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When You Really, Really Want Teh Stupid, Al Gore Is Available

Written By : William Teach

The smartest, most important scientist of our time, Al Gore, really, truly brings Teh Stupid during an appearence on that ultra scientific show with that triple PhD host, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (via John Derbyshire at The Corner)

Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …

Al: Yeah, yeah.

Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …

Al: Yeah.

Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

Al: 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 there are these incredibly hot rocks, ‘cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …

[Me] The geothermal gradient is usually quoted as 25-50 degrees Celsius per mile of depth in normal terrain (not, e.g., in the crater of Kilauea). Two kilometers down, therefore, (that’s a mile and a quarter if you’re not as science-y as Al) you’ll have an average gain of 30-60 degrees — exploitable for things like home heating, though not hot enough to make a nice pot of tea. The temperature at the earth’s core, 4,000 miles down, is usually quoted as 5,000 degrees Celsius, though these guys claim it’s much less, while somecontrarian geophysicists have posted claims up to 9,000 degrees. The temperature at the surface of the Sun is around 6,000 degrees Celsius, while at the center, where nuclear fusion is going onbigtime, things get up over 10 million degrees.

If the temperature anywhere inside the earth was “several million degrees,” we’d be a star.

But, hey, don’t forget that it’s OK to exaggerate, per Al Gore. Good thing he doesn’t start his book with a quote about offering you life or death or something.

Expect Gore to not enjoy his Wednesday, as both PETA and Americans For Prosperity to protest him.

But, hey, if wild exaggeration is good for Gore, it must be good for John “Poodle” Kerry.

BIG

If the Earth was “several million degrees” just a couple of kilos down, wouldn’t that cause more global warming than a few parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere?
MediumHeadBoy

He’ll just say he “misspoke,” like with that fundraiser that he said wasn’t a fundraiser.
BIG

I am sure that Al has a hockey stick graph that proves this and a consensus of scientists to back it up. That is all the proof required for him to get several billion dollars in grant money to fund his geothermal interests. Afterall, he is doing it to save the planet.
Huron_Serenity

He is still far more intelligent than the average Republican Presidential candidate. They seem to have a problem acknowledging that evolution is a fact, not a theory.
MediumHeadBoy

He’s also smarter than you, trollboy, but then again who isn’t?
Huron_Serenity

Posted by MediumHeadBoy
2009-11-18 10:47:26

You.
MediumHeadBoy

Oh ho ho ho ho! What wit! To think you missed the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table.

Asshat.
Huron_Serenity

Posted by MediumHeadBoy
2009-11-18 10:54:30

It does indeed take one to know one.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

They seem to have a problem acknowledging that evolution is a fact, not a theory.
Posted by Huron_Serenity
2009-11-18 10:44:11

It’s called a THEORY because it is not FACT, retard, If was FACT or proven as such it would be a LAW. That’s why the LAWS of Gravity are facts and the THEORY of evolution is still a THEORY because in order for it to be fact or a law it has to be reproducable with same outcome everytime. So far no one has been able to reproduce the supposed results of Evolution, everytime, therefor it is not a scientific law but only a theroy.

So much for the vaunted intellect of the left.
Mike_M

Come now, we can’t expect too many details about Al Gore’s religion. Matters of faith are always ambiguous. Just give him your money and you’ll be absolved of your sins. You can even buy carbon indulgences, just like the good old days!
BIG

I am sure that Huron believes the temperature just below the surface of the Earth is “millions of degrees”. Afterall, that is what he has been told and even common sense can’t be used to tell him that it is wrong.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

They seem to have a problem acknowledging that evolution is a fact, not a theory.
Posted by Huron_Serenity
2009-11-18 10:44:11

Thanks for the blatant strawman/attempted threadjack.
DrEvil

Huron,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was movie, not a documentary.

Have an Evil day.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Posted by DrEvil
2009-11-18 11:50:28

You mean Godzilla’s not real????
Huron_Serenity

Posted by bthewolf
2009-11-18 11:26:40

Do you understand the concept of a scientific theory? Gravity is just a theory. It is not a law.

You fucking idiot.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Do you understand the concept of a scientific theory? Gravity is just a theory. It is not a law.

You fucking idiot.
Posted by Huron_Serenity
2009-11-18 13:01:15

physics.about.com/od/classicalmechanics/a/gravity.htm

Are you still in 3rd grade? Never passed a middle school level scinec class? there are LAWS of gravity, MORON, it is NOT a theory.

A scientific law or scientific principle is a concise verbal or mathematical statement of a relation that expresses a fundamental principle of science, like Newton’s law of universal gravitation. A scientific law must always apply under the same conditions, and implies a causal relationship between its elements. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law

In the sciences, a scientific theory (also called an empirical theory) comprises a collection of concepts, including abstractions of observable phenomena expressed as quantifiable properties, together with rules (called scientific laws) that express relationships between observations of such concepts. A scientific theory is constructed to conform to available empirical data about such observations, and is put forth as a principle or body of principles for explaining a class of phenomena.[1]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

The only idiot here is YOU, Huron_stupidity. You are obviously completely ignorant of ANY science, and should sue every person whom you have called teacher for utterly failing to teach you anything.
Mike_M

Posted by bthewolf
2009-11-18 13:31:21

I told you not to debate religion with liberals. I know how to communicate with them:

“Global warming, carbon, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Al Gore.”

Now he’ll nod in approval and go away.
LampofDiogenes

Posted by bthewolf
2009-11-18 13:31:21

[golf clap] Bet that left a BIG effin’ mark, sir.

Huron, dude, you just got publicly pwned, in a rather extreme way. Wanna go wash the blood off before round 2, or just keep bringin’ teh stoopid until the knockout?
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Posted by Mike_M
2009-11-18 13:37:52

Sorry, Mike, I forgot, please forgive me. Huron_stupidity just made me mad for being a complete and utter moron.
richtermarc

That’s ok. Huron has also branded the entire adult leadership of the Boy Scouts of America as child molesters. Hard to take him seriously about anything.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Gore really has said some retarded crap in the past and he keeps on doing it but the left just insists that he’s this titan of intellect.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Scientific laws are not prohibitive, they are descriptive: here’s how things behave.

Scientific theories are hypotheses which have been demonstrated plausible by experimentation.

Darwinism is neither.
DrEvil

You mean Godzilla’s not real????

Posted by bthewolf
2009-11-18 12:15:29

bthewolf,

The theory of Godzilla has plenty of evidence to support it but it is not yet accepted by those who I like to call (I’m doing the little quotey finger thing) “Godzilla Warming Sceptics.”

Think about it. Giant radioactive lizard blowing sh!t up with radioactive fire is bound to cause warming. Its just a theory so far, but once I can get ONE MILLION DOLLARS! in grant money I’ll perform the necessary research to cherry pick the data required to support my theory and toss any contradictory data into the lava flow under the hidden lair.

Have an Evil day
TheRightNut

I don’t know what all the hype is about. If global warming is real (and if it is, I don’t care) it would mean wounders for this earth. It would be more sunny, and people are always nice when it’s sunny out. There will be no more snow, cause snow sucks total ballsack cause people can’t drive in it. There is a whole list of why global warming would be great, so let’s all pray that it is real.
http://quantum-kitty.blogspot.com/ simulacre

TheRightNut has a point…though he was a bit coarse about making it;-)

All of Mankind’s greatest successes and golden ages (Eg Rome) have come about during warming trends whereas our darkest moments (Dark ages) have come during cooling trends or outright mini-iceages…