The inconvenient truth is that it’s actually less than 10,000 degrees at its hottest. But hey, when you’ve got an agenda this wacky to sell, what’s the big deal if you’re off by a factor of several hundred when it comes to the central measure of your hypothesis?

Really, what’s a factor of 10 to the second power among politicians, especially when we are proclaiming global warming from tenths of a degree?  Come on, I have a Nobel prize.  I must be on to something, right?

Offsetting the decimal-pointedly focus,
Al G

Now Greg, you are sooooooo picky.  Don’t you understand the new math?  Nancy introduced us to it when she talked about the 500 million jobs a month we are losing.
Geez, what a reactionary conservative you are, Griffith.  How dare you question the great one like this!  :p

I sure hate to disappoint this windbag, but when I worked as an engineer for Pure Oil Company (later part of Unocal, later part of Chevron) some 45 years ago, we were drilling and developing thermal energy in several states. Like his “several million degrees”, we also didn’t have any problem with the “drill bits melting” because we were pumping fluid to them from the surface.
desertpadre

B-b-b-but, if we release all of these millions of degrees of heat from under the Earth’s crust, and release the heat (eventually) into our atmosphere, won’t that make it hotter up here, exacerbating the greenhouse effect and causing   C L I M A T E   C H A N G E ?????

But I don’t care about anything like that . . . What I’m most worried about is this:  If we release all of these millions of degrees of heat from under the Earth’s crust, what’ll be left to power the Secret Underground Volcanic Lair?  (Conan’s right - it IS a plot from Lex Luthor!!!)

No, like all those of his ilk, he thinks that simply by passing a law or regulation, the heat will mind its manners and behave. And of course it will work, because global warming as he describes it is simply a fraud anyway. A serious statement: What is going to be the effect on the weather system with all the energy being taken out of it by wind generators? I’ve never seen or heard of any study about that.
desert padre

Geothermal energy results from the breakdown of Uranium and Thorium in the Earth’s interior.  We can bring that same process to the surface in a nuclear power plant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNt7McxYmGY
http://www.terrestrialenergy.org/

Gore lives here in Tennessee. He is very rich and lives that way, which means he has a carbon footprint as big as Tennessee. He either doesn’t believe in global warming, or he doesn’t belive it should ever affect his fancy lifestyle. We assume that Sewanee’s Jon Meacham, being a good little Dem. Party liberal yes man at Newsweek, also believes in global warming. That never stops him from living large while frequently traveling between his two homes in New York and Sewanee. How big of a carbon footprint does he leave behind?

Sewanee teaches students that “Nobody should have two houses until everbody has one.”  Somehow, that didn’t apply to Jon Meacham. Liberal elites are special cases and don’t have to live the way they talk. They make the rules, so the rules don’t apply to them.

Liberals always come up with virtuous ideas to make the world better for the rest of us. They only get richer while talking about it, but they never live under the restrictions they force upon us.

Gore has his Nobel prize, and so will Meacham. And Gore will claim millions of degrees at the center of the earth, and Meacham will claim his millions of Newsweek readers are “center right.”

Green has become a religion of it’s own. A false idol for some. It’s all that some people talk about, unplugging everything every night, driving hybrids, watching the green channel.

TANSTAAFL (There aint no such thing as a free lunch. Robert Heinlein from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Gore is so far off that even if he were right he would be wrong. (Linus Torvalds, “There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they’d still be wrong.”)

Al Gore.  Yet another reason why the Nobel Prize is a joke.

He was actually referring to the air temperature whenever he opens his mouth.

From here:  http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/sun_worldbook.html

“In the part of the corona nearest the solar surface, the temperature is about 1 million to 6 million K”

Alvin?  Were you talking about the estimates of the temperatures present in the sun’s corona, perchance?

Also, I am hard pressed to recall any material that could be used for a drill-bit that would withstand 1-6 million Kelvin, without melting. 

Perhaps Matweb can help out? 

