UK climate change envoy's CO2 footprint "30 x national average"
Al Gore is by no means alone in his evangelistic moral hypocrisy as the diplomat charged by the British Government with lecturing the world on global warming has been revealed as one of the biggest contributors to it.
John Ashton, whose role is to persuade other countries to reduce CO2 emissions, has made so many foreign trips by air in his job that his carbon footprint is already 30 times bigger than the UK average. Figures obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show he has flown more than 80,000 miles since his appointment last June.
It is becoming a little tempting to suggest that the most appropriate song for the Gore-radical Climate Change movement ought to be '(I'm) Leaving' On a Jet plane'.
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Posted on Monday, March 26, 2007 at 09:41AM
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It is important to differentiate bewteen Carbon Footptint and CO2 Footprint. The carbon footprint is 27% of the CO2 footprint because a CO2 molecule has one carbon molecule, atomic weight 12, and two Oxygen molecules atomic weight 16.
You're looking at this very one-sidedly. In order to educate others and spread the message of conservation and climate change, resources must be utilized. By criticizing Gore for his flights and his family home's energy use and Ashton for his flights to persuade others to decrease CO2 emissions, you are highlighting your lack of understanding in the process of change. At this point, we must conserve where we can, yet current systems force us to use resources as a means to an end. Eventually there will be better, less energy-intensive methods of travel and doing this type of work, but at this time, flying to destinations to educate and bargain are their only options.
Reading through your site and your "ten myths of global warming", it is obvious that you are being led by anti-environmentalist propaganda and have a poor grasp of many concepts. The statements in your "myths" are as warped as some extremist environmentalist claims. It is true that scare-mongering and distortion of data is occuring on the environmentalis front as well, an unfortunate practice that opens the movement to your type of poorly thought out criticism.
In general, however, the preponderance of scientific data shows that human activity on this planet is causing climate change and unless we act, we can look forward to unprecedented natural disasters and human suffering. If we step back, and with an open mind, look at the data that has been collected this is an inevitable conclusion. Nothing is 100%, models are flawed and need to be constantly revised as new data is recorded, but to ignore the threat just because we cannot "prove" some of these extrapolated theories is utter stupidity. We as humans need to act upon our best research in order to prevent widespread disaster, energy shortages, famine, floods and droughts. Instead of being part of the problem, you could be a part of the solution. I urge you to educate yourself on both the strengths and flaws involved with scientific method, avoid political entanglements, and take an objective, unbiased look at the data at hand and your opinion will surely change.
If the water is really rising, it is too late to do anything, so don't worry about it. The world is so overpopulated that there is no turning back now - mankind is a carbon burning animal.
Your arguement should be taught alongside the official teaching on global warming just as creationism should be taught alongside the theory of evolution . People should always be presented with alternative views . Keep up the good work
.Isn't it funny how those defending a theory ( eg evolution , environmental disaster etc ) bitterly attack those who hold oppossing views and try and prevent them getting their views aired ? Maybe they aren't as sure of their "facts" as they would like us to think !!
Meteorologists can't get the weather forecasts right half the time even for the next day and yet people fall for a prediction which they say will not happen for years .
Alot of people in the renewable energy business don't believe the Gore theory either .!!