Only In Nashville: Global Warming Lives Here

May 20, 2008 2:30 PM 8 comments

One of the great pleasures we have as Nashvillians is sharing our city with a lot of really famous people like Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman; and of course, too many country stars to name. If you’ve lived here long enough, you may even have your own story about one of them (yes, that’s your cue to leave them in the comments.)

But we often forget about Al Gore, of Nobel Prize and vice presidential fame. That’s why we had to laugh when we were digging through Rotten Neighbor and found his Belle Meade mansion flagged red for “rotten” by a user who had this to say:

This is one of the many homes of Al “Charlatan” Gore. Not the largest house in Nashville, but according to public records, the top consumer of electricity [of] any other residence. Perhaps it’s the more than 12,000 square feet of living space for he and Tipper. Perhaps it’s the heated outdoor pool. Or perhaps it’s the ice maker that works overtime to make all the little cubes that he plans to take with him to hell for architecting the greatest lie of all times, man-induced global warming.

At the rate things are going, John Rich may soon be joining Gore on the map if he follows through with the plans for the “Villa Rich” monstrosity mansion on Love Circle. Though the building group has yanked the renderings “at the request of the client,” we still managed to find this drawing of what the home is supposed to look like that completely explains why the neighbors are upset.

  • kate

    Ahh Mr. Rich…or as most industry insiders/entertainment attorney's will attest: “the man you never want to get involved with.. in business or otherwise.”

    Villa Rich…. but of course.

  • Heather

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but the person calling Gore a charlatan is complaining about how big the house is and how much energy it uses, but in the same breath is denouncing global warming as a hoax? If it's a hoax, who cares how much energy the man uses. Something's not clicking there.

    And of course, the people attacking Gore don't want to acknowledge the significant renovations he has made (and continues to make) to decrease energy use and switch over to cleaner energy:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22248699/

  • kate

    Ahh Mr. Rich…or as most industry insiders/entertainment attorney’s will attest: “the man you never want to get involved with.. in business or otherwise.”

    Villa Rich…. but of course.

  • Heather

    Maybe I’m missing something here, but the person calling Gore a charlatan is complaining about how big the house is and how much energy it uses, but in the same breath is denouncing global warming as a hoax? If it’s a hoax, who cares how much energy the man uses. Something’s not clicking there.

    And of course, the people attacking Gore don’t want to acknowledge the significant renovations he has made (and continues to make) to decrease energy use and switch over to cleaner energy:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22248699/

  • http://loudestnoise.com David Cintron

    I think Al Gore is a nice guy and you shouldn't pick on him.

  • http://loudestnoise.com David Cintron

    I think Al Gore is a nice guy and you shouldn’t pick on him.

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  • Corey

    Yeah, the only reason Gore paid to have that renovation done was because the article written about him got so much publicity. Once he finished tranforming his house into a “green paradise,” he called up MSNBC and said “hey, I have a story for you….come on over and take some pictures of my house. Let everyone know how “green” I am. He never would have bothered otherwise.

    Oh, and just because someone believes global warming is a scam (like thousands of scientists and most of NASA), doesn't mean they don't care about the environment. Lets take care of the earth, but lets not act as if the earth is more important than human life – or human quality of life. Lets develop cleaner, more efficient technologies, but as we're doing that, lets use the fuels and technologies we have access to now….such as oil off the coast, oil in Alaska, etc.

  • Corey

    Yeah, the only reason Gore paid to have that renovation done was because the article written about him got so much publicity. Once he finished tranforming his house into a “green paradise,” he called up MSNBC and said “hey, I have a story for you….come on over and take some pictures of my house. Let everyone know how “green” I am. He never would have bothered otherwise.

    Oh, and just because someone believes global warming is a scam (like thousands of scientists and most of NASA), doesn’t mean they don’t care about the environment. Lets take care of the earth, but lets not act as if the earth is more important than human life – or human quality of life. Lets develop cleaner, more efficient technologies, but as we’re doing that, lets use the fuels and technologies we have access to now….such as oil off the coast, oil in Alaska, etc.

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