The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?

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  winddrift03

  01/18/10 | Report as spam

  RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?

  Why not change the name of this site to New Age Drivel! Get a life people!

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  btljooz

  01/18/10 | Report as spam

  Don't believe this propagana!!!

  Global Warming has been proven to be a farce!!! Just use that computer of yours to RESEARCH it!
  
  Hint:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYwur6T6tc
  
  WATCH IT!!! You'll get a REAL education!

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  Otis C

  01/18/10 | Report as spam

  How the food we eat?

  How clean must America's air have to be to make a difference to the rest of the worlds air?

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  ddferrari

  01/18/10 | Report as spam

  Typical ...

  Just another ultra-consevative type using questionable logic to scare us into acting their way.

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  partman1969@...

  01/19/10 | Report as spam

  RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?

  I think all the ultra liberal Al Gore goofballs have to much time on their hands.

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  Hates Idiots

  01/19/10 | Report as spam

  But does it...

  take into account the carbon captured by the plants grown for the food?
  
  I see a lot of carbon being sucked up by those fields of corn planted every year for biofuel.
  
  At least in my part of the country the farmers plow under the stalks or collect them and grind them up for composting after the corn is harvested.
  
  Of course composting releases methane, a powerful global warming gas. Just don't try to tell that to the green police who advocate it.

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  reowens3

  01/19/10 | Report as spam

  RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global war

  the right wing hate machine swings into action - ANYTHING that shows
  that the high consumption crap on the earth way they choose to live has
  deleterious consequences for the rest of life must be a lie. Of course,
  it's a conspiracy to make you change. Put down the Hummer - lift your
  snout out of the trough and back away slow.

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  donnydo77@...

  01/20/10 | Report as spam

  Needs Renamed, Retooled, & Recalibrated to Specific Local Areas

  Not a bad idea but needs to be renamed and recalibrated to specified local areas.
  Needs retooled to help the user in reducing emissions & pollutants while showing how to eat at lower trophic levels. Also, gauge it to support local sources and producers, wherever that may be, so that distribution factors are considered. Otherwise it seems too vague and wil invite criticism.

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  Hates Idiots

  01/21/10 | Report as spam

  Right wing hate machine?

  Wow. The church of Global Warming hates heritics.
  
  All I did was ask why Global Warming scientists never look at the whole picture.
  
  With the EPA now calling CO2 a pollutant I ask, when will we all need to wear filters to cleanup the CO2 we exhale?
  
  I'll bet the CO2 from a billion people exceeds that from a million cars.

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  JTF243@...

  02/02/10 | Report as spam

  RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?

  Hates Idiots states: "I'll bet the CO2 from a billion people exceeds that from a million cars."
  If he is correct, then maybe all we need to do is reduce China's overcrowded population. This will serve two functions - 1) Reduce the CO2 that those people exhale, and 2) Reduce their need for fossil fuels for cars, electricity, etc.

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  riverat1

  02/03/10 | Report as spam

  RE: The food carbon calculator: How does the food you eat affect global warming?

  The CO2 that you exhale and the CO2 that comes from burning biofuel is from carbon that is already in the carbon cycle. It was absorbed from the atmosphere in the process of the plant growing and gets released again when you or another animal eats it so the net increase of CO2 from your breathing is zero. Carbon from fossil fuels is carbon that has been sequestered from the carbon cycle for (in most cases) 100's of millions of years so burning it increases the total carbon in the carbon cycle.
  
  Oxygen is necessary for life but breathing a 100% oxygen atmosphere at normal pressures for any length of time is toxic. Same thing for CO2, not enough is not good but too much is also not good.