From the “Who freaking cares about the carbon footprint of criminals?” department comes this inane study that only a fully invested warmist could give a rats posterior about. With statements like this: “to ignore these carbon emissions risks crime prevention strategies being unsustainable.” one wonders if the author of the study really understands that the…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Information, a major Danish News Outlet, has claimed the rush to build “green” data centres in Denmark, to take advantage of Denmark’s abundant wind energy, will increase CO2 emissions. New data centers will account for a third of the increase in electricity consumption in the future – and it may…
Get a load of this. We’ve all heard the usual hate-speech that climate skeptics should be “locked up” for having an alternate opinion. But, did you ever think you’d see something as ridiculous as this in the NYT? …inmates generally consume less than an average citizen in the country, so fewer prisoners might mean higher…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The LA Times claims that changing land use policies would make more difference to CO2, than vehicle fuel efficiency standards. But their “solution” is to reduce car use, by repealing the rights of existing residents to oppose unwanted high density urban development. … Under the national Corporate Average Fuel Economy…
This study reminded me of one of the most ridiculous green marketing campaigns ever, “carbon free” Domino sugar. My view is that the only consumers that care about a carbon footprint are the ones incapable of understanding what they are being sold. Do consumers care about carbon emitted during the lifecycle of consumer goods? INDERSCIENCE…
From Carnegie Mellon and the “BLT’s must be carbon neutral then” department comes this story sure to strike fear into the hearts of vegetarian climate activists everywhere. Vegetarian and ‘healthy’ diets are more harmful to the environment Carnegie Mellon study finds eating lettuce is more than three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon…
From the department of ‘press releases we never quite bothered to finish reading’ comes this from Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology : Console Games and Climate Change – Researchers Reveal Carbon Emissions of PlayStation®3 Game Distribution It’s not always true that digital distribution of media will have lower carbon emissions than distribution by physical means,…
