[cogitator]

If a person is gaining weight, then he/she is a carbon sink. We burn carbon for energy (raise your hands if you've heard of the Krebs cycle), and CO2 is the byproduct. If not all the energy consumed by the ingestion of food is burned, we gain weight. A human that has a static weight is carbon neutral. Only a human who is losing weight has carbon emissions (not just breathing, BTW) exceeding intake.

Think about it. And it would clearly indicate that Gore has recently been a carbon sink, physiologically speaking!!!

But the smartypants Bryce, and Sheppard for promoting his column, aren't necessarily right about this. In fact, they're mostly wrong. Typical science illiteracy. I might even have to email him.

[raybbr]

But the smartypants Bryce, and Sheppard for promoting his column, aren't necessarily right about this. In fact, they're mostly wrong. Typical science illiteracy. I might even have to email him.

You got some 'splainin' to do. How can a person reduce his CO2 emissions to zero while remaining alive?

[palmer]

If not all the energy consumed by the ingestion of food is burned, we gain weight. A human that has a static weight is carbon neutral

Both statements are incorrect, feces and urine have varying amounts of carbon and calories and our digestion determines whether or not we gain weight more than how much we exercise (yours is a common misconception). Carbon neutrality is quite impossible in any case, since we create carbon when we activate muscles, keep warm, etc.

[goodwithagun]

Goron doesn’t need Carbon Credits, he needs Carbohydrate Credits.

[SoCal Pubbie]

The statement was not that a person could become carbon neutral, but that one can “reduce your carbon emissions to zero.” The only way to do that is to stop breathing, eliminating waste, and decomposing.