Posted on 03/16/2009 5:17:44 PM PDT by markomalley
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WHAT is your carbon legacy - not the emissions you are personally liable for, but those of your descendants? Ask Paul Murtaugh, a statistician at Oregon State University in Corvallis. If you have a child, he says, you and you partner are each responsible for half its emissions. If that child has kids, one-quarter of their emissions are down to you, and so on. How it adds up depends on population trends and emission changes in the future. Murtaugh used UN population projections, which say that after 2050, birth rates in all countries will be 1.85 children per woman, on average. Then he took three emissions futures: rising business-as-usual emissions, constant emissions, and "save-the-planet" levels that fall to half a tonne of CO2 per capita per year by 2100. With rising future emissions, each extra child in the US would eventually result in eight times the lifetime carbon footprint of the average US resident today. Even with constant per-capita emissions, it's nearly six times - or nearly 10,000 tonnes of CO2. |
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After all, it's "for the children!"
(SORRY: forgot the “barf alert” tag on the title)
This goes along with Pelosi’s thinking. Sick.
You would think these Malthusians would give up by now.
And here they expose themselves. They’re not about living more lightly on the earth, they’re about not living at all.
Lead by example.
Boy, that sure wasn’t CO2 my son used to emit!
How does he determine which children are surplus?
And once he identifies them, what does he want to do with them?
Just send them back. My question to this guy is “So what?”
“Children Come with a High Carbon Cost”
An example of a statement from an insane mind.
IMHO
“Liberals, stop reproducing.
Lead by example.”
Well, the homo’s have...they are essentially a “self-licking lollipop,” so to speak...they kind of make themselves extinct, so, there is that.
added keywords “carboncult” and “junkscience”
Actually we am responsible for all its emissions although I expect grandma will change diapers occasionally.
I think this is a way to give George Tiller “carbon credits” that he can then convert to cash and give back to the politicians as political contributions!
People, we are PAYING for this crap, with our taxes. The government twerps take OUR MONEY and use it to pay for this obnoxious crap.
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
Yes, do it tonight. Then you can call his school tomorrow and tell them he won’t be attending class anymore and how lucky the world will be without a kid who farts and burps all the time.
This used to be an actual scientific mag. Really.
No longer. The monster raving loonies have taken over.
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