"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Planting trees to offset carbon emissions. Maybe. Just keep in mind that trees wick moisture out of the ground. Massive tree planting would lead to ecological disaster.
"Unless you think ideology is more important than humanity."
That's the point exactly. The neo-fascists (liberals) do think that their ideology IS more important than humanity.
The global warming, green, etc. movements are driven by emotion rather than any rational thought or science. That is why they appeal to most liberals and other non-thinkers.
Al Gore will get a piece of every carbon credit sold.
Nice scam this carbon credit scheme. I wish I had gotten in on the ground floor.
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This writer states
"A return flight from Toronto to Vancouver injects 5.4 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per passenger."
Assuming the plane carries 100 people, thats 500 tons of
emissions per flight. It is a wonder they can even get that plane off the ground!
I absolutely believe that our climate is warming up. Do I believe I am the culprit? Absolutely not.
Are people making money off of this scam? Absolutely. And if I were morally bankrupt, being the Good Little Capitalist I am, I would be, too.
Anyone that has ever gotten off of their couch and done any amount of traveling around the globe can easily see how vast and mighty Earth is. We are insignificant fleas on the back of Mother Earth. She flicks us off at will on a daily basis...and there is little we can do about it other than not living on a Flood Plain or in Tornado Alley, at Sea Level or on a Fault line.
And even then, if she's gunning for you, you don't stand much of a chance. :)
I don't understand the problem. CO2 is all natural, and all we're doing is returning CO2 to the atmosphere that was taken out in the past. Plus, plants love it.
Another way would be to convert all passenger jets to hydrogen fuel. Burning hydrogen produces only water. While water vapor is a so-called greenhouse gas, the emission of water vapor from jets is usually called a contrail, a condensation trail. It is a long threadlike cloud.
And clouds reflect sunlight, cooling the Earth.
Of course, where would we get all that hydrogen? We would have to build many new nuclear power plants just for jet hydrogen. We might as well put them near the airports, and use them for both electrical energy production and hydrogen manufacturing.
Trees are useful, too. In addition to providing food crops, shade, and building materials, they stabilize soil and soak up carbon dioxide, making it easier to sequester it if you choose to do so. I'll take a few tons of sequestered carbon for my library, thank you.
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Lots of these articles today. Could it be the tide is turning? Once again, Al's on the wrong side of history.
Al Gore Jr.'s carbon offsets are stock he purchased in his very own carbon offset company.
Nice work if you can get it.
Cava, Cleeve? ;)
...good post! I've also followed material written by people who study recently more frequent solar events. They say that such activity has also contributed to warming trends.
No. That's what the computer models suggest, not the same thing at all. The computer models operate on their input which is not representative of all the factors that go into climate, and can't be because many factors are simply not understood well enough to "model" them. The models have to be constantly tweaked to allow for the present reality as it has differed from past projections.