but of course... what was i thinking???
Posted on 04/12/2011 4:57:38 PM PDT by PROCON
Do you know what your carbon footprint is?
You should.
A carbon footprint is the measure of carbon dioxide — man-made global warming greenhouse gas — that is released into the atmosphere as you go about your daily life.
Everything you do — from the time you get up in the morning until you put your head on the pillow at night — affects how large a carbon footprint you make.
(Excerpt) Read more at poconorecord.com ...
Uh, your trees need to be donated to the "children" of a turd-world nation, for the good of the many, dontchaknow...
All I can say.....Its not large enough !
Given my “druthers” I’d be tooling around in a Citation X to hit the races I’ve sent my flunky to in a 1M RV......
Seriously, in reality all of this “carbon footprint” nonsense is just that; nonsense. Throughout the 20th century America led the world in its “carbon footprint” but in return, the world got incredible leaps in industrial, mining and agricultural returns far outstripping that “cost” by improved efficiency. IOW, for equal amounts of “carbon cost” the American economy returned far more goods, services and individual benefits to the worldwide public than any other economy in the world.
And, despite crippling “hamstringing by various domestic and offsore hyenas, it still does.... >PS
Well, not really. Any new appliance (or other new purchase) has a great deal of "embedded carbon" that was consumed in its manufacture and transportation.
While it may consume less energy on a daily basis, it takes a long time for the daily energy savings to "pay off" the embedded energy "debt."
You can actually calculate how long this will take. Even if you are an enviroweenie, the "greenest" thing to do is usually to keep using the old energy hog till it wears out.
Actually, if you heat with wood your carbon footprint for heating is zero, other than that for chopping, splitting and transporting the wood.
When you burn wood, you take carbon out of the wood and put it into the air. This carbon, however, came out of the air 10 or 30 years previously when the tree was growing. It's part of the carbon cycle, constantly going from plants to air and back. It doesn't change the total amount of carbon in the ecosystem at all and thus no carbon footprint. Properly calculated, anyway.
Carbon footprint is created by the burning of fossil fuels, which create a net increase of the carbon in the ecosystem and thus drive the CO2 in the air higher. That this occurs is a fact. Its effects over time are a matter for legitimate scientific debate.
Have someone send you a picture of your ass. It has my carbon footprint shown clearly.
but of course... what was i thinking???
Algore and the other jet setting watermelons are throwing off our average!
I got 4 cars/trucks that get 15-20 mpg, 1 of which is a diesel that puts out enough smoke that it blots out the sun.
However, when I tow my camper, my gas truck gets 8.5 mpg, the diesel gets 14. The diesel is just so much more fun to drive.
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