Mine's 11,240kg, what's yours?
Mine's 11,240kg, what's yours?
primary: 8547 kg
total: 14,497 kg
12.011 amu
Primary - 3122
Total - 9072
Total Primary Footprint (household) 235,747
Total Secondary footprint 5950
Total Footprint 241,697
That's only counting one of my 4 mansions.
Al Gore claims that his outrageous personal consumption is actually carbon neutral because he purchases “carbon offsets.” From where? From himself, of course. With a straight face, Al Gore claims “carbon offsets,” an entirely undefined, unregulated and unaccountable cottage industry, that he “purchases” in the form of investments in an Investment firm that Gore is the chairman of, negates his obscene consumption of energy. One could only imagine how we might apply Gore’s Ponzi scheme to other parts of our daily lives?
The basic premise of the scheme is that by participating in approved Al gore investments, and for pennies on the dollar, you are actually not using any energy at all, and therefore, none of the CO2 that you put in the air actually happened in the first place. This has great appeal to pious liberals who do nothing but consume, consume, consume. It’s better than a confessional.
The average American family puts 59 tons of CO2 in the air each year. 12.4t from household (electrical, heating, etc), 11.7t from automobile/gas, and 35 t from ‘indirect’ emissions (commercial, industrial, transportation). What does Al Gore’s family belch into the air every year? Lets start with household contributions. We know that he consumes 20x the energy that the average household does, so lets give him 240t on household usage. For automobile usage, he surely uses more than the average American, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say 15 tons. For ‘indirect’ he is after all, one of the most conspicuous consumers in the entire country, therefore he would have a disproportionate share of ‘indirect. Plus his air travel far exceeds that of an average household, lets give Gore the benefit of doubt again and say his family only belched 70 tons of indirect carbon into the atmosphere. That totals up to a very conservative 325 tons of CO2 that the pious Al Gore unleashes into the atmosphere!
One of the approved carbon offset invest schemes that are touted so heavily by Gore and his ilk is tree planting. It seems logical, plant a tree and the tree will take CO2 out of the air, therefore the carbon I put in the air never existed in the first place. Simple!
Depending on species and age, trees fix anywhere from 3 to 15 pounds of CO2 per year. Lets just assume the upper end, 15 pounds. For the average American to wash there consciences of the 59 tons of carbon emitted they’d have to plant 7,866 trees (about 20 acres) EVERY YEAR to “offset” their carbon footprint. For the most wasteful Americans, Al Gore and his Hollywood friends, they’d have to plant 43,000 trees (about 108 acres) to “offset” their ridiculous consumption. That being conservative on Gores energy usage and liberal on the amount of CO2 a tree will consume in a year. In reality trees will consume less than 10 pounds per year, meaning Gore had better do a hell of a lot more planting.
Where are all of these acres available for planting? Not on logged land. For over 60 years all logged lands must be replanted within 5 years. Is Al Gore investing in timber companies and claiming that he’s responsible for reforestation projects that have been taking place for decades? Where are they planting 108 acres of trees every year? Nowhere. It’s not happening. Outside of the forest industry there are no large-scale tree planting projects.
Carbon credits are a scam of epic proportions.
Mine says "low arches - your shoe type is motion control, for example Brooks Beast". Is that good?
130K
gotta plant me a forest wrote:
130K
that is 130,000 kg
Amen, well said. And that's not even including all the hot air that Al Gore continually belches into the atmosphere.
I can't tell because my foot is up John Travolta's ass!
To "Al Gore"
You posted the exact same screed under the name "Conscience Offsets" one month ago in a different thread. What a loser. Here's what I said then and say again today...
On a board populated by a number of noteworthy idiots you've really accomplished something with this string: you've identified yourself as the biggest idiot on this board. Congratulations.
I've got one word for you - additionally. There's a lot of organic material in the world. It all absorbs carbon. This establishes a baseline of carbon absorbsion worldwide. There are millions of sources of carbon emission in the world. When an additional emission of carbon occurs, call it one ton from say, your car or the power plant which gives your home electricity, you can plant enough organic material to absorb that additional ton. You end up at zero net emissions from that “transaction”. That's how carbon offsets work. Right now, we (everyone on the earth) are emitting carbon at a much higher rate than the earth’s organic material is absorbing it but, contrary to you're assertion, doesn't mean we can't over the next 20 years, turn that equation around. To do so, we must create economic value in the preferred outcomes ie absorbtion of carbon or never emitting carbon. A cap and trade, with offsets, sets up the boundaries in which a carbon market can operate and flourish. To argue against this solution is to argue against the free market and against the experience of every regulatory market established over the last 50 years, sulfur dioxide being the most prominent.
