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@Team Vaughan wrote:
What about my carbon foot print I will be leaving when I drive my one little broken light bulb to the dump?
Keep it in a bag until you’re going that way. 😀
@furfool wrote:
Thanks for the updated(?) info tyedye. I have to admit though, I have no idea how to get broken glass fragments out of carpeting without using a vacuum cleaner.
I inquired about cfl disposal at Home Depot yesterday, and they told me to bring them to the service desk where they dispose of them.
Good point!
Then again, how hard is your carpet if it’ll break a cfl bulb? 😆
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
@furfool wrote:
Thanks for the updated(?) info tyedye. I have to admit though, I have no idea how to get broken glass fragments out of carpeting without using a vacuum cleaner.
I inquired about cfl disposal at Home Depot yesterday, and they told me to bring them to the service desk where they dispose of them.
Good point!
Then again, how hard is your carpet if it’ll break a cfl bulb? 😆
It’s not the carpet that breaks it. It’s the dropping it on a chair or table that breaks it and sends pieces flying.
A 57-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Web site, jsonline.com, quotes the man as saying “I got ticked off because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it. I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want.”
Authorities felt otherwise — the man is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.
No surprise here — the man apparently had been drinking when the shooting took place Wednesday, at his mother’s house, where he lives,
@zoesbrother wrote:
A 57-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Web site, jsonline.com, quotes the man as saying “I got ticked off because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it. I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want.”
Authorities felt otherwise — the man is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.
No surprise here — the man apparently had been drinking when the shooting took place Wednesday, at his mother’s house, where he lives,
Wrong thread sorry about that. In no way was I trying to derail.
@zoesbrother wrote:
@zoesbrother wrote:
A 57-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Web site, jsonline.com, quotes the man as saying “I got ticked off because my lawn mower wouldn’t start, so I got my shotgun and shot it. I can do that. It’s my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want.”
Authorities felt otherwise — the man is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.
No surprise here — the man apparently had been drinking when the shooting took place Wednesday, at his mother’s house, where he lives,
Wrong thread sorry about that. In no way was I trying to derail.
No, it fits, his lawn was no doubt green when he was trying to cut it. 😆
@zuma wrote:
My momma told me that ya never talk about 3 things in polite company: Politics, religion and sex.
With this fascinating thread, and the one elsewhere on religion, I can only figure that someone’s’ gonna want to talk about sex pretty soon.
That is why I keep hitting the “refresh” button on my browser.
zuma
Great!!! All of this debate about global warming, and you want to make things hotter by bringing sex into the mix!!! Great!!! Just Flippin’ Great!!! lol…
Not sure if it’s Organic, Sustainibly-Made or “Green”? Here is a good place to check.
NASA Climate Time Machine
(fun to play with, scary to look at)Kinda funny NASA preaching to us about being eco friendly after launching all those rockets. 🙄
Warning:
Latest News on Global Warming May Cause Soiling of TrousersBy SETH BORENSTEIN – Sep 25, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide man-made emissions of carbon dioxide — the main gas that causes global warming — jumped 3 percent last year, international scientists said Thursday.
That means the world is spewing more carbon dioxide than the worst case scenario forecast by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007. Scientists said if the trend does not stop, it puts the world potentially on track for the highest predicted rises in temperature and sea level.
The pollution leader was China, followed by the United States, which past data show is the leader in emissions per capita in carbon dioxide output. And while several developed countries slightly cut their CO2 output in 2007, the United States churned out more.
Still, it was large increases in China, India and other developing countries that spurred the growth of carbon dioxide pollution to a record high of 9.34 billion tons of carbon (8.47 billion metric tons). Figures released by science agencies in the United States, Great Britain and Australia show that China’s added emissions accounted for more than half of the worldwide increase. China passed the United States as the No. 1 carbon dioxide polluter in 2006.
Emissions in the United States rose nearly 2 percent in 2007, after declining the previous year. The U.S. produced 1.75 billion tons of carbon (1.58 billion metric tons).
Gregg Marland, a senior staff scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said he was surprised at the results because he thought world emissions would drop because of the economic downturn. That didn’t happen.
“If we’re going to do something (about reducing emissions), it’s got to be different than what we’re doing,” he said.
The emissions, which are based on data from oil giant BP PLC and look at the burning of fossil fuel and production of cement, show that China has become the major driver of world trends. China emitted 2 billion tons of carbon (1.8 billion metric tons) last year, up 7.5 percent from the previous year.
“We’re shipping jobs ashore from the U.S., but we’re also shipping carbon dioxide emissions with them,” Marland said. “China is making fertilizer and cement and steel and all of those are heavy energy-intensive industries.”
Developing countries not asked to reduce greenhouse gases by the 1997 Kyoto treaty — and China and India are among them — now account for 53 percent of carbon dioxide pollution. Developing countries surpassed industrialized ones in carbon dioxide emissions in 2005, a new analysis of older figures shows.
India is in position to beat Russia for the No. 3 carbon dioxide polluter behind the United States, Marland said. Indonesia levels are increasing rapidly.
Denmark’s emissions dropped 8 percent. The United Kingdom and Germany reduced carbon dioxide pollution by 3 percent, while France and Australia cut it by 2 percent.
What is “kind of scary” is that the worldwide emissions growth is beyond the highest growth in fossil fuel predicted just two years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Ben Santer, an atmospheric scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Under the panel’s scenario then, temperatures would increase by somewhere between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 to 6.3 degrees Celsius) by the year 2100.
“We do have control over what happens over the next several decades,” Santer said. “This illustrates the importance of exercising that control.”
Now how can we be putting out more polution? Nobody can afford to drive anymore 😆
The pollution comes from Al Gore’s private jet as he flies around the world telling us not to pollute.
Cow flatulence.
On the Left Side of the Road...We are number two to China, come on people, we should be number one. Wake up people and start your engines.
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