After
their first two ads essentially made them look like a bunch of fools they released a
third one this time around targeting Gore himself.
With yet another ridiculous claim easily refuted by
Tim Lambert form scienceblogs.com
This screen capture shows that Gore's CO2 meter is about 683,000,000, while the one for the average person is 177, so apparently Gore's flying around produces 4,000,000 times as much CO2 as the average person does in their regular activities. The average person produces about 170 pounds of CO2 per day. According to the CEI video Gore only makes flights from one side of the USA to the other and never flies to somewhere in the middle of the country or on the same coast. This calculator says that a cross country flight produces 1600 pounds of CO2. It seems that the CEI believe that Gore must take 4,000,000*(170/1600)=400,000 cross-country flights every day of the year.
Taking a cross country flight even every second day would be a pretty brutal schedule, so CEI are out by at least a factor of a million.
So, if Gore doesn't fly around the country to warn people about global warming, no-one hears his message. If he does, CEI says "Don't listen to Gore, he's a hypocrite". Cute.
They also fail to mention that Gore is carbon neutral.
Surely he could make a start by flying less? "Beginning two years ago, I made a decision to live a carbon-neutral life," he says, explaining that his family and businesses now do all they can to reduce their emissions and to "offset" the rest by giving money to carbon-reduction schemes in India and eastern Europe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Nevermind. When will CEI argue that ExxonMobil is the most environmental-friendly company on the face of the Earth?