<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Yeah, yeah, it’s not about the celebrities. Only it is.]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by wiscidea http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:25:04 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/1 This is so cool, literally...

I just checked out the Conservation Fund website, filled in their little carbon emission calculator, and...

I have to plant only 18 trees to offset my emissions for the next 70 years! Yahoo! That is the entire household, including commuting to work in an SUV. I'll be carbon neutral by the end of the year! I think I'll plant some shagbark hickory, a few red pines, some white oaks. That'll do it. I can crank the air conditioning this summer and relax with a book.

Uh... there must be something wrong with their calculator. It can't be that easy.

]]> This is so cool, literally...

I just checked out the Conservation Fund website, filled in their little carbon emission calculator, and...

I have to plant only 18 trees to offset my emissions for the next 70 years! Yahoo! That is the entire household, including commuting to work in an SUV. I'll be carbon neutral by the end of the year! I think I'll plant some shagbark hickory, a few red pines, some white oaks. That'll do it. I can crank the air conditioning this summer and relax with a book.

Uh... there must be something wrong with their calculator. It can't be that easy.

]]> Comment #2 by wiscidea http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:35:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/2 Oh.... I see...

I have to plant only 18 trees EACH YEAR for the rest of my commuting life.

I think I better turn down the heat, turn off the lights, and go to sleep. The longer I sit in front of this computer at night, the more trees I will have to plant.

]]> Oh.... I see...

I have to plant only 18 trees EACH YEAR for the rest of my commuting life.

I think I better turn down the heat, turn off the lights, and go to sleep. The longer I sit in front of this computer at night, the more trees I will have to plant.

]]> Comment #3 by Steve Bloom http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:22:14 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sundance-carbonneutral-lovesounds/3 Are those trees in the tropics?

Because if not, planting them doesn't help.  The decrease in albedo cancels (and maybe more than cancels) the benefit from the sequestered CO2.  Sure enough, the noted Conservation Fund program claims global warming offsets for tree planting here in the U.S.  (Just to be clear, there are good reasons to do temperate zone forest restoration work, but fighting global warming isn't one of them.)  Regarding the tropics, the issue is rather more one of trying to stem the tide of continuing deforestation.  I suggest this little mantra:

Sequestration is a scam.
Sequestration is a scam.
Sequestration is a scam.

Repeat as needed.
 



]]> Are those trees in the tropics?

Because if not, planting them doesn't help.  The decrease in albedo cancels (and maybe more than cancels) the benefit from the sequestered CO2.  Sure enough, the noted Conservation Fund program claims global warming offsets for tree planting here in the U.S.  (Just to be clear, there are good reasons to do temperate zone forest restoration work, but fighting global warming isn't one of them.)  Regarding the tropics, the issue is rather more one of trying to stem the tide of continuing deforestation.  I suggest this little mantra:

Sequestration is a scam.
Sequestration is a scam.
Sequestration is a scam.

Repeat as needed.
 



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