It must be global warming...

[Garb]

Al and Tipper Gore Separate | TMZ.com

I usually don't rejoice at the thought of this type of thing, but this was just too good to resist haha.

 

[Hoosier Gun Coat]

It broke my heart. Now what are we going to do.

Al and Tipper Gore Separate | TMZ.com

I usually don't rejoice at the thought of this type of thing, but this was just too good to resist haha.

 

[redneckmedic]

Al Gore and his wife of 40 years, Tipper, are separating.

The couple wrote an email that found its way to Politico, saying, "We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate."

The email continues, "This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration."

The couple has 4 kids.

Roughly one year ago today -- the couple's [COLOR=#29A256 ! important][COLOR=#29A256 ! important]daughter[/COLOR][/COLOR] Kristin Gore filed for divorce from her husband Paul Cusack.

Their relationship has been cooling down for a while now, as tension has been heating up.

 

[printcraft]

OH FN' SNAP AL GORE!!!

See below, the irony is irony today.

Divorce bad for planet, study says | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Headline | National News

[SIZE=+2] Divorce bad for planet, study says

[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]05:58 PM CST on Monday, December 3, 2007

[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1] McClatchy Newspapers[/SIZE] PHILADELPHIA – Forget about staying together for the sake of the kids.
Researchers have a new reason: Do it for the planet.
An analysis of data on domestic relations and resource use in the U.S. and 11 other countries shows that divorce leads to more households – so more land gets built up and more building materials are used.
They concluded that in the U.S. circa 2000, there were about 6 million "extra" households due to divorce.
Worse yet, the households have fewer people in them. So on a per capita basis, divorced residents consume more goods, use more electricity and water, and thus contribute to the emission of more greenhouse gases than those whose marriages are intact.
Lead researcher Jianguo Liu, a sustainability expert with Michigan State University's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, wasn't all that surprised by the results, published in Monday's online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He and fellow researcher Eunice Yu concluded that in 2005, in the United States alone, divorced households could have saved 38 million rooms, 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water if their "resource-use efficiency" had been comparable to that of married households.
At its most basic level, the efficiency math comes down to this: If you use energy to light a lamp and heat a room, are two people in it, or one?
It's a new twist on the notion that love conquers all: Can it also help fight global warming?
"Even those people who care dearly about the environment are not aware of the environmental impacts of divorce," said Liu.
To be sure, when Rabbi Margot Stein of Lower Merion, Pa., got divorced 12 years ago, "I was not thinking about the impact on the planet."
She was thinking about the impact on her children and, to a lesser extent, she drolly noted, "the wear and tear on my car" because she was going to be driving the children to their father's new home in New Jersey every other weekend.
Now, with the passage of years and a growing eco-awareness in society, Stein and her new husband have two hybrid cars. But the children's father has moved to California, so they fly to visit a couple times a year. Talk about carbon emissions!
Likewise, Orly Zeewy, a brand name consultant from Wynnewood, Pa., said when she and her husband split, the fate of the planet was the least of her worries.
"It's such a heavy-duty issue. When it happens, you don't think about the environment at all."
But now, she can see the point, and not just related to the per-capita use of resources.
Her children, now 10 and 13, have two of just about everything, from clothing to toys. "You're basically setting up two households for the kids, so that they feel they live there."
These days, her youngest is learning to play the piano on an electric keyboard. Zeewy said she plans to buy him a piano, and when she does, the keyboard will go to her former husband's house.
Stuff "can get multiplied pretty quickly," she said.
Liu said his study is important because, with the number of divorces rising, the number of households is rising. It's even outpacing population growth itself.
In a 2003 study published in the journal Nature, he found that in some places, in the period from 1985 and 2000, households increased by 3.1 percent, while population only rose by 1.8 percent.
The divergence is expected to widen over the next 15 years, he said.
Liu, who is married (apparently, happily), suggested that if more people knew the environmental consequences of divorce, more of them might choose to stay together.
Not likely, said Zeewy. "I can't imagine anyone would ever tell you they would stay together for the sake of the environment. That would not be at the top of my list."

 

[Expat]

Who gets that seaside castle that will be underwater in another year or two if his theory is correct?

 

[rambone]

Nice find Printcraft. lol

"It's such a heavy-duty issue. When it happens, you don't think about the environment at all."

Ya think?? Lol

 

[JBusch8899]

Lets see now.....John Edwards, now Al Gore, anyone wish to wager who's next and why?

 

[indykid]

Poor poor Algore. First the inconvenient truth comes out as a lie, then his marriage comes out as a lie. What next from one of the greatest liars and thieves of all time?

Gee Al, all I have to say is TOO BAD AND WHO REALLY CARES!

 

[Colt556]

I wonder which one of the gets the Global Warming Scam in the settlement?

 

[christman]

She must have been too cold in bed.

 

[Hoosier Gun Coat]

who's going to take over the internet now?

 

[akaindy]

Maybe the seaside mansion that they bought will become Al Gore and John Edwards new bachlor pad. Think of the climate change parties they'l throw, maybe they will try to out do the playboy mansion.

 

[Boilers]

We can only hope she will pen a tell-all book about Gore's lying, scheming ways.

(cue: smok-y, jed, and ex)

 

[LEaSH]

We can only hope she will pen a tell-all book about Gore's lying, scheming ways.

(cue: smok-y, jed, and ex)

ooooohhhhh that would make the world that much warmer. I will buy it on audiobook and play it loudly and constantly for the first week.

 

[JBusch8899]

Does anyone really question Tipper's source of her diagnosis of depression?

 

[UncleMike]

I'm betting that she just got fed up being married to the Worlds most prolific liar.
Mike

 

[JBusch8899]

I'm betting that she just got fed up being married to the Worlds most prolific liar.
Mike

Sometimes, its much too hard to tell the difference.

 

[muncie1]

why after 40 years? They have enough money they could just live apart. Maybe Tipper needed a divorce to get at the "lockbox"

 

[5.56'aholic]

I think this could be scientific proof of global cooling

 

[Arm America]

$he ju$t got tired of drinking the kool-aid and $aw the light.

Get half the money and no more BS.

I'm surprised it took this long. Good for her!