I would not have believed the claim if I hadn’t read it here:
So the idea is that everybody should lose ten kilos the result of which would be a drop in greenhouse emissions that would be the equivalent of 0.2% of the CO(2) emitted globally in 2007 (49.560Mt).
Good luck pulling that off. I have a proposal that may also have an impact.
Any researcher who takes public money to study global warming and produce results that dictate how the rest of us should live should give up their car and walk or bicycle everywhere.
That should have an effect.
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Can those of us who are chronically underweight get special grant money or something for helping to save the Earth?
Wow, I was totally expecting a joke about methane emissions. I am proud to point out this line of humor, but I am so shocked that the headline is serious and not a satire that I can’t come up with a joke at the moment.
If you lose weight you converting fat ( a carbon rich compound) into mostly CO2 and water. This will increase the green house gases. We should look at obesity as CO2 sequestation!
So…..with a 100% implementation of this plan we’d get a .2% reduction would we?
Let me know when they have a study telling us the climate benefits of a one child policy similar to China’s.
I’ve lived in Scotland for sixteen years and I’ve never heard of that “university” before.
OK, Tubbo, You’re guilty! Lose it, or we’ll disappear you! See “Skinny” over there??? A fine example of Legislative Anorexia! Austral-erity Rocks!
Surely, more portly people are acting as carbon sinks and should get paid for their service to CCS….
The carbon in your body is part of a carbon-dioxide-neutral cycle. If you put on weight where does the C in it come from, and if you lose weight or die where does it go?
Mike Jonas, I agree. Hasn’t this been shown with the Biosphere experiments near tucson?
you all need to give up
up with the car
the hysteria
and give up with the
last week idea that you need
anything
If flatulence is the issue it would probably be more effective to just ban people from eating vegetables (especially beans). Vegetarianism is clearly a danger to the planet.
@Huth: it’s possibly similar to those unknown Universities and Colleges that are quoted ad nauseum on the (revisionist) History Channel, producing “professors of Archaeology” who somehow are qualified to comment on the “feelings” and thoughts of people long dead who left no written record, i.e. “Dear Diary”, today my forces destroyed 20,000 huns and assorted barbarians, and I felt so sad for their families”……..
here’s the link: http://www.rgu.ac.uk/
By having more body fat, I’m better insulated, so I’m more efficient.
CAGW: Corpulent Anthropogenic Global Warming
“The CORE team have no immediate future plans for this research, but will continue to contribute to the global understanding and management of obesity.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
What about a link to obesity with alarmism and political incapacity?
A quick review of the syllabus of Robert Gordon University reveals it to what we used to call a technical college in America.
These are sometimes called universities here too, but are really the equivalent of a community college that offers limited graduate degrees at the Master’s level.
First came grade inflation and social promotion for students. Now we are seeing the same phenomenon for institutions.
ENOUGH WITH “STUPID” SCIENCE ALREADY!!! Has the world of academia gone completely insane? Are there absolutely no checks and balances left in the cloistered halls of learning? Do the graduates of these “schools” actually expect to be able to get real-world jobs after being associated with professors such as these?
I think that reports of this type are absolutely ludicrous and completely insensitive. Any “university” conducting this type of “research” should be immediately disbanded. Its administration and “research” staff should be black-listed from holding any other positions of authority for life. They should also be forcibly compelled to comply with their own inane recommendations.
/end rant – I feel much better now.
[Note: I had to rewrite this three times to tone down my comments in order to try to comply with WUWT policies.]
I’ve lost 20-odd pounds lately, and we have had a lousy cool summer. Does this correlation mean that the English Tourist Board can sue me for loss of earnings?
“The CORE team have no immedate future plans for this research…..” Translation: The grant money’s run out. Thank God for that, at least.
It takes more energy to stay lean or lose weight. Exercise and good nutrition don’t come free.
Anthony your request it will function in a perfect and ideal world, but here on the earth nobody will drop their cars just for the nature sake.
Shadows of…Bethselamin????
Robert Gordon University is in Aberdeen. It is a respected mainstream body with the usual mix of competent and hard-working academics on the one hand and of people happy to come up with the research results that suit the political elites on the other.
@dtbronzich: thanks for the link, it quacked right from the start…