June 12th...everybody remember to cookout (or barbeque what-ever you want to call it), drive a lot, leave all the lights on, smoke some cigars, belch, fart, etc. I like this idea for an effort to at least bring some rational thought to the table on this issue by showing these greenies how silly this carbon-credit nonsense really is...we'll see what happens.
This is from Grassfire.org (a conservative site I read frequently) and Information Week...not much of a prelude is needed but as usual all emphasis and subtext is my own in the article quote.
Here's the main website:
http://www.carbonbelchday.com/Here's the "Carbon Belch Calculator":
(By the way, I scored 237 lbs of CO2 for my Carbon Belch.)
http://www.carbonbelchday.com/calculator.asp?RID=&PID=Here's the article:
Global Warming Skeptics Plot 'Carbon Belch Day'
Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 to break free from "carbon footprint guilt."
By Paul McDougall, InformationWeek
May 27, 2008
Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars."
Steaks, beer, brown whiskey, cigars...sounds like a plan to me!
The point: the group wants to "help Americans break free from the 'carbon footprint guilt' being imposed by Climate Alarmists."
The author is too kind...they are GLOBAL WARMING CULTISTS.
Grassfire.org says it's skeptical over claims that man-made sources of carbon dioxide emissions -- from automobile exhausts to manufacturing plants -- are raising the Earth's temperature at a dangerous rate. Theories about global warming were highlighted by former Vice President Al Gore's 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth.
And that is EXACTLY what they are...theories.
Grassfire.org president Steve Elliott, in a statement, said such theories are off the mark. "It's time for Americans to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us," Elliott said.
Grassfire.org said it chose June 12 as the day it wants Americans to rev up their SUVs because it coincides with expected debate in Congress over a $1.2 billion carbon tax rebate program. "Carbon Belch Day will have at least as much impact on the so-called 'planetary emergency' of man-made global warming as the goofy save the earth mandates telling us to turn our lights off for an hour," said Elliott.
Cities around the world went dark for an hour on March 31 to mark "Earth Hour," an event created by the World Wide Fund for Nature to inspire people to find ways to use less energy.
Grassfire.org is the latest group to question whether global warming is a real phenomenon, or whether it's as severe as portrayed in Gore's film. London's Daily Telegraph this week called environmentalism "the new secular faith."
The paper said the United Kingdom's carbon credits program for industry is "just like the medieval trade in indulgences, where remission for sins was granted by the Church once the sinner confessed and received absolution."
But, it's a new way to play on people's green guilt and raise taxes at the same time.
Noted physicist Frederick Seitz, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, has also questioned the accuracy of global warming theories, as have a number of other academics.
Despite such skepticism, many U.S. companies -- including IT vendors like Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft -- are developing new lines of energy-saving products billed as Earth friendly. IBM, for instance, recently launched Project Big Green, a $1 billion investment to increase the energy efficiency of the company's offerings.
For buyers of such systems, whether or not global warming is real is beside the point. Skyrocketing fuel costs are forcing businesses to cut down on energy consumption in as many ways as possible. As a result, it's unlikely many will decide to "belch" away hard-earned dollars on June 12.
Here's the link for the article in Information Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208400325
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