Carbon belching NOT a good idea
As an antidote to Earth Hour, an organization that calls itself Grassfire.org, is calling on people around the globe to dramatically increase their carbon dioxide emissions and thereby the so-called Carbon Footprint on Carbon Belch Day, June 12.
“It’s time (…) to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us,” says Grassfire.org President Steve Elliott. “The fact is, reducing my personal carbon output has no impact on the so-called planetary emergency. That’s why for this one special day we are encouraging every American to unleash a historic Carbon Belch that will be symbolic of our release from the absurdity of green extremism.”
On the Carbon Belch Day website, there is a 21-question calculator to help us quantify our personal carbon belch.
“There’s something for everyone in our calculator”, says Elliott. Some of the examples given are hosting a barbie, going for a long drive, taking a plane trip and drinking bottled water.
As a skeptic to AGW I did not take part in the Earth Hour. But neither did I try to exaggerate my energy use in order to counteract this initiative. A Carbon Belch Day, when everyone skeptic of man-made climate change tries to maximize his or hers energy consumption and CO2-emissions seems an exceedingly juvenile idea. I just don’t get why we should regress an adult sandpit just to make a statement. Surely, there must be better and more sound ways to change public opinion.
I am sorry, Grassfire.org, this is just plain stupid.
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Stupid, yes.
But no more stupid than some of the greenie nonsense you’ve been reporting on Maggie
Concerning CO2, IPCC, and skeptics it might be reasonable to reproduce an excerpt form a text on: http://www.1ocean-1climate.com/ , as follows:
QUOTE__ Under the editorial guidance of the eminent climatologist S. Fred Singer, a group of about 30 scientists published a paper: „Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate” (by THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE, 2008). By all respect for the work, the paper title is grossly misleading, if not erroneous. They actually review the extreme narrow question of carbon dioxide (CO2), but do not hesitate to make the pompous announcement that „Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate”.
Presumably science would serve the general public better when they would listen to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) who said: “Water is the driver of nature”. Not nature rules climate, but water rules the nature on this earth, and the water on earth is so much synonym with the oceans and seas that it can be said: “Climate is the continuation of the oceans by other means” __UNQUOTE
I will drive some extra laps around my house
Hmmm, which is more stupid, passing laws saying that CO2 is a pollutant,
or belching a bit more of the stuff in protest…
CO2 is a naturally occurring trace gas, that is an atmospheric plant fertilizer.
Quite important really on a planet where virtually ALL life ultimately depends on photosynthesis, and the products thereof.
It maybe a “stupid” protest, but it hopefully will make more people aware of a far, far larger, and way more costly and damaging stupidity,
the false premise CO2 emissions are a bad thing.
Good old CO2 is our friend,
not our foe.
Oh, and obviously as the planet has had numerous ice ages (at least 6 in the last million years,
and 5 intervening warmer than present interglacials,
then obviously nature DOES rule the climate,
not man.
Get real people, ie ab above,
CO2 is a good thing, we are dependent upon it, more please.
Climate always has, and always will vary perfectly naturally,
recent variations are well within (perfectly natural) historical bounds,
no proof whatsoever exists to say man has caused much warming at all, if any.
STOP TRYING TO JUSTIFY TAXES YOU HAVE TO PAY,
THEY’LL NOT MAKE AN IOTA OF DIFFERENCE TO THE CLIMATE,
AND POLITICINS WILL ONLY WANT MORE.
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