instead of carbon fraudsters, how about

CO² = Carbon Oligarchy² -tada!

meh, wont matter a hill of beans anyway if they
raise the “panic pandemic” to 6 next week.

coupled with commercial real estate imploding,
if they move to travel restrictions/marshal law on top it, there will be no economy left to
“make Green” -we’ll be sunk by summer’s end, if we even make it that far.

actually, the flu is the perfect “green” -they’ll lock us all in our homes (or worse) and consumption will drop like rock. kinda the same net effect, no?

(ok, i haven’t had my coffee yet, if none of that makes sense)

(they’re coming to take me away, ha ha! -they’re comi..)

-s

In general, I think spam is a terrible waste of resources. We should go back to junk mail. http://tiny.cc/1gGc9

But #25 is also wrong. All of IT comes at an energy cost. But It’s net impact can be green – but it’s all relative to what you assume the world would look like without it. For example, relative to how we used to do business, how many tons of carbon are saved by the phone and internet data structure by preventing people from needing to meet face-to-face? Every web-based training or conference call, every commute not driven by those of us who telecommute… Or what about advances in green design or technology that result from application of computer technology – more efficient blades for wind turbines or better LED lightbulbs, more efficient transport and storage technology, whatever it might be — often designed using computer modeling, by people collaborating from across the globe that might otherwise never be able to spark each other’s innovative ideas?

Accurate.

But you could buy a Prius next time.

Better is to park it and start walking, biking or taking mass transit to work.

And vote for mass transit and bike lanes the next time a initiative come to your ballot.

Yeah I know, spammers would fight back by sending spam that resulted in the innocent being billed. Still if nobody was paying for spam…

ps.. one of the main reasons i call it fraud
is due the huge amount of solar, solar system, magnetic and “galactic” or galaxy wide data that is completely ignored by (science) politicos when gathering metrics to try and explain the anomalous weather (ie global warming) and justification of using CO2 as the sole culprit of human driven warming.

to wit, here is an excellent article (though long) that shows so much more needs to be taken into account when discussing the changes we are seeing planet wide, on many fronts.
(warming is not the focus, but is discussed)

“The Emerging Sunspot Cycle 24 and a Weakening Magnetic Field”

What does this mean for our planet and species?

http://tinyurl.com/apcefg

-s

# 18 JimR said, “…friction and heat, somewhat lowering home heating bills.” Oh, yeah? Well, here in the tropics that friction and heat drives up A/C bills. So, if you save on heating and we spend on A/C, does that mean porn is carbon neutral?

As to the article, I’m sure spam contributes to energy usage. But, McAfee is in the business of selling anti-spam software (bloated and ineffective as it is). But, remembering Disraeli” lies, damned lies and statistics. You can literally prove anything (except that Alfie is an intelligently-designed creature) by parsing the stats. I suspect JimR’s stats are closer to reality than McAfee’s. I’m always surprised when I go online to check my email (instead of using Thunderbird locally) and see that spam folder with thousands of messages! I don’t read ‘em. And I don’t have time to screen them to be sure they’re spam.

i was going to go with carbon nazis, but felt it wouldn’t do nazis justice. happy?

-s

More carbon? Not likely but possible. How much gas do you burn on your commute? If you bike or walk to work, that changes the whole equation.

If you heat your home while you stay home, that creates carbon because you normally could turn off the heat. (or cool, in the summer.) ALso, of course, lights, computer, whatever.

No doubt from the same people who brought us the delightful “Femi-Nazies” “IslamFascists” “enhanced interrogation” “PC Police” “extrajudicial renditions” and, the big three trillion dollar whopper, “weapons of mass destruction technology enhancement program intentions” (or whatever the hell the conservatives finally used to justify an unjustifiable war.)

I have to give conservatives credit for clever but empty spinning of English.

-i use a gmail account and handle the spam
almost exactly as you do. -they have a great spam filter. no more than 3 spam emails a month every hit my main box.

after thought..

i bet this pales in comparison to the amount of energy wasted and subsequent CO2 produced trying to convince people of a link between human produced CO2 (or CO2 in general) and global warming..

IMO, the report itself is spam. -had it hit my mailbox, it would have been sent to the spam folder.

-s