Carbon footprint!?
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Your carbon footprint is how much carbon dioxide a given person or group produces in a given time period. Although most people think of driving a car when they think of their "carbon footprint", many other things add to your footprint. For instance, eating locally grown food from a farmer's market will reduce your carbon footprint because most food from a grocery strore is grown far from the purchase point. Thus, the fuel burned to transport the fruit to the store counts in your carbon footprint.
it is an imaginary number dreamed up by these lunatics who believe AlGore is the next Messiah...a construct to signify your supposed guilt in the Global Warming arena.
AlGore is a hypocrite and a liar. his farm in Carthage TN is the recipient of several fines for illegal dumping, polluting the Cumberland Rvr...his mansion in Nashville uses more energy in a month than a 4 BR house in town uses in a year. he flies all over in a private jet, telling the rest of us to conserve energy...he lectures the rest of us about public education, and sends his kid to St Albans Private School...( btw, his kid was expelled for selling drugs on campus...) he stands on redwood decks and tells the rest of us to save the rain forest...he claims to be buying carbon credits to offset his lavish lifestyle. only problem is: the company he buys these credits FROM is a sham company that he started himself...it's only product? carbon credits that Al buys from himself..." no controlling legal authority " huh, Al?
in the 2000 election, he didn't carry his own state of Tennessee, because we know what he is...a collosal horse's pa-toot, who doesn't have enough sense to pour urine from a snowshoe.
don't buy into this until you view the BBC2's "Great Global Warming Swindle" on youtube.
get the truth. Al Gore is a liar. and a shyster of the lowest order.
Carbon footprint is a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide or CO2 emitted through the combustion of fossil fuels; in the case of an organization, business or enterprise, as part of their everyday operations; in the case of an individual or household, as part of their daily lives; or a product or commodity in reaching market. In materials, is essentially a measure of embodied energy, the result of life cycle analysis.
A carbon footprint is often expressed as tons of carbon dioxide or tons of carbon emitted, usually on a yearly basis. There are many versions of calculators available for carbon footprinting.
This is directly related to the amount of natural resources consumed, increasingly used or referred to as a measure of environmental impact. Carbon dioxide is recognized as a greenhouse gas, of which increasing levels in the atmosphere are linked to global warming and climate change.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol sets forth a methodology by which voluntary emission reduction can be monetized in the form of a carbon project. These standards involve the use of an environmental proof called additionality.
A carbon label - which shows the carbon footprint embodied in a product in bringing it to the shelf was introduced in the UK in March 2007 by the Carbon Trust. Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint are Walkers Crisps, Innocent Smoothies and Boots shampoos.
CarbonCounted, which launched in early 2007, is a Canadian based GHG carbon label system that allows companies to link with and leverage their supply chain. By displaying the CarbonCounted footprint on a product, a supplier is publishing their footprint and committing to emissions reduction.
Carbon Reduction Institute, NoCO2 & LowCO certification labels were launched in Australia to allow consumers to determine the reductions of GHG emissions that companies have made toward reductng their Carbon Footprint. The Carbon Reduction Institute uses a combination of direct life cycle studies and life cycle analyses based on a financial control rational to determine the carbon footprint of companies.
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