Posted on 07/24/2006 11:52:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Seeing how we are all carbon-based life forms, to truly be "carbon-neutral" wouldn't Gore have to disappear?
This could bode well for us!
Manganese oxide was known in the Middle Ages as "the Magnesian stone" and the Norman invaders of England called it manganese.
Perhaps he will also want to pay FR to expose his lies and then he can claim he is 'truth neutral.'
So he's got a horse.
What's YOUR carbon footprint?
Thanks. Do you know if there is carbon in beer?
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There are two carbon atoms in every molecule of ethanol, right?
Its been a long time since I took organic chemistry in college. We used to abbreviate ethyl alcolhol as ET-OH.
I guess the "ET" part contains the carbon.
I'm NOT giving up my IPA for the likes of Algore! That blowhard Gore will have to pry my mug out of my cold dead fingers!
When I first read the headline and quick blurb I thought it said carbohydrate.
I thought Al was admitting and taking responsibility for his weight, LOL!
Must be tough riding a bicycle to all his speaking engagements as driving a car or flying in a plane will add to global warming. I hope the winter back home in Tennessee isn't too cold as heating homes dumps vast amounts of CO2 into the air. I'm sure Gore like RFK jr. jets around in a private plane while extolling the rest of us to walk.
EXCELLENT thread going on ping!
"carbon-neutral lifestyle"
The big global-warming fear comes from dumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere as a result of burning carbon-based chemicals (oil primarily, wood & coal also) to obtain cheap energy (i.e.: drive, cook, etc.). This produces lots of CO & CO2 which in turn allegedly, in large enough quantities, cause global warming (which of course means various mind-bogglingly awful horrible things). Gore is finally realizing that he personally is contributing to this horror (esp. with things like burning a half-million pounds of jet fuel to attend a global-warming conference) and thinks he should take some personal responsibility to clean up after himself (a laudable goal - good friggin' luck).
A "carbon-neutral lifestyle" means that for every pound of waste carbon one dumps into the atmosphere, one actively seeks to do something to balance out that pound (or to avoid creating that pound of carbon waste in the first place). This is a warm-fuzzy goal, with visions of planting trees to turn CO2 into pretty woods and O2, reducing emissions elsewhere (like making cars more efficient), avoiding causing CO2 emissions (walking instead of driving), etc.
The reality is: he's silly & selfish. Fact is, when the next global-warming conference arrives, he'll be jetting off with his entorauge (sp?!) burning thousands of gallons of fuel and dumping tons more carbon waste into the atmosphere - for which he will justify with paper agreements whereby third-world countries will get paid trinkets in exchange for their "carbon budgets", i.e. "here's $1 if you agree to not travel, cook, or manufacture X amount."
It's actually a nifty idea if taken seriously. Then one comes back to reality and carries on as before.
In reality, Gore claiming a "carbon-neutral lifestyle" is about as laughable as Barbara Streisand telling people to conserve electricity by turning off air conditioners and line-drying clothes, while utterly failing to do so herself and using electricity on a massive scale. Unless Gore actually takes to growing & eating raw veggies by himself, and doing little else, he won't meet his goal - and will likely continue out-carbon-produce most people by orders of magnitude (but he'll make it look good on paper).
Well, thanks for that bit of info, but I don't see what it has to do with my post.
I'm quite carbon friendly, myself!
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