Posted on 07/10/2007 5:52:33 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Global Warming: If the rock stars who flew hundreds of thousands of miles in their jets to save the earth wanted to hug trees, they could have hugged the forest that once covered Greenland.
We didn't see Sheryl Crow passing out single-sheet allotments of toilet paper to Live Earth concert-goers. But we did see perhaps the biggest-ever exercise in hypocrisy and futility as performers around the globe plugged in and amped up to save the earth from the climate impact of excessive energy consumption.
John Rego, environmental director of Live Earth, insists the multi-continent charade, like the mansions of Gore, Madonna et al., was "carbon-neutral."
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My entire lifetime's carbon footprint is less than the impact of one day of "Live Earth" jet setters. Yeah, I have a mote in my eye, and Algore has a beam.
There are basically two ways one can look at the cycle of climate change. Algore's theory is that a "balanced" Earth is like a fragile egg sitting on top of a beach ball. If the egg is moved too far off center, it starts accelerating until it falls off the ball and breaks. He assumes the Earth is incapable of regulating itself.
My theory is that a "balanced" Earth is like an egg at the bottom of a big bowl. If the egg is moved too far off center, it gets increasingly harder to move further and in the end, the egg must roll back down into the center and possibly a ways up the other side. We can see evidence of this self-regulating cycle in ice cores from thousands of years before SUVs.
So go ahead partyheads, crank up your amps and lasers and fire up the jets. You can't move that egg out of the bowl. Algore thanks you for the carbon offset payments.
Good post.
As Jonah Goldberg brilliantly observed, they're actually purchasing Indulgences.
Say, I know this is changing the subject, but is Barbra Streisand still hanging her laundry out on the clothesline?
“Do you buy “carbon offsets” from the same guy who sold Jack his magic beans??”
LOL
Too funny.
My thought on this is to give anyone who recycles a dicount on their trash pick up.
Another thought would be to weigh garbage that is not recycled and charge by the pound what is picked up.
More and more people would be recycling every little item.
Your egg analogy of the Earth’s climate fluctuations is simple and excellent! The bowl and egg are in constant motion like in a ships galley and the egg only breifly passes through the ideal position, at the bottom of the bowl, as the ship encounters wave after wave.
Ahh... no
Please, don’t force your beliefs on me, especially making the government charge me more because I don’t sort through my garbage on a daily basis, that’s just ignorant.
If I don't water at all for a week, will I have accumulated enough carbon credits to allow me to water the grass 3 days in a row? And who do I talk to to find out how many carbon credits I have all total and what else can I cash them in on?
And it strikes me as hubris to think that we know what the “ideal” position is. Maybe a warmer, wetter planet is just what the doctor ordered. After all, the dinosaurs seemed to thrive quite nicely.
Geological time, or God's time, is simply too long in cycle for us to see. We have a hot summer and all of a sudden it's global warming. We have a few years of drought and it's a certain calamity. If all of us worked as hard as we could to dump CO2 into the atmosphere, the plants would be extremely happy and would reward us with oxygen.
There is no way to plant enough trees to offset just the emissions from all the airliners alone, let alone cars. There is no way to plant enough trees to offset the hot air from all the politicians. I'm doing the best I can; I planted a Princeton elm in my front yard this year. So can I keep riding my 2-stroke? I feel better.
I have heard that if you really save up your “carbon credits” you would actually be able to build a BBQ pit big enough to roast a whole pig! When you do let me know. I will spend mine on some fuel to come and enjoy it with you!
The spirit of Johann Tetzel is alive and well.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
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Missed by many who had better things to do than watch Lie Vearth, here is a pic of Al singing "I'm in the money" after the concerts were over.Eeeeeeeuuuuuwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!
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