………Recent the schlock, AKA, Al Gore was on the Conan O’Brien show. He was teeming with optimism and ignorance as he began to spew about the potential for geothermal energy. Unfortunately, as always, he was ill prepared and wrong. As he started to spew his company line, he blatantly went off about geothermal. He actually state a temperature range that was intended to give an idea about the temperature inside the earth, itself.

………As usual he was short on the facts and long on exaggeration. He noted, quite audibly, that the inner temperatures of our earth, reach into the millions of degrees. By any standard, save Al’s standards, that is a blatant lie. This man has such a history of playing fast & loose with the facts that one should be cautious when listening to him. The inner most temperatures of the earth probably could be measured in the thousands of degrees celsius. Scientists have estimated that the core temperature of the earth is in the range of 5,000 to 7,000 degrees Celsius.

………That is a far cry from the implausible estimation made by Gore. To tap into geothermal you only need to go down a few KM rather than a few thousand miles, to the earth’s core. It is astonishing and embarrassing that his comments would go unchallenged by most of the press. The ugliness of this, is that so many people are so adamant and so gullible that they take as gospel, anything said by people such as Al Gore. He has a history of lying, deceitfulness and just plain ignorance. Few people in political life, with the exceptions of former Vice President Al Gore and Vice President Joe Biden, have been more wrong, more often! You have to take these misstatements at face value if, in the end, you wish to be taken seriously.