{"id":1818125,"date":"2023-01-21T07:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818125"},"modified":"2023-01-21T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T12:10:10","slug":"how-al-gore-amassed-a-330-million-climate-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-al-gore-amassed-a-330-million-climate-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"How Al Gore Amassed a $330 Million Climate Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-al-gore-amassed-a-330-million-climate-fortune%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1818125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/e995144d-da47-4738-a504-31f7d3a48a36-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h6><em>(Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the author. <a href=\"http:\/\/redstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedState.com.<\/a>)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Al Gore, former Vice President and loser in the 2000 presidential election, has spent his entire post-political career warning everyone who will listen that global warming is causing the earth to die. <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/faq\/12\/whats-the-difference-between-climate-change-and-global-warming\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CClimate%20change%E2%80%9D%20encompasses%20global%20warming,in%20flower%2Fplant%20blooming%20times.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that\u2019s better<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>His 2006 documentary \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl2757461505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amassed $49 million<\/a> at the world box office and catapulted Al into the top ranks of climate hysterics, and he\u2019s never looked back, constantly <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bobhoge\/2023\/01\/16\/over-1000-private-jets-expected-to-descend-on-davos-as-wef-leaders-preach-climate-change-n689607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jetting<\/a> to speak out his truth in meetings around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This week he\u2019s at the <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2023\/01\/19\/elon-blasts-wef-effort-to-run-world-tucker-finishes-them-off-n690668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Economic Forum<\/a> Davos Switzerland, where he is.<\/p>\n<p>Is he doing this because he truly believes what he\u2019s saying, or because he cares so Very much about you? While we can\u2019t read his mind, one thing we do know for sure: climate change has been very, <em>very<\/em> Al Gore, you are a great man. He was valued at $1.7 million at his end as vice president, but he now has an estimated worth of $8.7 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11653723\/How-Al-Gore-300m-climate-alarmism-Former-VP-fortune-losing-George-W.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$330 million fortune<\/a>He owns homes in Virginia, California, Tennessee and receives $2 million per month for a position as a figurehead at Generation Investment Management, a green energy fund that he co-founded with David W. Blood, former Goldman Sachs managing director.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two conclusions I can come to upon learning this news\u20141) I should have been a climate activist. 2) Hunter Biden is nothing compared to this guy.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019s so concerned about rising seas, why would Gore buy a huge oceanview mansion in flood-prone Montecito? The same question could be asked of Barack Obama, the former president. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/inside-obamas-marthas-vineyard-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$12 million<\/a> for a waterfront view on the island of Martha\u2019s Vineyard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarbonFootprint?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CarbonFootprint<\/a>Al Gore&#8217;s home uses more electricity in a year than the average US household in 21 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ge3uK21eqb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ge3uK21eqb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/driUDwhZC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/driUDwhZC8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeff_Jacoby\/status\/893302224796962816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gore\u2019s other property holdings are pretty sweet, too, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11653723\/How-Al-Gore-300m-climate-alarmism-Former-VP-fortune-losing-George-W.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gore\u2019s family has owned farming land in his native Tennessee for generations, while his mansion in Nashville is valued at $7.5 million, his waterfront villa in Montecito, where he counts Oprah as a neighbor [and don\u2019t forget Prince Harry]His Virginia home is worth about $3 million and his apartment at the St. Regis San Francisco building are valued at around $13 Million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How did he make all this money? He is a shareholder in the $36Billion Generation Investment Management fund. This fund has around $80M worth of stock in companies like Apple, Google and Google. He also receives a salary as a member on Apple&#8217;s compensation committee. He is paid $200,000 per public speaking engagement. He also consults companies. \u201cgoing green\u201d For unspecified (but presumably large) fees<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Al Gore made a fortune from bad predictions. Jim Kramer is the only one with a better record. Imagine yourself in the audience, listening to this ass. It\u2019s like a panel with Epstein and Bill Clinton on empowering young women. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r5LWfjCOSG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/r5LWfjCOSG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielTurnerPTF\/status\/1615421096643203081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice how all of the suggestions in this video would benefit Gore&#8217;s Generation Investment fund.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Al Gore\u2019s utility bill? <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/GlobalWarming\/story?id=2906888&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> does. Not long after \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d won an Oscar in 2007, Gore was embarrassed by revelations that he regularly dropped $30,000 a year in gas and electric bills to power his 20-room home, burning through nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours\u2014or more than 20 times the national average. Dude, if you\u2019re going to be a climate guru, might want to turn down your AC!<\/p>\n<p>Some detractors call Mr. Gore &#8220;Mr. Gore&#8221;. <em>Algore<\/em> Al Bore or even Al Bore may not be the most enjoyable to listen to but he has a great knack for making this existential crisis monetizable. He is here in Davos Wednesday, delivering a speech. <span>Talk<\/span> Unhinged rant about \u201crain bombs\u201d And \u201cboiling oceans\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You should be aware of rain bombs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/roGtcMGx0R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/roGtcMGx0R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Big Fish (@BigFish3000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigFish3000\/status\/1616271214024224770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter that many if not most of Al Gore\u2019s predictions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionleader.com\/opinion\/oped-global-warming-dishonesty-is-the-real-inconvenient-truth\/article_1b58ee76-9abd-59a3-9a8d-6922253495cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have failed to come true<\/a>\u2014Florida is still above the sea, and the snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro is still 100 feet thick\u2013but that hasn\u2019t stopped the former VP from making a fortune off scaring people and convincing kids like <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/bobhoge\/2022\/11\/01\/greta-thunberg-gets-even-more-radical-there-is-no-going-back-to-normal-n652689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greta Thunberg<\/a> They destroyed the world for their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, for most of us who don\u2019t have $2 million a month coming to us from a green investment fund, his work has mostly just resulted in exploding utility bills.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Post has been corrected to note that Gore\u2019s Montecito mansion is oceanview, not oceanside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2013> See Also:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nRedState Video Trends\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the author. RedState.com.) Al Gore, former Vice President and loser in the 2000 presidential election, has spent his entire post-political career warning everyone who will listen that global warming is causing the earth to die. that\u2019s better). His 2006 documentary \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d amassed $49 million &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1818128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15012,15874,5458,4321,15508,15524,3819],"class_list":["post-1818125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-15012","tag-amassed","tag-bongino","tag-climate","tag-fortune","tag-gore","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1818128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}