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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Carbon Mythology
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I was sent this e-mail a few days back. Kinda relevant considering we are about to be Carbon taxed. No one seems to know where the collected tax is going or to whom but thats another thread alone. Here's goes what I was sent. Food for thought??
 

For all of you out there in America and across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named "Climate Change" or "Global Warming",  there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway. 

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, in it's first week of spewing volcanic ash, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet.  Not only that, this single act of God, in it's first week, has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.

I know, I know.... (have a group hug)...it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the first week.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the first week has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon.  And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses... you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating American jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now.

I'm so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.

  

So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have nice day!

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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
But I would imagine, just like the big sandstorms in Oz last year, that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of nutrient rich volcanic ash has been dumped in the sea, the nutrient rich ash will be consumed by plankton and such, consuming CO2 to help process the nutrients, and locking in the C02 as it dies and falls to the sea bed.

The soil dumped in the Tasman sea after the sandstorm - was processed by enough plankton to capture the equivalant annual Co2 output of a coal powered station.

Article on the Sandstorm fertilsing the sea
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/australia/news/article.cfm?l_id=15&objectid=10601844

Article of the volcanic ash fertilising the sea
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/04/16/is-ash-from-the-iceland-volcano-good-for-the-ocean







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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here's the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, in it's first week of spewing volcanic ash, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet.  Not only that, this single act of God,



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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
But if carbon emissions werent saved,itd be a whole lot worse? The savings are still savings.
 
I hate the environment as much as the next human,but illogical arguments bug me
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Its like diet coke with raspberry. people argue that your just putting extra sugar back in, but if you have less sugar content to begin with, its not as bad a regular coke and raspberry.
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almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
It takes Uber to sum it up with a beverage.
 
That rant is so brainless I'm locking this.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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