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Children come with a high carbon cost
New Scientist ^
| 3/15/2009
Posted on 03/16/2009 5:17:44 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
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. That means my parents are jointly responsible for one hundred percent of my emissions (.5x2). And my grandparents are jointly responsible for one hundred percent of my emissions (.25x4). The way I look at it, that gives me personally a lot of leeway for emissions, since my parents and grandparents are jointly responsible for 200 percent of them.
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:38:29 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(What's Black and White and Red all over?)
To: markomalley
Paul Murtaugh, a statistician at Oregon State University in Corvallis REALLY NEEDS TO GET A LIFE!!! What a moron. Paul! Go to your room and play with your numbers you idiot!
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:41:47 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
To: Da Coyote
So how do we calculate the carbon emissions of the Octomom using his formulas?
To: markomalley
Today President Obortion signed the new executive order for a $60,000 annual carbon tax on each child, unless they are slaughtered and donated for stem cell research.
To: FlingWingFlyer
Can’t we just buy carbon credits and neutralize all that anyway? I thought that’s the purpose of the carbon credits and Obama’s cap and trade proposal.
To: Dilbert San Diego
Exactly. Of course, I think that’s what the lefties have in mind. Taxing parents for the children that they have. It’s a sick, sick, sick world.
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:46:57 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
To: JimWforBush; martin_fierro; Jersey Republican Biker Chick; najida; Tijeras_Slim; RockinRight; ...
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:48:09 PM PDT
by
Allegra
( Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.)
To: markomalley
SORRY: forgot the barf alert tag on the title I think you can be forgiven. It's almost built into the title of the article itself. The only time anyone should be excoriated for failing to give a barf alert is when the title doesn't inherently tell you that the article to follow is enraging, nauseating BS.
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posted on
03/16/2009 5:53:52 PM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(The Fairness Doctrine isn't about "Fairness" - it's about Doctrine.)
To: markomalley
If you have a child, he says, you and you partner are each responsible for half its emissions. Thereby absolving my kid of any. Ummm... send me a bill after I'm dead & gone, okay?
Oh by the way, my emissions are my grandparents' responsibility -- same thing applies, got it?
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:09:35 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
To: markomalley
Mr. Murtaugh doesn't have children. He has cats.
He also hates Bush and loves kayaking with the boys. Draw your own conclusions...
The Web Site of Paul
To: FlingWingFlyer
To the author: Well, do you want to keep the CO2-emitting kid who becomes the brain surgeon who operates on your sorry brain to save your life down the road?
Oh, no, that was the kid you killed as an embryo in the hopes that some grisly experiment on his tiny body would cure your brain cancer?
brain cancer = insert whatever disease or ailment
We will reap what we sow.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:26:17 PM PDT
by
elk
((A Member of the Silent 58)TM)
To: LibFreeOrDie
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:46:01 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
To: advance_copy
Meanwhile the Chinese take tax money from their citizenry and make weapons and train their military.
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posted on
03/16/2009 6:47:30 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Don’t blame the kitties, they’re innocent. Blame their dumb owner.
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:03:37 PM PDT
by
Fire_on_High
(One Big Ass Mistake America!)
To: TheDon
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.Save the world,
Kill a politician!
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posted on
03/16/2009 7:14:58 PM PDT
by
DonnerT
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; Slings and Arrows
Mr.
Murtaugh and Mrs. Fierro
doesn't don't have children.
He has They have cats.
HeThey also hates think Bush was OK and loves kayaking with the boys FReeping. Draw your own conclusions.
To: markomalley; xcamel; fieldmarshaldj; rabscuttle385; BillyBoy
“WHAT is your carbon legacy”
“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.”
I cannot believe this BS.
I’m gonna look for ways to increase my carbon footprint.
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posted on
03/16/2009 8:57:30 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: martin_fierro; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; NYC GOP Chick; ...
It's at times like this that I like to refer to
the classics.
Also, I would like to welcome the members of the Miscellaneous ping list, which has merged with the Not-A-Ping-List ping list. Your decoder rings and brain-implant microchips will be arriving via FedEx. No need to send contact info; we know where you live.
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posted on
03/16/2009 9:41:56 PM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(Ever think "That'd make a great name for a rock band?" http://twitter.com/newbandnames)
To: Slings and Arrows
Looks like the enviro-wackos are working hard lately.
To: Victoria Delsoul
They have the strength of madness.
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posted on
03/16/2009 9:47:48 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Ever think "That'd make a great name for a rock band?" http://twitter.com/newbandnames)
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