“Sitting in the front row with the other outside directors, he had to bite his tongue as two pro-environment proposals were voted down and a gadfly named Shelton Ehrlich took the mic to call him a ‘laughingstock,'” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “‘The glaciers have not melted,’ Ehrlich said, referring to Gore’s frequent warnings about the effects of global warming. ‘If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn’t need to be re-elected.'”
“But Gore is amply rewarded for serving on Apple’s board,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Last year he received in cash and stock options the equivalent of $436,372. The 10,000 options he was granted in 2008 are now worth nearly $750,000.”
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “And according to an SEC filing published Friday, he has just received another 9,397 options — more than any other director — in addition to 990 restricted shares. Net value of last week’s haul, including those restricted shares: more than $227,000 at Apple’s closing price of $204.62… Gore has done well for himself since he left public service. In 2000, his net worth was estimated to be between $1 and $2 million. By 2007, it had reportedly reached $100 million.”
Full article here.
I like Al except for his politics!
Will come in handy heating the Plantation house in these climate changed times when the mid South is freezing it’s assets.
Oh boy, here comes another 5 pages of comments.
If it does get warmer, wouldn’t that mean we could burn less fossil fuels to heat our homes?…..of course then the Earth might cool, which means burning more, which means global warming, which means burning less fuel…..
Ah, give me the keys to my Hummer, I need to take a totally useless drive and think about this.
“Oh boy, here comes another 5 pages of comments.”
Four pages of which will be people predicting five pages of comments.
“‘The glaciers have not melted”
No, they are not, they are just breaking apart and traveling around the world as giant masses…..
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61P15H20100226
It looks like MDN hasn’t gotten enough hits today. Sigh.
Cue the brainless: it’s time for your rantings about conspiracies, ineptitude, and other nefarious bogeymen foisted on you by those commie-fascist-hippie-nazi liberals. We’re all waiting with bated breath for your newest screeds and insane babblings on matters beyond your comprehension …
Remember:Stupidity is a condition. Ignorance is a choice!
Hey guys, it snowed this year on the east coast a lot. So that means there’s no climate change, okay? How smart do you have to be to get that? If there’s a lot of snow in one place on the globe, then global warming can’t possibly be true.
“commie-fascist-hippie-nazi liberals”
That’s like a pie that is sour, sweet, bitter, and salty all at once. That doesn’t make sense.
Can anyone state what Al Gore has done for Apple or for Apple’s share holders? Has he got more Mac’s in government buildings, schools, military, … Exactly, what does this idiot do for Apple? Why did they put him on the board in the first place?
“The world is cooling. Global temperatures have declined since 1998 and a growing number of climate experts expect this trend to continue until at least 2030. This, happening while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise, is in complete contradiction to the theory of human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming (AGW). The CBC and other die-hard AGW proponents respond by publicizing selected glacial melts and the impact of dramatic but improbable sea level rises, the only warming issues that seem to grab public attention.”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/122
More energy in a closed dynamic system means more volatility within that system. On our planet, this means more extreme weather conditions. Colder than usual in some places, warmer in other places. More rain or snow in some area, less in others. Bigger storms.
This is what’s happening: we’re breaking historic records at unprecedented rates. And, yes, the glaciers are melting, as is the ice at the north pole.
This isn’t a left wing plot (to gain, what..), it’s reality, and your simplistic denial of it will not make it go away.
“That’s like a pie that is sour, sweet, bitter, and salty all at once. That doesn’t make sense.”
Exactly!
I hope they are carbine neutered, or whatever….
Yes, we know Al Gore is a fraud! But, what is he doing on Apple’s board? Dose anyone know what this idiot does OR EVER DID at Apple?
Hey “Fact Checker”, the Earth is not a “closed dynamic system”. If the sun was not there, we would ice over in less than a day while we shoot out into outer space! Idiots!
Again, what does Al Gore do for Apple or Apple’s share holders? Does anyone even have a clue?
Right on, my man. Right on.
So, we all have agreed that Al Gore is very expensive dead weight that does nothing for either Apple or the Apple share holders.
Pin-Up glacier boy Al Gore
Rob, Al Gore isn’t any kind of pin-up! He is missing a lot now and could be a face on the milk box. He is to stupid and doesn’t know to go south of the equator so no one around him see the extreme cold and snow.
How about we put him on the Apple board when someone can come up with a reason for him to be there!
The ultimate irony is that Gore has made 100 million dollars talking about how we need to change from an environmental and political perspective.
Rush Limbaugh has made about the same talking, among other things, how we shouldn’t.
Think about that.
@ Fact Checker
There you go trying to use physics to argue with ideologues. The only “logic” they admit is blind acquiescence. Don’t waste your time or electrons. The ideologues have no wish to debate, they only seek to pontificate.
@ Jersey_Trader
My bad. Yes, of course we get energy from the sun. My point that as the energy to the system we get more volatility rather than a smooth, across the board temperature increase remains the same.
@ Al Gore is a fraud
Always check where your sources’ money is coming from. Both Ball and Harris, authors of the Free Press article, have ties to the energy industry which they take great pains to hide. They are active members of the cadre of oil industry backed ‘experts’ who are waging a campaign of climate change doubt to forestall changes that will hurt those industries.
Bye, I have work to do. Maybe next year I need to go out there and ask Al Gore, “Why are you here and on the Apple board”? And “Who suggested that you be on the board?” Is he related to someone at Apple?