Fried Rice Causes Global Warming
“Happy ending?”
The United Nations is holding the part of this year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Bangkok, Thailand.
In between lap dances, delegates are attempting hash out a climate change document that is politically acceptable to all parties. Some of the topics under discussion are “language regarding the Kyoto protocol . . , the true costs of cutting emissions and how they will be borne, and the role of nuclear power.”
As you might expect, it is difficult to hash out an agreement when you start from the premise that everything causes global warming and all the effects of global warming are bad.
It seems nobody wants to be fingered as the bad guy responsible for the predicted ultimate demise of life on this planet. Go figure.
First, it was the oil companies and SUV owners that were to blame for global warming. Pretty standard procedure - blame it on the rich people and corporations . . . ho-hum.
Things got a bit more interesting when UN issued a 400-page report placing the majority of blame for climate change on cows. According to the UN report, methane is 20 times more potent in fostering global warming than carbon dioxide.
All of which brings us to the latest target of blame: rice paddies.
When rice paddies are flooded during the growing process, a large amount of methane is released. In fact, UN sources concluded “rice production was a main cause of rising methane emissions in the 20th century.”
Great. It wasn’t enough that the Kyoto Protocol was going to cover factory and car emissions, now we’re going to have to reduce consumption of Chinese food back to pre-1990 levels.
Personally, I think it’s all part of an evil plan by Olive Garden to take over the world.
May 4th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
If you’d care to see an insider’s view of US nuclear power industry, see http://RadDecision.blogspot.com. Most proponents and opponents of this power source have little idea how its actually done, and what the real good and bad points are. (There are plenty of both.) I’ve spent twenty years at power plants, so I’ve got some insight, which I’ve translated into the novel “Rad Decision” available at no cost to readers at the website above. See the homepage for comments. Also in paperback.
“I’d like to see Rad Decision widely read.” - Stewart Brand, noted futurist and founder of “The Whole Earth Catalog.”
May 4th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Sorry, link is http://Raddecision.blogspot.com