http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/
Ha! Ha! I saw that in Salon also.
In this question found on this site:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
The question was asked, "Can the Warmers/Democrats stoop any lower in their quest for more $Billions?
Well I think we have found a new low in blaming cheeseburgers. These greenies really surprise me. They are so morally low they could walk under a snake's belly with a top hat on, and even then they can come up with something so low it boggles the mind.
Well, at least they aren't blaming Bush anymore.
It is necessary to mention some facts concerning the future in order to understand why the global warming can be considered a disaster for the whole planet. Certainly it is not possible to know the future climate on Earth precisely, but some data are certain: every century brings the increase of the temperature of 1-2C. It is enough for Greenland and Antarctica to start melting, thus some part of northern areas could become a farmland and Sahara might become bigger. Storms can be stronger. Some countries like Bangladesh and Netherlands are luckily to vanish because of the ocean level rise up to 5 meters.
The term "climate forcing" is often used though it is hard to give its precise definition. To define it simply - this is an event that influences global climate. At this point it is necessary to mention that the weather and climate are different things, the weather is described with the help of variations of dryness or wetness, cold and heat. They do not play a great role for the whole picture on the Earth, but climate can be influenced by forcing, like for example a volcanic eruption can cool the climate on the whole Earth. Such forcing is called a short term forcing. An example of long term forcing may be continental drift which within millions of years changes the path of ocean currents. To anthropogenic forcing belong fossil fuel burning and agriculture. Not all forcing of humans result in global warming, sulfur dioxide from coal burning produces aerosols and they result in cooling.
These were the main negative influences on the climate that cause the global warming. They are rather serious and need urgent steps taken by people in order to avoid the catastrophes in the world of nature, to which we by the way also belong.
So the climate of the Earth should be an international concern and not only of scientists and ordinary people, but also of those who hold power in their hand and are able to make the politics work not only for money, but also for the future of the whole mankind. Unfortunately, these are mostly beautiful words and promises when elections are in the future as soon as they are over the real situation changes. Not a single national leader has come out publicly and said that the recent spate of hurricanes was the result of global warming, this is a part of conventional wisdom of environmentalists that they should not frighten the public, but should focus their interest on technical solutions, like for example hybrid cars and so on.
Global warming is such a problem that it is necessary to deal with all its aspects, which includes the politics. When politicians formulate their policy they need inputs from many disciplines and from science as well. But unfortunately global warming has become an absolutely political issue and politicians do their best to influence even science.
"It turns out, though, that if you’re only eating one or two burgers a month, you’re way below average. According to a diverse array of sources, including the sober UK news journal The Economist, Americans eat on average around 3 burgers per week. Now, that’s the average ― meaning, all of the burgers consumed in the US divided by all of the people. Some of us eat less than that, but some of us eat even more. When you run the numbers, that little footprint of around ten pounds per burger becomes almost 200 MILLION metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, every year, from the lowly cheeseburger. To put that in perspective, the total annual tailpipe emissions from all of the sport utility vehicles on the road is about 150 million metric tons."
It's a contributing factor, certainly. Between methane and the inefficiencies of growing food to feed our food, meat has a higher carbon footprint than most plant-based foods.
And, frankly, I don't want to control what anyone eats, or otherwise does. I mostly want the cost of these things to reflect their impact on others, so that 1. people will be given an incentive to act in ways that affects others less, and 2. if the increased cost is in the form of a tax, the money raised can be used to mitigate the effects of that action on everyone else.
That's one reason I favor a carbon tax over any other form of efforts to stop AGW. It doesn't impose a single solution on anyone. You can simply pay the extra money, or you can cut out cheeseburgers, or you can take the bus instead of driving, or you can install solar panels, or you can buy an electric car instead of a gas-powered one, or a wide variety of other options. You can chose what matters to you, and adjust your behavior to reflect your own high and low priorities.
What you eat has the ability to contribute to the levels of atmospheric gases. Not just cheeseburgers, but red meat in general, requires a lot of energy to produce. Second, there is also packaged and imported food, that requires a lot of energy to transport. Reducing your consumption of red meat and eating locally grown and organic foods does decrease human impact on the environment, not just in regards to climate change but if we think about it, pollution.
Yes it does and the reason is simple. Cheeseburgers contain carbon and carbon cannot be trusted, carbon is an atom and they're known to make up everything.
I'm not even going to waste my time reading a liberal article about the "causation" of b/t the two things. One democrat politic said the the Boston bombing contributed to global warming
Why do liberals want to control what we eat?
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/
