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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eco-geek says:
Hijacking a thread the strange way.
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!
I get this message if I try to post the full comment which has not appeared despite several attempts. Even a short sentence does not appear even after it has been changed from the original. Of course the readers can’t see what isn’t being posted so it will not make much sense to them. I can only post my exasperation and comments on my exasperation. I am being censored on key words it seems. Who is behind this?
[Reply: You are not being censored by WUWT. WordPress, or your computer, may be the problem. ~dbs, mod.]
H.R. says:
August 16, 2011 at 2:19 am
Where does cannibalism fit in to all this?
Do we eat all the fat people?
You havn’t really thought this out have you H.R..
We would end up the fat people then!
another thing we should consider…fat people probably fart more….more methane!!!! Their extra weight probably increases fuel consumption in cars and planes!
Just an add on, amazed at the number of Scots commenting in this website. Good on us Scots for recognising AGW to be the crock it is!!!
Paul
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OK I am going bananas. My original comment has finally appeared “up-top” despite several previous searches trying to find it. There is some inconsistency in the operation of the comments system here. Many of my silly comments have not appeared but many have.
I get utterly fuming about the pseudo-scientific scams used to cause obesity and diabetes. Most of the comments on this post have been made by people who have bought into the lies propagated by the MSM. They believe that fat people are fat because they eat too much and don’t take enough excercise, they believe they output more CO2 because they are fat. This is a cynical lie they are fat becuase they don’t put out enough CO2 because they don’t metabolise. I’m not talking just about the super-fat b*stards begging for gastric bands but many of the readership who are getting just a little podgy and think it’s their fault for eating too much.
You have been conned.
[reply] I’ll check the spam bin. Every comment on WUWT is checked by a real live half-awake overworked human. Thanks for your patience. TB-mod
Thanks for that. It is not necessary now I feel. There seems to be something very odd going on today and I have no idea why. The subject of the post gets me seriously wound-up and especially because so many of the WUWT readership are in a belief state with their brains switched off. It happens to us all because we can’t possibly think about everything under the sun even if we are thinking about something all of the time. Much of the time we have to take on trust what we are being told and believe it is all based on “settled science” with those behind the messages acting in our best interests. Oh were that true! Everything you see and hear in the MSM (with very few exceptions) on the subject of the post (obesity) is a BFL. The media is controlled down to the scripting and production level in many instances and deception, lies by implication and downright full blown lies are daily forced down our throats by the people who pretend expertise in these matters. The authors of this deceitful piece of profiteering propaganda are at best idiots. If you know anything at all about modern obesity it is that the obese put out less CO2 than the slim in >90% of cases. This propaganda piece has nothing to do with AGW at all, that is just a screen for the BFL. While the readers are rightly taking the mickey out of the silly suggestion they make they are still buying into the lie. That is what they want, to sell the lie of obesity. The connection to AGW is a smokescreen.
What’s wrong with obesity? I thought carbon sequestration was supposed to be good–look at all those megatons of carbon locked up in fat!
And why don’t biofuel advocates support processing surplus liposuction fat for an unlimited renewable resource?
How long until before we see a “research study” claiming that stadiums full of cheering, singing fans add to global warming.
Warmer temps and more co2 mean better food production.
I suspect we also evolved to plump up before cooling phases in solar/pdo cycles.
Did they account for the carbon they’re requesting?
Someone should make “I’m not fat, I’m carbon sequestering,” t-shirts. They can come in xxl, xxxl, and Al Gore.
Hang on… Human fat is a long-chain hydrocarbon, right? As in, by weight, it’s mostly carbon atoms. So, by carrying “extra pounds”, we’re actually sequestering carbon. If anything, they should be encouraging us all to carry an extra ten pounds, because if everyone on the planet did that it would be around 3.5 billion tons of carbon sequestered!
Err, sorry, that’s 350,000 tons of carbon – my bad on the conversion there.
tonybr says:
August 16, 2011 at 1:21 am
I hope the BBC, in its blind faith, publicises this as it has to be the most laughable link suggested, beating any and all previously pushed by the high priests of CAGE hysteria and spin
Tony don’t count on the BBC for anything. Today, one of the biggest ever north sea oil finds announced but not on the BBC. Small oil leak in the north sea; front page website news.
say no more 😉
As a Scot I am greatly embarrasssed that a Scottish seat of learning is so far out of touch with reality that it believes 3% of CO2 makes it ‘the MAJOR greenhouse gas’!
I know much of the populace has been brainwashed into believing this but when a once reputable University declares it as fact, you realise the lunatics are running the asylum!
So, if losing 10Kg reduces CO2, what if I lost it by more exercise which makes me breathe harder. Given we expel around 4% CO2 in our breath, won’t that increase the amount of CO2?
Less obese people are also more active, which could mean more CO2 produced. I bet they didn’t even want to contemplate that area. A complex world needs more complexe studies than this news graber.
the post was funny enough, but eco geeks had me really chuckling.
and re the fats issue I reckon hes right.
natural fats are just fine, and tasty.:-)
and I am skinny.
Billy Connelly could do about half an hour on this one..anyone got his email:-)
A bit of a diversion, but you should see some of the sick comments being made over on the Climate Reality Facebook site (http://www.facebook.com/climatereality), in the thread where they linked a NYTimes piece about rising corn and soybean prices:
“On the upside, fat people die sooner. lol”
“And when the economy collapses, as it will soon, the fit and prepared with be able to take out the greedy ones with ease. Work is not something they do often.”
“I think this is a time to weed out all the lazy idiots. Im my opinion if you cant grow, fish or hunt your own food if need be then you deserve to starve.”
I am gaining weight as a biological adaptation to living in a cold northern climate.
I’m not getting fat, I’m evolving.
That’s my story, I’m sticking to it.
eco-geek says:
August 16, 2011 at 2:04 am
I was going to post a one word comment, but in recognition of your discovery of the ill-understood WP spam filter, I salute you persistence and note no human censored you. (Though one could have limited the damage.)
Oh yeah, Scottish obesity crisis:
Haggis.
That’s terrible, I’d never heard of the Robert Gordon University and now I can see why if this is what passes for reseaerch there.
Even the most basic search would have shown that all CO2 emited from humans regardless of weight are carbon neutral. The CO2 has already been taken out of the atmosphere and is derived from the food they eat. The only exception to this is the increase in fossil fuels that are burned to transport obese people about or prepare the increased food that they eat.
With global warming our bodies would heat up, we’d eat less, and lose weight. The average increase in weight is a sign that the earth is cooling- we need all those extra pounds to keep warm.
A trio of experts…
The definition of ‘expert’:
ex – has-been
spurt – a drip under pressure
Their conclusions seem consistent with their definition as experts.