Al Gore, Cows and the Environment
Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics Blog wonders about the irony of an email he gets:
An e-mail just turned up in my in-box. It was clearly selling something, and the text ended with the following thoughtful note:
Please consider the environment — do you really need to print this e-mail?
And what, you ask, was the e-mail selling?
Private jet travel.
The funny part are the following comments:
#1. Hilariously hypocritical. Like Al Gore grilling up a juicy steak before his recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine on global warming. (Methane from cows being one of the leading green house gases)
— Posted by Jason
#8.“(Methane from cows being one of the leading green house gases)”
ok, what IS the leading greenhouse gas of the day? because i’ve heard all sorts of things including concrete plants and cars?
— Posted by erg
#9. Leave the cows alone. What is the largest producer of methane gas in the world today? Sorry for spoiling the day for you vegan Central Park conservationists, but it’s plants and trees.
— Posted by Ralph J
#10. The leading greehouse gas of the day is, believe it or not, water vapor.
— Posted by Ralph J
#14. The leading greenhouse gas of the day is, believe it or not, Barry Manilow.
— Posted by Tom Jones
#16. Tom, that is spurious and you know it!
— Posted by Barry Manilow
#21. I hear Al Gore inhales oxygen, and guess what he exhales: carbon dioxide!
What a hypocrite…
— Posted by JT
Yeah, I'm back. Sort of.
3 Comments:
Glad to see you're back!
And Happi Diwali -- have a blast.
Hey Mr. Shenoy ....what took you so long :)
Hi,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘The Unknown Indian’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
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Ray
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