Here's the weird thing: I can't figure out if your a particularly dumb college republican who's a happy cog in the far right wing effort launched yesterday in coordination with Gore's appearance on capitol hill today or if you're just a particularly dumb ultra liberal who's trying to advance some anti-market argument. Either way, you're against a market solution which means you're for the heavy hand of government telling businesses what to do. So, if you're the dumb college republican, good luck with that when you go to the circle jerk tonight. If you're the dumb ultra liberal, wake up - you've already lost, markets work. Either way always remember, you're the biggest idiot on LetsRun.com.
Your post sums up the entire global warming hysteria industry, agree with us or you are dumb. I get it.
The problem with the entire carbon offset Ponzi scheme is that Al Gore isn't planting 110 acres of trees a year. He's planting no trees at all. Al gore won't even reveal who much money he supposedly paid for "offsets." Why, because like his false claim that he was buying "green electric energy" (after the Oscars a Gore PR spokeperson said that the Gore family were "looking into it") Gore doesn't actually do anything to offset his carbon footprint.
The only way to reduce carbon emissions is to not live an obscenely wasteful lifestyle like the Gore family does.
You must be a Gore stalker or something. Why do you care so much about him? Are you gay? [quote]The sky is falling!
Al Gore is a hypocrite. I resent hearing his "holier than thou" preaching to me while he consumes obscene amounts of energy. I live in an apartment, conserve in order to reduce my energy bills, drip dry my laundry, recycle, and take public transportation. I don't need a$$wipes like Al Gore (or Barbra Streisand or Norman Lear) to tell me to conserve while they suck up power from the grid. I'm tired of their BS.
Why has this come to the surface again? I know there's always gonna be idiots claiming we're destroying the world but why has this taken off so much recently? Is it because of Gore's film?
Personally I hope everyone gets their ranting out of their systems, realizes quickly that most of us don't buy it and shuts up! I'm sick of hearing about this crap.
8,974 kg
jee wiz thats a lot!
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Hmmm... Only 9,120kg...
Al Gore wrote:
Al Gore claims that his outrageous personal consumption is actually carbon neutral because he purchases “carbon offsets.” From where? From himself, of course. With a straight face, Al Gore claims “carbon offsets,” an entirely undefined, unregulated and unaccountable cottage industry, that he “purchases” in the form of investments in an Investment firm that Gore is the chairman of, negates his obscene consumption of energy. One could only imagine how we might apply Gore’s Ponzi scheme to other parts of our daily lives?
The basic premise of the scheme is that by participating in approved Al gore investments, and for pennies on the dollar, you are actually not using any energy at all, and therefore, none of the CO2 that you put in the air actually happened in the first place. This has great appeal to pious liberals who do nothing but consume, consume, consume. It’s better than a confessional.
The average American family puts 59 tons of CO2 in the air each year. 12.4t from household (electrical, heating, etc), 11.7t from automobile/gas, and 35 t from ‘indirect’ emissions (commercial, industrial, transportation). What does Al Gore’s family belch into the air every year? Lets start with household contributions. We know that he consumes 20x the energy that the average household does, so lets give him 240t on household usage. For automobile usage, he surely uses more than the average American, let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say 15 tons. For ‘indirect’ he is after all, one of the most conspicuous consumers in the entire country, therefore he would have a disproportionate share of ‘indirect. Plus his air travel far exceeds that of an average household, lets give Gore the benefit of doubt again and say his family only belched 70 tons of indirect carbon into the atmosphere. That totals up to a very conservative 325 tons of CO2 that the pious Al Gore unleashes into the atmosphere!
One of the approved carbon offset invest schemes that are touted so heavily by Gore and his ilk is tree planting. It seems logical, plant a tree and the tree will take CO2 out of the air, therefore the carbon I put in the air never existed in the first place. Simple!
Depending on species and age, trees fix anywhere from 3 to 15 pounds of CO2 per year. Lets just assume the upper end, 15 pounds. For the average American to wash there consciences of the 59 tons of carbon emitted they’d have to plant 7,866 trees (about 20 acres) EVERY YEAR to “offset” their carbon footprint. For the most wasteful Americans, Al Gore and his Hollywood friends, they’d have to plant 43,000 trees (about 108 acres) to “offset” their ridiculous consumption. That being conservative on Gores energy usage and liberal on the amount of CO2 a tree will consume in a year. In reality trees will consume less than 10 pounds per year, meaning Gore had better do a hell of a lot more planting.
Where are all of these acres available for planting? Not on logged land. For over 60 years all logged lands must be replanted within 5 years. Is Al Gore investing in timber companies and claiming that he’s responsible for reforestation projects that have been taking place for decades? Where are they planting 108 acres of trees every year? Nowhere. It’s not happening. Outside of the forest industry there are no large-scale tree planting projects.
Carbon credits are a scam of epic proportions.
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