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Skriven 2005-09-28 00:44:20 av Greg Sears (3:633/104)
     Kommentar till en text av George Pope
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      -=> George Pope wrote a message to all <=-

 GP> Question: What's the best way to cook a cat? I was
   > thinking of slow cooking one.

 G-day Mate, "Count your personal sins of emmission"

                          The Guardian

London: After the collapse of climate talks in the Hague, it is
up to individuals to emit less. Here is your own ready reckoner
of how much carbon you emit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

o one kettle of boiling hot water: 0.006 kg; one cupful: o.001 kg

o cooking a full breakfast on a hob or grill: 0.23 kg

o a dishwasher with a full load: 0.33 kg

o one full load of washing: 0.68 kg; two half loads: 1.36 kg

o drying your weekly laundry 1.17 kg; two half loads: 2 kg

o daily emissions from a fridge freezer: 0.7 kg to 1.08 kg

o keeping your food frozen: 0.51 kg chest; 2.16 kg upright type

o lighting your hallway for eight hours: 0.36 kg old; 0.04 kg modern bulb

o leaving your computer on stand-by for two hours: 0.03 kg

o leaving your TV on stand-by for two hours; 0.01 kg

o leaving sterio on stand-by for two hours: 0.01 kg

o driving thirty km to work: 4.19 kg petrol: 3.42 kg diesel auto

o ride the bus thirty km to work: 0.59 kg per passenger

o cycling or walking thirty km to work: 0.0 kg <likely kill you

o riding the train to work sixty-seventy min: 10.67 kg

o takeaway lunch: approx 1.0 kg

o takeaway tea(evening meal): approx 3.0 kg

o cooking tea(evening meal) on electric stove: 1.3 kg; lpg/gas 0.45 kg


SO the world average carbon emmission per person per year is 4,000 kg

The African average is 1,200 kg Britain, with a population of nearly
60 million people emits roughly the same amount of carbon as Africa
with a population of almost 700 million. Then there is U. S. A. #[;-)]

Question one: where would you like to live?

Question two: where is the most carbon emited?

Question three: who cares?

> OBJoke: for our Moderator and all-round friend/servant

  A recent newspaper ad for a community college was headed: "Short
Course in Accounting for Teens."

  Not long after it appeared, the ad drew one short letter,
addressed to the school's president. "There is NO accounting for
teenagers."

> OBJoke: for Mr. <+]::-{(} ("Cyberpope")

  A prudish lady once accosted the learned Samuel Johnson shortly
after publication of his monumental dictionary of the English language.

  Said she, "Dr. Johnson, I am distressed that your dictionary
contains so many vulgar words."

  Replied Johnson, 'Madam, I am immeasurably distressed that you
actually looked them up!"


Salutations from --Christchurch-+
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... George Pope. . . . Said that 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2?

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