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Craig Compeau speaks to a small crowd during the unveiling of an Al Gore ice sculpture Tuesday morning, January 5, 2010 at Thrifty Liquor on the corner of Cushman Street and Airport Way. This is the second year local businessmen Compeau and Rudy Gavora have had an Al Gore sculpture displayed at the location, with this year's creation being commissioned to sculptor Steve Dean. Eric Engman/News-Miner
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Craig Compeau unveiled an ice sculpture of Al Gore on Tuesday at the corner of Airport Way and Thrifty Liquor. The sculpture features "smoke" coming from Gore's mouth - exhaust from a truck. Photo courtesy of Craig Compeau
slideshow FAIRBANKS - In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Airport Way.
The two-ton “Frozen Gore” sculpture isn’t exactly a tribute. It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of Gore’s vocal belief in man-made climate change, complete with hot air pouring out of his mouth.
Local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora contracted the piece from award-winning sculptor Steve Dean and say they’ll keep erecting one each winter until Gore accepts an invitation to discuss the global warming issue in Fairbanks.
“We do want to invite debate,” Compeau said. “We don’t agree with his theories — we’re suspicious of the financial motivation behind them.”
This year’s version includes special effects, thanks to a system that pipes the exhaust from a Ford F-350 out of Gore’s open mouth. Compeau will fire up the truck periodically this winter to create the “hot air” effect.
With temperatures in the single digits, a crowd of about 10 people laughed as smoke poured out of the sculpture as it was unveiled Tuesday morning. An excerpt of a recent Gore speech on climate change played over a loudspeaker.
Compeau said the sculpture is inspiring a contest, in which the winner will receive winter gear and an Al Gore bobblehead doll.
He’s asking people to guess how long an F-350 would need to run to match the emissions of a Lear jet flight from Gore’s home in Tennessee to Copenhagen, the site of a recent international climate change summit.
In an e-mail, a Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president doesn’t own a Lear jet and flew to and from Copenhagen aboard commercial flights.
Compeau said he’ll change the wording so his Web site doesn’t claim Gore took a private jet but said the contest will remain the same. He said Gore has been guilty of hypocrisy in the past on the climate change issue.
the rest with comments and pictures at..
http://newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?article-%E2%80%98Frozen+Gore%E2%80%99+sculpture+returns+in +Fairbanks+to+fuel+climate+change+debate%20&id=5444000&instance=home_lead_story
18 hrs ago | 3301 views | 33 | 33 | |
Craig Compeau speaks to a small crowd during the unveiling of an Al Gore ice sculpture Tuesday morning, January 5, 2010 at Thrifty Liquor on the corner of Cushman Street and Airport Way. This is the second year local businessmen Compeau and Rudy Gavora have had an Al Gore sculpture displayed at the location, with this year's creation being commissioned to sculptor Steve Dean. Eric Engman/News-Miner
slideshow
Craig Compeau unveiled an ice sculpture of Al Gore on Tuesday at the corner of Airport Way and Thrifty Liquor. The sculpture features "smoke" coming from Gore's mouth - exhaust from a truck. Photo courtesy of Craig Compeau
slideshow FAIRBANKS - In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Airport Way.
The two-ton “Frozen Gore” sculpture isn’t exactly a tribute. It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of Gore’s vocal belief in man-made climate change, complete with hot air pouring out of his mouth.
Local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora contracted the piece from award-winning sculptor Steve Dean and say they’ll keep erecting one each winter until Gore accepts an invitation to discuss the global warming issue in Fairbanks.
“We do want to invite debate,” Compeau said. “We don’t agree with his theories — we’re suspicious of the financial motivation behind them.”
This year’s version includes special effects, thanks to a system that pipes the exhaust from a Ford F-350 out of Gore’s open mouth. Compeau will fire up the truck periodically this winter to create the “hot air” effect.
With temperatures in the single digits, a crowd of about 10 people laughed as smoke poured out of the sculpture as it was unveiled Tuesday morning. An excerpt of a recent Gore speech on climate change played over a loudspeaker.
Compeau said the sculpture is inspiring a contest, in which the winner will receive winter gear and an Al Gore bobblehead doll.
He’s asking people to guess how long an F-350 would need to run to match the emissions of a Lear jet flight from Gore’s home in Tennessee to Copenhagen, the site of a recent international climate change summit.
In an e-mail, a Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president doesn’t own a Lear jet and flew to and from Copenhagen aboard commercial flights.
Compeau said he’ll change the wording so his Web site doesn’t claim Gore took a private jet but said the contest will remain the same. He said Gore has been guilty of hypocrisy in the past on the climate change issue.
the rest with comments and pictures at..
http://newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?article-%E2%80%98Frozen+Gore%E2%80%99+sculpture+returns+in +Fairbanks+to+fuel+climate+change+debate%20&id=5444000&instance=home_lead_story