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Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming
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Posted on 12/25/2008 10:00:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming By Noel Sheppard Created 2008-12-25 12:31

First it's Christmas lights [0], now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.

Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.

I'm not kidding.

ABCNews.com in Australia reported [1] the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:

Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental problem.

Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts.

Mr Dee says there are simple ways to avoid over-catering at Christmas and damaging the environment.

"Australians waste more than 3 million tonnes of food every year and of course a lot of that food is wasted at Christmas," he said.

Okay, I'll bite: if "gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts," why are we worried about carbon pollution from car exhaust? Or from coal-fired power plants?

Now, add in all the methane being released from cows, bogs, and wetlands across the planet, and the fact that methane is a signficantly more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and hasn't this article pointed out the extraordinary absurdity in the entire anthropogenic global warming myth?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; antichristmas; christmas; envirowhackos; globalwarming
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum; All

You see it’s not all the rotting food that is causing the problem, it is all the rotting bowels and their nasty methane. Eat yogurt with live cultures and that problem goes away. Cured my husband who once emptied an entire railway depot, and on another occasion chased all the hounds out of a hunting cabin.


21 posted on 12/25/2008 10:40:00 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Sub-Driver; Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33; MurryMom
Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming

No mention of Hanukkah, Festivus or Kwanzaa? I wonder why.

22 posted on 12/25/2008 10:42:44 AM PST by Libloather (December is Liberal, Leftist, Marxist Awareness Month.)
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To: Sub-Driver

...and how many animals die in the wild each year? That’s gotta make a stink!


23 posted on 12/25/2008 10:43:38 AM PST by houeto (Material abundance without character is the path to destruction. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL, but Hanukkah and Ramadan do not?
24 posted on 12/25/2008 10:44:01 AM PST by television is just wrong (this is hysterical.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Lies, Lies and more Lies from the Communist environmentalist idiots.
25 posted on 12/25/2008 10:45:47 AM PST by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: Sub-Driver

In six months, it’ll be:

CHRISTIANITY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING!!!

(It’s probably their intent to eliminate religion while they’re at it...)

MERRY CHRISTMAS, and CLEAN YOUR PLATE!!!


26 posted on 12/25/2008 10:45:49 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Let us Do Something. Let us expel our gases toward Jon Dee.

Merry Christmas Freepers and their families.


27 posted on 12/25/2008 10:51:53 AM PST by certrtwngnut (go to you tube @see screw the state of n.j.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Sub-Driver; BurbankKarl; JennysCool
What will they think of next?

just saw this on tv this morning: SFO will be instituting a kiosk in 2009 for certfied carbon credit purchases, with a computer program designed to calculate the deadliness of the flight you're about to take.

kewl! It'll be fun to watch people giving money to unaccounted-for "charities" at the airport!

link


28 posted on 12/25/2008 10:56:22 AM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Guess I need to throw another key on the fire.


29 posted on 12/25/2008 10:57:44 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Did you see this post yesterday about Christmas lights harming 'the planet'??

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2154064/posts

30 posted on 12/25/2008 11:03:12 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: Libloather
No mention of Hanukkah, Festivus or Kwanzaa? I wonder why.

"Diverse" holidays don't cause global warming, silly. Only Christian holidays do.

31 posted on 12/25/2008 11:07:32 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Sub-Driver
THANK GOD FOR GLOBAL WARMING
Has anybody thought how cold it would be if it wern't for Global Warming?

I am shivering just thinking about it. . . .

32 posted on 12/25/2008 11:13:59 AM PST by DeaconRed (I will not work, I will bang on the drum all day (Todd Rundgren) till they stop giving away our $ $)
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To: Sub-Driver

utter nonsense


33 posted on 12/25/2008 11:16:49 AM PST by siamesecats
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To: Sub-Driver

Good thing it happens during the cold time of year then. Looking at the weather map we could do with some global warming, it’s nasty out there.


34 posted on 12/25/2008 11:17:41 AM PST by dilvish
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To: Voter#537
Below zero here with lots of "dependents" flying in...

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35 posted on 12/25/2008 11:17:44 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shouldn’t these Fundamentalist Environmentalists commit suicide to eliminate their footprint? Talk about a win-win!

Merry Christmas


36 posted on 12/25/2008 11:18:11 AM PST by bray (Gov Palin isn't corrupt enough for DC)
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To: Sub-Driver

I don’t know anyone that doesn’t like leftover turkey sandwiches. Leftover tofurkey, however, is landfill fodder for sure.


37 posted on 12/25/2008 11:24:01 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Sub-Driver

We’ve had snow for 2 weeks, chow down fast!

Merry Christmas


38 posted on 12/25/2008 11:24:52 AM PST by bray (Gov Palin isn't corrupt enough for DC)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum
I heard an ad on a local radio news station (serious ad) about not passing gas inside the home as it’s dangerous to newborns and pets.

There's one on TV like that...it's a non smoking ad. I don't know if the one you heard is the same thing.

39 posted on 12/25/2008 11:34:26 AM PST by Krodg
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To: Sub-Driver

How about wasted breath in the media, government and schools about a fraudulent theory of global warming?


40 posted on 12/25/2008 11:43:52 AM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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