Hey, Rodger, with all the talk about "carbon footprint"
and the nonsense associated with it, have you ever tried to compute your
own?
I have.
According to "BP," I produce 16 tons of CO2, less
than the average of 18.58
http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9015627&contentId=7029058this
According to these yahoos at Carbon Footprint I produce
24 tons and they say the average is 20 tons. They then try to make you feel bad
by saying the world average is 4 tons. What they don't say is that 5 billion of
the 6 billion on the planet live in corrugated shacks or mud huts with no
electricity, running water, personal cars, TV, computers, etc. They want us to
go down to 2 tons per person! In other words, live in caves and wipe our asses
with leaves.
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
Nature.org says I produce 44 tons!!!!!!!! They also
say the US average is 27 tons and the world
average is 5.5 tons.
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/
The yahoos at Green Yahoo say I produce 16.4 tons with a
US average of
9.4
http://green.yahoo.com/calculator/results
The Earthlab folks say I produce 15
tons.
http://www.earthlab.com/carbonProfile/LiveEarth.htm
ClimateStar.org says I only produce 11.8
tons.
http://go.ucsusa.org/calculator.html
And what we would think would be the best source for
accurate information (given it is their job) the folks at the EPA say I produce
13 tons. The US average? 20
tons.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
If all these flamers can't agree amongst
themselves what we produce nor what we should produce why is anyone even
listening to them? Just check out the wild variations in my numbers---anything
from 12 to 44 tons!! Almost 400% from one extreme to the
other.
Just thought you might want to know. (Hope you’ve not
done something like this as I’ve not searched your blog for
it)
Vilmar
P.S. If you run this it’d be interesting to see what
others get for their numbers.
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