Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/01/2010 7:09:01 AM PDT by Sopater
UW-Madison athletics officials have created a unique way to use the UW Badgers' home football season to reduce carbon emissions.
According to Justin Doherty, UW-Madison assistant athletic director, the effort to create a "carbon-neutral" football season involves offsetting the amount of carbon that is expended during home football games because of practices like fans traveling to and from the game and the use of electricity.
He said along with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, UW-Madison calculated the amount of carbon emitted at home football games and will pay for carbon "credits" as a part of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
The money spent on the credits is then spent on reducing an equivalent amount of carbon emissions elsewhere.
Doherty said UW-Madison partnered with Madison Gas and Electric to execute the initiative.
"It's a way for [UW athletics], CALS and Madison Gas and Electric to create awareness of environmental issues," he said. "And because it's at football games, it's a unique way of doing it."
Doherty added that UW-Madison also aims to reduce its impact on the environment in other ways at football games.
"We have a pretty extensive plastic recycling effort at the stadium, so that's another way we try to address these environmental issues," he said.
UW-Madison is the first Big Ten school to go completely carbon-neutral for a home football season.
PING
They should definitely plant trees on the field.
This story is a bit old, but is this scam indeed going on this year in Madison? Wisconsin tax payers are having their good money sent to Chicago Climate Exchange to pay for carbon credits? Who’s responsible for this?”””
Never take for granted that the persons running any University have a lick of common sense.
The Liberal board running the UW should be ashamed of themselves.
They are showing just as much disdain for the taxpayers in Wisconsin as the Congress & NObama are showing in the District of Criminals.
What’s worse: For people that are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us, they are buying in Al Gore’s fraud. OF course, they are making that purchase with OPM: Other People’s Money.
Idiots.
Somewhere Al Gore is smiling and hearing that cha-ching noise in his head ...
Check with your own almae matres to see if this sort of crap is occurring there and act accordingly.
I've been convinced for some time that schools that do this sort of thing should have the faculty pension funds invested in carbon credits and other such nonsense -- with no recourse to the taxpayer if the fund goes dry, of course.
Good idea!
Imagine the number of solar panels that could be put on a football field.
Maybe a windmill on top of each goalpost.
Cooling chambers for confused polar bears that might run onto the field as the heat from the “several million degrees” comes bubbling up from 2KM under the Earth's surface and causes the poor polar bear to run. (Although they wouldn't have to be actual, physical cooling chambers, they could be photo-shopped cyber cooling chambers like Gore's hoax bear).
Is he still alive?
Haven't heard anything out of him since the masseuse spoke up.
(not that that is a BAD thing).
I thought this was about farting in the locker room.
*What’s worse: For people that are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us, they are buying in Al Gore’s fraud. OF course, they are making that purchase with OPM: Other People’s Money.*
I wonder how far we could get with a civil suit against Gore, all the politicians that voter for Cap n’ Trade, carbon credit profiteers, the 350 1010 crowd that would like to blow up schoolchildren who disagree with their hoax (in a “humorous” way), and every scam artist that has promoted this lie?
I would like them to refund all the money they have taken in, all the money that it has cost people and governments and money for all the time wasted on this foolishness.
If they will just send me the cash, I issue them a credit to offset the emitted carbon from laughing so hard at them.
That way Billy Bobski can still tailgate his brats and beer.
How much MORE stupid can people get????
Not only the screaming of the fans, what about the fans “breaking wind”?
Sounds like they’re just gaying up football.
Why don’t they go all the way and just play flag football instead! Pansies.
That is why the alumni assoc will never get a cent from me and my spouse.
Hey! That’s MY mean trick to play on people, LOL! *SNAKE*
This one is every bit as bad as far as crawling into your brain through your ears, clamping on and not letting go for days on end, LOL!
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/choccy/
First I’ve heard of it, but I’ll forward it to Vicki McKenna for some ‘exposure’ on the airwaves. Thanks for the Heads’ Up!
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