Greens Going for the Green
Ubiquitous
environmentalists aren't wasting any time linking the disaster to global
warming. Or at least one isn't: Al Gore. Citing the deadly Burmese storm and
recent storms in China and Bangladesh, he declared on National Public Radio:
"We're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be
associated with continued global warming."
There's just one problem -- it's not clear there's any link between climate
change and hurricane numbers or intensity. The number of big storms has been
falling, not rising. As for intensity, researchers led by Christopher Landsea
of the National Hurricane Center have found that earlier generations of
hurricane-watchers using inferior satellite imagery incorrectly classified
many storms as weaker than they actually were. After correcting for this
mismeasurement, the "increase" in storm intensity since the 1970s nearly
disappears.
But Mr. Gore is perhaps too busy these days to follow the science closely. In
April, a London-based company he chairs began selling shares in its so-called
Global Sustainability Fund to small investors in New Zealand, following a
similar offer to investors in Australia (interestingly, out of sight of the
U.S. press). He was also a conspicuously invoked presence when the Silicon
Valley firm Kleiner Perkins this month announced a new $500 million "green
growth" fund in partnership with Mr. Gore's London firm. Asked by the San Jose
Mercury News if Mr. Gore had been helpful in raising money, co-manager John
Denniston replied: "That's not been his primary responsibility."
Uh huh. Mr. Gore's primary responsibility, from the looks of it, is to spread
alarm about global warming and create the political conditions (subsidies,
mandates) without which Kleiner's "green" energy ventures are unlikely to
flourish. Expect the payoff to come next year as a new Congress and President
debate global warming policy.
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"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem.
Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an
overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a
predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and
how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."
-- Al Gore acknowledges exaggerating the dangers of "global warming"
Marinus van der Lubbe
> Even with the human tragedy of Cyclone Nargis still unfolding in Burma,
> environmentalists aren't wasting any time linking the disaster to global
> warming. Or at least one isn't: Al Gore. Citing the deadly Burmese storm and
> recent storms in China and Bangladesh, he declared on National Public Radio:
> "We're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be
> associated with continued global warming."
>
>
We taxpayers just got through funding "Clean Coal" to the tune of $2
Billion, while tossing $14 Million at solar energy.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25948
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/
Clean Coal, like in situ oil-shale oil-sands cracking, does not exist.
It was just an additional $2 Billion handed out to build 19th Century
technology coal power plants.
Ubiquitous
carbon dioxide per hour, and thirty second ad breaks are among the worst
offenders, according to audit figures from pitch consultants TrinityP3.
Carbon emissions are particularly strong during high-rating programs
such as the final episodes of the Ten Network’s Biggest Loser, which
produced 2135kgs per 30 second ad, So You Think You Can Dance at 2061kg
for every 30 seconds, closely followed by the Seven News 6pm news at
1689kg and Border Security at 1802kg.
TrinityP3 managing director Darren Woolley said emissions are calculated
by measuring a broadcasters’ power consumption and that of a consumer
watching an ad on television in their home, B&T Magazine reports.
“We look at the number of households and the number of TVs, and then the
proportion of TVs that are plasma, LCD or traditional, and calculate
energy consumption based on those factors,” Woolley said.
TrinityP3 is formalising a standard carbon footprint measurement of
advertising, which it claims will be the first of its kind.
“Most companies have been obliged to think through their strategies on
reducing carbon emissions and they need to remember that their marketing
strategies do have an environmental impact that needs to be included.
This is not something that is easily able to be measured,” Mr Woolley
said.
“Reality television is interesting as the more viewers and voters that
tune in, the higher the carbon footprint. The more people vote, the more
it adds to the CO2 in the atmosphere.
“When Big Brother launched in Australia in 2001, advertising in the
program contributed over 1200kg of CO2 into the environment. By series
eight this year, the decreasing number of viewers decreased its carbon
footprint by 50%.
“However, the Biggest Loser is the biggest loser on the environment with
a massive 57 tonnes of CO2 per hour produced by the advertising that ran
during the final,” he said.
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
Mason Barge
"Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote in message
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> AUSTRALIAN television advertising is producing as much as 57 tonnes of
> carbon dioxide per hour, and thirty second ad breaks are among the worst
> offenders, according to audit figures from pitch consultants TrinityP3.
>
And those pesky electric lights, water heaters, and computers cause HUGE
gobs of CO2.
aroberts
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Not to mention all of us devious mammals who keep exhaling. Infuriating,
isn't it?
Texan_2112
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And those damn volcanoes, spewin' smoke all over the place. Maybe Mrs.
Pelosi will sue mother nature.
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clouddreamer
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> "aroberts" <a-rob...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:svKdnY6gM9PnfxrV...@comcast.com...
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>> "Mason Barge" <mason...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:5cedndDBXZUKCxrV...@comcast.com...
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>>> "Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote in message
>>> news:QOednf86nvDjyxrV...@giganews.com...
>>>> AUSTRALIAN television advertising is producing as much as 57 tonnes of
>>>> carbon dioxide per hour, and thirty second ad breaks are among the
>>>> worst
>>>> offenders, according to audit figures from pitch consultants TrinityP3.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And those pesky electric lights, water heaters, and computers cause
>>> HUGE gobs of CO2.
>>
>>
>> Not to mention all of us devious mammals who keep exhaling.
>> Infuriating, isn't it?
>>
>
>
> And those damn volcanoes, spewin' smoke all over the place. Maybe Mrs.
> Pelosi will sue mother nature.
Yeah...those damned volcanoes...spewing all of 200 MILLION tons of the
stuff annually.
But mankind is not to be outdone. We spew 30 BILLION tons of the stuff
all over the place annually.
Imagine what an education can do for you.
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We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.
aroberts
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Or do you mean indoctrination? Imagine what the scientific method can do
for you.