It Keeps Getting Worse

Just when you think they can’t get any more annoying, the GW hysterics crank it up another notch. This one from England.

Britons must swap their wasteful habits with food for the thrifty approach of previous generations by buying less and eating leftovers if the UK is to play its part in averting climate change, shoppers were warned yesterday.

The call for a “cultural” move against overshopping was made by Joan Ruddock, the Environment minister, after research showed Britons threw away one third of their food, at an enormous hidden financial and environmental cost.

Annually, the UK dumps 6.7 million tonnes, meaning each household jettisons between £250 and £400 worth of food each year. Most of the waste – which nationally costs £8bn – is sent to landfill where it rots, emitting the potent climate- change gas methane.

Ms Ruddock, the minister for climate change, warned that, although many people had not made the connection between scraping food into the bin and climate change, waste food presented a bigger environmental problem than packaging. “We cannot fail to do what is necessary,” she said.

“The Minister for Climate Change”? This is what happens when agencies are created to “fight” something. Endless nimrods come out of the woodwork issuing edicts about the dangers of poppycock and horse feathers.

Methane is created by rotting biomass. However, as much as humans throw away, many more tons, perhaps incalculable amounts, are created by nature as dead animals and plants rot in forests and country. And let’s be clear, there is a lot more land where human beings don’t live, then places where we are. More humans live in cities. Cities take up a small amount of land compared to everything else.

But alarmists will find everything to be causing global warming. I’m waiting for them to tells us we should breathe slower because we emit CO².

Oh, and this is utter BS. The exact opposite happens as they describe it. The earth was much hotter during the dinosaur eras and there was an insane amount of life.

1. Ever notice the common “reduction of carbon footprint” figure tossed around as a “suggestion” (so far) for us peasants is 20%?  But the GW acolytes’ own numbers show this will not even slow down the increase in CO2 for over 100 years.  Why 20%?  Because it lets people think they did something without, you know, actually doing anything.  Considering the reduction required to be effective in even the slightest way is more on the order of 98%+, a mere 20% is a pathetic waste of time.  But they know all too well if they went to even their most fanatical followers and asked them to, basically, live under a bridge in a cardboard box for the rest of their lives, they might get some...resistance.
   Buy your indulgences...whoops, I mean “carbon offsets,” kiddies, and they’ll burn you as witches last.

   Posted by  on  11/03  at  03:56 PM

2. The whole carbon offset things is another way for them to cheat. So the Gores and their ilk can fake being green. Manbearpig lives!

   Posted by  on  11/03  at  08:37 PM
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