{"id":309769,"date":"2017-08-23T12:18:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=feeaa4264bfeb035c1995e56fff5a9ca"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:18:57","slug":"the-truth-about-al-gores-carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-truth-about-al-gores-carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Al Gore\u2019s Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Now that Gore&rsquo;s new movie is showing in theaters, the attacks on his credibility have begun        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/truth-about-al-gore-s-carbon-footprint\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/al-gore-energy-retrofit-carbon-footprint.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Al Gore's 2007 home energy retrofit\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/truth-about-al-gore-s-carbon-footprint\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/al-gore-energy-retrofit-carbon-footprint-spray-foam-insulation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Spray foam insulation in Al Gore's attic\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Al Gore is in the news again. His new climate change movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6322922\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"><em>An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power<\/em><\/a>, is in theaters now. And that means the folks who don&#8217;t believe in climate change &mdash; or at least folks who don&#8217;t believe that humans have any impact on it &mdash; are out in force trying to discredit the message.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case 10 years ago when Gore&rsquo;s original movie came out, they&#8217;re going after his <span>carbon footprint<\/span><span>Amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that a person, community, industry, or other entity contributes to the atmosphere through energy use, transportation, and other means.<br \/>\n<\/span> and making the case that he&#8217;s a hypocrite. Let&#8217;s take a look at the issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/truth-about-al-gore-s-carbon-footprint\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2057,1028,754,1178,3440,14607,3434],"class_list":["post-309769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-al-gore","tag-carbon-footprint","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-ground-source-heat-pump","tag-gshp","tag-insulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}