alto.
Gore is donating all of his salary from Kleiner to ACP.
I think the correct term is “vulture capitalists”
Not sure what your problem with Gore is. Everyone can mock another person, it’s much harder to have stuff done. Regardless of what you think the global warming is caused by, it’s indisputable that it is happening and that we all are going to be impacted. In terms of him becoming a VC: as they say money talks. Apparently, there is a value to the firm that hired him.
Maybe he recognizes the real power is in industry, not government. I hope the wedding went well JCD. Laporte blabbed that Rev. Dvorak was officiating at his son-in-laws wedding.
So he’s going to open more places that will sell carbon offsets?
When eh was in a position of power, he went out of his way to do nothing, with his only prominent environmental position to set up Enron’s power plant in India in a more environmental fashion that made the local governor break the contract at the high cost.
Gore is not the answer.
That’s Young Gore Clown, where’s Fat Gore Clown?
He is one of the first big time politicians to cash in on all the global warming hysteria that HE HELPED TO CREATE!
I read that Gore’s carbon offset business, Generation Investment Management, is already worth $1 billion. Amazing.
I wonder how many government grants this new venture capital business will receive from his co-conspirator buddies in D.C.? And how many businesses will be shamed into forking over cash to Gore’s LLP’s under the political pressure Gore and his eco-warriors will invariably apply? Give Gore the cash and they will lay off the pressure. Sounds pretty dirty to me.
Gore is a flaming idiot. Except for inventing the Intertubes, the imbecile has achieved nothing.
He is too gutless to challenge Hillary, too. What a coward.
If only America had gotten Al Gore in 2000. What did we do to deserve the raving band of fucktards that are ruining everything now? It’s almost enough to make you believe in some sort of divine vengeance or retribution of the gods or something. It’s like a curse. A darned effective one at that.
What did we do to deserve the raving band of fucktards that are ruining everything now?
The fact that the Democrats nominated even bigger fucktards in 2000 and 2004.
Mark, you’re making Gore sound like Jesse Jackson, but he doesn’t operate that way. That is more like the Hillary campaign. There’s a reason we haven’t seen really negative ads out of those Democrat campaigns. The campaign managers are worried they’ll never work again. For that matter, why should Illinois vote for Hillary, since it would ean nothing for their state for 8 years, because she’s mad at Obama?
Gore does like to hector people that he’s right about global warming, and is angry with anyone who dares dissent.
Nevertheless, science continues to prove him wrong:
From Geophysical Research Letters:
The widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month…
Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropical warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming saw a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville’s Earth System Science Center.
“All leading climate models forecast that as the atmosphere warms there should be an increase in high altitude cirrus clouds, which would amplify any warming caused by manmade greenhouse gases,” he said. “That amplification is a positive feedback. What we found in month-to-month fluctuations of the tropical climate system was a strongly negative feedback. As the tropical atmosphere warms, cirrus clouds decrease. That allows more infrared heat to escape from the atmosphere to outer space.”
“To give an idea of how strong this enhanced cooling mechanism is, if it was operating on global warming, it would reduce estimates of future warming by over 75 percent,” Spencer said. “The big question that no one can answer right now is whether this enhanced cooling mechanism applies to global warming.”
The team analyzed six years of data from four instruments aboard three NASA and NOAA satellites. The researchers tracked precipitation amounts, air and sea surface temperatures, high and low altitude cloud cover, reflected sunlight, and infrared energy escaping out to space.
When they tracked the daily evolution of a composite of fifteen of the strongest intraseasonal oscillations they found that although rainfall and air temperatures would be rising, the amount of infrared energy being trapped by the cloudy areas would start to decrease rapidly as the air warmed. This unexpected behavior was traced to the decrease in cirrus cloud cover.
