Archive for the ‘Al Gore’ Category

Filed Under (Al Gore, Climate Change, Global Warming, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, Stupidity, United States) by Deane on June-19-2008

Yet another one of those global warming hypocrisies, this time from the patron saint himself.In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to t…



Filed Under (Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Climate Change, ENVIRONMENT, Greenhouse effect) by Sachith on May-7-2008

The people who know me the most would find it quite interesting that I talk so ill about the whole Global Warming drama. So I need to do some explaining on the very first reasons for my change.
Hmm.. yes there was a time when I was very concerned about the amount of Carbon I should […]



In typical Sri Lankan fashion - about a month late and for a few more than one hour. Ok so it was an island-wide power failure. Given the frequency of these failures, (multiple times a month where I live) the folks at Greenpeace or WWF should nominate…



Filed Under (Al Gore, Climate Change, Global Warming, POLITICS, Sri Lanka, United States, economics) by Deane on February-23-2008

From Bloomberg.com:U.S. plans to replace 15 percent of gasoline consumption with crop-based fuels including ethanol are already leading to some unintended consequences as food prices and fertilizer costs increase. About 33 percent of U.S. c…



Filed Under (Al Gore, Climate Change, ENVIRONMENT, Global Warming) by Sachith on February-5-2008

Since the December of last year, I was an armchair activist on Global Warming. I hated everyone who used more than one car…went by bus, to cut down the emissions (the financial aspect played a major role as well)
As a student of science, I did a little reading into the matter. It is amazing how […]