Actually, maybe we can harvest the geothermal energy in the sun.  You know ... fly over there, and drill, and then set up a geothermal plant right there on the surface of the sun. 

hahaHahahahahaHahahaha

meh130(#6): And therein lies the answer to our energy needs, our environmental cleanup, and all the other problems the “greens” continue to try to solve with someone else’s money and by controlling everyone else’s life.
desert padre

You are not drilling in my backyard ....

DeeBee is spot on.

“Let’s fight global warming by releasing the heat from the earth’s core into the atmosphere!  Yeah that’s the ticket!”

Idiots.

Greg Griffith is to be congratulated.  Readers who want to know more about this vexing topic should visit:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/00107510701529653 .

It is impossible for me to comment on this in a sane and civilized manner, let alone not take pot-shots at the idiocy of it all.

Top Ten Quasi intellectuals/Experts in the Democratic Party.
Al Gore
B. Obama
M. Obama
Bill Bradley
James Carville
Timothy Geithner
James Begalla
Eric Holder
Barney Frank
Nancy Peolsi

It’s Monty Python science.

“The human brain is like an enormous fish - it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see.”

So, he’s full of bull pelosi.  What’s new?

Boy, that George Bush sure is an idiot.

Ran into an interesting article on World NetDailey with this title “Hacked e-mails reveal global-warming fraud”?  This may really be an inconvient truth huh?

George Bush’s SAT scores exceeded those of Al Gore. Ponder that.

GC206 sponsored Al Gore’s movie as a special event for those Deputies and Bishops who were suggestible, weak of mind, and prone to the blandishments of propaganda, of whom there were many. 

While the “core” difference is of kind and not of degree, Al Gore is a snake oil salesman of the Nth degree. 

Thank you Al for the internet.

Exscellent comment, Sparky, and absolutely true.
desert padre

Please,save me the Gore-ee details!

#18

Top Ten Quasi intellectuals/Experts in the Democratic Party.

Dcn Dale—how in the world could you have left off the arrogant, babbling Veep, Joe Biden?

Hanks,
Biden has had some health issues and I don’t want to openly speculate about his fitness to take over in an emergency. If you were selecting a top 10, who would you have left off the list in order to include Biden?

Although totally liberal, at least Bill Bradley is a legitimate scholar.

#25 Goreat now we have the puns coming .... Where is Fr. Van? He is the pro at this.

#12 Moot: 
  The former V.P. may well be onto something, (certainly ON something)....  Solar energy could indeed be harvested by drilling the sun.  (but only at nighttime).

#28. Hanks,

Although totally liberal, at least Bill Bradley is a legitimate scholar.

Bill Bradley admitted that he won a Rhodes Scholarship because he played basketball. What evidence do you have that he was a scholar?

Dcn Dale
I am not trying to defend any of these radicals. My starting point was that Biden is such an arrogant buffoon that he could not be kept out of the top ten.

How about expanding the size of the group?  Then we could keep Bradley in and add the likes of Jack Murtha and Henry Waxman—and. .  .  .

I was trying to delimit the list to pseudo intellectuals and experts. The rascals list is endless and includes many Republicans also. I have liberal relatives mostly in education and their (selected) reading list gives them the false impression that they are the only ones that are informed. I was in our University Library once and one of my many liberal colleagues asked me, “What are you doing here?”.I think the general idea is that if you are conservative, liberals automatically believe that you are intellectually inferior and generally uninformed. Perhaps this could be described as myopic arrogance on their part.

It now appears that the hacked Emails from the Climate Research Unit of Britians University of East Anglia are hitting the elitist media..the Wall street Journal has a piece on it..This is going to be devastating to anthropomorphic climate change…

Dave B,
I think you mean anthropogenic climate change. Anthropomorphic climate change is hard to imagine….

obadiahslope on 11-23-2009 at 03:50 AM • 
Thanks, a little droopy in the eyes when I posted..a I’m at least a million degrees warmer now…