Comments on: Conservative Group Plans to Waste Tons of Energy on ‘Carbon Belch Day’

By: shanta barley

shanta barley — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:16:02 +0000

As part of our research on the BBC Bloom website (a new BBC website dedicated to climate change) we figured that it was best to ignore the impending doom and make climate change relevant and “human-sized” …has anyone found anything that conflicts with this. I’d be interested to hear any developments. In the meantime check out the website….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/

By: Tim Cigelske

Tim Cigelske — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:14 +0000

Awesome use of Picnik, if that’s where this came from.

By: Stephanie Rogers

Stephanie Rogers — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:48:38 +0000

Good point, Michael. That’s so true.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:39:48 +0000

When I see this I think mostly about the hypocrisy of the right. Think about this for a minute. The whole Iraq war reasoning was: Saddam has weapons, we think. We aren’t 100% sure, but there is TOO MUCH RISK to wait to be 100% sure. “We don’t want the proof to be a mushroom cloud.”

Now think about climate change. Do we want the proof to be all of us dead? How can they make this case — that there is simply too much at stake to wait — about Iraq and then dismiss the same logic when it comes to climate change? When did the planet become a partisan issue?

By: rocknonstop

rocknonstop — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:36:18 +0000

This is a really sad attempt to get media attention. I bet Rush Limbaugh is encouraging people to do this right now.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:33:29 +0000

WTF? Steph, this is going to get a link to my blog, cause I have to share this. I would love to say that everybody agrees that these people are dumbasses, but sadly, there more that don’t believe that the quality of life for future generations is at stake. I shudder at the ignorance of society and the ones who will believe everything you tell them, just as long as the person telling them has charisma.

I know that they exist due to a run in with a man two weeks ago that told me that he wasn’t worried, that oil prices were so high because the Middle East was gouging us and that we would never run out because it continuously replicated. Oh, and that environmentalists were just telling us all of this to make more money. The last time I checked, I made no money, but sure as shit poured of lot of my own cash into my causes in the form of donations, transportation expenses, etc.

I am just going to sit here and shake my head for a few moments, then collect my thoughts and write….and it will be to more than my blog. I see all sorts of crap coming down the pipe today–I think I shall use of my husbands fave phrases “let’s give them a shit sandwich on a silver platter!”

By: Leslie @ the oko box

Leslie @ the oko box — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:48:20 +0000

What assholes. I can’t believe people like this exsist – with the high price of gas, the economy struggling, and the glaciers melting. There are people in the world who are starving, and it has nothing to do with making everyone feel “guilt” but with the compassion to be responsible and concerned enough to take action. This “carbon belch” attitude is so ignorant it’s sick.

By: Mercuris

Mercuris — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:43:01 +0000

This is fantastic.
Why participate in Carbon Belch?

“Because energy is the fuel of human progress and man is not the “bad guy”…”
So, does solar energy count? Because in that case, yeah. Go human progress!

“Because the real “planetary emergency” is the coming $1.2 Carbon Tax…”
Oh, the tax effects the entire planet? I can think of a few species who are going to be so pissed!

Quotes from http://www.carbonbelchday.com