It’s a good thing Al Gore won that Nobel Peace Prize, because he disqualified himself for any of the scientific awards with this display of ignorance on the Tonight Show.
Conan: You talk in the book about geothermal energy.
Gore: Yeah, yeah.
Conan: …and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …
Gore: 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?
Gore: 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 …
John Derbyshire brought a little reality to Gore’s science fiction in National Review, “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 … The temperature at the surface of the Sun is around 6,000 degrees Celsius, while at the center, where nuclear fusion is going on big time, things get up over 10 million degrees.
So the bad news for Gore is that when he says Earth’s core temperature is several million degrees, he’s off by…uhhh…several million degrees.
The good news is that that’s about as close as he’s come on any of his scientific pronouncements.
Why does anyone pay any attention to this moron?
Source: National Review
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You guys didn’t mention he said the steam can be used to turn turbans, not turbines-and while I am sure the middle easterners would have their turbans spinning if we stopped using their oil……..
Years ago I started reading “Earth in the Balance” and I laughed my ass off!
He dumb!! Actually he’s not dumb. He’s created the biggest get-rich scam the world has ever seen. I need to come up with something this clever.
I have finally given up. I am going to go green, join the Obama Youth as a leader if it ever materializes; etc. If so many people want to drink Kool Aid why should I stop them? I know I am at risk of loosing my savings to inflation, and at risk of having my real property taken away ala Kelo so why should I keep fighting? Instead of drinking Kool Aid at the barrel of a gun, I have decied to join the dark side. Gore, Obama, Pelosi et al have been discredited so many times – yet they are allowed to spout out their BS unchallenged. People follow the media like sheep and believe everything the MSM says. Tens of millions of degrees? This empty suit Gore is a f^&*^ moron.
Think I’ll start trading in cap and trade credits.
I have seen the light.
Go easy on Al. It’s not like he claims to be an expert on the green energy stuff, or written any books on the subject.
Al Gore reminds me of that old character on SNL “Ummm Global Warming, yeah that’s the ticket – I’ve talked to a lot of scientists, hundreds of scientists, I mean a million scientists who all agree with me, yeah – that’s right”
Its apparent the left is willing to go to any length, bend in any shape, tell any lie to avoid having to build a nuclear plant or drill for oil.
Get over it Porky, there is reality, then there is the left and never the two shall meet.
Two words on Gore…Jabba the Hut (I know that’s three)
http://www.framingthedialogue.com/archives/separated-at-birth-jabbagore/
According to Costco magazine Al has unlimited cred as a former Veep and Nobel Prize winner.
http://www.framingthedialogue.com/archives/costco-disconnection/
I find him loathsome and elitist and a bold faced lier.
“the planet has a fever” several million degrees.
I have recently read “Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger” by Callum Coats and the book put out by Philip S Callanham called “Paramagnetism”. I was thrilled beyond words that in the 21st century we are free to start to craft new technologies and gain new understanding of the wonders of the universe. We can and will, as a people, shift the view what is possible and make wonderful and profitable new advances in science, industry and business that come from understanding and working with nature’s powers.
Then I read some piss on a page that was bound up and attributed to an ‘author’ called Al Gore. It was crap through and through. How could this be the leading edge of science? It was closer to fear mongering except it was funny as hell in a sick way.
While that shook my faith in science, especially the esoteric cutting edge stuff, and our ability to understand and work with wild new ideas- I was able to recover. Turns out Al Gore and this GW Nazis were frauds:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116657
I was lucky enough to have unprotected sex with a hot but slutty bartender who could barely mix a mojito. Turns out that she, believe it or else, actually knew more on the basic functioning of the Earth and climate then Al Gore did! And she is just some hot bartender chick!
There is hope for the common man and woman after all. If my encounter with her and the fact that by her just being a high school graduate who did not even take any science related path for her college ‘education’ can know more about REAL SCIENCE then Al ‘trust me its hot in here’ Gore does then there [b]is[/b] hope!
Al Gore may actually be able to mix a somewhat decent mojito.