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2008-05-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

City dwellers produce less carbon, report suggests

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Posted by gorb 2008-05-30 04:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Gee, once again, an "experts report" says city-dwelling northeastern liberals are more planet friendly than southern conservative rural troglodytes. Color me skeptical...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-05-30 10:59|| 2008-05-30 10:59|| Front Page Top

#2 This is nonsense playing with numbers. City dwellers share heat seeking carbon producing assets that lower their individual numbers but increase the entire picture for the city.

For example the lights that are on all night, the billboards, Elevators use up more energe than a first floor entrance, subways that still run when few or no people are using them or even when they are virtually empty. Juice is still pumping through that third rail and that juice is produced somewhere.

City dwellers also have far fewer carbon sinks. Grass and gardens per dweller. Yeah they often have massive parks, and I bet they'd love to claim that but if we're talking per individual dweller I don't think they should count.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-30 11:30|| 2008-05-30 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Soooo..., not only are Kentucky voters so stoopid that they vote for Hillarity instead of the Messiah, now we find that they are the very ones most responsible for this outrageous Carbon footprint. Horrors !

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-05-30 11:39|| 2008-05-30 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Carbon dioxide is released from burning fossil fuels and is the leading "greenhouse gas."

Again with the CO2 nonsense. Water vapor, not CO2, is the biggest greenhouse gas, accounting for 95% of all greenhouse warming. Carbon dioxide is present at about 4%, while methane and all the rest account for less than 1%. But as long as the "news" people can claim CO2 is the "leading" greenhouse gas, they can frighten people into giving up even more of their freedoms. Anyone writing such nonsense should be taken out and staked to the top of one of the cooling towers at a nuke plant for a year or two.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-05-30 15:36|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-05-30 15:36|| Front Page Top

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