One particular industry that I've started analyzing more over the past few months concerns renewable energy solutions.  I've learned about some cool techniques during past little bit....how energy can be recreated from waste, how energy from be produced in Africa and delivered to a customer in Sweden, .etc.  Some really cool stuff!  When it comes to green initiatives, probably Al Gore is the most well-known figure.  His movie on global warming definitely sparked some conversation within my group of friends.  As someone trying to push something at such a large scale, he's also receiving criticism.  People are accusing him of trying to profit from investment put into the Green Economy.  Some critics say that the idea of Global Warming is false and is just a political stunt to get people to pour money into an industry.  Check out the movie "The Global Warming Swindle" if you want to hear people who deny that global warming exists. I wanted to share this video about how Gore defends himself.  His satire use of rebuttals and direct answers are most admirable.  Never does he give the impression that he's in the Hot Seat, and that is impressive to me.  Nice job Al! 

You go, Al Gore!

On Friday, during a Congressional hearing on the Obama Administration’s proposal for a cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gases, Al Gore had to defend his honor. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican Congresswoman from Gore’s home state of Tennessee, questioned his motivations behind supporting the proposal because of his investments in green startups through his role at Kleiner Perkins, where he is a partner. (Watch the video above, courtesy of Talking Points Memo).Blackburn comes off as clueless and Gore comes off as defensive. She didn’t seem to know too much about Kleiner Perkins other than that it is a “capital firm” and that it has invested “$1 billion in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap-and-trade legislation,” or at least that is what she gathered from an old New York Times Magazine article. “Are you aware of that company?” she asked him. Then she asked Gore if he stood to personally benefit financially from these investments, and that set him off:Congresswoman, if you believe the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me.He pointed out that “every penny” he makes from these investments, his book, and movie go to the nonprofit Alliance For Climate Protection. Blackburn responded by saying that she was just trying to get clarity on the issue, but Gore was having none of it:I understand exactly what you are doing Congresswoman. Everybody here does. . . . I’ve been willing to put my money where my mouth is. Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country? I am proud of it.Is this video from a parallel universe or did the Republican Party become anti-capitalist all of a sudden? Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

Al Gore smacks yet another clueless Republican down over his financial involvement with climate change.