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EventsLow carb and how we are winning the fight against climate change
Not everyone can stand Al Gore or any talk about global warming. But if you do, then consider checking out this new TED talk.
Low carb and the environment
A few things are worth considering as a low-carb fan. Low carb is often claimed to be environmentally unsustainable due to an emphasis on meat, especially from cows (and their methane release). This is wrong for two reasons:
1. Low-carb, high-fat diets are not supposed to be high in meat (protein) at all. They are moderate in protein and it’s even possible to eat a vegetarian version. There’s certainly no need to eat cows at all.
2. Methane from animals is part of a carbon cycle. It is relatively rapidly broken down to carbon dioxide that is taken up by plants again. Net effect = no new added carbon to the atmosphere. This is very different from burning fossil fuels, which adds carbon to the atmosphere for millions if not hundreds of millions of years.
We could get rid of (kill) every cow on the planet and it would only delay global warming by a few years, if even that. Then the same thing would happen anyway.
What we should worry about is not animals passing gas, but the burning of fossil fuels. This is what Al Gore and any other experts without other agenda focuses on.
Winning against global warming
The exciting part of Gore’s talk is that we will eventually win the fight against climate change. It’s inevitable as renewable energy sources like sun and wind energy (and batteries) are rapidly becoming cheaper and better. Pretty soon they will be cheaper than burning fossil fuels – and then they will become the default energy source for the planet.
Add electric cars and other transportation – also coming up fast – and we have solved global warming.
It will happen. We will win. The only remaining question is this: how much will we mess up our planet before it happens? How hot will it get? It matters a great deal for our children.
The climate has never been constant and the tiny amount of co2 that we added has no measurable effect whatsoever. In fact, more co2 means more plant life. Without co2 life as we know it would be totally impossible.
The planet has spent more time frozen in ice ages than it has been warm.
Just adapt, keep the planet clean and enjoy its resources.
The socalled fight against climate is a hoax, next to the low fat diets.
Has to be lots of farting lifestock up there:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
:)
AG is the man who predicted in 2006 that the north pole would be completely free of ice by summer 2016. We will see if that happen! I bet that will not be the case.
His carbon footprint:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/GlobalWarming/story?id=2906888&pa...
AG personal wealth:
http://business.financialpost.com/news/how-al-gore-amassed-a-200-mill...
Most of the low carbers I know are also skeptical of the claims made by global warming alarmists simply because they know just how wrong the "experts" have it on nutrition, once you come to the realization that the science is crap in one field (and been that way for 50 years) it's not too difficult a leap to question the experts in another.
Eggs, beef, butter are better than sugar cane and grains for human diet let alone grass and forage
http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.php/2015/12/03/climate-change-meat...
https://www.rt.com/usa/320554-antarctica-gaining-ice-nasa/
Fwiw, humans can't stop climate change. Climate change is a continuous earthly process that has always existed and will continue to be. It produces both good and bad, depending on your given human viewpoint.
Let's review some basic real-world facts: we can't stop wars; we can't stop terrorism; we can't stop poverty; we can't stop hunger; we can't illegal drug use; we can't stop the Mideast crisis; we can't stop evolution; we can't even stop potholes from forming in roads; we can't stop the absurd refugee influx; we can't stop the every few years major financial crisis; we can't stop Americans from watching stupid reality TV shows; and, we certainly can't stop climate change.
But you can stop uttering Gore's anti-science nonsense about a subject you apparently know little about.
As far as "This is what Al Gore and any other experts without other agenda focuses on" - as former tennis star John McEnroe would say, "you cannot be serious!"
Politically driven elites like Al Gore don't have an agenda? Hellooo......$$$$$$$$, ya think?
Let's put this into this blog's realm: Should we now believe that nutrition and health experts like Ancel Keys or Walter Willet or the U.S. Department of Agriculture are/were agenda-less? Really? And now Al Gore and other "experts" spewing irrational fears with climate doomsday-cult prophecies don't have an agenda?
As a daily reader of your blog, for me at least, you've now raised issues as to your nutrition advice and its scientific integrity. Sadly, it confirms my prior decision not to become a paying member - reliance on anecdotal evidence and "expert" opinions is not science, nor always the best health advice.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/11/climate-change-indust...
I Sverige har vi en agronom, Rockström, som är utnämnd till professor i miljövetenskap (utan att ha studerat det svulstiga området) och regeringens klimatexpert!!! När den här agronomen till och med fördömer korna så vet man att inte tillägnat sig mycket lärdom.
El Niño värmer upp världen ett par år, sedan kan det bli som solforskarna säger; vi går mot 2-3-4 kallare decennier. Då hoppas jag att vi har kärnkraften kvar och att man vågar värma upp stora växthus med kylvattnet därifrån för odling av grönsaker, för ett temperaturfall i världen kommer att göra all mat mycket dyrare och svårare att få tag i. (Kylvattnet har ingen kontakt med reaktorn och är därför inte radioaktivt). Övergång till sol- och vindenergi innebär att man måste ha kvar/bygga kol- och gaskraft eftersom solen inte lyser och vinden inte blåser många dagar. Vi måste kort och gott betala två energisystem för att vara säkra på att få ström till våra hushållsmaskiner. Och ingen privat vill satsa på det därför det blir inte lönsamt utan stora subventioner och alla subventioner kommer från skattebetalarna. Elbilar kan bli bra inne i städerna, men inte för dem med växlande eller långa körningar. Elbilar är inte till för en levande landsbygd.
I also find it amusing how people here are reacting! For instance, HFLC works when looking at either the empirical chemistry OR at the calorie math. We win no matter which model of losing weight you side with.
The same with climate change. Whether you believe that it's excessive animal flatulence, burned hydrocarbons, or that global warming isn't really a concern at all... HFLC wins. Hands down!
PS ruminants generally burp methane, rather than fart it.