New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

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  nags9

  01/26/10 | Report as spam

  RE: New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

  All I see here are accountants appropriating engineering and architectural systems as their own. The building information modelling shown in the video is not accounting. I see nothing in this video that isn't currently done by engineers, architects and environmental scientists who actually know what they are accounting for.

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  acad2kman

  01/31/10 | Report as spam

  CO2 Carbon Trading, the biggest scam of all time . . .

  CO2 represents only a small fraction of the total greenhouse
  gases when compared to water vapor . . .
  
  Don't be a sucker that swallows the propaganda spouted by Al
  Gore and Michael Moore who act only in their own self interest
  in pushing carbon taxes and trading carbon credits - Al Gore
  who has earned hundreds of millions of $$ already by his lies.
  
  Michael Moore only wants to sell movie tickets by the millions,
  he is not concerned a whit about the facts or truth of the topics
  he makes his propaganda films about . . .
  
  For a REAL LOOK at REAL SCIENCE GLOBALLY, read the new
  book by Stewart Brand:
  http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Earth-Discipline-
  Ecopragmatist-Manifesto/dp/0670021210
  
  And THEN RE-EXAMINE your OWN opinions, are you a ONE
  TRICK PONY with a HEDGEHOG brain (stuck as a non-scientific
  ideologue mindset) or are you a PRAGMATIC FOX (flexible in
  your thinking who is open to real science solutions) who can
  SOLVE REAL WORLD PROBLEMS???

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  lewis2005@...

  02/09/10 | Report as spam

  RE: New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

  The American people have said no to Cap and Trade. Polls suggest there are insufficient votes in the Senate. How can the SEC require corporations that will be adversely affected to pretend the will of the people has already been trampled by special interests?
  Cap & Trade is being forced on us because it creates a multi-trillion dollar commodity market. The beneficiaries are special interest who will set up the exchanges and trade in hot house gases and companies expecting federal subsidies to create alternative fuels and transportation.
  But citizens will pay more taxes and more for goods as business passes the cost along.
  And all this based on global warming theories proposed by scientists dependent on proving their theories in order to continue receiving federal grant money. The American people have suffered for decades with the political STD Gonorrhea Lectim. It is time for the cure: votemoutofthere!
  Question: did Fred Flintstone?s truck fleet cause the last period of global warming or is global warming a cyclical event that is more affected by sun spot cycles. The Earth has had multiple tropical and glacial ages over the millennia. The most recent news is that the oceans of the world will be cooling for the next 25-30 years.
  Furthermore, it is my understanding that the most prevalent hot house gas is water vapor. Should citizens of earth try to stop the rain cycle?
  There is a political STD called Gonorrhea Lectim that runs rampant in the US. The cure is VotemOutOfThere!

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  Greenbau

  02/09/10 | Report as spam

  RE: New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

  This appears to be the application of an internationally derived country scale database to specific construction materials. See page 13 in the following link for acknowledged limitations in the underlying CEDA 3.0 database:
  http://www.iel.umn.edu/CEDA3_Users_Guide.pdf
  It is not based on analyses from individual manufacturers and processors, apparently, but on macro scale examination of manufacturing and energy sectors. It can give a broad brush view of the energy input to various construction materials. Nothing new there. It would be nice to compare it to Athena or BEES. Looks like a slick company has taken data originally developed in Korea and used it to apply to specific industries, making it easy for the decision makers. Yes the data is out there, but as far as I know the average A/E (Architects & Engineers) does not apply it in normal design. So this may be a somewhat useful exercise.

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  Greenbau

  02/09/10 | Report as spam

  RE: New breed of accountants measure carbon footprint

  Amazing to find climate deniers even on a site like this. Climate change happens to be true (disappearing glaciers and my own garden tell me this) but in any case there is going to be a dramatic change in the way we use energy, due to peak oil and the leveling of the world's playing field. Cap and trade is a very imperfect scheme. However whatever it takes to start redirecting our resource use will undoubtedly make life slightly less miserable for my grandchildren.