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November 7, 2007
NBC Global Warming Blitz Spews Tons of Carbon Emissions
Now for a few more laughs at the expense of NBC-Universal's absurd global warming propaganda marathon (previously ridiculed here and here). From Investor's Business Daily:
This week the peacock's feathers are a solid green as NBC, among other activities, sends its "Today" show stars, as the promo puts it, to "the ends of the earth" to promote Gore's agenda of saving the planet and repealing the Industrial Revolution.
Matt Lauer was flown to Greenland, and Al Roker to Quito, Ecuador, where they postured in front of cameras and promoted the global warming hoax. That's quite a lot of flying:
The folks at Newsbusters.org have calculated that flying Lauer and two crew to the Arctic Circle in Greenland — from New York to Thule AFB, a 2,487-mile distance — produced six tons of carbon emissions. That's one ton each way per person. They used the carbon calculator found on Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" Web site.
Roker's journey from New York to Quito, Ecuador, again assuming a crew of just two, produced another six tons of carbon emissions. Ann Curry's trip to Antarctica — 11,686 miles in all — produced a total of 12.9 tons of carbon.
That's a grand total of 24.9 tons of CO2 produced for a momentary photo-op while most people were up getting a beer or making a pit stop. According to Gore's Web site, the average person produces 7.5 tons of CO2 in a year.
NBC has indulged in this sort of hypocritical wackiness before:
Green Week isn't NBC's first effort at environmental activism. In July, it provided 75 hours of free air time to Gore not only on NBC but also CNBC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, Universal HD and Telemundo for his Live Earth concerts.
This involved flying rock stars around the planet in emission-spewing private jets to plug their electric guitars into Godzilla-size amplifiers.
Too bad these dreaded carbon emissions don't really cause global warming. We'd be in for some mild winters, courtesy of Al Gore and his acolytes at NBC.
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Lauer posing in Greenland, which during the Middle Ages was productive farmland instead of this frozen waste. If only we could warm it up again. |
On a tip from Bill.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 7, 2007 9:43 AM
Comments
Meanwhile, in Kansas, a rebellion against moonbat environmentalism. The Health and Environment secretary who rejected a coal-fired power plant because of obeisance to Gaia and fear of Manbearpig is now under fire.
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2007 9:53 AM
I voted with my remote control -- haven't watched it at all, avoided all of their channels.
re: V the K:
Yes, moonbats logic is now the new century chinese finger trap "energy independence from foreign oil" is the mantra, but all of the alternatives like nuclear, and coal burning cannot be allowed - windmills? won't someone pleeeease think of the birds!!!
Posted by: xantl at November 7, 2007 10:57 AM
What a bunch of dickheads. Good thing I got 300 other channels so I dont have to subject myself to their insane crap
Posted by: wizdum at November 7, 2007 1:31 PM
