Thursday, March 01, 2007

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Gore-ge yourself, be my guest

Today I passed up the samples of the peanut butter banana crunch bagel at Panera's (I'm assuming this is in honor of Elvis Presley, but I didn't see a note). So using the theory of carbon credits, you can now eat 200-300 extra calories today because I didn't, and therefore your calories won't count, make you fat, or hurt your heart. Al Gore is doing it the other way around. He's using massive amounts of energy to heat his home and swimming pool, but it is OK because he is rich and "buying" credits to do this from some place that scams tracks the public use of energy. So he's using what someone else isn't or didn't need. I'm not using those calories today, so you can be my guest. And I won't even charge you anything.
Posted by Norma at 3/01/2007 08:45:00 AM
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carbon off-sets are a recognition that right now it is almost impossible to live and generate no CO2 at all. The off-sets are used to plant trees and fund renewable energy programs.

It should also be noted carbon offsets cost $1 - $20 per metric ton of carbon, so you don't need to be rich as an evangelist to afford them.

Your statement that "He's using massive amounts of energy to heat his home and swimming pool, but it is OK because he is rich and "buying" credits to do this from some place that scams tracks the public use of energy" is false. The off-sets don't buy more energy. They mitigate the use of the energy.

IF you have any reason to think that the carbon offset providers Mr. Gore uses are "scammers" please, do share.

Further, Dept. of Energy figures show that the Gore home consumes 50% of the energy per sq. ft. as other homes in that part of the country.

The Vice-President also runs two businesses out of his home, charitable foundations and has live-in Secret Service protection as do all the former Presidents and Vice-Presidents. His energy demands are not without warrant.

What did he ever do to you?

3/01/2007 5:35 PM
Norma said...

Chuck, you write so well. You just haven't addressed whether we can work out a transfer of the calories I didn't eat.

Not to upset you, knowing how anti-Christian you are, but Gore is a devout Christian. He may be wrong headed about global warming, he might be misguided about purchasing carbon credits, but he knows where he is going will not be too hot. He's forgiven, not perfect, as are all Christians.

3/01/2007 7:24 PM
Anonymous said...

If you figure out the calorie thing you have a bright retirement ahead of you.

Mr. Gore is not wrong-headed on global warming. Neither is NASA, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the U.N., the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, the World Health Organization, The governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; ExxonMobil; the Economics and Finance Ministry of Britain; the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals and Pat Robertson.

For God's sake: PAT ROBERTSON.

3/01/2007 10:24 PM
Norma said...

If all of these people, including Robertson, believe all dissent and discussion on climatology and global change should be stiffled for political ends, then they are wrong headed and misguided. That's the direction your side is going, even if you personally don't.

3/02/2007 5:07 AM
Anonymous said...

I'm not aware of any instance where research or dissent or discussion has been stifled and would be saddened to learn of same.

Can you give me an example?

3/02/2007 10:27 AM
Norma said...

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics. Canada Free Press. Wants a Nuremberg type trial for those with alternate views.

"Despite uncertainties, there is adequate evidence from observations and interpretations of climate simulations to conclude that the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; that humans have significantly contributed to this change. . ." AMS News Release (Maybe you’ve never applied for a grant, Chuck. How will dissenters get published in a peer-reviewed journal or get funding for research if minds are already made up and refuse to think outside the box?) Global warming is not the only field where this happens. Very, very common in the sciences.

$3 billion pledged to research man made global warming. http://www.coxwashington.com/hp/content/reporters/stories/2006/09/26/BC_BRANSON_WARMING22_1STLD_COX.html

Socialist Party, after stating the obvious (all caused by man’s behavior, and more specifically, GWB and Iraq War): "Global warming is an important issue for socialists and anti-capitalists, not only for the obvious reason that we have a long-term interest in the future of the planet, but because the poor are hit hardest by its effects." Socialists, Chuck, as you know from library work, do not tolerate dissent. Once they are in charge of the library shelves, other views disappear.
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2003/323/index.html?id=pp6.htm

You can google the rest. Tons of it--maybe with a footprint that can be exchanged for a karma slipper.

3/02/2007 4:38 PM
Anonymous said...

I'm not really sure that one random environmental blogger shooting his mouth off and acting the fool qualifies as stiffling dissent.

The American Meteorological Society having an opinion on something doesn't stiffle dissent any more than other professional groups taking positions on things.

Someone having an opinion on something doesn't crowd anyone else out.

As far as Richard Branson funding research; I don't see how that restricts anyone's ability to research other points of view. He just won't pay for them. He wasn't paying for them before.

There are numerous groups like AEI, the Cato and companies like ExxonMobil and BP and that fund research on the other side of climate change.

And the British Socialist Party? Is that supposed to be funny?

The Amsterdam Free Love and Hashish Party issued a strong statment in favor of smoking hash and having sex.

I shutter, shutter, to think of what this will do to the anti-sex and anti-hashish movement. It will fascististically (?) crush their movement under a great big boot.

3/02/2007 11:49 PM
Norma said...

Well Chuck, I see you've never applied for a grant or published in a peer review journal. Discussion closed, like your mind.

3/03/2007 5:22 AM
Anonymous said...

Actually I've been a professor at the graduate and undergraduate level, written articles and applied for grants.

Sorry you don't feel like discussing it further.

3/03/2007 9:38 AM

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