Offletting Pigs Offsetting Human Carbon Emissions

A clever little pig works on offsetting my carbon footprint

Oh, I just had to blog this. Science Journalist Tom Clarke had a documentary (The Great Green Smokescreen) about all the global-warming heehaw we are expected to believe. One solution is something that BP is doing in Mexico, with some very special pigs. The farm has some very large balloons, covering acres, which collect the methane gas generated by something pigs just do naturally, and then something is done with the gas that is useful. What, I am not quite sure. BP claimed that the project was offsetting the carbon emissions of 750,00 cars each year, but when challenged on their maths, they revised that figure to 2,500 cars worth of carbon emission damage. Not such clever pigs after all.

And then there are numerous people in the UK now selling people trees. For £10 a tree, you will need quite a few tree-purchases to offset a single long-haul flight, they will plant one for you, and presto, over 80 years the tree will appease the carbon gods for your sins. That these offsetting companies cannot agree on how to calculate how much carbon a flight is emitting per person - but they are starting to agree on what people are willing to pay, so that will probably decide it in the end.

Treat every company and politician's noise about carbon emissions offsetting with a great deal of caution, says Tom Clarke - and I agree. Anyone want to buy some trees from me? Come to think about this, I wonder how many tonnes of carbon could be saved if all politicians world-wide, just kept quiet for a year?

Cow flatulance just a load of hot air?

"Great news on our greenhouse targets -

we've bred a cow that doesn't release any methane"

Source

I have to say this ... delicately ... but 'cow emissions' are apparently a huge part of global warming. What important news to wake up to this morning. Forget mad Mullahs trying to get the life of Sir Salman Rushdie, don't worry about the war on terror, and who really cares about the despotic rule of Robert Mugabe - we must all be worried, perhaps stricken with fear, at the news that the combined gas output of the world's livestock are in fact responsible for more global warming than all the world's transport systems. Don't blame your neighbours car - it is his love of anything made by or from cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, goats, etc., that is the real problem. We all thought it was a load of bull, but the cows have a secret weapon in their quest for world domination and retribution.



Don't take my word for it, try this Google search and see for yourself! Get guilty about your carbon footprint each time you drink some milk, enjoy a steak, wolf down that KFC fried chicken ... the baaaaaarps from the farmyard are turning up the heat. Be afraid, very afraid!

Funny that I did not hear globe-trotting stars of last weekend's LIVE EARTH concert talking to cows about this? No naming and shaming of any world-famous pigs. I wonder if Al Gore has significantly cut down on his milkshakes, eggs over easy, and celebrity BBQs? My prediction is that within 5 years the main problem will not be global warming but will be how fast can we produce enough Prozac to make all our global warming tree-huggers deal with their 'issues' - caused by having to renounce their friendships with cows and sheep and dogs and little piggies.