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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: El on February 04, 2007, 08:00:26 AM
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http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
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Is this an AlGore site?? He's such a pompous wanker. :wanker: :wanker: :wanker:
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i got a 3.95 avg
smaller than the national average of about 7.
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5.15
I can't take this seriously, since they didn't asked me how many thousands of trees I have planted in my life.
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They didn't ask me about how I stand outside in my driveway everyday spraying aerosol cans into the sky.
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4.05, but like DirtDawg said, it did not ask how many trees I planted.
It has a link where you can pay money to offset your carbon dioxide production.
You can pay for wind energy or for methane, which is another greenhouse gas, along with water vapor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
They have an easy monthly payment plan of $1 per ton, or you can pay a lump sum for the year.
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Is this an AlGore site?? He's such a pompous wanker. :wanker: :wanker: :wanker:
Yeah, I think it's Al Gore's site.
They paid this Native Energy project to offset the carbon dioxide costs of producing An Inconvenient Truth.
How the movie was offset:
With NativeEnergy, Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics offset 100% of the CO2 pollution from air and ground travel, production energy use, and waste associated with the making of An Inconvenient Truth. Participant Productions and Paramount Pictures Classics made the film climate neutral and are helping build the Rosebud St. Francis wind farm in South Dakota and the Dovan family dairy farm methane renewable energy project in Pennsylvania.
You too, can offset the CO2 from your daily actions, such as travel, commuting and heating & powering your home with NativeEnergy.
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I guess they consider planting tree's a moot point if you make the environment too fucked up to have them survive.
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on february 2, 2007, global warming has finally been internationally recognized by the scientific community as a real threat.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html (http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html)
edit: whoops. i didn't realize another thread already had something about this. i haven't been online that much lately so i am currently catching up on older threads and this one was listed before the other one.
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It appears to me that people who live near the coasts will have to move inland.
I think using more nuclear power, solar power and wind power instead of fossil fuels will mitigate the climate change that is coming, but it will not reverse it completely.
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Oh, that's nice. What does america think? Until the american government recognizes it, no matter how much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage, america is gonna spoil their efforts.
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Oh, that's nice. What does america think? Until the american government recognizes it, no matter how much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage, america is gonna spoil their efforts.
If you do more research, you will find that the USA is doing far more than many other countries to clean up the messes we have made. There is not that "much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage".
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But does the next administration consider it an important part of their running ticket?
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But does the next administration consider it an important part of their running ticket?
If Hilary Clinton wins the election it will be. She was speaking about global warming recently.
http://zfacts.com/p/660.html
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They also didn't ask if I ate meat, which I don't, so I'm not contributing to the cattle fucking up the environment.
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I think this quote from that article is Hilaryous.
"Take a serious look at nuclear."
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I'd really like if hillary won, but if she doesn't, who is the other candidate?
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I think this quote from that article is Hilaryous.
"Take a serious look at nuclear."
Is this the quote you are thinking of?
Nuclear is now very much in the news as a potential power source because of its lack of contribution to global warming. If you look at nuclear energy, which currently provides 20 percent of our energy with virtually no emission of greenhouse gases, we do have to take a serious look, but there remain very serious questions about nuclear power and our ability to manage it in a world with suicidal terrorists.
So I have real concerns, specifically about a plant in my state near where I live, Indian Point, which has had a number of problems, and more generally with the capacity and quality of the oversight provided by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Sorry, it's from the link you posted. I was just being lazy ...
The thing that I think it is so funny is its lack of specificity. How could anyone disagree with her stance.
Hilary Clinton's Energy Policy (http://zfacts.com/p/660.html)
Clinton's energy policy context
Our supplies are vulnerable to terrorists.
High prices are a burden on business, families and especially poor families.
Earth is warming faster than at any time in 200,000 years.
Opportunity for cleaner environment and technologically driven job growth.
Save US economy tens of billions of dollars.
Clinton's Goals:
Reduce our dependence on foreign oil by at least 50 percent by 2025.
Convert 4 million barrels a day of oil to biomass by 2025.
Efficiency (cars, trucks, industrial, residential) can reduce usage by 4 M bbl/day.
Ethanol pumps at 50% of gas stations nationwide by 2015 and 100 percent by 2025.
Clinton's Specific Proposals:
Strategic Energy Fund (SEF), like DARPA, funded in part from windfall gains to oil.
Extending for 10 years the production tax credit. [Ethanol?]
Doubling consumer tax breaks for hybrids, clean diesel and other advanced vehicles.
A new tax incentive for fleet owners to purchase more efficient vehicles.
Loan guarantees for the first 1 B gal. of cellulosic ethanol production capacity.
$1 billion from SEF into cellulosic ethanol research.
