My carbon footprint is getting big!

There seems to be a lot of hoopla about the so called ‘carbon footprint’ lately. I rarely watch TV, but when I do it is usually the History Channell, National Geo, the Discovery Channels or the news channels. I have noticed that all my favorites are telling me how bad I am! How bad humanity is actually. Should I feel bad and give in to the propoganda and become my inner caveman?

So, just what is the ‘carbon footprint’? According to carbonfootprint.com it is : “A Carbon Footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.” In laymans terms, it is everything that we use, eat, touch or think about. Think about? Yes, it is a matter of thought control! Example: I am thinking of buying a new motorhome that will spew tons of carbon into the atmosphere, BUT now I feel the carbon guilt! What am I doing to this planet by deriving pleasure from an item I want to buy? Maybe I should not buy it. Perhaps I should get a smaller, less comfortable motorhome. What will my neighbors think? Will people with their Prius’s pull me over in this motorhome and deride me on my callous purchase? My gosh, what should I do? So, now they have control over the thought process! Not mine of course, I will just buy a bigger motorhome to help make up for the poor guy that fell for this carbon footprint crap and didn’t get his!

Again, I hear some of the environmentalists, “you are a bad person, you hate the environment”, they are labeling me with every name they can come up with and making up some new ones! So, I stress again, I love the environment! I love the trees that built my home. I love the carbon that built my car. I love the land that gave way so I could have a road to drive on! I love this planet that provides me everything I have. I just don’t fall for unfounded nonsense that I am helping destroy the world! I feel I am much to insignificant to even play a small role in that destruction!

I live in the country. I have environment all around me. Trees, ponds, creeks, the whole nine yards. I derrive my living from the environment (agriculture) so I stand to lose more than most of these so called environmentalists if I destroy my environment. In reality, I am the TRUE environmentalist! Not is the sense of tying myself to a tree to save it, but in the sense of tying a chain around it to pull it down and build something with it. That is what the tree is there for!

Back on subject, sorry for the rant… I watched a program on Nat Geo last week called “Aftermath”. It perported to show what would happen to the earth if all the Humans suddenly dissappeared. I genarally like this type of show, even if it doesn’t have brain eating zombie’s! All started off well. “a planet controlled by powerful beings - us” is one of the lines the program started with. I should have known at that point where this was heading! In short, the show goes into detail of how much better the world would be without us. “without humans, animals are happy” , “without humans, the earth is happy” yada, yada the same crap the spews from all the human hating propoganda pieces!

My carbon footprint! Part Two (Coming Soon)

inner caveman?

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Prince: Global effort needed to counter climate change

Kristy Ramnarine kramnarine@trinidadexpress.com

Friday, March 7th 2008

Sheer madness.

That’s how Prince Charles described skeptics who view calls for rapid action to counter climate change as overstated or completely invented.

Charles was speaking at a dinner reception hosted by President George Maxwell Richards and his wife Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards at President’s House, St Ann’s on Wednesday night which was also attended by his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.  Full Story Here

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Not a global warming story per say, but still interesting!  Maybe La Nina  can end the whole global warming issue!

March 5 (Bloomberg) — Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn’t.

While the La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century, it’s cutting profits for cafe owners, travel agents and insurers. Insurance Australia Group Ltd., the nation’s largest home insurer, last week posted a sixth straight profit decline after hail storms cost it A$105 million ($97 million). The yearly `Symphony in the Park,’ which usually attracts 80,000 people, had 700 this year as the orchestra played behind a tarpaulin during a downpour.

“Everyone always thinks Australia is the best place for perfect weather, but I’m not sure I’ll believe it any more,” says Minsoo Seo, a 28-year-old marketing executive from Korea’s Jeju Island, as he gazes at the waves crashing toward Bondi Beach on Australia’s last day of summer. “The wind’s too strong,” he says after deciding against surfing on a grey, gusty morning.

After four years of water restrictions, Sydney saw about 50 percent more rain than usual this summer, according to Mike De Salis, a spokesman at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology.

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

“Suddenly we get one cool, wet summer and everyone’s complaining,” said De Salis.

Matthew Hassan, an economist at Westpac Banking Corp., said the soggy summer has weighed on Sydney’s $285 billion economy.

“The endless rain is certainly adding to the sense of gloom,” Hassan said. Employment and housing data show Sydney is already struggling with rising interest rates and gasoline prices.

More Rain

Surfer Seo’s contribution to the tourism industry — and the local economy — will soon end. Seo is cutting his three-month Sydney stay short by a month because of the rain, which is forecast to remain for at least three months, according to the meteorology bureau.

La Nina, which means “little girl” in Spanish, is created by the cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. It’s the opposite of El Nino, or “little boy,” which can cause drought.

Dam levels rose to 64.4 percent at the end of February from 37.1 percent a year ago. Rain fall reached 439 millimeters this summer, compared with an average of 298 millimeters.

“We’re not whinging about the rain,” said Ben Fargaher, chief executive officer of the National Farmers’ Federation in Canberra, Australia’s capital city. “Good living weather is not good farming weather.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Shani Raja in Sydney at Sraja4@bloomberg.netSimeon Bennett in Singapore on Sbennett9@bloomberg.net

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The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.

Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.

“The Weather Channel had great promise, and that’s all gone now because they’ve made every mistake in the book on what they’ve done and how they’ve done it and it’s very sad,” Coleman said. “It’s now for sale and there’s a new owner of The Weather Channel will be announced – several billion dollars having changed hands in the near future. Let’s hope the new owners can recapture the vision and stop reporting the traffic, telling us what to think and start giving us useful weather information.”

The Weather Channel has been an outlet for global warming alarmism. In December 2006, The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen argued on her blog that weather casters who had doubts about human influence on global warming should be punished with decertification by the American Meteorological Society.

Coleman also told the audience his strategy for exposing what he called “the fraud of global warming.” He advocated suing those who sell carbon credits, which would force global warming alarmists to give a more honest account of the policies they propose.

“[I] have a feeling this is the opening,” Coleman said. “If the lawyers will take the case – sue the people who sell carbon credits. That includes Al Gore. That lawsuit would get so much publicity, so much media attention. And as the experts went to the media stand to testify, I feel like that could become the vehicle to finally put some light on the fraud of global warming.”

Earlier at the conference Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told an audience that the science will eventually prevail and the “scare” of global warming will go away. He also said the courts were a good avenue to show the science.

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