my carbon footprint
POSTED BY: 1kiki
UPDATED: Friday, May 24, 2024 04:23
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There may be two different measures at issue:
One might be the DIRECT carbon footprint of each household: the resident's specific use of energy (water, gas, etc) but then there is also the INDIRECT carbon footprint: your per capita portion of energy which goes to manufacturing, defense, infrastructure etc. which is impossible to allocate individually.
KIKI - do you use A/C? I know from experience that if you have a young or sick family member at home who does not partake of communal A/C (work, school, hospital) and you have to keep the A/C going even at some minimal level, energy use goes way up. Also, many people in a household will use more energy than just a few.
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It's difficult to know what your carbon footprint is unless you know the terms.
I had noticed that figures seemed to differ widely between differing sources, so I contacted the CDIAC and asked them why, for example, their figures were lower for the same region than, say, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
They replied that while many sources report units of CO2, CDIAC and others report in units of carbon. CO2 is 3.667 times the weight of carbon (due to the weight of the two Oxygen molecules).
So verify whether your source is talking units of CO2, or units of carbon.
BTW, KIKI, could you provide a link to the carbon footprint computer?
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Unfortunately, you have to be a customer and create an online account to access the Carbon Calculator.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That's a footprint !
Imagine the size of his schmekel!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Imagine the size of his schmekel!
Herschel: " Amuk the giant? Oh no! "
pause
Herschel: " How much longer is it ? "
The Witch: " I don't know. You'd have to ask Zerelda. "
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Can Beef Be ‘Low Carbon’? The USDA Thinks So.
https://undark.org/2024/05/22/beef-climate-friendly-usda/
another 'Greatest Ally' story
Cyril Astruc
https://www.lalibre.be/
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