What will you do for "Carbon Belch Day"??

[bhsup]

Thanks for taking the Carbon Belch Day pledge! We’ve got a very optional next step for you (to complete our total mockery of Al Gore’s Climate Alarmism).

Perhaps the most absurd aspect of the entire Climate Alarmist agenda is the burgeoning "carbon credit" industry. To offset our green guilt, we are told to "buy" carbon credits to supposedly neutralize our CO2 footprint. Somehow, this bogus idea of environmental indulgences has become accepted as a real and valid way to deal with our Carbon Guilt.

That’s why we’ve "created" Carbon Belch Debits (CBDs) -- a meaningless term that will have just as much impact on Al Gore’s "planetary emergency" as the carbon credits.

How Carbon Belch Debits Work
Here’s how it works. For a gift of $10 to help Grassfire.org -- the sponsor of Carbon Belch Day -- with this and other efforts, you can fund a “Carbon Belch Debit” (CBD). With that $10, Grassfire.org will run banner ads and other internet efforts to get more people involved in this campaign to save the planet and expand other efforts. We estimate that each $10 Carbon Belch Debit (CBD) will allow us to reach about 1,000 people through Drudge Report ads and other efforts.*

http://www.carbonbelchday.com/

I am going to try to take a road trip and borrow a big Expedition or something.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm going to burn some Purple Martins, and then mock the rookeries asking for donations to support their native ecosystems.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I'm going to burn some Purple Martins, and then mock the rookeries asking for donations to support their native ecosystems.

Nice one. I'm going to spend the day talking about how Christians believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

 

[bhsup]

I'm going to burn some Purple Martins, and then mock the rookeries asking for donations to support their native ecosystems.

Good counter! For the record, all I'll be doing is my normal Thursday routine day off; mowing the lawn. Which I guess really will be a pretty substantial hit, carbon-wise. I just found the site ridiculously funny.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

figured a church burning would offset a few hippies green points

 

[emzie]

Eat Mexican food?

 

[Ansar]

Eat Mexican food?

lulz

 

[History_Buff]

I shall ponder why you think Carbon credits are such a rediculous idea.

 

[Traitorfish]

If global warming does exist, then this is an idiotic, arrogant step closer to mankind's suicide. If it doesn't exist, then this is a sad, spiteful waste of time.

So, yeah, I won't be joining your pathetic little "belch", if it's all the same to you...

 

[WICKLC1]

Take a boat ride to some pristine island. Dump diesel fuel into the ocean on the way(Thank you Ted Kennedy), hunt for rare species that live on the island and cook them in an obnoxiously large fire, after all of this I will open my very own applebees franchise(that place is disgusting).

I also plan to win the lottery to pay for all of this.

 

[nivi]

I shall ponder why you think Carbon credits are such a rediculous idea.

Because it is, it's just a device used by rich (by world standard's) arrogant western people to maintain a guilt free conscious even after polluting their asses off. Theres much more negativity to large energy use then just the carbon.


Not to mention that the actual process of obtaining carbon credits itself is rather dodgy, cutting forests, and even planting just a single type of tree on already clear land is not a good thing.

 

[cubsfan6506]

Carbon Credits are a horrible Idea. There isn't a worse Idea until carbon belch day.

 

[ainwood]

Carbon credits? nope - I'm investing in Dirt Credits instead, even though I don't even live in teh US.

It is well known that a “Super Volcano” lies under Yellowstone park. This volcano went undetected for many years, because its sheer size is so large it escaped notice when looking for something more familiar in size.

The consequences of another eruption of this monster can be fairly well predicted. First, it will simply blow away a fair-sized piece of Montana, and falling ash will bury cities for many miles beyond. The atmospheric ejecta will blanket a large portion of the earth, blocking out the sun and producing a “nuclear winter” for a significant portion of mankind. Crop failures and other effects of rapid cooling will lead to the death of untold billions of both human and animal inhabitants.

In fact, there are some significant geothermal and other indicators in Yellowstone that suggest this monster is again on the move. This has sparked at least one major television presentation discussing the potential for another eruption and the obvious catastrophe that would follow if it does. But this information in itself has not created much in the way of panic. Most citizens are resigned to the fact that mega-disasters, should they occur, can not be prevented by human action because they are part of the natural behavior of the planet and worrying excessively can not change anything. Don’t worry, be happy, we’re all in this together.