“Global warming theory says warming will generally be accompanied by more rainfall,” Spencer said. “Everyone just assumed that more rainfall means more high altitude clouds. That would be your first guess and, since we didn’t have any data to suggest otherwise …”
“Until we understand how precipitation systems change with warming, I don’t believe we can know how much of our current warming is manmade. Without that knowledge, we can’t predict future climate change with any degree of certainty.”
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Anything people just assume is true with regards to this subject?
Well it sounds fishy to me. Gore becoming a VC in green techologies. So as our culture shifts over to all things “green”, his funded companies stand to cash in bigtime. And he helped accelerate their growth, by creating a movie to sell it. But here’s the big unanswered question. Will it really make the slightest difference?
The Global Warming concept is yet to be substantiated or proven. And believe me, if they could, they’d be all over the news with it. Even more unproven is that Mankind is the sole or principle cause, of any warming trend. And it’s even more important to “them” to assert that this is true. Because that leads to the notion that mankind can reverse, what it has caused. But if it were a product of nature. A cycle of the earth or solar system, over which we are powerless to effect. Then measures to tame or reverse GW, appear quite futile. And that would hurt any business plans that were set to capitalize on the “green movement”. So naturally, few want to scuttle a future growth industry, by calling attention to this glaring fallacy. And whenever someone points out that the other planets are showing signs of warming too. Space scientists are quick to come up with excuses for how their climate changes aren’t for the same reason as ours. Our GW is surely “our fault”. And the other planets’ warming are the results of unknown magical properties, that don’t effect each other or the earth. Which seems to fly in the face of the usual cosmological (and other evolutionary extentions) principle, that something big effects all things the same way. There are no special cases. Or at least there didn’t use to be, until flaws in their theories made them necessary.
Anyway, if there really is GW. It could easily (and most like is) caused by solar activity, or planetary orbital cycles. Cherry-picking only the most recent decades of the climate record, and saying “ah see the spike? Global Warming!”, is unfair (and obviously unscientific). Ignoring all the previously recorded warming and cooling periods, that took place ages ago, went cars and trucks weren’t around. Mind you its still a good idea to reduce population. But let’s not expect any miracles to result from this fad.
Hey, HE INVENTED THE FREAKING INTERNET!!
Where would you think he would hang out?
He can park his 747 at Moffett also!!!! and offset the CO2 with green credits from one of his shadow companies!
Dude this guy is on a roll!
>>except for inventing the intertubes
“the intertubes”?? like, totally, dude.
Walmart is going green in a big way, squeezing suppliers based on their environmental scores with regards to packaging and carbon dioxide emissions.
A few who have a clue and mentioned it before me. Talk about a DUH story about the blindingly obvious:
1. Start a frenzy that will result in billions being diverted into a new industry.
2. Invest in said industry.
3. Bring home millions to add to personal fortune.
A nice side benefit is that he’s also now become a Great Man which is what all he wanted out of the Presidency anyway.
#17
People buying at walmart usually dont give a shit is the product ‘green’ or ‘black’
They buy there only because they can’t afford anywhere else.
Why doesn’t he start by stopping the pollution coming out of the zinc mining operation on his land in Tennessee?
Or maybe he could shut down or clean up the work done by his family business, Occidental Petroleum?
Green is where the green is at eh? Just like his old man and Armand Hammer he knows how to play both sides of the game.
#9
“Gore is a flaming idiot. Except for inventing the Intertubes, the imbecile has achieved nothing.”
Oh and, has George W. Bush achieved anything at all aside from failing on every job position hes ever been?
As manager of the Texas Rangers, he got a new stadium built and made plenty of money for the other partners, though the taxpayers got screwed.
From what I heard, a lot time ago. When Al Gore was VP, he signed off on a lot of US companies seeking exceptions to environmental regulations. All done in private, at some non-White-House office. Or was that Dan Quail? No, he wasn’t smart enough to be that crafty. It had to be Gore. And the electric car prototype, died under his watch too. He did little for the environment when he was Vice-Prez. And probably reversed some things that were good policy, but “inconvenient” to big corporations. He’s two-faced as hell.