A 50% tax credit to gas station owners for the cost of installing ethanol pumps.
Increase energy-efficiency tax incentives for homeowners and businesses.
By 2010, require the federal gov. to purchase the most efficient cars made.
By 2013, require 10% of federal electricity purchases come from renewables.
Require 20% of electricity produced from wind, solar and other renewables by 2020.
Require the big oil companies to install ethanol pumps at all the stations they own.
A mandatory cap-and-trade system, like in the McCain-Lieberman legislation.
Undertake 5 large-scale tests of geologic CO2 sequestration.
Provide tax credits for carbon sequestration to encourage domestic oil production.
Take a serious look at nuclear.
Look for places where mass transit makes sense and make the investment.
Provide a tax incentive to trade in inefficient old cars for more efficient cars.
Make progress on fuel-efficiency standards.
Offer auto companies assistance with retiree health care costs in exchange
for them investing more in fuel-efficient cars.
Increase Strategic Petroleum Reserve to hold 90 days of supply and use mandates
and incentives to ensure distributors hold similar stocks. Update the process
of releasing oil to make it responsive to short-term market swings.
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Getting electricity from nuclear power plants would produce very little greenhouse gases, but it sounds like Hilary Clinton does not want one in her backyard, because of a concern about terrorism.
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It appears to me that people who live near the coasts will have to move inland.
I think using more nuclear power, solar power and wind power instead of fossil fuels will mitigate the climate change that is coming, but it will not reverse it completely.
Fissil fuels aren't CAUSING global warming, perhaps only accelerating it. The earth has been warming since the reversal of the "mini-ice age" that occured between 1650's and 1850's.
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Oh, that's nice. What does america think? Until the american government recognizes it, no matter how much ass the rest of the world kicks at mending the damage, america is gonna spoil their efforts.
Actually, China and India are the 2 biggest polluters these days. (as far as lax environmental concerns go)
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But does the next administration consider it an important part of their running ticket?
If Hilary Clinton wins the election it will be. She was speaking about global warming recently.
http://zfacts.com/p/660.html
God forbid!!! Hillary is a tyrant!!
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Sorry, it's from the link you posted. I was just being lazy ...
The thing that I think it is so funny is its lack of specificity. How could anyone disagree with her stance.
Hilary Clinton's Energy Policy (http://zfacts.com/p/660.html)
Clinton's energy policy context
Our supplies are vulnerable to terrorists.
High prices are a burden on business, families and especially poor families.
Earth is warming faster than at any time in 200,000 years.
Opportunity for cleaner environment and technologically driven job growth.
Save US economy tens of billions of dollars.
Clinton's Goals:
Reduce our dependence on foreign oil by at least 50 percent by 2025.
Convert 4 million barrels a day of oil to biomass by 2025.
Efficiency (cars, trucks, industrial, residential) can reduce usage by 4 M bbl/day.
Ethanol pumps at 50% of gas stations nationwide by 2015 and 100 percent by 2025.
Clinton's Specific Proposals:
Strategic Energy Fund (SEF), like DARPA, funded in part from windfall gains to oil.
Extending for 10 years the production tax credit. [Ethanol?]
Doubling consumer tax breaks for hybrids, clean diesel and other advanced vehicles.
A new tax incentive for fleet owners to purchase more efficient vehicles.
Loan guarantees for the first 1 B gal. of cellulosic ethanol production capacity.
$1 billion from SEF into cellulosic ethanol research.
A 50% tax credit to gas station owners for the cost of installing ethanol pumps.
Increase energy-efficiency tax incentives for homeowners and businesses.
By 2010, require the federal gov. to purchase the most efficient cars made.
By 2013, require 10% of federal electricity purchases come from renewables.
Require 20% of electricity produced from wind, solar and other renewables by 2020.
Require the big oil companies to install ethanol pumps at all the stations they own.
A mandatory cap-and-trade system, like in the McCain-Lieberman legislation.
Undertake 5 large-scale tests of geologic CO2 sequestration.
Provide tax credits for carbon sequestration to encourage domestic oil production.
Take a serious look at nuclear.
Look for places where mass transit makes sense and make the investment.
Provide a tax incentive to trade in inefficient old cars for more efficient cars.
Make progress on fuel-efficiency standards.
Offer auto companies assistance with retiree health care costs in exchange
for them investing more in fuel-efficient cars.
Increase Strategic Petroleum Reserve to hold 90 days of supply and use mandates
and incentives to ensure distributors hold similar stocks. Update the process
of releasing oil to make it responsive to short-term market swings.
Thanks DirtDawg, this is my case in point. Can you read "Massive Government Power Grab" behind every proposal?? I knew you could!! ;) ;D