Inconvenient Idiocy: Priceless

clipped from wattsupwiththat.com This is mind blowing ignorance on the part of Al Gore. Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy, champion of slide show science, can’t even get the temperature of earth’s mantle right, claiming “several million degrees” at “2 kilometers or so down”.  Oh, and the “crust of the earth is hot” too. Temperature of the sun’s corona: 1–2 million kelvin Temperature of the sun’s photosphere:  6,000 kelvin Temperature of the Earths mantle, more than “2 kilometers or so down”: between 500 °C to 900 °C (773 to 1173 kelvin) Watching Gore make a complete scientific idiot of himself on national TV: priceless