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The Great Carbon Footprint Competition!
Here Ye! Here Ye!
It is with great pleasure that PlanetMars.ThinkerToThinker.com hereby announces the commencement of:
THE GREAT CARBON FOOTPRINT COMPETITION 2008
Aim
To determine which Planet Mars reader has the greatest Carbon Footprint as determined by one of our greatest corporations.
How to win
Prizes will be awarded to the BIGGEST Carbon Footprint.
First prize: Carbon Dude Global: The largest absolute Carbon Footprint.
Second prize: Carbon Dude National: The largest absolute Carbon Footprint as per country.
Third prize: Carbon Dude Global, Encouragement Award: The second largest absolute Carbon Footprint.
The judge’s decision (Planet Mars) will be final.
How to enter the competition
- Please follow THIS LINK and determine what your Carbon Footprint is.
- Emit-and-Submit your Carbon Footprint results as a comment on this post.
- Results will be purely determined by the calculator on the link.
- The competition ends on the 30th of June 2008.
- Progressive Carbon Footprint entries in the comments section of this post are welcome.
- Team spirit is vital! We’re in this together. Therefore participants are encouraged to offer suggestions on how to maximize one’s Carbon Footprint.
- “Think Local Act Global!”
“It’s your planet – it’s your Footprint!”
“Save our civilization – One person at a time”
“Unleash the Carbon Dude Within You!”
ENTER NOW!
Apparent reduced risk of Parkinson’s Disease among Tobacco Smokers.
Yes, that is right, according to a group of eminent medical researchers, the more you smoke the less likely you are to get Parkinson’s disease.
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Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming: Separating Fact from Opinion.
An excellent article that critiques the current agreed summary opinion of scientific support for human activity caused climate change.
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First born children are the most intelligent.
Norwegian scientists Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal in a paper published in Science entitled “Explaining the Relation between Birth Order and Intelligence”, argue that children raised as the first born are the most intelligent.
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Au Revoiur Milky Way
Yes, it now official, astronomers have found out that the solar system is leaving the Milky Way Galaxy in a perpendicular direction.
So be thank full we will not end up in the massive black hole in the cemtre of ‘our’ galaxy.
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Wireless Electrical transmission is now a reality.
Demonstrating the principle of wireless electrical transmission, scientists from MIT have succefully lit a 60w globe from a powersource seven feet away.
A Car that runs on air?
Yes, it’s true, a car that runs on compressed air has gone into commercial production, with a top speed of 68 m.p.h., and a range of 125 miles.
What did Ancient Rome look like?
The University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities has recreated a virtual simulacra of Rome around June 21, 320 A.D.
A ten year project with the help of a number of research bodies around the world, the most accurate representation has been created with both the scholar and the student in mind. Go and enjoy a trip along the by-ways of one of the greatest cities in the world.
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Is the greenhouse theory a fallacy? A paleontological paradox.
Jennifer McElwain in “Is the greenhouse theory a fallacy? A paleontological paradox”, looks at the inconsistency of ‘greehouse theory’ with current evidence from paleontological and geological records. It argues that the theoretical effects on climate change, of so called increasing concentrations of’greenhouse gasses’, do not appear to be evident in either the geological or paleontological record.
So much for “Carbon Credits”, scientist claims trees cause global warming.
The arguments infavour of “Carbon” trading is based on three assumptions:
a) that the limits set by government on carbon rationing is enforcable,
b) a liquid market can be established,
and most importantly
c) that it helps to reduce the effects of climate change.
The most common form of carbon credit is planting trees in the tropics. Some scientists claim this may lead to an increase rather than a decrease in overall “green-house” gasses. If this is true so much for “Carbon- trading”.