{"id":772,"date":"2007-02-11T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2007-02-11T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T16:18:33","slug":"suzuki-math-indicates-4-x-04-2-no-wonder-environazis-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki Math Indicates 4 x 0.4 = 2 : No Wonder EnviroNazis Are Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Ottawa Sun has a Q and A session with David Suzuki about his carbon spewing bus tour across Canada and this is one of the questions.<\/p>\n

Q: What role should Canada play on the international scene?<\/p>\n

A: Canada produces 2% of C02 emissions, but represents just 0.4% of the world’s population.<\/p>\n

So we produce four times more pollution per capita than the global average, and because of that, we have an obligation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My 10 year old does better math, Mr. Suzuki.<\/p>\n

But this is besides the point when we really think about it. Yes, Canadians may create five<\/strong> times the man made emissions of CO2 compared to our percentage of the population. But let’s look at some comparative information to assess the “obligation” part of his comment.<\/p>\n

Canada has 10% of the world’s forests (StatsCan numbers) and as we know the 402 million hectares of woodlands we have eat up a massive amount of the earth’s carbon dioxide to produce the wood that becomes the tree trunk.<\/p>\n

Newly planted trees can eat up to 15 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year, so for my calculations I am going to say 10 tonnes to be conservative (which we all know I am).<\/p>\n

This means that Canadian forests alone are pulling 4 GigaTonnes of CO2 out of the air each year. Yet our CO2 emissions are only about 60 MegaTonnes\/year. Or let’s be less specific and say that Canadians are only producing 640 Megatonnes of GHGs\/year (as per Greg Weston’s column that I blogged about here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This means that our nation is sinking approximately 66 times the CO2 that we produce and sinking about 6 times the GHG’s that we produce by CO2 equivalency.<\/p>\n

I can hear the environmentalistas screaming now…..”But wait, you are only considering man made green house gases (and CO2)!!”<\/p>\n

Ah yes. Man made. And this brings us back to the crux of the debate that keeps getting overlooked by these ecoterrorists. Where ARE all these other Green House Gases coming from??<\/p>\n

And thus, we find ourselves back to water vapour. That elusive substance escaping from the earth’s oceans in massive amounts. That substance that makes up 95% to 97% of the GHGs on the planet.<\/p>\n

If only we had enough Saran Wrap to cover the Pacific…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Ottawa Sun has a Q and A session with David Suzuki about his carbon spewing bus tour across Canada and this is one of the questions. Q: What role should Canada play on the international scene? A: Canada produces 2% of C02 emissions, but represents just 0.4% of the world’s population. So we produce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-environment","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}