{"id":2261,"date":"2010-01-08T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2010-01-08T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T00:06:21","slug":"frozen-gore-returns-to-fairbanks-alaska-bigger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/frozen-gore-returns-to-fairbanks-alaska-bigger-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Frozen Gore&#8217; returns to Fairbanks, Alaska bigger than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m1d7-Frozen-Gore-returns-to-Fairbanks-Alaska-bigger-than-ever\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The new version of the Frozen Gore statue spews smoke generated from a truck. (FrozenGore.com)\" src=\"http:\/\/image3.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/EXID25061\/images\/frozengore.jpg\" alt=\"The new version of the Frozen Gore statue spews smoke generated from a truck. (FrozenGore.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new version of the &#39;Frozen Gore&#39; statue spews smoke generated from a truck. (FrozenGore.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He weighs two tons, is six feet tall and spews smoke from his mouth. No, not former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore but rather a huge likeness of him carved out of ice. The infamous \u2018Frozen Gore\u2019 ice sculpture has returned to Fairbanks, Alaska and it is better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora received national media attention for the ice sculpture of the former vice president they had commissioned. The frozen likeness was created to draw attention to what Compeau called Gore\u2019s hypocrisy in the debate about manmade climate change. Thousands of people went to see the sculpture and the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frozengore.com\/\">www.frozengore.com<\/a>\u00a0recorded more than 1.7 million visitors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m1d7-Frozen-Gore-returns-to-Fairbanks-Alaska-bigger-than-ever\"><strong>Watch the new &#8216;Frozen Gore&#8217; in action at the Climate Change Examiner<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week Compeau and Gavora unveiled a new Frozen Gore statue that is bigger and has a feature that allows it to belch smoke from its mouth (see video below). At the unveiling visitors laughed as the smoke emanated from the sculpture all while a soundtrack of Al Gore\u2019s speeches played in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Sculpted by Steve Dean, the sculpture is intended to draw attention to the men\u2019s belief that other factors drive the climate besides man. Compeau told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, \u201cWe do want to invite debate. We don\u2019t agree with his theories \u2014 we\u2019re suspicious of the financial motivation behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair did invite Al Gore to come view the statue and have a debate last year. Gore declined citing a \u2018scheduling conflict\u2019 although according to Compeau no date had even been suggested.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m1d7-Frozen-Gore-returns-to-Fairbanks-Alaska-bigger-than-ever\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1165\" title=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png\" alt=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside-150x41.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2010m1d7-Frozen-Gore-returns-to-Fairbanks-Alaska-bigger-than-ever\">For the rest of this story and to see the video of the new Frozen Gore in action, please visit the Climate Change Examiner.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He weighs two tons, is six feet tall and spews smoke from his mouth. No, not former vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore but rather a huge likeness of him carved out of ice. The infamous \u2018Frozen Gore\u2019 ice sculpture has returned to Fairbanks, Alaska and it is better than ever. Last year, local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/frozen-gore-returns-to-fairbanks-alaska-bigger-than-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Frozen Gore&#8217; returns to Fairbanks, Alaska bigger than ever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[138,332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}