First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.
Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.
I'm not kidding.
ABCNews.com in Australia reported the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:
Wasted food at Christmas time is now being highlighted as an environmental problem.
Jon Dee, the chairman of Do Something, says gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts.
Mr Dee says there are simple ways to avoid over-catering at Christmas and damaging the environment.
"Australians waste more than 3 million tonnes of food every year and of course a lot of that food is wasted at Christmas," he said.
Okay, I'll bite: if "gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts," why are we worried about carbon pollution from car exhausts? Or from coal-fired power plants?
Now, add in all the methane being released from cows, bogs, and wetlands across the planet, and the fact that methane is a signficantly more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and hasn't this article pointed out the extraordinary absurdity in the entire anthropogenic global warming myth?
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Geniuses!
December 25, 2008 - 12:40 ET by iveseenitallGlobal Warming---Barry and Arnie buy it! So much for the intelligence and "honesty" of Democratic and Republican politicians.
Merry Christmas to All !!!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
So does John "Yosemite Sam"
December 26, 2008 - 08:39 ET by misterbee241So does John "Yosemite Sam" McCain.
Fart if you believe in AGW.
December 25, 2008 - 12:59 ET by eaglewingz08Fart if you believe in AGW. I guess we should start sending our leftovers back to India like they did in the 60s (Eat your veggies, don't you know people are starving in India).
Surplus food causes Global Warming?
December 25, 2008 - 19:50 ET by CiampinoI like the variation:
Finish reading your email. There are people offline in India.
I have a good friend in
December 26, 2008 - 08:40 ET by misterbee241I have a good friend in Wisconsin who makes his own personal contribution to global warming :).
Aren't most doomsday
December 25, 2008 - 13:16 ET by BKeyserAren't most doomsday theorists viewed as loons? And don't most rational people, even in Australia, understand that? Would anyone be surprised to find out that most of these nutjob enviros were millenium nutjobs as well? (shaking my head in disbelief...)
Who throws food away?
December 25, 2008 - 13:28 ET by heldmywMy holiday cooking may include turkey, ham and the like, but I promise you, when I'm done with it, there is the "main" meal, followed by days of sandwiches, soup from the bones, hash, croquettes and what's leftover wouldn't feed a gerbil!
It's part of my family's holiday tradition.
As for the rest? Well... I've never actually had any pies, cookies or rum cakes head for the landfill. They magically seem to disappear.
Saying that throwing too much food away is a cause of too much compost-related gases, is rather like observing that throwing too much cash down the toilet is a cause of too much poverty.
What kind of twits are they raising 'down-under'?
I agree. They certainly
December 25, 2008 - 15:30 ET by motherbeltI agree.
They certainly aren't surveying real families if they think the table "clearings" get tossed. Everyone I know actually plans on their holiday meal providing many more meals and snacks after the main dinner is done.
Maybe they just don't like the idea that we are eating well; to them it's just more of our "selfishness" and "wastefulness."
RICO
December 25, 2008 - 13:47 ET by Lakewood BobPoliticians and people like Al Gore, Henry Paulson, and the many in "rancid" academia should be prosecuted under the RICO act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) for perpetuating this SCAM on the American people and the world. Despicable doesn't begin to describe it; does it Obama!
Of course, these
December 25, 2008 - 13:48 ET by fitzfongOf course, these eco-parasites won't work towards finding a win-win solution to this "problem"...you know, like maybe a Meals on Wheels/Share Our Strength program to bring leftover/potentially wasted food to those in need. They truly are beneath contempt.
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Face it, everything we like causes global warming
December 25, 2008 - 13:58 ET by jefflebowskiOf course, those with a foot of snow on the ground might like a little global warming about now. It's like Gordon Gekko said about liberals, "they love animals, they hate people." If we only did away with everything we love, like SUV's, houses and food, Mother Earth could survive. These people are sick and I make sure I ignore them at all times. Especially when I'm driving my truck over to Grandma's to enjoy a big ol' global warming Christmas feast!
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If humans are so bad, they
December 25, 2008 - 23:25 ET by MrSnugglesIf humans are so bad, they should follow their own beliefs and commit suicide.
I'm confused...
December 25, 2008 - 14:11 ET by mizflame98For the life of me I can't understand what all the hooplah is about. After all, we can harness methane from the landfills and use it to power cities. I would think the enviromentalists would be happy if everyone decides to throw their Christmas dinner away. I think they just love to complain for the sport of it.
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Like the banning lights, below, it's about buying greeeeen crap
December 25, 2008 - 14:12 ET by upcountrywaterIt' been a wish of mine, to invent a product, then make it a law to be forced to have it.
One can just feel an additional trash tax comming, nothing like the trash police at the dump, searching through your trash to see what you must recycle, save ,re-heat and eat.
BTW i eat all leftovers, do i get a check from the government, for belonging to the clean plate club?
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One can just feel an
December 25, 2008 - 15:33 ET by motherbeltOne can just feel an additional trash tax comming, nothing like the
trash police at the dump, searching through your trash to see what you
must recycle, save ,re-heat and eat.
Don't knock it.
England already has laws in some places that penalize people who don't recycle. I've seen articles on it...if people don't put stuff out for pickup, they look into it and fine them. Sometimes their neighbors turn them in.
mbelt, additional tax and oil to recycle, is the real waste
December 25, 2008 - 16:34 ET by upcountrywaterI guess some of these folk will be placed at various locations to enforce the trash laws.
Recyling metals is a good thing, no gov taxes to make it work.. Sorry that ain't the way it works YT video( careful f and s words) Pen & Teller.
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Only 7 UN IPCC Scientists Support Global Warming
December 25, 2008 - 14:14 ET by Rush FanObviously you have to go outside the United States if you want to find a factual story on "climate change."
