CARBON !! WHALING !!

[sneijder]

This guy : http://www.umaine.edu/marine/people/directory.php/... , just caught the BBC on a slow news day :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8538033.st...

''A century of whaling may have released more than 100 million tonnes - or a large forest's worth - of carbon into the atmosphere''

I think I just let out 100 million tonnes of carbon as I sighed and realised I'll not bother with BBC news ever again.

[V88Dicky]

Lets see, that works out at a little under 2740 tons a day, or the square root of FU CK all!

[sneijder]

"If they die where it's deep enough, it will be [stored] out of the atmosphere perhaps for hundreds of years."

So if that's OK, and they are so ar$ed about it, can they not just dump lots of carbons in Davy Jones Locker ?

Sorted.

[YAD061]

BBC? News?......surely some mistake

[Nero601]

they really are making this up now shirley

[Eric Mc]

Just goes to show how a genuine environmental issue (the extermination of whales) gets hijacked by the Carbon Crowd.

[tangent police]

The problem with all of these issues is that their proponents are often emotionally driven muppets, devoid of critical thinking. Hence the utter crap that they come out with.

The BBC et al, are merely pandering to the uneducated and unthinking by airing this nonsense with the non-think that anyone will go "hang on a cotton picking second".

PH is clearly different to how they thought it would go down.... if they thought.

[.:ian:.]

I wonder how much CO2 "nearly a century of BBC propaganda" is responsible for..

[zac510]

.:ian:. said:

I wonder how much CO2 "nearly a century of BBC propaganda" is responsible for..

You need to include "may have" or "could have" in that quote for it to be a proper BBC article.

[otolith]

I don't see the distinction between whale carcasses sinking to the bottom and other sources of "marine snow" - you know, like all the fish we eat. In any case, although whales decompose slowly in deep water, they do decompose, creating an interesting localised ecosystem while they do so.

Bandwagon jumping asshats.

[Nero601]

zac510 said:

.:ian:. said:

I wonder how much CO2 "nearly a century of BBC propaganda" is responsible for..

You need to include "may have" or "could have" in that quote for it to be a proper BBC article.

[Jasandjules]

BBC says "anything lefties disagree with" is a cause of Carbon Dioxide and thus should be banned.

Do people really bother watching the BBC news these days?

[T89 Callan]

Think of how much CO2 has been saved by killing all of those oxygen breathing whales though.

[Jasandjules]

T89 Callan said:

Think of how much CO2 has been saved by killing all of those oxygen breathing whales though.

Not as much as if we'd killed the AGW liars..

[mybrainhurts]

Ah, the BBC...

Radio 4, yesterday. Costing The Earth, or something...

Pets and global warming...

Some ecobandwagoneer said the acceptable personal level of CO2 production is between 1.5 and 2 tons per year (sez who??)

Seems that a dog accounts for one ton...

Therefore pets should be banned, unless they can be turned into vegetarians...

This irritated me, more than little. As a result of scoffing some chips, my cat copped a dose of the squits..

You do not want to know how difficult it is to remove copious layers of st from a long haired cat.

[Engineer1]

otolith said:

I don't see the distinction between whale carcasses sinking to the bottom and other sources of "marine snow" - you know, like all the fish we eat. In any case, although whales decompose slowly in deep water, they do decompose, creating an interesting localised ecosystem while they do so.

Bandwagon jumping asshats.

Besides unless there is a specialist whale undertakers operating then it is irrelevant how the whales died as they aren't going to bury themselves, there will be a natural source of whale carcasses.

[otolith]

The line they're following is that the fixed carbon in a whale carcass is rapidly released to the atmosphere when a whale is dragged on shore and eaten or burnt, whereas if it sinks into the deep ocean it will decompose much more slowly, hence tying the carbon up for longer. Seems a tenuous line to me.

[PJ S]

Eric Mc said:

Just goes to show how a genuine environmental issue (the extermination of whales) gets hijacked by the Carbon Crowd.

I'd like to draw sir's attention to his poor spelling of the bolded word.
Started off well, with the correct letter, but after that it was all wrong.



Hint:
An anagram of stun