Posted on 11/19/2009 7:24:11 AM PST by nysuperdoodle
Here's Al Gore at it again, making insane claims on the Conan O'Brien show the other night. The Earth's interior is several MILLION DEGREES, Al? Seriously? I mean, who knows if geothermal energy makes any sense to pursue, but its credibility gets undermined when Earth-worshiping nutbags like Al Gore just make up huge numbers as they go along. The fact is that the inside of the Earth never gets more than several THOUSAND degrees celsius. How stupid do you have to be to believe that we can live only "several kilometers" from a core that is "several million degrees" hot? Is it more disturbing that one of the environmental "elites" like Al Gore goes around believeing and spouting such nonsense unchalleneged... or that so many people believe him?
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 some contrarian 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 on bigtime, things get up over 10 million degrees.
If the temperature anywhere inside the earth was "several million degrees," we'd be a star.
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I say we send algore to center of the earth with a thermometer to get the real number...
LMAO!
>”How stupid do you have to be”
Al Gore Stupid.
Next question?
What’s sad is no one with a voice calls him on this.
Clowns follow him everywhere.
Didn’t I read somewhere that Algore was a C/D student in college? He is an uninformed fool. Anyone who was raised in the penthouse apartment of the WDC Ritz has to have a few loose neurons. What a wealthy loser.
He’s a laughingstock.
‘scienc-y’ — I like that term, to describe Algore. As opposed to ‘scientist’ or ‘scientific.’ Oh, hahah.
Al Gore is not an “Earth worshipping nutbag”.
He is a dollar worshipping nutbag.
He should be in the stocks and pelted with rotten tomatoes.
What not many people caught onto is that Albore also said in that same Conan interview that all the heat at the center of the earth was enough to meet our energy needs for “35,000 years”.
LOL. Just 35,000 years, Al?
You can’t make this stuff up. But, you’ll never see it in the lamestream media. How Dan Quayle spells “potato” is big news, but not how little Algore knows about the science about which he is supposed to be some kind of prophet.
What a maroooooooon!
Every time this stupid pol opens his smarmy mouth, he exposes the farce that the Nobel Committee has become. And they recently upped the idiocy ante by including Barry Soetoro on their list of worthy.
He does. They’re disguised as reporters.
In the future, this MORON’s name will become a verb and a noun to describe those who, with a straight face, dispense total and absolute BRAVO SIERRA for personal gain. To be “gored” and a “gorism” will join “spoonerism” (for Dr. Spooner), the Norwegian traitor Quisling, “malapropism”(Mrs. Malaprops from the Sheridan novel “The Rivals,” New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, etc.
>”Algore was a C/D student in college”
As in GRADES? or CROSS-DRESSER? hehehehe Wait, I think I’ve coined a new phrase.....
WIFE: Wow! There must be millions and millions of ants down there!
ME: Honey, dont be a GOREON, theres only a couple thousand.
hehehehe
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