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Get ready to belch - June 12

Thanks to Paul, who drives a Ford F-250 truck, for sending this article in. 

Global Warming Skeptics Plot ‘Carbon Belch Day’

Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 to break free from “carbon footprint guilt.”

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
May 27, 2008 03:12 PM

Conservative grassroots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12 by “hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars.”

The point: the group wants to “help Americans break free from the ‘carbon footprint guilt’ being imposed by Climate Alarmists.”

Grassfire.org says it’s skeptical over claims that man-made sources of carbon dioxide emissions—from automobile exhausts to manufacturing plants—are raising the Earth’s temperature at a dangerous rate. Theories about global warming were highlighted by former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Grassfire.org president Steve Elliott, in a statement, said such theories are off the mark. “It’s time for Americans to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us,” Elliott said.

Grassfire.org said it chose June 12 as the day it wants Americans to rev up their SUVs because it coincides with expected debate in Congress over a $1.2 billion carbon tax rebate program. “Carbon Belch Day will have at least as much impact on the so-called ‘planetary emergency’ of man-made global warming as the goofy save the earth mandates telling us to turn our lights off for an hour,” said Elliott. …

Liberals can make up for the extra gas emissions by shutting their personal gas-holes for

the day

a few minutes.  (Of course the sudden release of their latent, pent-up gases emanating from their gas orifices afterwards… will simply reverse the process.    Life.  It’s hard.) 

Cheers.

EXTRA:

Grassfire.org has a Belch calculator that helps you figure out the size of your carbon belch that day.  It’s great.  I will emit at least 93 pounds of carbon (that’s, I don’t know, something like 42 kilograms for you liberals) that day.  After using their calculator, they ask you to register your carbon belch and sign their pledge, which is:

  Yes! I am joining people from all walks of life in taking the Carbon Belch Day Pledge! On June 12 I will do my best to increase my CO2 output and unleash a Carbon Belch on the planet. I do this with no fear or concern that I am destroying the planet. In fact, I think a good Carbon Belch can be healthy now and again.

In addition, I am joining the growing number of scientists and informed citizens deeply concerned by the dire predictions and proposed solutions of Climate Alarmists. Given that the doomsday predictions of Climate Alarmists are irresponsible and dangerous, I oppose U.S. participation in the Kyoto treaty or any such successor agreement, mandatory domestic limits on CO2, and any federal or state carbon “tax” or “cap-and-trade” system—including the current Lieberman-Warner bill.

 

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