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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
‘Leading’ environmentalist: Walking causes more harm than driving
Just when you thought you’d heard it all:
Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.
The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving.
“The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.”
Mr Goodall, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West & Abingdon, is the latest serious thinker to turn popular myths about the environment on their head.
Catching a diesel train is now twice as polluting as travelling by car for an average family, the Rail Safety and Standards Board admitted recently. Paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic because of the extra energy needed to manufacture and transport them, the Government says.
Somebody better inform San Francisco about that plastic vs. paper “statistic.”
They don’t want us to drink water, don’t want us to walk, and want us to only use one square of toilet paper per powder room (or “john”) visit. What’s next?
One thing’s for sure: If somebody tries to take away my aerosol can of Rusk W8tless hairspray in the name of ‘turning back the clock’ on global warming, they’ll be in for a fight! 
Related: Make sure to check out this refutation of Newsweek’s ‘global warming denier’ hit piece from this past weekend.
Hat tip: Fellow global warming ‘denier’ Sev
Flashback: 29 Ways To Increase Global Warming
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“Don’t buy anything from the supermarket” Mr Goodall said, “or anything that’s travelled too far.”
Actually, if you’re concerned about fuel use and emissions, then what matters is *how* it travels, not just how far. See Tangerines per Gallon.
It’s what I’ve been saying for years.
EVERYTHING any American does causes CO2. ALL goods and services needed to be produced at the plant, the factory needed to be built, the goods and services were transported to you or you went to it. Tiling my bathroom was CO2 for all the tile, backer board, grout, adhesive, trowel, sponge, spacers.
Going to school to update my computer credentials was CO2 for the teacher, books, computers being powered up, etc.
We might as well all sit around, eat less, not update our homes, …. live like a third worlder !!!
Prosperous people unite and do NOTHING !! Let’s throw it all away!
Anyways, this is an IMPORTANT DISCOVERY on Yahoo News about third worlders causing 50% of the global warming and therefore CO2 not really having the supposed impact.
These boots will keep on walking!
I sit inside, avoiding the late summer haze
And cry as environmentalism’s turned into a craze.
A serious subject is turned into blather
As temperature and temper get me in a lather.
I wish everybody’d think and be quiet
And go back to discussing the last craze
–the old Atkins diet.
Or something.
OMG, I love the Ihhofe pounding of Newsweek.
He puts in for good measure:
Anyways, thanks for that link ST. Made my day.
Drudge has a link to Gore wailing that all the deniers are funded by big oil to confuse people with the facts.
You can definitely tell when the AGW folks get panicked, they start shrieking about motives, funding, big oil, etc. They start really slinging the ad hominem attacks around, and never ever talk about the real science. It’s always “IT’s SETTLED!” and such, but if it is so settled, then the “deniers” articles and such should be really easy to refute. That must be why Al is hiding from the debates he’s been invited to, he is so right that he can’t prove it! Idiots.
The wheels have already come off the bus with respect to the inaccuracy of the AGW “science” so they move to personal attacks and the politics of personal destruction, just like all good liberals do when cornered. If ever there were a behavior that proves the other side is right, this is it.