Posted on 01/25/2008 8:42:32 AM PST by bs9021
Carbon Footprint of the MLA
by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 25, 2008
This may not be like the Nazis fighting the Soviets but it is a tad like trial lawyers going after HMOs, where you hope that both sides lose. At least one academic, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities associate professor Mark Fedelty, has concluded that travel to academic conferences contributes to global warming.
“However, it is true that air travel puts large amounts of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and even water vapor directly into the atmosphere, all of which makes an inordinate and unsustainable contribution to global warming,” he writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “And academics do fly—a lot.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
what’s the MLA? The moron league of America?
Modern Language Association? I'm just wondering how formatting your paper in MLA style contributes to global warming.
i m a publik scewl inglish teechur. I just started an MLA research paper with my seniors. What the MLA has to do with globull warming I don’t know.
Too many footnotes/endnotes adding extra pages?
Wow! That's so cool. I hadn't even heard of these water-burning jet engines.
If you go to the original site, the article provides a link to “Polar Fictions,” which details how a Modern Language Association panelist wants to use polar exploration literature to promote global warming dogma.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
“...carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, soot, and even water vapor directly into the atmosphere...”
OMG! NO!!! Not water vapor too! Lan, this AGW pollution is far worse then I thought. Better warn that lib-in-law of yours; since he's in acedemia, this is speaking directly to him.
If he cares about the planet, then he better grow his own wings, or stop flying back and forth to Europe!
;^)
Don't be a drip.
"Better warn that lib-in-law of yours; since he's in acedemia, this is speaking directly to him."
Think you're gonna get his attention with water, huh.
Forgetabouit, you're wasting your time.
Try money.
"If he cares about the planet, then he better grow his own wings, or stop flying back and forth to Europe!"
He doesn't care about the planet, numb-skull.
That's what I'm trying to tell you, he cares about his wallet.
If we really care about the academic brainstems, want to demonstrate our concern in a tangible way?
Then let's do something meaningful, buy 'em all the one thing they'll not only ultimately use but unbeknownst to them *now*, need.
...life preservers. ;^)
>”If we really care about the academic brainstems, want to demonstrate our concern in a tangible way?
Then let’s do something meaningful, buy ‘em all the one thing they’ll not only ultimately use but unbeknownst to them *now*, need.
...life preservers”<
Ha!
-Can I sneak a brick into em, first?
;^)
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