Al Gore, Tipper Gore snap up Montecito-area villa
The Italian-style home has an ocean view, fountains, six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
April 28, 2010|Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.
The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
http://www.scienceline.org/2008/12/01/ask-rettner-sea-level-rise-al-gore-an-inconvenient-truth/
Some of the most memorable images from Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, are the graphics that show how rising ocean levels will dramatically alter our planet’s coastlines. As Greenland’s ice sheets collapse, Gore predicts that our shores will be flooded and sea-bordering cities will sink beneath the water leaving millions of people homeless. His narration tells the audience that, due to global warming, melting ice could release enough water to cause at 20-foot rise in sea level “in the near future.”
Option 1: Al Gore wasted $8.8 million. "In the near future" a massive increase in sea level will threaten this villa.
Option 2: Al Gore has been feeding us a load to get rich. "He preyed on our fears" to get rich. Now he and the next few generations of Gores' will be never have to work a day in their lives.
Either way, his carbon footprint went up a whole lot, not only from running the house, but also because he's going to have to fly between Tennessee and California to use his homes. Of course, he'll probably buy carbon offsets from Generation Investment Management to balance it out. After all, it would look bad for him to NOT do so, he's GIM's chairman and draws a salary from it.