Professor Wilfred Brimstone at the University of Mongolia has developed a model which clearly shows the buildup of human population on both the east and west coast of the United States is putting excessive pressure on both sides of the North American plate. The accumulation of vast amounts of additional weight in the form of people, buildings, automobiles, and other man-made items is creating such an excess of plate pressure at the edges, that magma is being forced laterally toward the center of the country, and in particular towards a weak crust zone in Montana centered at Yellowstone park. In the same manner as popping a pimple by squeezing from two opposing sides, the “coastal weight effect” is squeezing the magma beneath the crust and causing a rapid pressure buildup of the Yellowstone Super Volcano. Man’s greed to live near the ocean has tipped the balance of nature, and it is now only a matter of time until Yellowstone blows its top.

….. unless we take quick action to arrest and reverse this process.

It is critically important to immediately evacuate everyone from both coasts, and dismantle all heavy structures and begin transporting them to the center of the country, redistributing them evenly over a wide area until the overall plate pressure has been suitably equalized and the danger has passed. Senator Barbara Boxer has introduced a bill which will impose a stiff tax on any item weighing more than six ounces in order to pay for the weight relocation. A new $100 million Center for Building Weight Studies is currently under construction in Santa Barbara.

If you do not want to be dislocated from your present home, former Vice President Al Gore has just formed a new company, Relocation Unlimited, in which you can invest in “weight offsets” and not have to move. For a price, Mr. Gore will arrange have an equivalent weight of ordinary dirt dug up and relocated instead of your own 3 bedroom ranch.

It is also of immediate importance that we educate our children in the nature of this pending disaster that their parents’ over-building has created. Children everywhere should quickly make costumes that resemble blocks of concrete and conduct ritualistic marches in the general direction of the central Midwest. This, combined with the waving of signs and the singing of Kumbaya will quickly spread the word throughout the public school system and draw the attention of the mainstream media which is also critical to this effort. Working together, we can all stem this rapidly looming disaster.

incidentally, you can purchase your STOP YELLOWSTONE NOW t-shirts by visiting our online store, and our book by the same name is available on Amazon.com. A prime time television special is currently in production.

Did I get it right?

James A. Peden
Shoreham, Vermont on a chilly Sunday Morning

 

[classical_hero]

Because it is, it's just a device used by rich (by world standard's) arrogant western people to maintain a guilt free conscious even after polluting their asses off. Theres much more negativity to large energy use then just the carbon.


Not to mention that the actual process of obtaining carbon credits itself is rather dodgy, cutting forests, and even planting just a single type of tree on already clear land is not a good thing.

That is the main problem that I have with them. It does not seem to be doing any good while you can still be polluting all you want. A carbon tax and greater investment into renewable sources is the best way forward, since it punished bad behaviour and it rewards good behaviour.

 

[BasketCase]

I intend to sleep through most of Belch Day.

 

[aelf]

It would be helpful to know where the carbon credits go to.

I suspect it's just an economic trick to try and reduce demand through consumer preference and a form of tax at the same time - the consumer feels guilty about not buying green products, but is unwilling to buy as much given the higher prices due to the 'tax' on green products. And then the money earned from the 'tax' probably goes to more marketing of the products or to the companies' efforts to break into new markets. Yup, we've reduced demand a little while helping some companies profit. Way to go, market! A very brilliant and productive solution!

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I think we should try to get carbon credits working better instead of complaining about how bad they are, they're a good free market solution to a worldwide problem that nobody wants to take responsibility for.

 

[Arwon]

Using the market? That's communism!

 

[nonconformist]

Well, likewise to this I don't beleive that Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation so I'm buying "Katiusha Kredits" to spite those silly Israelis who believe in Islamic terrorism.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm going to burn some Purple Martins, and then mock the rookeries asking for donations to support their native ecosystems.

If I were to hunt Purple Martins, but at the same time pay for increases in their protected lands and pay for people to clear out their invasive competitors (i.e., sparrows) as well: then my hunting can be made sustainable.

It's not indulgences, it's paying for what you use.

Pollution credits are a very solid economic solution. They've been used before, successfully. Whoever told you they were stupid is not very familiar with economic history or theory.