Comments on: Hey Fatty, You’re an Environmental Hazard!

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:39:06 +0000

Hey, I just heard that Pepsi Cola is bring back a version with “real sugar” in their sodas, for a limited time. I’ll bet it’s in response to all the complaints about HFCS being more fattening that real sugar. But this will be Pepsi’s chance to claim that they tried selling it, and not enough customers like it. So it back to the HFCS sugar substitute. I wonder if Pepsi would deliberately sabotage its cola’s taste, just with this product’s run, to win their point?

By: Glenn E.

Glenn E. — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:33:02 +0000

Interesting how the fattening food makers don’t get blamed, OR TAXED! It’s the weak willed human victims that get punished, and further exploited. Maybe if the crappy, fattening, food cost more then the healthier alternatives. The waist lines of America would shrink.

As for this demonizing coal as a power source. I find it highly suspect that coal just happens to be America’s number one energy resource. US coal reserves out rank any in the rest of the world. And naturally, as the world has been made to hate the US. It’s prime domestic source of energy has become hated too. So we’re expected to abandon what’s cheap and readily available. And use more imported oil and use more nuclear fuel (which will take decades to build plants for). How convenient that the US and Canadian coal reserves are just “no good” and bad for the environment. Well it’s not stopping China and India from building new coal powered plants every week. And they’re both far out polluting the US, right now. So the US going cold turkey on coal use, won’t make any difference. Except to raise the cost of energy, dramatically. So only millionaires like Al Gore can afford to power a light bulb.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:41:35 +0000

#15 – Hey Mike, I believe I heard that the UK is considering a ban on plasma TVs. Why? Use too much energy, i.e. hazardous to the environment!

By: harold

harold — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:45:23 +0000

Fat people should be paying my Federal and state taxes.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:18:30 +0000

http://climate-skeptic.com/2009/04/numbers-divorced-from-reality.html

[Please leave the "www" out of links. -- Ed.]

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:17:59 +0000

As with all global warming science, the math needs to be double checked by outsiders. The peer review process utterly fails to catch basic errors with these guys who are moved by ideology, so ‘sounds good’ is all that’s needed to pass peer review.
The guy who invented the hockey stick for temperatures did another temperature ‘reconstruction’ where he flipped temperature graphs upside-down to show a correlation, where warmer meant narrower, he used wider to mean warmer.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:09:47 +0000

How much extra co2 do tech guys emit over non techies? Let’s focus on banning or taxing wireless routers, large monitors, big TV screens, and so forth.

By: Nimby

Nimby — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:34:46 +0000

Fat people damage the environment?
Talk about An Inconvenient Truth, Al.

By: father time

father time — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:09:42 +0000

The idea that genes, not eating, makes people fat is in violation with the law of conservation of mass.

One can not get fat if one doesn’t consume the constituent components of fat.

Having lost >50 lbs myself by eating less, I laugh at anyone who claims otherwise.

Maybe fat people would do well to change what they eat too, but you can not maintain your fatness on a 750 CAL diet and a tiny amount of activity.

By: ManBearPig

ManBearPig — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:04:00 +0000

Shouldn’t the excess CO2 emissions of the supersized be offset by the genocides in places like Darfur & Bosnia? all those Carbon footprints eliminated, gotta look at the bright side eh?

By: KD Martin

KD Martin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:25:03 +0000

#10, EvilPoliticians, you’re in for a good ride. BubbaRay and I have really enjoyed flying, but not with an overweight instructor. BR had one that would require rudder trim on a Cessna 150.

By: EvilPoliticians

EvilPoliticians — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:44:55 +0000

Not a private pilot – yet. But weight is the number one enemy of flying. A few pounds here or there make a difference the smaller the plane.

Regardless, sitting next to a 350 lb person in the cattle section is horrendous. Tax them and give me the bailout for the inconvenience.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:57:54 +0000

No offense to republicans but walruses like the one above need to pay for two seats. I’ve had the misfortune of having to sit near one these things such that a third of my seat was occupied by at least 80 pounds of his lard.

Sorry, I paid for a whole seat. Charging more is simply the practical thing to do.

By: chuck

chuck — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:09:39 +0000

So we’re supposed to eat Vietnamese people, because they are low in fat?

OTOH, Al Gore is a fat tub of goo – so he should be taxed to pay for his share of global warming.

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:03:52 +0000

#6, Bill, that’s a funny reference! It was the probe Nomad in the episode “The Changeling” that uttered those words. Carbon based life forms, indeed. I guess we’re inefficient filth makers and need to be sterilized.