The author makes some reasonable points about a possible mismatch between Al Gore's public presentations and his own home energy use and ownership of zinc mines. I hope that Gore will soon make necessary corrections to his personal lifestyle, so he doesn't expose himself and the environmental movement he supports to this type of criticism.

The war street journal.....they have not read tomdispach or news trust on the disingenuous attack on Inconvenient Truth. Their repeat of NYtimes vaunted "From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype."'s exaggerations/lies are biz as usual. Not making the effort at genuine investigation of the so called inaccuracies. A real debate should address Fund's quote of Gore "moral imperative".

Little more than a right-wing hatcher job; Mr. Fund has had it in for Mr. Gore since day one.

The sources cited in this story are HIGHLY suspect, and the author dismisses the very real attempts of Gore to overcome the environmental problems of his estate. I don't trust him.

This is more of the one-sided right-wing slander that the media promoted about Gore during the 2000 election. It's hard to see what is new about this kind of mis-representation or what the media is finally catching up to.

I also believe Global warming is a problem, but I haven't sold my cars and starting riding my bike to work either. I have no doubt that the effect will be a long term issue, but at some point we have to make an effort to begin to reduce our contribution to the problem. No one person can do the entire job, but someone has to begin to sound the alarm in a manner that gets peoples attention and people love movies. This report seeks to discredit the entire process by discrediting the messenger. The one issue they do bring up that bears attention is the idea of carbon offsetting. This reminds me of the pollution tax credits being sold around.

This is the worst kind of reporting - report a "fact" - Al Gore has a big house and the media is reporting that he has a big house - then draw all sorts of bogus conclusions from those "facts". This is exactly what we should be fighting against. People who review articles should try to learn something about the subject beyond the four corners of the article they are reviewing!

Devastating summary of media coverage beginning to explore Al Gore's environmental hypocricy.

As I tried to point out in the NewsTrust discussion, this global warming fix will come at the expense of the middle and lower classes. The rich, even the proponents of Global Warming have no intention of altering their life styles except to maybe make even more money off of promoting Global Warming. It's like they want "us" to use less so there will be more for themselves.

The article is overdue - I first read about Gore's dubious personal record in the European press the morning after his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards. My problem with this kind of reporting is the "let's throw the baby out with the bath water" approach. Why are we casting serious doubt on global warming because the messenger is flawed? We are all flawed on some level. Are the glaciers not melting and is that suddenly no longer alarming because Gore doesn't walk the walk? It's short-sighted and, frankly, lazy to hide behind the old adage that the scientists are still debating or that Gore is a hypocrite. In the real world, the climate is changing and if we each did a little (including write to Gore and demand change ... More »

John Fund is a right wing journalistic hack who cannot be trusted to report honesty or knowledgeably on anything. He is our typical WSJ/FOX NEWS liar and crackpot. Ignore his tirades and shut him out of your conscioucemess. It what he deserves. Apparently the other reviewers for this article on NewsTrust are IGNORANT of the facts in the use of energy by the Gore household in Tennessee. They have either ignored the accounts of the FACTS following the hit in Gore by an obscure right wing "think tank" and its trumpeting by the NYT, WSJ, FOX, and some others. The Gore household has, in fact, a very small "carbon footprint" because Al Gore has purchased ( AT HIGHER COST !) a large number of "blocks" of "green" energy from other ... More »

Mr. Fund cites the "Tennessee Center For Policy Research" which was only recently formed by a Drew Johnson of the Heritage Foundation ultra-right wing "think tank". The Tennessee Department of Revenue does NOT recognize the newly organized the TN Center for Policy Research as a legitimate organization, and has instructed its employees not to respond to TN Center's requests for information. According to reports on MSNBC, Mr. Johnson totally skewed the information that all these right-wingers in such a tizzy. Speaking of tizzies and hissy-fits, Mr. Fund is a notorious ultra-right wing hack who will do ANYthing to further right wing causes. As it goes with these guys, just make an accusation and most of the newsmodel-stenographers ... More »

"Attack the messenger" seems to be the name of the game here. 13 paragraphs are devoted to trashing Gore's personal environmental record while a mere 5 address the issue of questionable scientific claims. I guess the point is that because Gore is the person saying that global warming is a problem, we don't really need to worry about it.

While the author does a decent job of rehashing the primary criticisms of Gore’s personal environmental footprint, he does not even make a pretense of being evenhanded. Fund spends the majority of the article attacking Gore personally and the little bit of direct criticism of Gore’s stance on global warming is almost all from a flawed New York Times article (for a review of the times article: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/broad-irony/ ). Much of the criticism of Gore is questionable. He dismisses Gore’s offset purchases as meaningless because they are supplied by Generation Investment Management (Gore’s company) and not by Gore personally. Gore is a major shareholder in the company and thus any outlay ... More »

This is a "hit" piece only a smidge above slander. Ill-sourced, this personal attack on Gore has little to do with the danger of global warming but seems to imply that if Gore is not a saint then global warming isn't a problem. Nothing said about the solar energy at the Gore estate or the fact that the "home" is actually two major offices (Gore and his wife's) with staff, accomodations, and an extensive security system (as any former vice Presidsent might have -- only Gore's isn't as wasteful). No sources on peer reviewed criticism on global warming (because there isn't any -- scientists are actually in consensus) and further obfuscation of the facts.