Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change

Washington Times ^ | October 28, 2015 | Jennifer Pompi

[QT3.14]

How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department’s website, becoming part of the “more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.”

[QT3.14]

DOE should clear up theior methane they emit first. It is right up there with a NE town that said Christmas lights are banned because their relationship to GW.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

The inmates are truly running the asylum...

[fwdude]

Is there ANYTHING we can do that won’t harm the delicate little environment? Stop breathing, perhaps?

[Teotwawki]

How much of the weight of a pumpkin is just water? Is this really all that harmful?

[hadaclueonce]

My goats love left over pumpkins. EPA all went to school on the little bus.

[buwaya]

This is stupid.
All vegetable matter decays and produces methane. Pumpkins are no different from wheat straw, carrot tops, or flowers. Or whatever would be growing wild if the land wasn’t cultivated.

[21twelve]

Water has, by FAR, the greatest impact on global warming.

Of course by growing the pumpkin it took in CO2. And when it dies it releases it. I suppose we should just grow 80 year-old fir trees and eat their bark.

[Toddsterpatriot]

the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Ummmmm.....the pumpkins take CO2 out of the air and move it into a landfill. Sounds like a good way to sequester CO2, if you really believed in Global Warming and if you believed it would be bad.

[dfwgator]

Hmm, Smashing Pumpkins, sounds like a great name for a band.

[headsonpikes]

Back of the napkin math suggests less than 1/4 of 1% of municipal waste is pumpkin.

Fire. Them. All.

[QT3.14]

Will Christmas trees be next?

Anything to denigrate our culture.

[NorthstarMom]

They want to eliminate whatever brings joy to children.

We are carving pumpkins right now...art class for homeschoolers :-)

[ColdOne]

Bingo!

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Is there ANYTHING we can do that won’t harm the delicate little environment? Stop breathing, perhaps?”

The only thing that will end manmade global warming is to get rid of humans.

[ichabod1]

YEs, but pumpkin squash are wasted in their view, being used for decoration rather than for consumption.

[ichabod1]

Are you kidding me? Christmas trees are the WORST!

[ColdOne]

Good grief. Funny to see that one guy with hair.

[ichabod1]

About 85% of you useless eaters has gots to go!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Energy Department smashes pumpkins???

DANG!