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Category: Carbon footprint
HuffPost Notices Academic Climate Hypocrisy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Huffington Post has noticed that many university academics are utter climate hypocrites, that many of them rate their personal importance by how many professional air…
Climate Modeller Embarrassed by Her Air Travel
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Willie Soon – A climate modeller has spoken of her distress at her “pretty awful” carbon footprint, including air travel to climate conferences, and…
Reuters: Blame Consumers, Not China for Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to Clinton Climate Initiative backed green group C40, heavy emitters like China are not responsible for climate change; consumers in big cities who provide…
Study: smartphones and massive data centers harm the environment
From MCMASTER UNIVERSITY Data centres and smartphones will be the most damaging information and communications technologies to the environment by 2040, according to new research from W Booth School’s Lotfi Belkhir.…
Earth Overshoot Day: An Anthropocene Fable
Guest post by David Middleton I think future historians will be amazed at how the Anthropocene was filled with more myths and fables than the combined cultures of ancient Greece,…
Climate craziness of the week: Apparently, crime DOES pay when it comes to carbon footprints
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…
Claim: New "Green" Danish Facebook Data Centre Will Increase CO2 Emissions
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,…
Friday Funny – some people just aren't clear on the concept of 'crime doesn't pay'
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…
LA Times: Car Fuel Economy Standards Don't Reduce CO2
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…
Claim: Consumers care about carbon footprint
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…
Shocker: Vegetarian diets worse for climate than eating bacon
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…
Yes, but what about the 'carbon emissions' of PlayStation® climatology computers?
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…
The record of recent Man-made CO2 emissions: 1965 -2013
Ed suggested this would be a good addition to the new WUWT CO2 reference page, and I agree, but thought it should get front page attention first. It is a…
And then they came for your home mortage tax deduction…
From Georgia State University and the department of “let’s just all live in uniform state sponsored mud huts“, comes this latest inanity, blaming carbon emissions on your ability to get…
Earth going to pot – Marijuana grown in California produces more carbon than 3 million cars
Thanks to “Climate Desk” for pointing out this gem of an article. These factoids are from the earth-friendly “Mother Jones” magazine “24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America”, referencing…
Obama Administration to Insert Global Warming Activism into Dietary Guidelines Mandated by Congress
Aaargh! Forget nutrition and medical guidelines, carbon footprint is the new diet selector. Climate Change Activists to Meet Food Police at Closed-Door Meeting March 14 New York, NY / Washington…
Now it's the fungi carbon footprint that isn't in climate models
From a long line of missing things in climate models and the University of Texas at Austin: Symbiotic fungi inhabiting plant roots have major impact on atmospheric carbon, scientists say…
Canceled carbon footprint savings
From the University of California – Berkeley Suburban sprawl cancels carbon footprint savings of dense urban cores Interactive maps of US metro areas shows striking differences between cities and suburbs…
Essay: carbon footprint as 'original sin'
This essay appears today in The Chronicle Review and it makes an interesting claim: What is the carbon footprint, after all, if not the gaseous equivalent of Original Sin, the…
Is the Tesla Model S Green?
EVs indirectly pollute, and the Tesla Model S appears to result in greater effective CO2 emissions than an SUV Guest post by Nathan Weiss The EPA tells us 51% of…
The carbon footprint of alternate energy technology
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use…
Al Gore's Carbon Footprint
Now that Mr. Gore is on that take from “big oil”, here’s a collection of satirical images and cartoons celebrating his new carbon footprint…
Wyoming experiences that "giant sucking sound" as new coal fired climate supercomputer is turned on
Did your lights dim yesterday? It might have been Trenberth’s “travesty calculator”. Readers may recall when I covered the announcement of the building of this new supercomputer: NCAR’s dirty little secret…
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