Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/28/2008 11:45:12 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The US air force will this week call for the world's top scientists to come together in a 21st-century Apollo-style programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming. It wants universities, governments, companies and environmental groups to collaborate on a multibillion-dollar effort to work out greenhouse gas emissions of existing and future fuels.
William Anderson, an assistant secretary of the air force, said the project aimed to calculate the overall carbon footprint of the world's energy sources, rather than merely measure their direct emissions. ...
Anderson said the effort required was the modern equivalent of the Apollo missions to put a man on the moon, "and the US air force knows something about that". The project will be discussed on Wednesday at a meeting in Washington DC organised by the Connecticut Centre for Advanced Technology. Anderson said the project aimed to combine research already under way across the world, and to encourage governments and companies to release "billions of dollars" of funds.
US officials have already met the Royal Air Force and French air force to discuss ways to make their activities more environmentally friendly. A second meeting is scheduled for Paris in June.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Time to disband the Air Force.
Perhaps the first objective of the project could be to accurately and consistently measure the output of the sun and the average global temperature of the earth.
Couldn’t agree more.
Follow the money. Must be how to play the funding game these days. Sheeesh.
What next, a park bench ad with the SECAF and bin Laden holding hands to combat global warming?
If the Air Force has decided to become a political branch of the military it's time to disband them and re-org the entire officer corps.
Not completely. Just the culprits behind this and any other insane stupidities....such as those who duplicitously gave the Air Tanker contract to EADS/Airbus...which flunked 5 of 8 survivability requirements...and played massively Xlintonian numeric games to ignore the reality that the EADSs plane was costing $10 billion more...
My father was a US Air Force veteran.
Will it involve counting golf courses for their carbon sequestration potential? (running and ducking before I’m hit with a 5 iron).
“Tilting at windmills” comes to mind.
First point: US Air Force should be capitalized. Second point: Go bomb the bad guys and quit wasting my tax money with this half-baked pantload.
I've really had it with this BS. We had 6 years of repubLICKans running the house, senate, and white house and they did nothing - NOTHING - to crush this liberal BS. Now the liberals have the house and senate, the repubLICKans continue to caputulate. Newt, Dubya, and the rest can all go to h***. Bunch of worthless scum.
If I remember correctly the Air Force’s job is to kill people and break things.
Anything else...............
You forgot: ...kill people and break things -- from 30 000 feet."
Not to defend the USAf too much here, but such stupid moves smells of “congressional pressure”. We must remember the reason for 1) the corn shortage, and 2) the mortgage debacle. Both were instigated by “ideas” created by two classes of people who are at the bottom of the IQ pile: liberal arts profs, and members of the senate/congress.
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