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Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: It's a staple of the British diet and a popular choice for a quick and easy lunch. But new research reveals the carbon footprint of the humble sandwich could be fuelling harmful greenhouse emissions. The worst offender is revealed as the ready-made "all-day breakfast" sandwich, crammed with egg, bacon and sausage. Researchers at the University of Manchester carried out the first ever study of the carbon footprint of sandwiches -- both home-made and ready-made. They considered the entire life cycle of sandwiches, including the production of ingredients, packaging, refrigeration and food waste. The team scrutinised 40 different sandwich types, recipes and combinations and found the highest carbon footprints for the sandwiches containing pork meat (bacon, ham or sausages) and also those filled with cheese or prawns. The researchers estimate that a ready-made (and highly calorific) all-day breakfast sandwich generates 1441g of carbon dioxide equivalent -- equal to the emissions created by driving a car for 12 miles (19km).
Tell that to the people of Florida, when they are underwater in the not too distant future.
Bullshit to your bullshit. You don't appear to read or know very much on the subject.
Do a simple good search: "when will Florida be underwater".
By 2100, and with 2 meters of global sea rise, and 3 degrees of Celcius increase in temps, one third of Florida will be underwater.
No only moronic global warming deniers don't take stories like this seriously.
The people who realize that 1/3 of Florida will be underwater by the year 2100 given 3 degrees in temperature rise are apparently smarter than you.
Next they're going to make a ground-breaking announcement--to be repeated by a breathless media--that living alone is a net carbon source.
No kidding. Man shapes his environment. Has since before written history. The answer to all of this nonsense should be a big fat So What? You're not going to guilt me into not living and not having children. You're also not going to guilt me into taking a vow of poverty and subsistence farming. And you sure as shit aren't going to make me take you seriously when you're turning of the lights in the name of Earth Hour while electronics to spread your message and jetting about in private aircraft to Davos and SxSW.
Back in the good old days, children were taught to be proud of the accomplishments of civilized man and to aspire to make the next step in human history. Today children are taught to be guilty and apologize for things their predecessors worked hard for, and sometimes died for. I remember it distinctly in the mid 90s, when as a child I gulped down all the tree-hugger propaganda the public schools were shilling hard for. I found some of my homeworks and essays from back then a while back and I bought it hook line and sinker. There I was, an eleven-year-old boy, writing essays about how we're all doomed and ruining the Earth.
Then I grew up, worked hard, learned history, and matured to the point of being able to think critically about the relative merits of arguments about the historical context of things instead of just swallowing what they give me. And I have come to the conclusion that zero human impact on the environment is not possible and progressively lower impacts require regressively harsher restrictions on freedom. Where you set the line is not a question of science but a question of philosophy. And I have learned the most important lesson of all: demagogues and tyrants depend on erasing that distinction. Racism claimed the mantle of science. Eugenics claimed the mantle of science. Communists claimed the mantle of science. Now the greenies are claiming the mantle of science.
To hell with all of them.