From the Calgary Herald titled: The so-called consensus on global warming is melting:
"For example, the UN claimed 2,500 scientists supported its key claim
that human-generated greenhouse gases are the primary cause of global
warming. But those 2,500 weren't asked to support it--they were only
asked to review it. Only 62 completed the review, and 55 had serious
concerns, leaving a total of seven to support the science that is the
basis of the IPCC climate-change policy."
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Rush Fan,That would be the LOVE of money
December 25, 2008 - 14:23 ET by upcountrywateris the root of evil..
Money is a tool to be used.
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Whitewash
December 25, 2008 - 19:17 ET by dboThe IPCC was a rigged process with preconceived notions before it was even put together.
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Another liberal trying to
December 25, 2008 - 15:23 ET by rbosqueAnother liberal trying to make us feel "guilty" for being human. If they're that concerned about the planet they can start with themselves by commiting Hari-Kari.
I'm going to make up for the looney liberals who subscribe to this nonsense. I'm having a nice meat-rich dinner and afterwards I'm lighting up my Arturo Fuente Robusto.
You know
December 25, 2008 - 16:03 ET by BobAnthonyTHESE ENVIRO-FASCIST CONSPIRACY THEORISTS REALLY BOIL MY BLOOD!
The Constitution is NOT a conspiracy theory and the founding fathers are NOT conspiracy theorists!
leftover food==
December 25, 2008 - 16:11 ET by misterbillI have never noticed a gas problem from leftover food and I am long past the age where I will discuss the real gas problem of ingested food.
Merry Christmas and a happy Gaviscon.
I like what our friends up
December 25, 2008 - 16:41 ET by TruthMattersI like what our friends up in Minnesota say, you know, the guys trying to set the flamingo's free:
"Prevent global warming...shut your mouth."
Why don't we just stop eating? Will that fix it?
December 25, 2008 - 17:10 ET by R D HelmJeez Louise, what a crock.
Evidently, these idiot Australians have never been around Dave's family during the holidays. I have yet to have leftover anything to still be leftover three days after cooking it.
Trust me, the life expectancy of one of my wine-injected, hickory-smoked turkeys is about 24 hrs around here. Maybe 48 if I cook two.
Not only that, but I make about two gallons of stock from the carcasses and use it for soups and sauces.
If anything gets thrown away, its usually some weird, petrified fruitcake that one of my relatives insists on bringing every year. :-O
-Dave
Merry Christmas everybody!
Pretty soon, these wackos
December 25, 2008 - 18:50 ET by pitter43Pretty soon, these wackos are going to claim that recycling causes global warming. They're nuts that can't be pleased.
Just the facts
December 25, 2008 - 19:01 ET by ThisnThat"Gases from leftover food rotting in landfill are 20 times more potent than the carbon pollution from car exhausts"
Ok -- show me the analysis. But have it peer reviewed first. Then I'll beleive it. Otherwise, don't produce CO2 talking about this.
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TnT, yea those" facts" blah blah 20 times...
December 26, 2008 - 13:17 ET by upcountrywaterHeres another "fact" that one about 2nd hand smoke kills 20,000 a year... whats the deal with 2 followed by zero or zeros?
Heres 200 times or another 200 times
or 2,000 times
or 20,000 times
200,000
Peer review lmao
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I suppose...
December 25, 2008 - 23:02 ET by jackie3Breathing causes GW too. These nut jobs won't be happy till there are no more humans left on the planet. The news is a flying circus!
Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The global warming people
December 26, 2008 - 08:38 ET by misterbee241The global warming people need to get a clue - you can only yell "WOLF" a certain number of times and people will stop coming when you call.
I dont generally make New Year resolutions, but this year I'm making one - to be the worst enemy the enviro-whackos and the liberals ever had.
Ever heard of leftovers?
December 26, 2008 - 10:53 ET by moderncommentaries83I know East/West coast liberals think leftovers are a quaint, fly-over country notion, but I'm willing to bet few people (other than rich elite liberals with servants) simply throw away food left from Christmas.
Yesterday, my SIL and her husband packed all the left over ham, potatoes, beans, and ambrosia into bags for the family to take home. My husband took some for lunch. I will be eating some today.
IT WON'T GO TO WASTE. So bite me, you Scrooges.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
MC
December 26, 2008 - 12:15 ET by Noel SheppardMC,
I agree. I don't know what happens in Australia, but virtually everything that wasn't eaten by my family yesterday is in tupperware containers in my fridge. My goodness: tupperware is NOT a new invention.
We're in the worst recession in decades: who throws out food? ns
Noel,After I slaved away
December 26, 2008 - 12:56 ET by Chris NormanNoel,
After I slaved away over a hot stove all day, making - among other things - scalloped potatoes au gratin, cornbread dressing, and hickory smoked pork roast - they'd think I would actually just toss out the leftovers? What cave do these people live in that they think that this is what other people do? They're overreaching big time and this will be their downfall.
The good news is that
December 26, 2008 - 12:47 ET by Chris NormanThe good news is that insane claims like this, getting wilder and more hysterical, will eventually kill the whole "AGW" movement. It's like the liar who embellishes the story one time too many...
→ AGW
December 26, 2008 - 13:01 ET by Cool ArrowI noticed the reenactment at Trenton involved the actors crossing the river at the bridge because of wind warnings.
When Washington crossed it, it was at the close of the Little Ice Age.
It must have been them Injuns with their infernal campfires that thawed us out.
Just what in the heck won't
December 26, 2008 - 13:00 ET by bigtimerJust what in the heck won't these absolute nutcases think of next for a cause for the non-global warming BS?
Insanity in full force.
This would be laughable if it weren't so maddening.
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