According to
The L.A. Times:
Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.
The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
Nine bathrooms and six fireplaces? Won't this hurt his carbon footprint a bit?
But here is the other thing. Remember Mr Gore mentioned something in his movie about a 20 foot rise in the sea water level? Now I know he never mentioned a time frame in the movie, but, wouldn't it be scary to buy a house by the ocean if it was going to be under water soon?
AL GORE SAID: If [the West Antarctic ice shelf] were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet. They’ve measured disturbing changes on the underside of the ice sheet. It’s considered relatively more stable, however, than another big body of ice that’s roughly the same size — Greenland would also raise sea level almost 20 feet if it went.
He also noted in a sobering new paper published Jan. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize carbon concentration levels in the atmosphere between 450 and 600 parts per million, up from 385 p.p.m. today — a target that would be politically challenging — we would still suffer rising sea levels, worsened droughts and more, for centuries to come. “The scientists are practically screaming from the rooftops,” ~ AL GORE (Before the US Senate in 2009)
8 Million dollars on an ocean front house doesn't seem too worried on the sea level to me.
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