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Helpful Hint for the gardener in you Here's one for the environmentalist in all of you: Look at all those dandelions in your yard. They're the product of the fact that you didn't mow them down the year before, before they seeded the lawn. If you feel a little lazy; and you don't want to mow your entire lawn to get those little yellow flowery bastards, just fire up the weed whacker and buzz the yard while they're still in flower form. It might save us all from some pollution usually made by lawn mowers and most of the chemicals we put on our yards to kill the little bastards. Stupid Rule Number 28 can apply here
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Environment Oil in the Gulf is on the minds of a lot of you. I can't figure out how in hell are you going to retrieve the oil patties that are floating around at a hundred feet bellow. And they say they will pay what ever it cost. Australia Overtakes U.S. in CO2 Emissions Australia has overtaken the U.S. as the biggest emitter per person of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, according to a British risk analysis firm. The U.K.-based risk assessment company Maplecroft, says that the average Australian contributes 20.58 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year to cool homes, drive cars and generate electricity with coal. The U.S. fell to second at 19.78 tons per inhabitant a year while Canada was third at 18.81 tons. According to the survey, the average Chinese person emits 4.5 tons of greenhouse gases a year and a typical Indian 1.16 tons, . Because of populations in excess of 1 billion, the aggregate emissions of those two countries makes them the first and fourth-biggest emitters, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, which ranks the U.S. second and Russia third. As the United Nations aims to write a climate-change treaty in Copenhagen in December China and India argue that developed nations such as the U.S., Canada and Australia must cut emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels in 2020, a key argument used by China and India that poorer countries need room to raise their greenhouse gases to allow them to develop.
While I was reading the July 2008 Popular Mechanics mag, I came across a bit written by Jon Luoma. I'm not sure how accurate his statements are but it just may shock you about the amount of pollution that we are pumping into the air. Such as: a single 1000 megawatt coal fired power plant can send 6 million tons of CO2 up it's stack annually - as much as two million cars. The alarming thing about it is that Jon says that China is putting on line one new coal fired plant every week and the US has more than 100 on the drawing boards.
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