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.
Ok, if you were 10 Kg lighter you might respire less CO2. However, all the plants and animals that you would have eaten if you hadn’t dieted and lost 10 Kg will be respiring CO2. Maybe obese people are a carbon sink!
At least global warming isn’t threatening the Tardigrades.
Caleb says:
Another thing that is messing up our diet is high fructose corn syrup. The body does not recognize it as sugar, although it tastes sweet. As I recall, the liver turns it to fat swiftly.
Yes, very true: I am allergic to high fructose corn syrup, and have to carefully examine the ingredients label quite carefully. Upon those occasions when I have a soft drink, it must have real sugar in it, Sarsaparilla is one of my favorites.
They missed the biggest problem with obesity with regard to global warming: When you press the red button and an obese denier explodes, it goes EVERYWHERE!
Best laugh of the month. Thanks. 🙂
Well there is direct correlation between fatness, and global temperature. Its is also a FACT that blubber acts as insulation. This thus makes the Obesopogengic Global Warming thesis at least as plausible as the AGW – I always had my suspicions fat people would harbingers of the apocalypse.
People have also largely ignored the contribution fat people make in terms of methane production!!!!
Of course it is also true that exercising and a vigorous lifestyle produces a lot of CO2 as well. So apparently we need to stop that and sit down. And knock off the chatter. Produces too much CO2.
Aw, c’mon, guys – you must be able to see how this came about…
CORE researchers: ‘We need some more funds to research obesity..’
‘Sorry, guys, there’s no money – you know the state of the public finances…’
‘We’ll link it to anthropogenic climate change..’
‘How much do you need..?’
As usual, the warmists have the causal arrow pointing backwards. Warming causes fatness, as less is burned off to maintain body heat.