On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:25:29 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
.. .
It looks to me like we have more than ever before. I'm not
complaining
about it.

--
Ed Huntress


--jsw

You AGW believers collectively. This is what the experts know you
should be doing to reduce your personal carbon footprint:
http://cotap.org/reduce-carbon-footprint/
They forgot about hanging laundry outdoors, the heater in an electric
dryer is a huge unnecessary waste.

Since you have a lathe you can convert round trash barrels ($12 at HD)
into inexpensive rain barrels ($100 at HD) and avoid watering your
lawn with treated drinking water by threading the barbed end of a hose
coupler and mounting it in the lower side wall, with an O ring on the
outside and the appropriate stainless nut and washer on the inside.
Landscaping fabric over hardware cloth across the top will keep out
gutter debris and mosquitos.

During the winter I store chainsaw chips and chopped-up tree branches
from the yard in the barrels, to use as kindling.

Pressing on and clamping a short piece of hose onto the barbs inside
might be enough to make the watertight seal, but the inside bottom of
the barrel is a difficult place to apply much force.

My carbon footprint went down in 1971, when I grokked Earth Day for
the first time.

I replaced my front lawn with chips and plantings of shrubs and
flowers with a single drip irrigation system for the entire 1/3 acre
of my land.

All but one of my light bulbs (75w pump house warmth) is either CFL or
LED. My electric bill is $40/mo, and I have a new timer for the
electric water heater. Once I get the new solar panels installed,
I'll also have a 24v 900w element going into that water heater,
replacing one of the two 240vac energy suckers. The timer will come
on for one hour, if necessary, each day before I get up. I'm not
going to feed the grid because that means I'd have to get a net meter.


My sister has a rain barrel diverter for me to pick up. So far, it's
legal to catch my rain in Oregon, unlike Colorado. That just floors
me, that you're fined for NOT allowing runoff in CO!

I fill 1/3 of a 13gal tall kitchen trash bag each week and recycle the
rest. All paper, cardboard, plastic, cans, and bottles are recycled.

Old Weird Ed probably has a carbon footprint the size of Algore's, but
I doubt he has the stock options in all the carbon control companies
Algore has.

This weather station distribution map is telling, too. I believe
Hansen, et al, had something to do with their removal, too.
http://climateaudit.org/2008/02/10/h...-distribution/
Amazingly (wink, wink) with fewer stations reporting and only the
hotter stations being included in the dataset, Earth is warming!

ohmigodwereallgonnadie...

--
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at
a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
--Thomas Carlyle