Reading this you might think I am an evil horrible woman. I would like to reassure you, I am not! I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!

Don’t you think this is great?

Do you?

Personally I think it is appalling.

A lot has to be done before we can revert to Carbon offsetting as an effective mechanism to reduce global Carbon emissions.

Before she paid for carbon credits to offset her releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, she probably should have determined the origin of that CO2:

Producing carbon dioxide as a commercial product requires that it be recovered and purified from a relatively high-volume, CO2-rich gas stream, generally a stream which is created as an unavoidable byproduct of a large-scale combustion or biological process. In almost all cases, carbon dioxide which is captured and purified for commercial applications would be vented to the atmosphere at the production point if it were not recovered for transport and use at other locations.

The most common operations from which commercially-produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large-volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use. Breweries producing beer from various grain products are a traditional source. Corn-to-ethanol plants have been the most rapidly growing source of feed gas for CO2 recovery.

Thank you for the correction, Mr Fox.

Though I must admit, rarely have I been prouder of my ignorance….

The whole AGW religion is aimed at the youth who will one day assume the mantle of responsibility. Unfortunately, this sort of stunt resonates with youth who lack the experience to see it for what it is.

And we come back to the indoctrination debate. As the Jesuits say “Give me the child and I will give you the man.”

” …The point of the trip, in addition to scientific research, is “to inspire the creative team to respond to climate change both in the Arctic and on their return. ””

So… the “creative team” will see cold weather, snow, ice, clouds…

and be inspired to… “respond to climate change?”

So… I guess we can look forward to hearing lyrics like, “it’s &#$!@*& COLD in the Arctic!”

ha ha… no, it’ll still be about Bush, oil, greed, and polar bear cannibalism

“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”

To get the science right, is it time we got the education right first.

Regardless of the science, if the education is biased, so are the the next generations.

EDUCATION that is the root of the problem,
going forwards.

“That saddens me. Artists, writers and musicians are the “soul” of a society.”

They are not the soul of a society, but they are sometimes a welcome diversion from the reality of society. The soul of society is in the unnamed common people that raise their families, work at their jobs, and wish that the artists, writers and musicians really represented their values.

Out of context, yes, but appropriate to the situation.

Slam: Not out of context at all, Bobby. The same “father” (John 8:44) that drives evolution, drives this myth called man made global warming.

While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
COLD AND HEAT,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.
(Gen. 8:22)

http://www.wunderground.com/history/station/04416/2008/9/21/WeeklyHistory.html

better get up there, y’know this Worbal Gloming is the greatest threat that faces us, blah blah….
Seriously, I doubt if I could improve on nature there. I’d just cock it up…

There could be a role for you too!

I am an artist, though a sculptor not a musician

There could be a role for you too on one of their trips, Stephen!

Looks like Cape Farewell, the organisers of this particular event (and other similar ones), are cashing in. The Climate Change tie-in no doubt gets them plenty of free publicity, and makes people feel better about all the jet fuel and diesel they are consuming.

” They know nothing of scientific method, only what their favorite star says about science and the newest acne cream. ”

Watch Mike Judge’s film, “Idiocracy,” to see where this is leading.

Don’t be too sad, Bruce. I think you will find that artists are still doing their thing in society. This crowd look like wannabes – they couldn’t get onto ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here!’, so they are trying this instead. It makes sense – if the press will automatically provide coverage for ‘climate change’, then you will get self-publicists all over.

One thing I think we should watch – local emissions of soot are going to be particularly effective when depositited right on the ice-cap. We may be seeing a clever attempt to get the Arctic ice-free…?

Sorry to break it to you, but yes, people are that uninformed on most things. I taught a high school class this last year on using a console (sound board). I was shocked at the lack of understanding of science, physics, history and other basic subjects these people should have had cold. This was supposed to be a school with high expectations for the students it taught

Now they did know about their favorite rock stars, Oprah, and what happened on American Idol the night before. They will go to internet sites but only in the above categories.

That’s where they’re getting their information. With all the information channels available they know less and less about the world they live in, what makes it tick and how it got to be the way it is. They know nothing of scientific method, only what their favorite star says about science and the newest acne cream.

Be afraid, be VERY afraid.

Mike